The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-27
Especial from United Press.)

| HIOpeTIy JOSS rom the gale ana
 storm of Saturday and Sunday in
 eastern and New, England States
 estimated to be s1o.0O0. GOO
 At least 50 lives were lost. due
 directly and indirectly to. the bliz-
 gard
 Railroad trains in Pennsylvania,
 New York. Massachusetts and New
 England States seriously delayed
 by snow drifts. Freight train
 traffic practically abandoned in
 efforts to get passengers through.
 Telephone and telegraph lines
 heaviest sufferers. especially in
 New England where scores of
 towns are stiIl cut off from wire
 communication
 Philadelphia, New York, Boston
 and Pfttsburg all report serious
 inconveniences occasioned by de-s
 layed street car traffic.
 Further snows. though not so
 heavy. are in sight. according to
 the weather bureau.
 New Haven, Dec 27.-Connecticut today emerged from one of the worst snow storms that has struck the state in years Reports of damage are be- in greceived from every town in the state, the total damage being conser- vatively estimated at half a million dollars Not in the past five years has trolley traffic been so tied up both on the local and suburban lines.
 The snow fell on an average of IS - o'clock on Christmas and o'clock yes terday. The fall was followed by a freeze which packed the snow on the streets and over the trolley tracks with the solidity Of a field of ice. Eov- en the powerful snow blows of the Connecticut company. which operates practically all trolley lines in the state. were of little avail in clearing up the blockade.
 Aside from the drowning of a small N-r~w ~w-N~s Na- aNm Ice rwa .~- Torrington and the distressing death of MotorInan Fred Beard and Conduc- tor Marcus Donovan who were drown ed under the ice of the Naugatuck river yesterday. when Car No. 236. from Waterbury for Sey- mour plunged over a 40 foot embank- ment into the river below, no other fatalities resulted from the storm. The Waterbury car failed to switch on the main track andr~ travelling at of snow along the river bank. plunging wildly over the embankment. The two women and three men escaped death by assist Ing each other out from the trap.
 Stamford. Dec. 27.-The storm in Stamford and vicinity was the most severe in years but the actual damage is not serious. The wind smashed a few plate glass windows and blew down some trees. Traffic on street car lines was resumed by noon yesterday excepting on the Shippan lines which were not opened till night. This was due to a high | tide that flooded some of the roads l From the rural districts 1t is reported hat snow is four feet deep on the lev | II and gangs of men are employed to- | iay in breaking paths for the rural nail carriers
 Norwalk. Dec. 27.-NorwaIk is just | beginning to emerge from the worst | blizzard since 'Ss. 1t was the gale of | wind and the continuous drifting of he snow which caused the greatest | rouble Practically all trolley traf- ic was suspended from the early part | if Saturday evening. Six cars were tailed for the entire night between his place and Stamford line. No rack than the wind would fill 1t gain. Three alarms of fire called out | he local department but luckily. all ' f the fires were nipped in the bud. The automobile chemical wagon broke ts driving shaft in attempting to low through a five foot snow bank. With the storm came the record tide f twenty-five years. yesterday morn ng. It inundated the entire shore. do- ng considerable damage and floating way several small boats which were arried out into the Sound and lost
 Boston, Dec. 27.-Belief that the five lasted collier Davis Palmer. which or Boston. sunk with all on board uring the terrific Christmas storm off he Massachusetts coast is general ere today following the finding of from that vessel on Minors edge at the entrance to Boston liar or. |, Among the articles cast up by the ga were a box containing coast sig , als with the name of the Davis almer, cabin doors, fittings and deck -om that vessel. No news has been ! card of her crew and the coast sta ons have not reported any vessels in ! stress in this immediate vicinity. If the Davis Palmer went down it !.
 believed 1t was during yesterday 7 fternoon when it was impossible to z .ake out any vessel any distance off : lore for the clouds of heavily falling ! Iow. There is little hope, that if she as been wrecked. any of her crew Y i'll survive. Boston, Dec. 27.-Though the ar !. val between midnight and s o'clock . ,day of many overdue vessels has ,mewhat relieved the situation. the :, Iilure of many of the larger steam s thus far to make port is the cause ' the gravest anxiety.
 Among the larger vessels not vet ' ,ported are the Cunard Liner Syl- ~ mia, from Liverpool. the Ward Lin Sachem from Liverpool. the Arkan- I, Ls of the Scandinavian-America t inc. the Lexington of the Merchants ' nd Miners frop Philadelphia and the o ntario from Norfolk. Seven days Y ave passed since the Carnstrath from = editerranean ports was due. and the . from Calcutta, Toreic from a oklahoma. Trifelo. Calcutt. and the sparta from Costa Rica, are all sev- al days behind time.