Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-02-02
SPENCER.
STORM EFFECTS.
Railway Communication Cut Off in All
Directions

Spencer was cut off from railway
| communication Tuesday until noon,
when the train due at T. a. M arrived
over the branch road, bringing the
Worcester letter mail but no papers.
The electric roads were entirely block
AIDED. A snow plough and two pas
senger cars were blockaded on the
Spencer end Of the Worcester and SUI
| burban road since o'clock Monday
| night, and no signs OF life were visible
on the Spencer division of the Warren.
Brookfield and Spencer electric railway
after 80 MONDAY night.
No city papers except few copies
from Springfield reached Spencer till l
o'clock in the afternoon. No Boston
mail or papers reached Spencer till
night.
superintendent Lucien Hobbs of the
highway department found lots Of bust
ness on hand, and sent gangs of men
into different parts Of the town to break
out the roads. MLkmen found it diff
cult to reach town tin late hour, even
with double teams where single ones
are usually used.
Drifts in some cases covered the lower
story windows of houses and some of
the streets We're impossible, even in the
centre of the town.
A large gang of men were set to work
at noon shoveling out the track of the
Worcester and Suburban road, but
with little prospect Of getting the road
opened through to Leicester for a day
or two.
A gang of men were also at work on
the Spencer division of the Warren,
Broolfeld and Spencer road, trying to
get out a chr that was stuck in the
drifts near the Pettingill place.
It is unquestionably the worst storm
that has struck Spencer since 1888.
LOOKED LIKE BURGLARY.
Persons passing down Cherry street
at an early hour Tuesday morning, dis
covered the door of Patrick McDonnell's
furniture and undertaking rooms stand
ing wide open, and 1t was thought that
| another burglary had been committed.
! A lamp was found burning in one of
| the rooms, which led to the belief that
burglars had been at work and left it
! lighted when they took their departure.
| Miss Susie Mcdonnell has a millinery
store next door and communicating with
| the furniture store, and it was thought
| burglars had probably cleaned out her
| store. A Spy reporter called at her
store, and Miss Mcdonnell was Of the
opinion that no attempt at burglary had
been made. She said that large cas-
| ket was taken out of the undertaking
rooms Monday, and the double doors
had to be opened to get it out, and on
closing them, the bolts at the top and
| bottom of the doors We're not fastened,
so that the heavy northeast wind, Mon
| day night, forced them open. The light
was left burning by mistake. The front
room of the store was full of snow. Miss
| Mcdonnell says nothing whatever was
/ taken from either store, and she ac-
counts for the door being open as above
| stated The report was current about
town, and it was generally believed
that the store had been entered by
| thieves.
K. OF @. COMMITTEE.
The committee of Spencer Council K.
of c., to prepare an entertainment for
ladies' night" the 14th, consists OF
P. G. K, w. j. Heffernan, G. K. w, j.
Kelley, t. ]. Condor, Alfred Arseneault
and E. NJ. Kelley. The affair will take
place at Odd Fellows Hall and will
consist of whist playing, dancing and a
! lunch.
Owing to the severe storm OF