Connecticut western news., 1920-03-11
SNOW AND WIND
 AGAIN STOP TRAFFIC
Most Severe Storm in Years Say Some Old
 Citizens

After a two days thaw, with the snow and ice melting slowly enough to cause but little uneasiness, this section was visited by the most se- were snow, sleet and wind storm in the history of many of our oldest residents. Starting early Friday night the light rain was turned to sleet and finally snow by a fierce north wind that continued unabated until Saturday noon. Railroads and highways that had but recently been made open to traffic were again blocked to a greater extent than be- fore.
 In towns further south, telephone and telegraph wires were down as a result of the sleet and trees being blown down. Communication by wire was impossible further than Winsted for several hours and the first train to arrive in town which was due here at 8:32, found its way slowly to the station, to all appear ances a huge snowbank on wheels, shortly after HOO o'clock. In the afternoon the 10:07 Berkshire train arrived, nearly five hours behind time. No trains moved on the c. N. E. during the day. The 3:45 p. m. eastbound train followed the snow blow Saturday evening and arrived at Winsted about o'clock Monday morning. The snowplow was de- railed at Grants station and fortu- nately no one was injured.
 The first train to arrive here since Friday night reached East Canaan about seven o'clock Sunday evening. There it became blocked in a huge drift that required several hours shoveling before it was able to re- sume the trip to Canaan. Another westbound train that left Winsted at 3:15 Sunday afternoon arrived here about three o'clock Monday morning.
 Aside from drifting the roads, to a depth of several feet in many places, no damage. resulted here abouts from the storm. Men have been digging out the state road since Monday morning, while farmers are breaking through the drifts on other highways.
 It took the Great Harrington bas- ketbaH team two days to return home from Winsted, where they played a game Friday night. They started to leave Winsted on Satur- day by train but the train was stalled mile out and they were forced to spend the night in the town. On Sunday the boys took train which got as far as East Ca- naan and from there they walked to Canaan. Sunday night they spent at the hotel and returned to Great Harrington Monday morning.
 Two coaches and an express car of the Central New England passenger train due here from the west at 8 :45 p. m. were derailed by broken rail about quarter of a mile west of Ore Hill Thursday afternoon. The locomotive and tender passed safely over the rail before it snapped. Pas sengers and trainmen were shaken up, but none was injured. The tracks were cleared at 6:45 Thurs day evening.
 Fifteen cars in an east bound freight on the Central New England Railroad, were derailed near Mill Plain, five miles west of Danbury, Friday, blocking both tracks. The cause of the accident is unknown. Some of the cars were damaged and 700 feet of track torn up. No one was hurt. Passengers were trans ferred around the wreck over the Danbury-Poughkeepsie.
 On Tuesday the difficulties aris- ing from the blizzard had been re- moved, but the different crews, un- able to get sufficient rest between trains, caused considerable delay.
 With only the smokestack of the locomotive visible a Central New England freight train consisting of a locomotive, four cars and caboose is completely showed under on Win chell mountain between Millerton and Pine Plains, N. Y. ,on the old Poughkeepsie and Eastern road. The train became stalled in the snow Saturday and the crew remained on the job untii Saturday night when, finding their efforts fruitless, the fire in the engine was drawn and they walked to Millerton for food and rest. Monday the train was located by means of the smoke stack pro- truding from the snow which com pletely covers the train, including the locomotive cab. The train will have to be shoveled out by hand.