El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-03-20

NNO6LO4ff Mass MARI III ~ DSaA---
D ful snow" Of this. New England's
greatest snowstorm winter. has
cost the six states over s5o,00o.o0o,
caused untold hardships and suffering
70 thousands and brought death 20
many.
But IN the wake Of the Billiards are
scores OF stories Of human interest.
humor and, not infrequeut, pathos-
Here are a few OF them, picked at
random:
From Charlton. Mass, in worcester
county. comes the Tale Of the Five
Shoveliers-" Five husky citizens OF
this country district set out IN
bIfndine storm to shovel or railroad
tracks. They went Up overlook 1iiI
and vanished After hours OF anxiety
they were discovered in a snowbank,
every man with his face frozen. al
sheathed n snow and all fighting
stubbornly against the storm
Patroirnan James J. Sullivan. OF
I,exinEton. Mass, started for the Con-
cord district court with a prisoner.
TrolievH were blocked and SulllFan
had to travel tWenty-siX miles 70 Bos-
ton and then out TO Concord winch
IS two miles from Lexington AFTER
court Sullivan was unable 10 get q
vehicle 70 take the prisoner to Mas
sachusetts reformatOrys so the COP
walked the two and one-halt miles IN
the blizzard with the man. Unable 70
get home, Sullivan had TO spend the
night in Jail himself. who wants
10 be a COP these days7" asked suili-
van
Twelve manhoIe covers blew Up
in south Boston within hnlf an
hour Of each other because the fee
froze IN the vent holes. causing n
congestion Of sewer gas No one
was injured
Hopkinton. Mass. had 70 abandon
one whole trolley line because seven
miles Of the line was buried under
dfty-six inches Of solid ice
impossible roads in New Hamp-
shire. Maine and Vermont prevented
farmers obtaining supplies and there
was much suffering. one Iamlly IN
Deerfield, y. H. was rescued aftsr
being stormbound a whole month
James ScrIbner and his family OF six
children were nearly exhausted from
hunger when found by the rescuers-
The mothers OF the family had been
dead in the house several days Father
and children were III in the snow
bound house with pneumonia
Horace ". Fernaid. OF west Bed
ford, Mass, was stalled in the blizzard.
being the only passenger on the 6;55
train from Boston when II ran into
q drift But by & rare stroke OF luck
the train with its lone passenger
stopped directly behind Eernald-s
farm He Just hoped over the drifts
% hiB back door.
c. 5. Gale. who runs store
above Concord. n. H. was com
-
days before locating the roof OF
his store. Then he began
rwenty-foot dig TO reach the door,
New England had a great dig
Fhen the railroads got clogged with
snow and freight could not move TO
the manufacturing centers- An army
OF $4,000 citizens released for the day
from industrial plants took picks and
shovels and ripped ice from the rail-
road tracks and shoveled snow from
the buried rails.
Scores OF buildings all over New
England collapsed The famous
sWedenborgian church at Bath, Ne,
built seTenty-seven years ago, was
ruined. The Unitarian church at
Walpole, n H. became a mass Of
twisted lumber under the weight OF
the snow
Following a basketball game at
Wiuchendon. Mass, in which Cushing
academy defeated the Winchendon
X. Of C.. team. the feminine spectators
engaged in a snowfall battle. The
police had 10 be called
Death or serious injury was threat
ened in peculiar case caused by the
storm A snow Di0W left the ice
Blocked rails. rambled across the
platform station at Milo. Maine. and
ran into the ticket office. forcing the
ticket agent and his assistant TO leap
for safety through the ticket window.