The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-29
RESCUED
By Officers in
Time.
NARROW ESCAPES
From Death in the Blizzard
at Webster.


state for many a year. The storm par
took the nature of a regular western
blizzard. The snow fell thickly and the
wind blew a gale. 1t is estimated that
the speed of the wind was between so
and 20 miles an hour, and laden as it
was with snow, it was binding to those
who were obliged to face it,
1t is fortunate that no lives were
lost, although several have reported
that they got lost Saturday night and
had hard difficulties in finding their
way, but all succeeded with the excep-
ton of couple Of tramps, who prob
ably would have frozen to death but
FOR the efforts of officer Joseph P.
Love.
The hustling limb of the law, with
the local correspondent of The Spy.
while making the rounds, found a.
tramp half frozen in the rear Of Hotel
Dewitt He was picked up and taken
| to the lookup, where the warmth re-
stored him to consciousness.
Another hobo" drunk and partially
frost bitten and in a comatose state
was accidentally run against, lying in
the snow, near Music Hall. He was
| also picked up and placed in a warm
bed.
Charles N. Brown, hostler for N. T.
Hurlbut. was found lying in a snow
drift near the Main street railroad
crossing, drunk and insensibIe. He was
carried to the lookup, and Dr. r. J.
| Cronln called. 1t required a couple of
! hours work before signs of returning
consciousness showed themselves. To-
day, aftersleeping off the effects of the
| liquor he had taken, he seemed all
| right, and was released on bail fur
nished by Mr.. Hurlbut
The Storm besides causing a COM
! plete suspension Of traffic, will cost the
town and electric road company quite
| a sum. superintendent Foss placed a
gang Of 100 men at work early this
morning in clearing the car tracks.
| The snow on Main street seemed
| pitted against the company, for it all
! drifted on the tracks. In places the
amount of snow drifted in the tracks
! hid a person from seeing another on
| the opposite side of the street. On the
! lines to Perryville and the lake, it is
| entirely out of the question to run cars.
| What was needed the most, the snow
pillow, was of no avail, and it would
| have been better for the company had
it not arrived last Friday, but stayed
at the works in Taunton, for no mo-
tors were forwarded with the plow,
which made it utterly useless when
| needed today.
/
| was unloaded from the cars and push
ed on the tracks as far up the Lake
street division as Harris street, where
| it became stalled. The power of the
! Juice was not sufficient to move it
| today, either, but it was finally hauled
to the car barn through the united eff
| forts Of six horses and a gang of SHOW
elers. There it is safely housed, when
it is needed badly.
! FTpna Gl1rats Tnbt, Flint iOtiTo9tH6 the
| local Spy man that without a doubt
the road will be closed for a week. 1t
is absolutely impossible to run to Per
| ryville and the lake before the expira.-
ton of that time. Their tracks on Main
street have been cleared, and as far as
! the car barn, but there it ceases. Pho
| tographer Ross, one of the heavy stock
| holders, told The Spy reporter that ii
will cost them about $500 to clear the
tracks OF snow.
The New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad are in the same
| boat. Drifts that nearly reached the
| top of the pillow, confronted them all
| along the local division. Probably the
worst along the branch was encount-
cred near East Webster in the cut near
the bridge. In this gully the drifts
We're Is feet high for several yards, and
one locomotive was poWerless to push
| through the drifts.
From TIA o'clock Saturday evening
there was not train run through from
Norwich until today at Ills O'Clock
this forenoon. The boat train was
some 30 hours late. No New York mail
arrived until late in the afternoon
The branch to SOuthbridge Yves
broken open this forenoon with a hig
pillow and two engines. The same con
ditions existed on the Albany road tC
/ Worcester, and the pillow experienced
hard work in clearing the tracks
Selectmen ]. w. Negus this morning
said that the storm will cost the town
of Dudley nearly $1,000 TO break the
roads 1t will cost Webster in the
neighborhood of the same amount
Pleasant street is another sight
Drifts are everywhere superintendent
]. n Fuller would have had the street
finished in a couple of weeks, but for
the untimely storm. There is no know
| ing now when the paving will be COM
pleted.
AS it was impossible to get to scllt oil
today, the signal for no school was
sounded this morning. The local proph-
cts claim that this storm is only a be-
ginner, and that before the month OF
| May is again torn off the calendar,
| Webster will see many storm like
the one now in evidence. Ex- Postmas-
| ter John J. Love remarked today that
he never saw so much snow on Main
| street before.
Judge Bartholomew has a grist of
drunks to dispose of when he assumes
his judicial seat tomorrow Those on
the docket are: Robert Taylor of Web
ster William Jones of New Bedford.
Frank Quinn of North Webster, James
r. O'Rourke of Fall River, and Thos.
Kennedy, aged 55 years, of Jericho vii
lage, Dudley.
A crowd of local politicians had a
general laugh on Southbridge today. A
number was gathered in Town Treas
urer Oscar ShumWay's Office this morn
ing, reading The Spy, when one of them
happened to notice the article from the
Spec" town as to it's isolated condition.
A laugh was raised when one of the
politicians remarked that he remem-
bered a time when the town was
showed under" far worse, and that
was the first Tuesday in the month.
The Spy readers will remember that
the Spec towns pet candidate for
representative, Joseph M. o. Olney,
was completely showed under" by
Representative-elect Joseph P. Love.
James Davern, a recent member of
i Co. X Of the Ninth Massachusetts regi-
ment, il spending a few days with his
uncle. Michael Davern on Granite
street.
David M. Cowies entertainment by
the Boston artists, in Music Hall. to-
night, drew a large crowd. Mr.. Cowie
Melted quite a sum by his enterprise
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