Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-07
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
pANIEl..soN

The worst traffic tieup in 22 years 1 kept DanielsDn practically isolate | from the outside world during Es1- | day, excepting as a few trains, run ming on a dernoralfzed schedule of aop- l efatfon, appeared here during the day. i
 The first of these, a southbothd l passenger train. reached here at 12:65 D. Ir1.,, two and a half hours late on his run from Worcester to New Lon don. This train brought the first newspapers of the day and gave peo- pie nefe chance to read something of what has happened to New Eng land since the memorable storm start ed in last Wednesday evening. With in an hour the first northbound pas senger train made it's way through to panielson, bringing tidings of what happened to the south of here during the storm period.
 As on Thursday there was no trol- ley service during Friday, and even the motor bus line, last, to succuf19o to the severity of the storm, was not furnishing service.
 From the outlying districts and from neighboring villages a few hardy spirits. forced by the urgency of their calling or the spirit of adventure. forced their way through to Daniel- son. All of these were agreed that highways are worse blocked wita snow, badly drifted in places, than has been case 1n q score Of years.
 Passengers on two trains that were stalled near Alexander's lake and at Putnam during all of Thursday nihgt arrived here just before seven o'clock Friday morning. They had not suffer ed any very great privation as the trains were warm. One of these trains was doe here at 6:42 D. m. Thursday night northbound for Wor- cester. It managed to proceed as far as Alexander's lake where drifts on the line blocked further progress. The other passenger train was the one that should have arrived here at s:15 p. m. Thursday evening. This train did not leave the Putnam yards on account of the blockade of the 1irte near Alexander's lake where three trains two of them freigf1ts were tied up during the night.
 Tn this section Of the state the heavy fall of snow was packed in as hard sand in a bank under the pressure in the hign wind that prevailed from the northeast during the greater part of the storm and this cempactness of the snow blanket was what played havoc with transportation lines.
 The state highway department motor truck equipped with snow plaw made a valiant effort to open the trunk lin& route to Putnam but while the truck and crew did splen did work, the mass of snow in the highway was so great that travelling conditions were not materially inn proved by the. effort.
 Between Danielson and Brooklyn, on the state highway, only sleighs could be gotten through during Fri day, and riding in one of them was perilous for at places along this route there are drifts as high as a horses head is above the grousd. Frank Spalding, carrier of mail on the Danielson Brooklyn star route, managed to get through to Danielso1l, and so did jailer Albert s. Fields Of the Windham county jail.
 The rural mail route out of DanieI- son was not covered during Friday, as nc horse or man could stand up on the grueIling test that the trip would require. Rural carrier A. w. Logee made some deliveries to pat rons of the routes not distant from the office, making his journey on foot. As matter of fact there wasn't much mali to deliver, excepting what arrived in the mornings on trains that had been snow1bound during the night.
 East KillingIy, Dayville, Goodyear, Attawaugan, Waufegan and other nearby places seemed far away dur ing Friday as Boston usually does. Peopel in these villages, where many are i'll, had difficulty in securing the services of physicians, who did their best, however, using sleighs, to ans Ner all calls made upon them. Just at noon Friday another cause for apprehension was created when a heavy rainstorm set in. With from 14 to IS inches of snow covering an l ice seating to 4 inches deep that I fas chung to the earth's surface here ] abouts for weeks and ice that is | nearly two feet thick in the rivers the danger Of flood loomed up as ] a new menace as Friday wore on f Present travelling conditions here aIBouts may honestly be described as the worst since the great storm oi l 1898, in which the steamer Portland 1 went down.
 i Forces >in the mills have been ma I terially cut down because many op- eratives have not been able to get tc | the plants.
 While it need not cause alarm, as 1 there is plentiful supply Of reserve l foodStuffs here, certain kinds of mea1 and other perislfable goods were run i ming short in local markets Friday i No freights have come through since Wednesday and other transportation ! lines are not giving service.
 Attorney E. L. Darbie, Obadiah But i Ter, T. J. Award and Roland H Gray comprised one group that spen Thursday night in a railroad coact at Putnam, hoping every minute tt start for their homes here, but no getting in until just before o'ciocl Friday nSrning. Messrs. Darbie, Ay1 i ward and Gray had been in Hortfort { on business trips while Mir. Butle was returning from Providence. Mir Awkward left Hartford just after
 o'clock Thursday morning to com,
 home, so was 2S hours covering les
 than 60 miles.
 Ms. Jennie Warren, an aged wo man. died at the Day Kimball hospa tai in Putnam Friday morning iron burns received at her tenement il what is known as SpirituaIist hall el l Oak street, during the early part 0
 So it is not known how the acciden
 happened, but it is believed that he
 clothing caught fire as she was put ting wood in the stove. Mrs. War
 ren was found some time after tn accident by Elmer Bowen. Mrs. War
 ren leaves son, Clarence, of Put nam, and a brother, William Tasting
 of East Woodstock.
 l The funeral cf Mrs. Elizabeth ri