Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-02-18
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Snowbound In Rancolph.
Friends in California, Florida and
other mild and balmy climes will be de-
lighted 70 read OF the storm which de-
scended on this section Of the country
Monday and Tuesday, and will fail to
picking roses and eating oranges right
on The trees faster than ever.
A sieety snow began 70 fall Sunday
night and continued, with only momen-
tary intermissions. until yesterday morn
ing. Being wet, It packed down into .
mass Is solid Is old cheese upon which
a snow shovel made hardly more impress
sion than 1t would on brick wall. I'm
der travel the crust gradually worked
into granulnted form TO . depth OF four
OF Eve inches and walking became vio-
lent exercise; while the footprints, left to
cheer some forlorn and weary brother on
his way to the postofice, looked like an
erratic series OF post holes.
The sleet covered the railroad track
with ice and 20 obliteFated the rails that
engines plunged across lots until they
were hopelessly stuck with wheels Whirl-
ing in hystericsl impotence. Randolph
Tuesday was q great railroad center with
trains holding the main line and all the
sidings, and three engines on the track
rival Of the soutb-bound night express.
which could get no farther after reaching
here ct 5:53 q. M, instead Of 2 a. m. its
schedule time. The north-bound local
came in ell right but in trying to back
onto siding derailed its engine. An
other locomotive staggered into the snow
At the canning factory switch and the
third blundered OF the irons Of the side
track in front Of The depot
A wreck train came up from White
River junction and pulled the north
bound train out Of the way OF the ex-
press; some Of the local unemployed were
pressed into the pick-and-shovel brigade
and BY dint OF labor that developed ten
dency TO perspiratioD in the toiIers, the
rolling stock Of the Central Vermont be-
gan once more to roll It was not, how
ever, until noon that the express went
on its way south, and little later the To-
cal proceeded north.
The railroad did its best for the COM
fort Of the passengers In the stalled Trains
by giving Landlord Hayws "a Of the Ran
dolph Inn an order to feed the hungry,
which be did to the number of 20, he
sides sending lunches to others who did
not wish to leave the cars. Blodgett's
hack conveyed passengers from the trains
standing q short distance below the South
Pleasant street crossing, and Blodgeft's
restaurant served meals to $50 OF them.
The south-bound mail, due at 1928 q.
m, put in an appearance at 1:S0 .. N.
and the rest Of the trains came struggling
along as they could and did amazingly
well to come ct ALL
Yesterday morning the sidewalks were
in such a condition that field pillow had
to be used to break the crust and ice
Formation before the scraper eonld clear
the paths. The result did not suggest
such thing Is an "easy street, in the
corporation.
According to reliable reports this storm
was the worst In years from q railroad
point OF view and almost any other. Il
was not the quantity OF snow, for that
was inconsiderable, but II was its partic-
ularly measly nature, which made il so
disturbing to traffic.
Another Saw Lincoln Shot.
Resides c. w. Proper OF this village,
Vermont has another eye witness OF Lin
coins assassination in Norman NJ. PuEIer
Of Bennington, who, month after his
14th birthday anniversary, enlisted rs =
drummer boy with the regimental band
OF the Second Vermont regiment in 1851.
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stationed at Washington. when he OBJ
tanned midnight pass to attend Ford's
theatre.
He sat so far back in the parquet that
he was unable to see the party in the
presidents box, but like everyone else in
the theatre he distinctly heard the pistol
shot and saw Booth as he sprang from
the box to the stage.
The theatre was in an uproar several
minutes, during which women tainted
and were trampled upon by the men as
they crowded toward the stage. Quiet
was finally secured by Miss Laura Keene,
the leading woman Of the theatrical COM
} pany, who advanced to the front and an
/ nounced that the president was not SCI
verely wounded and requested the people
to leave the building.
On his way back to the barracks. locat-
ed about q mile east OF the capital, PuiIer
was arrested by one of the guard that had
been thrown around the city, taken into
store and searched. He was then taken
to camp under escort for identification.
! he was the first to reach the camp with
} the news Of the assassination and was
kept mp the remainder Of the night, tell
, ing the story of the tragedy.
Ladies' hair work. Mrs. II. Fl. Bean,
564 Washington st., Boston, Mass.