Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-01-19
havoc By the STORM.
Great Damage Reported All Over I'll
state.

SeNS ANahuSS AeSRSAhSA A1AA oNSE sh0
state.
1t blew; it snew il friz.
That's what it did Saturday night and
yesterday, and reports from all over the
state indicate that the havoc created by
the storm has rarely been equaled since
the great blizzard of 1888. Hereabouts
there was a heavy fall of cold rain Sat-
urday night, which was frozen as it
reached the ground or trees and formed
a thick coating of sparkling ice. The
sight upon Saturday night and all day
yesterday was n most beautiful one.
The trees and wires were dressed in
their glistening apparel of ice, which
shone and sparkled with the reflection
of every ray of light. The spectacle
presented by the huge old elnAs upon
the green, with their icy environments,
was a most remarkable one.
The storm began to show its disastrous
effects Saturday night in the breaking
| of electric wires, communication by tel
ephone and telegraph with all outside
points being cut off. Manager Sperry
of the local telephone office reports that
many wires came down, but no poles
were Frustrated. The long distance line
to New Haven was in working order
| last night, but up to 10 O'Clock to-day
Hartford had not been heard from.
| The sidewalks in many places Satur-
day night were buried beneath several
inches of water. Trade fell fiat, moth
necessary to carry the buyer aud his
family over Sunday. All about the
city cellars were flooded.
THE STORM IN OTHER PLACES.
At New Haven and Hartford the fire
and telegraph wires We're early disabled.
MANY trees were blown down.
Between Taftville and Providence, on
the Norwich and Worcester railroad,
about fifty telephone poles are down.
In Middletown, upon the main thor
oughfare, there are seventeen poles
down.
At New Britain train on the Consoli,
dated road was almost wrecked by the
hanging telegraph wires, the engine
being stripped of its headlight.
About 6 o'clock Sunday morning
Major Kinney of Hartford, was awaked
by loud buzzing in his telephone, end
ing with a sudden sharp ringing of the
bell. Before he reached the instrument
a brilliant white light flashed through
the top of the telephone case to n height
of foot. The major realized at once
that the ice storm had crossed his wire
with an electric light wire and that
there was danger. There was a slight
|
aperture in the top of the telephone case
and he put his hand over the top at a
distance of two or three inches to
ascertain If there was heat underneath.
He is confident he did not touch the
case, but he received a shock which felt
as if it would wrench his left arm from
his body, coming through the second
finger of his left hand, which still shows
the blister of the fire.
Miss Margaret McEnroe of New Bril-
tain was struck by falling bough of a
tree, while going home from church
yesterday morning. She received in.
juries that it is feared will prove fatal.
| While repairing wires in the operating
room of the telephone company at New
Haven, Saturday night, Thomas Healy,
the assistant chief operator, received a
shock from wire which was crossed
with an electric wire. The shock threw
him distance of twenty feet and he
was unconscious for about fifteen min.
utes, but he experienced no permanent
injuries.