The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-12

perhaps less than two
DR.. Henry j. Holton brayed the
gale, with the wind registering by the {
thermometer ON Wantastiquet mountain
at 80 miles an hour, to administer to
sick patients. though his efforts for
humanity came painfully near dis
abling him. All day Wednesday the
railroads Intellectually tried to clear
their tracks and establish cOmmunica-
ton north and south, but not until
the following day did the Springfield
papers make their appearance ana
Brattleboro learn of the extent of the
storm to the north, east and south of
US Springfield and all the territory
south OF it to the Sound and even a.
far south as Virginia had like eX-
periencc and from everywhere east of /
the Virginia line came reports of a .
most trying storm with snow two to /
four feet deep on the level.
The first train from Bellows Falls .
Thursday brought to town with others /
Rev. Horace Fowler of Halifax, who +
upon his arrival here proceeded to his /
destination on snowshOes, which he /
had procured in Montreal. This inspir- |
ed others to adopt this mode of travel
over the great snow drifts and even
before the reverend gentleman s ar
rival some of the more resOurceful
brains in the village had conceived the
idea of getting to their several places
Of business by the use of snow shoes.
Up about the village common the
scenes described reminded one of car
nivai week in Montreal when the en-
tire populace take to snowshoes..
Judge Taft, who was to hold the
March term Of county court, telephone
cl from station on the New Haven
road where he was held up by the
storm. adjOurning court for two weeks,
while the jurors enrOutc to Newfane
were stranded in various places IN
their attempts to reach the county
seat.
> Narketman Richardson found it nee
! cessary to deliver his sausages and
; fowl by means of a bag thrown over
the shoulders of his trudging clerks
, who, however. were unable to keep
4 pace with the calls of householders,
t notwithstanding their pleadings that
t they were suffering for meat.
The milkmen, too were out of it and
e the little folks went dry so far as
e milk was concerned for at least 24
G hours The fremen remained at the
= several engine houses both day and
1 night III order to answer possible calls,
2 but none came during the blockade.
i Drummcrs and other travellers. who had
made repeated but unsuccessful at
d tcmpts to get out of town only to be
l. showed in at Withheld : at Vernon
d or somewhere between here and put
a nez- finally oot bacl- IN tho local hotels
il where they remained on scant fare
! three or four DAYS.
/, The oldest iubabitan+ had never seen
c ANYTHING like the blizzard of 1855.
< even the GREAT storm Of 1A43 afforded
e no COMPARISON. Everyone who reme,r.
e beers the blizzard of p wears AGO re-
calls personal experiences of hardship
and exposure. such as he never he
fore eyIprieured which have M naral
lei in the minds of the present GENERA
tion. Even a week after the storm tn,
New Haven road was stiJ nlovvino il.
tracks with the snow mn t6 the Toof.
of PASSENGER cars and New Work ri+1
wa, ~pendinu tborsand. Of dollar,
.dailv to melt from its streets h,
means OF steam lets the GREAT drift,
which had accumulated the yeal- he
fore. Many notable men lost th.,
Hives in the storm ono of whom, va
Senator Roscoe ConIzlnu who die,
from exposure vhil. WALKING from
Wall street to the Hoffman Hons,
while the blizzard was RACING
Local photorrarhers were kent bus,
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