The Press., 1888-03-15

-NSSAAAO A4A7AA ksSAks0kAS AeSsE A40 pH0AlteOS OL Smith < Cooley Monday evening were hailed by woman, whom they found ex- hausted, freezing and nearly helpless. In a short time she would have been overcome. All sort of rumors were flying about, and there was much apprehension of a basis of truth in some of the stories about persons missing, so many knowing by experience of the utter exhaustion produced by wad- ing Tn the deep snow, in face of the blind ing snow drifts, and how easy it was to get lost from track not well defined.
 Ne one was surprised to hear that a man had perished. Selectman Ellis was notified by a messenger on Tuesday morning that Dwight Horton of Pomfret lay dead at the house of Willard Orcutt on Stafford Street. Horton was 8 farmer about 45 years of age, residing in Pomfret. Medical Exam iner Newton furnishes us the facts in the case. Deceased came to Orcutt's house about 3 p. m., was cold and exhausted, but did not seem ill. He had taken one glass of liquor before leaving the Springs. He sat ten minutes, then began to vomit, At 6 o'clock said he could sit up no long, CT, laid down, and continued vomiting, said he was going to die. He died at about 1 o'clock Tuesday morning. He ceased vomiting two hours before dying. breathed fast, and kept saying he could not live. Later developments are pointing to the death as having resulted from self. administered poison. He is found to have bought arsenic at drug store in the bor- Ough, giving his name as Dwight Spencer. From the first he declared that he should not go out of the house alive. The symp- toms of death would befit either the theory 1 of poisoning or of heart affection accelerat- ed by exhaustion.
 The New York express, which left Palm. or Monday afternoon, is now standing near Indian Orchard. The passengers have been transferred by sleighs to. Springfield. Two infants are reported to have been born on the stalled tram.
 Telegraphic communication between New York and Boston for two days has been via London.
 Hartford to Springfield, but blocked be- tween there and Berlin by derailed train across both tracks. Passengers who left Boston at 9 and Il a. m. last Monday are mostly at hotels at Hartford. Poor pros. pect of getting through to New Haven fol several hours,
 A train which left Boston on the New England road at 8.30 a. m. Monday, and 1 which has been stalled at Vernon since Monday noon, arrived at Hartford last night at II o'clock.
 In New York the stores and offices closed before o'clock Monday afternoon, and by evening every one seemed to re. ] alize that storm which would be long re. membered was at hand. The snow fell tc the depth of two and half feet on level over all the country within radius oi thirty miles of New York. It lay in drifts of six and eight feet high on all the streets. The Stafordville stage started from the Springs Monday night, but after reaching the house of Mrs. Cummings the nearly exhausted horses were taken from the ve- hicle and got as far as Stafford Hollow, remaining there all night. The passengers went on foot to various places of shelter, all being men. Some sought shelter for the night in Adelbert Needham's barn.
 This morning Saunders train pushed on to the north to meet the boat train, which was behind the snow blow just south of Belchertown. The situation at this writ ing (l1 g. m., Thursday is briefly this Photographic communication is open only 60 the north. By roundabout way, via Boston. etc., it has been learned that last night Downer's train was at Yantie headed