The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-23


an almost continuous fall of snow TO
AS hours. Nearly all trains were sus
pended or blockaded from 10 to 81
hours The main line of the Contra
Vermont was opened from st. Alban
to Windsor on Wednesday. The Rut
land road was in worse shape thar
the other. Several trains were stalled
and in some places the snowdrifts were
from 10 to Is feet deep. Between Rut
land and Bellows Falls also the drifts
were immense. The road was finally
cleared Wednesday night. There was
no train over the Passumpsic railroad
for two DAYS The snowfall in the vi
entity of Bradford was fully "a inches
At Springfield the drifts against some
of the houses reached to the caves tive
stories high. AT Brattleboro there was
three feet Of snow and the drifts were
even with the caves Of houses. In
most country towns the roads were
impossible, and az physicians were UNI
able to reach the sick in the back dis
tricts there was much suffering. In
Bennington the schools and factories
were closed.
In New Hampshire the storm is ae-
counted the worst for 40 years. In
most places business was at stand
still The town meetings in several
| towns were adjourned because the yot-
ers could not get out to them. The
! blockade on the Northern railroad was
the worst within the recollection of its
officials. Concord, Manchester and
Nashua were practically isolated for a
whole day The Cheshire and Connect,
cut river roads were reopened to travel
Wednesday night. The situation in
Maine was about the same.
In Boston the storm was the worst
for 10 years The snow was 10 inches
deep in the city and Is outside. The
wind which blew gale, made sad hay
oc with the dense network Of wires
spread over the roofs. Electric, tee.
graph, telephone and fire alarm wires
were blown down in all directions New.
err before have the Boston newspapers
been entirely cut off from telegaphic
communication with the outer world
for one entire night. The only possible
communication which Boston and New
York enjoyed with the outside world
or with each other for SO hours was
by cable via London. Even this thread
of intelligence worked very poorly
The condition of the Boston streets
was terrible Travel on some horse car
lines was entirely suspended, and most
trains on the railways were Cancelled,
The milk supply for the city ran short
and there was a great demand for con
densed milk. For two days there was
no news from Congress, which, perhaps,
was not an unbearable affliction, and
nearly all kinds of business was sus-
pended The storm caused more ex
tensive blockade OF the mails arriving
and leaving the Boston postofiice than
has been known by the officials for
many years. The scenes along the
coast were magnificent. AT swamp |
scott the old salts say that the sea in
the bay was the heaviest they have |
known for Is years. Great masses OF |
ice were tossed like feathers on the |
surges and sent far up on the sands |
from 80 TO 80 feet beyond highwater |
mark. The roar Of the surf was heard |
10 miles inland The entire Boston & |
Maine system was without telegraphic |
and the through trains were |
badly blocked. On the Boston g. Al |
bany railway there were drifts 300 TO
/ 900 feet long and from six to eight
feet deep In Berkshire county it /
showed 80 hours and the fall amount
ed TO 81 inches. Business was para
lyzed.
Along the Rhode Island and Con
nrcticut shores the storm ragged with
ficreeness Nantucket and
Block Island report a fearful gale, but
no wrecks In Connecticut the most
fearful w.rk Of the storm was between
New Haven and the New York line.
The snow was piled in huge drifts and
trains were fairly buried from sight.
At New Haven there We're II engines
disabled or off the tracks. On the
division all trains were
stalled. Hartford was completely cut
Of for several hours from the outside
world and all the country roads were
blocked
New York City and state were com
Dletely paralyzed, 80 far as railroad
md telegraph service was concerned.
There was absolutely no travel in the
state save for short distances, The
irifts on Broadway were in many
places six feet high, and only mar
-ow space between the shop fronts and
he drifts were left for the people
pound 70 their places of business. At
lines for nearly whole block only
he tops of their heads were visible
lbove the snow. and now and then they
'ould not be seen at all. The storm
compelled the withdrawal Of the L and
urfaee roads On account of high
winds no one was allowed to cross the
BROOKLYN bridge and the ferry boats ,
suspended their trips The wires were
.own between New York and Philadel- ;
,hia and Washington. The East river
vas frozen over aud thousands 81 peO- ;
lie crossed on the ice Many streets
we're blocked mp by immense drifts.
. few hacks OF other conveyances were
cen. and the drivers charged 500 TO
AIRY passengers from Msdison square
o Park Row All the station houses
.erc filed with tramps and monde
rripts who fed in terror from the
aarfuI storm. The suffering among
he poor was intense Coal fselling AZ
Is a toni. fresh meats and milk were
! short supply. and the last fresh mix
ia for so cents a quart Z ght pilot
oats were lost Of SANDY Hook For
y trains we're blockaded between New
ork and Albany The drifts were Is
let deep on Coney Island The dam
r. 10 property 81 al kinds in New
ork and vicinity i estimated a. sew
-al millions Of dollars. Mayor Hewitt
,reivrd several dispatches from na y
ota and out from 81. Paul expressing e
.mrathv fuith the blizzard sufferers D