Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-06
LAST NIGHTS STORM.
Compared With Other Places it Wa
 {" Light in Waterbury.

Compared With Other Places n Was
 " Light in Waterbury.
 Connecticut received it's first taste of winter weather last night. but fortunately Waterbury was not so roughly treated as other parts of the state. It was a cold combination of wind, snow and rain. The local wire service was not crippled. but some of the trunk lines were for the time knocked out. Manager Sperry of the Southern New England Telephone Go says few polls are down on the outskirts but that communication can be had with all the surrounding towns. He expects all the trunk lines will be in order by night. Reports from all over the state are that the storm was most disastrous. The poles of the Western Union Go are down m large sections from Greenwich to New London. In comparison the lines of the Southern New England Telephone Go have not suffered. but no end of wires are broken, and it will take some time to put things in shape. General Superintendent Baker was up all night with his men and large gangs are now out repairing. At Meriden three horses were killed by coming in contact with live wires that were down. The house of Mir White of White. Wilcox < Go was totally destroyed by fire as it was impossible to raise the | fire department. The fire is supposed to I
 As far as can be ascertained the severity of the storm was most felt on the coast line, and through the valley division of the Consolidated road wires are down in every direction. Assistant Superintendent Curtis left from Hartford with a wrecking train early this morning to clear the tracks of fallen wires and poles.
 All the morning trains on the New Eng. land road were late on account of poles being down along the lines.
 | The New Haven weather bureau reI orts that the storm has passed over New Eng land this morning and is now central of Halifax. The greatest velocity reached by the wind was thirty-three miles an hour Seven and one half inches of snow fell This was the earliest snow storm 1T many years in this section. During tn, night the wind was of shore and conse quently the damage which resulted wa. much less than such a gale would ordi narily cause.
 The storm at Bristol was very severe and probably two inches of snow fell The wind blew a gale and snow Wal dTifted in great banks in the streets. A
 Plainville, five miles east of Bristol, tn,
 storm did considerable damage to tele
 graph wires. Eight telegraph poles wer'
 blown across the railroad tracks betweeI , that place and Bristol. The Western
 Union Telegraph Co have no wires out O
 the town. The Southern New Enelant
 Telephone Go have two wires by way O Waterbury. but that is the only form O , communication between Bristol and tn
 outside world.
 : The Adams express train from Boston due in New Haven at 3.US a. m, did no , arrive until 1:10 this afternoon. Tn engineer reported hundreds of wires dow all along the line. The Owl train iron , Springfield. due in New Haven at 1 20, ,di z not arrive until :35 this afternoon.
 At Winsted the mercury dropped { . twenty-seven degrees and at Torringto
 there was three inches of snow on th level and in some places on the hills drift . three feet in depth.