Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-03

splendi dtree-bordered avenue looks as though a cyclone had swept through it 1 and many beautiful trees are ruined All through the Woodstocks and Pomfret | the damage that can be seen by mo- tor car driven along the state highways
 is but. fraction of what happened in the territory. but 1t is well worth driving 50 miles to see and this weekend will offer 8 good opportunity.
 Hundreds of cords of wood will be obtained from trees that have been ruin ed In the neighboring towns. Wood choppers were at work cutting and cord ing trees Friday, but they have weeks of work ahead of them. Along Pomfret street four foot stacks of wood are piled at the edge of lawns much as one sees them in a woodlot that is being cut off Woodstock resident who. has recent " come into that territory said Friday | that in many years residence in the west where tornadoes rip things up occasion | ally he never saw anything that would even closely approach the damage caused by ice in Woodstock, and certain | ly no one hereabouts eyer saw anything | that will match what is to be seen at
 Woodstock hill these days.
 | The following item sent out from
 Webster shows what the feeling is | lfeTe as tO t0c ~upSciOAAtS Ol tic it 1 sumption of trolley service during the | coming winter between the Grosvenor-
 dales and that place:
 Webster officials believe that the re- cent storm has blasted all hopes of re- | sumption of trolley service between North Grosvenordale and Webster. The poles along this line and wires are down
 and it is thought that the trolley officials will not deem it advisable to resume op-
 erations at present.
 Following the last conference between town and trolley officials at the car barn in Worcester, General Manager Page said he would communicate with
 President Storrs of the Connecticut
 company and if his verdict was at al favorable he would write to the officials I here at once No letter from his has been received, and since the storm it is
 believed tSat resumption. this Einper F! at least. is very improbable.
 It was learned here Friday that Dr.
 and Mrs. w. L. Johnson, of Uxbridge
 had the most terrible experience of their lives last Monday night in driving from this city toward their home town, the
 last leg of a holiday motor trip to New
 Rochelle.
 Their sedan was trapped in Dougla:
 woods, wild country without dwelling | lOr StTeICHeS OI 6S. when lelepnOnt pole crashed down just ahead of the ma chine and other poles fell farther ahead and to the rear,-makiag it impossible fol the physician to proceed either forwar, or to the rear. With his wife he spen
 a night of terror in the car while tree crashed down about them threatening t' - crush the car and kill them at any mo ment.
 In telling of his experience Dr. John son said he did not realize the storm wa 5 so severe upon leaving Putnam Tn . first of the sleet was encountered a
 Pomfret and more of it here, but Di j. Johnson did not hesitate to drive the fl
 nal 25 miles to his home. It was at Eas Il Thompson, Dr. Johnson says, that sh e began to encounter really bad condition, = but a sthere were no Instructions in tn z highway he proceeded. hoping to mak t the drive through the seven miles stretc e of Douglas woods before darkness fell, e His progress was so slow on accour f of the slippery highway and night cam
 on quickly in the heavy storm ths = he entered the woods when it was darl r. He had driven about a mile into th r desolate country when wires began { e snap and limbs come tumbling dow e from trees and mile or two farther i 'f an entire sector of poles came down an e trapped the car.
 $ It was storming frightfully at the tin
 and neither the physician nor his wifi -' who have friends in this section, dare leave the car on account of the tang T. of poles, wires and fallen trees ar e through fear of being killed by lint II and trees that were constantly crashin down.
 'I From o'clock Monday night unt le daylight Tuesday morning they remail :, ed in the car and then, through a delu. III of alternating rain and sleet and sno -, walked three miles back to East Thom y son. abandoning the car and getting i train for home, where they arrived
 7.30 Tuesday night to find trees ar m shrubbery at their own place in ruin m The car remained trapped in the WOO E. up to Friday.
 is D. seventy-fve members of the windha nc County Farmers association gather, in here at Odd Fellows hall Friday f