Republican farmer., 1920-03-12
IS HELD
 CAPTIVE BY VILLA
 IN $5O,OOO RANSOM

ITO ''DIC 0UT,' E-aass2 '-x -s1 Every Effort Made to Re E..s store Transportation
 ,ss es5 .o Facilities. = =. ..z .zs E->as .- a F--- k aa-Bostehf March 8---Raf1roads, indus tries and Community volunt teefs @crTr1-, Joined efforts today to restore thespas-ii fsen ger and freight transportatie7f fst- reilitjss that were cut off in nof1hern, i-9Isaaf England by the storm on 74Sat}1r- tdayf9.s,A digging out' holiday sEsds proclaimed in several cities andBeeTes of i1tfas tries diverted energies -oE their- employees to the s4vin gingA of, ; picks and shovels over railroad ties (-Grea t4snazR ba sand the ice forced -loys t5fe- sh dden drop in tempeEa,ture af- Et ter 1rain caused the most serI0 lGs-.sie. up ofathesautnter in many places. .&~s,r I.o A4l-lefsa4saSyes s4a1eer were ssea1led
 upon s75sz1t sxssosfAt d and the BsstenyslSfa44a b ef~ aeffsff4ere etc assist2-tR6s tia44s1 oBst64 eoffaf5a ndes. , A similar drive &zk o-%s%eefze-ags resHor- ed the serviees-to a4aea44sEs>aa fzfal but Efts9%~W O1+fx C+ l'ta4e1iast ten days HF<Hl HseI 0 ea4i tfes.-S' l The sitaatien<s<4rfda AEaan e5a- New
 Ham psl4 ffe-@ taf4tF~- vermont s-s was tfle , most serious in many years. Hun
 dreds of passengers were marooned in small ssities and towns Where trains 4 had bsen 5s4stlled ssscss aturday night,
 and in. some places the feeding of } these refugees became a serious prob
  l gers from stalled trains have been cared for ainceksHnday s1noFntHg. and
 at Richmond, also on the main line 2 of the Maife sGentral srailr6ad, 200 ? others, including Commander Evange- t line Booth of the Salvation army found refuge.
 f Fifty passengers on the Greenvil1e
 branch of the Bangor andezAroostook i railroad, who left Greenvi11e Saturday ? l afternoon, were brought to Bangor
 late last night. They had been stalled H=Saturday night and yesterday in an . immense snow drift near Dpvar E Passengers on the Bar Harbor train
 also spent the night in the cars about I IT mileseeast of Bangor. -------.- 'st n Service between Portsmouth and
 Boston on the Boston and Maine was g resumed after 9 suspension of nearly Y 36 hours. Trains from this city ran p oyer tile eastern u1N1E1On ITdCkS yoS- k i terday only as far as Beverly. Oper
 attons in Lexington branch of the
 Southern division of the Boston and
 Maine were resumed last night.
 Tie-ups off' the Vermont Central
 lines. where several passenger trains
 were held up Saturday and yesterday,
 were 1oosened last night. The noun
 tain division of the Boston and Maine
 remained Blocked by a mass of show
 1s+o oirl5- A peal1s Of the White Mountains and buried the tracks 40 feet deep. Trans ? portations between Concord N H
 and the northern parts of the state
 Vermont and Quebec also was at a = standsti1l.
 : Officials of several street railway l. lines said that normal service could
 not be resumed until after the spring
 thaw City lines of the eastern Mas If sachusetts Street Railway company e were partly open yesterday but no at g tempt was made to resume traff1t on e some of the interurban lines. Lynn, 0 Haverhil ard Salem were most seri- l. ously affected Volunteers recruited 1T from the churches dug out severa'
 miles of, the AriddIesex- and Boston if Street Railway tracks Sunday near e Hopkinton and it was expected that .- o>se line between that town and Tram n inghan could be operated, today. .- Two thousand volunteers have been e asked to dig the Berkshire Street d Railway company out of it's difficulties ,- at Pittsfield. Service was abandoned q by the company last night and the q road employees were laid off for an in- k definite period Major Louis A. Mar ;s chant issued a proclamation asking s the citizens to assist the road.
 Service on the Boston and Albany
 and the New York and New Haven and Hartford railroads was nearly
 normal today. These roads were but
 temporarily affected by the storm.
 New Haven, Conn, March 8-Nor
 n1al conditions were in sight today il Come ticut after two dags of ra fft
 demora1ization because of Saturday. :. blizzard, with the exception of tht H northeastern section of the state, al | the larger towns had been able t. dig themselves out of the storm drift
 and ice packs, and business in gen
 eral resumed it's normal swing. V In the Litchfeld hills, the Centra
 New England railroad was still strug
 gling with the blockade of it's lines
 after having moved but two trains il
 two days. Several snow blows aIit
 locomotives were off the tracks a
 various points.
 'o The New Haven's lines into tn 1t Litchfeld section had nearly norma D. schedules in effect today. The mai1 d lines of the system were in full op 1t eration yesterday and virtually nor in nal service by noon today was tha le official forecast
 l. The storm hit the Danbury & Beth r, e1 street railway and it was us;n. a- the last of it's coal supply. Witt IS coal shipments through Danbur-
 halted it was not known when tn 'n trolley company would be able to re f. s1,7ne service oI,a,, after if c1aare5 i+ le tracks.
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