Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-06
LONG ISLAND SOUND
 cHokED WITH lcE.
Large Steamers May Be Forced t
 Stop Running.

Old navigators say they cannot re- member when Long Island sound was so badly choked with ice as it is at present The outer hafbor at New London is covered with solid sheet of ice. All the sound is full of ice some solid and some broken. None but the largest sound steamers dare venture out. Even these are experiencing the greatest difficuity in reaching their ports. lNavigators say that if the cold weather continues much longer even the large sound steamers will be forced to stop running, and they pre- dict that if this occurs the whsle sound will be like a huge skating rink.
 The Groton ferryboat is having great difficulty in running The ice pressure
 has already caused part of the Groton slip to give way. The ice packs in solidiy in both slips and tugs are er1- ployed 10 keep the slips clear of ice in erder that the ferry may be able to run.
 The many vessels lying at anchor in New London harbor are practically cut off from the city by the ice in the river. No small boats can be put over 1 the sides of the vessels, as the ice is
 much too heavy to allow it.. Entrance to the public landing is impossible, tie I ice having frozen solidly. The whole 1 channel of the river is covered with 8 , coating of ice and the river aside from l the channel is completely frozen over. l The New Hampshire of the New {, London line between New London and l New York on it's trip Monday night ! could proceed only as far as Say brook when the ice foes becan>e. too ] thick for safe navigation and forced bthe boat to return to New London. A 1 special train was made up and the I passengers were taken to New York. l The men on the steamer stated that it l was practically impossible to complete the trip. The freight on board will be lsent through as soon as the weather l noderates somewhat.
 The Central Vermont steamer New 1 London from New London to New York is reported from New York to be 4 hammering away at the head of the sound, trying to make her port The ice fields have hemmed in the boat and it is with great difficulty that the boat is making any progress at all No other boat can be sent to her as.
 sistance, as the ice is much too heavy to permit any boat from New York tc
 get near enough to her to give assist ance.
 The government steamer Tulip, en
 gagged in breaking the ice in the sound 1 arrived in New London Tuesday nigh ] from New York after a long drawn ou l encounter with the ice. She set a , work trying to station the lightship, on Cornfield Point and on Bartlett. Reef. which had been torn loose iron j, their n1oorings and were drifting witt
 the ice. The ice was much too strons and heavy, however, to place the ship on their moorings again, and they wer' : brought to New London by the TuIi] :, and tied up at the custom house dock The Thames Towboat company's tug
 Aries and Gertrude, with tow of si,
 light barges. are fast in the ice of ) City Island, N. r The tugs wer
 bound for New York but the ice close in upon them and they were frozei
 fast. Tug Waterman left New Londo
 Monday noon to try to give the Arie , 1 and Gertrude assistance, but was un
 able to proceed farther than Faulkner,
 Island, when it was turned back b
 ever increasing ice