The Press., 1897-01-07
ITEMS FROM THE STAFFORD
 NEWS LETTER.
January s, 1867.


 1t is our intention to print under this head from week to week, items of interest from the old Stafford News Letter
 A new blacksmith shop is about being CT ected just across the bridge from E. T. Converse's four store in this village.
 I. Hamilton has removed his barber shop from the Springs House, to Pages new block, second floor, east side, taking the rooms that we announced as being fitted up for Dr. H. s. Smith, dentist, who in Dorman's building.
 Medbury & Tafts Eagle Store' is now removed from its old location near the bank to Pages new block. In their new room, the beautiful specimen of the gold en eagle owned by them will as before occupy a prominent place. They have a neat, pretty store, and are filling it up with goods to match.
 The snow storm of last Thursday and Friday filled up the roads, heTeabout to such an extent as to seriously inconven- fence travellers. The high wini Thurs day night filled 1t in huge drifts, and the roads in some sections of the town are hardly passable yet. The railroad track was covered deep beneath the drifts in many places, and trains had great diffi- culty in proceeding. Conductor Saunders train went down on time Saturday morn- ing, but at Willimantic found the express train, which had had it's fires extinguished In deep SHOW drift. When Conductor Downer's Sain arrived, an attempt b start the express train ahead resaltalsiin throwing the engine from the track, and thus all three trains were corked up, O LG Butler before Petersburg. The trains bound arrived here about 4 p. m., and proceeded to Palmer and both returned to New London together, the same night. Meanwhile the morning train down went on its way after the express train was got on the track, and made it's trip to New London, but on it's return collided with a freight train below Norwich, and belong ing to the Norwich and Worcester rail- road. The passenger train at the time was running at the rate of 30 miles an hour, and the concussion was tremendous throwing the passenger engine down the bank aud setting the other up on end and smashing things generally in the fore part of each train. Strange to say nobody less injured. Laban Dean, fireman on the freight train, was buried under his engine, where he remained four hours, but when extricated no limbs appeared to be broken, and it is hoped that he received no internal injuries, though his feet were numb with cold so that he could not walk. Theodore Webb, employed at the Norwich office of the N. & W. railroad was badly bruised in the hip and back, and man whose name is unknown had his leg broken; both of these are doing well. Mrs. John O'Downell of New London was badly cut in the head and re- ceived severe internal injuries, so that doubts are entertained of her recovery. M. L. Harrington, baggage master on Saunders train, was considerably bruised about the head and shoulders, and Horace Kimball, brakeman, was also somewhat bruised. The engine on Saunders train was the A. N. Ramsdale, 8 new and superior machine. She passed here last Wednesday on the frieght train, badly broken and battered, helpless, inert macs of iron and steel, black, rusty and begrimmed with soot and smoke, being drawn where she had proudly led the way and presenting very changed appearance since her last passage over the road.
 Rockville is soon to have 8 weekly paper, edited and published by MT. Spaulding, formerly proprietor of the Webster Times. The Press will soon lose the honor of being the only paper published in Holland county. z4
 Married in StaffordSprings, Jan. 2, 1867 by Rev. w. T. Worth, Newton w. Smitt of Stafford and Cecelia Lewis of Delhi, N Y. ..s-.. ---' .
 Married in Stafford, Jan. 1, 1867, by Rev. Mir. Batchelder, Wolcot W. Tarcy and Isa Prouty, both of this village.
 Died at Mansfield Dec. 23, 1866, Abigail | R8 widow of Deacon Caleb Trowbridge.