Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-25
WORST STORM OF THE
 WHOLE SEASON HERE.
Trolley Service Knocked Sky Hish-Trains Late and Business Generally Para.yzed- HI arringtons Night lunch Cart Wrecked By Runaway Trolley Car This Morning.

Waterbury is experiencing one of the severest storms of the season to- day. It set in last night with a high wind and this morning people found the snow pretty well drifted, which made walking quite difficult. Horace Johnson expected it few days ear Her. but it was delayed until now and seems to have gathered strength on the way. The railroad trains and trolley cars worked through it all right up to noon, but it is doubtful if Horace Johnson himself could tell at this time what the condition of the schedule on the electric roads and the steam cars will be during the remain der of the day. Some braved the storm and went to dinner, but the greater number of peop1e in the stores and factories baked at the sight of blinding snow and if they failed to reach restaurants managed to gdt along without anything. If the snow , continues to come down at the rate it is now falling until o'clock it will be almost out of the question for those who live in the outside district to reach their homes. Some of the factories sent the girls home ill sleighs and when they got there most of them concluded. and wisely, too, not to ven ture out again.
 An umbrella was of very little use and few used them. But some of | them wera in evidence and those who carried them got themselves and ev- ervhody else who was out into lots of trouble. A man trying to push his way through the drifts was in no mood to he trified with and when he receiveI a noke in the face from an umbrella his feelines can be more easily ima"ined tha"1 described. There were several collisions of this kind about the streets. and while the Ian gllage used by some of the artieS to the mix-un was more forcibIe than eleeant. it was hard to blame those who lost conrrol of their temper and | said cuSs words.
 At 2 o'clock this afternoon Suparin- tendent Wnles of the trolley company said that all the lines were onen and cars running on then. hnt the schedule had been abandoned for the present. The local system of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Co had more ] thaal it's share of troubles to-day. Be. sides having to deal with the storm. q trolley car got refractory about 9:1T o'clock and made trouble. The cal was coming down North Main street and should have taken the switch op pOsite the postoffice. IL failed to dc so, however. and jumped the track il consequence. Then it made direcf1. for the Carrie WeIton fountain. bu it sw"rved and crashed squarelv into Harrington's lunch cart. taking i completelv off it's trucks and over turning it bodily on the adjacent side walk Fortunately there was no on, in rhe cart. and the trolley car crew seeing trouble ahaad and mo way fo, them th avoid it. left their posts. Th' lunch cart was not dama%ed very much. X few windows were broken and all its contents were cansi-ed an' coffee and sandwiches filtered tn, floor.
 The trolley car lost its fender ant the end on which the collision oc cured was crushed. X peculiar oc c,lrrence was that after th' collisiO, the trolley ear swung clear around so that a spectator would think til, ac"iHs~,t took place from the so"th in stead of the north side of the Weltol fountain. Half an hour after the oc
 .,rrance the trolley car had heel
 towed 10 the barn. The entire dam age did not amount to S100
 The cafe was turned right side II drrinc the afternoon and while looked some the worse for the fal still it was not total wreck. and whe
 put back at the old stand one hardl
 would know that it had ever been th victim of such an accident.