Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-08
CITY STRUGGLES AGAIN IN
 THE GRIP OF WfNTE


 Whoever hung up his snowshovel 1 with a groan of relief Friday night l and watched with satisfaction the heavy rain clearing off the snow in rapid order had to take down the same shovel with another groan when he woke up Saturday morning.
 Between bedtime Friday night and rising time Saturday morning Nor wich experienced about every variety Of wintrv weather that New England is heir to- The combination made the toughest experience in a winter that was already supposed to have done 1 it's worst.
 Friday night it began to rain light | ly about 10 o'clock with the thermo- meter at 40. The plies of snow in the street began to melt away and were cut down still further by the l torrents of rain that fell from about i to 5.30 o'clock Saturday morning. ! Between then and 6.S0 there was a l sudden drop in temperature to about i 10 above zero. accompanied by sleet, i snow and a bowling wind as the bliz- gard that had been sweeping from the west arrived here.
 The floods of water that had been 1 flowing were quickly turned into | congealed masses of ice in streets and on sidewalks and the two inches of snow that fell until about noon,
 combined with the ice on the rails
 disrupted trolley and train schedules. The biting, swirling wind that swept in from the north and west piled the
 snow into drifts and drove pedes- trians to shelter. Altogether it can
 be said to have been the most severe | morning of the winter.
 The. trolley line kept it's cars nov
 ing all day in the city on fairly regu-
 lar schedules. but the suburban lines
 had their troubles with drifts and
 cars getting off the track in the snow
 On a late afternoon trip from New ] London it took three hours to reach . this city because of a car that was l derailed on the Montville line. Trains on the New Haven road 5 were hours late Saturday. The II D. m. train from the north reached : here at II o'clock at night and tht } Worcester boat train due here at 9.4
 ?. m. got in at about 1 o'clock Sun :, day morning with two engines draw 3 ing it.
 No New York papers were receive, I Saturday until [ o'clock in the even l ing. but the papers froan Boston cam through on time.
 Washington square and the Yves
 Side bridges were places where, tn | n carnival. The square was nothin v but sheet of ice swept bare of sno' h by the wind and those who passe - over the bridges had to fight asains - the force of the northerly gale l. keep from being blown into the mid h dle of the street.
 e Sunday afternoon the trolley con pany had a gang of men at work 0 if Williams avenue from the Par 5, church corner to Washington stree 70 working with picks and shovels 1 1t keep the tracks clear of the ice tn; es accumulated fast from water tn; 1t settled on the tracks to the depth n, several inches. Cars were kept TUT ii. ming over the city lines all Sunds re night to prevent accumula ton of i, ty on the rails
 'k A section of Washington stre
 from the Mohegan park entran IS down to the city line looked like n- page out of Pearys dash to the nor e. pole Sunday afternoon. Half. a do
 en ruts made in the street by aut
 moiles were frozen into solid ridg
 six to eight inches high with jazz .H ice points crusted all over them al .+ the same conditions prevailed ~t Broadway alongside the Chelsea D = rade.
 nd The blizzard and freezing wea tn @ @1o checked a rise of the Shetucket a .st Quinebaug rivers which had threa ed ened this section with serious foo
 if the rain had continued for Tor to The danger is not yet over, it is | ,UG; nd lieved, for the rivers are full of i -i~ which must break up with the fl 1T thaw.
 =" At Plainf1eld, the Lawton Cott n Mills are surrounded with ice, t ;.s flood waters of the Quinebaug havi -'S spread over a large area. Cellars a
 streets have been flooded in ma
 sections of Sterling and PIainfie
 Conditions are the same in parts ! Windham and Scotland, along ev. Shetucket river.