Norwich bulletin., 1922-03-14
THE WORST STORM
In the Memory of the oldest Inhabitant
 All Travel Stopped and Connection
 With the Outside World Still Cut Off

Tn the I4OInOIy OA OAASSN
 All Travel Stopped and Connection
 With the Outside World Still Cut Off,
 Railroad Progress-Incidents.
 Norwich Tuesday morning looked Nike a northern New England coast town at the conclusion of a northeasteriy snow storm. The depth of snow was from one and a half to three feet. and it was still showing. The streets were unlnviting tG man and beast and the horses that first broke through the snow drifts in light wagons had fatiguing time of it. There | were no mil&men about, but the news boy could not be stopped. He was foun- dering through the snow with his BulIe- tins early in the morning and the resi- dents of the central part of the city had | their papers at the usual hour. About midday the milkmen began to arrive to serve their customers.
 | There was little business done outside | of shoveling, which every man of suffi- 1 cient strength took hand at; most of | them had plenty of it to do. A gang of i six men were employed all day in clear 1 ing the walks around city hall. In all 1 the business streets the snow was piled up some four feet high along the walks which is the largest amount of snow seen upon the ground in this section at one l time for 30 years. Several old residents think that a fall of snow in 1859 quite ] equaIled the present snowfall for depth 1 but for severity the oldest citizen freely admits that he recollects no storm to 1 compare with it.
 There were no deaths reported Tues day in consequence of the storm; but
 from general report it must be conceded ] that there were more frosthitten men in | town Monday night than have been re- ported before for many years.
 An East Great Plain man left the city on foot after Il o'clock Monday night
 and succeeded in reaching his home in 1 the early morning hours with both ears 1 frozen. but as plucky as a bantam 1 rooster.
 Preston man who lives a mile and 1 three-quarters east of this city reached home at 4 o'clock a. rn Tuesday. with his ears frozen and thoroughly tired out He widowed in the snow drifts for over 1 four hours and came as near perishing
 as a man could and really anDreciaet his
 chances of being GU off by the piercing
 and pitiless winds and binding snow When he reached home he was so happy that he wanted to shake hands with
 every member of the family and all of 1 the furniture. It seemed good to him to be able to get 8 look at the inanimate l objects of his home once more, to say nothing of those dependent ones who had been peacefully sleeping the night away with no knowledge of his peril. He had a loud call, but he was too much
 for the clements
 The schools were not in session Tues day. and the few pupils who did face the
 storm were massed in a single room in
 the Broadway schoolhouse and passed
 the morning pleasantly.
 The water department had men out all day clearing the hydrants, but that was
 task they could not fully accomplish yesterday. Property holders should ap- preciate the advantages of having hy- drants clear and for their own inter ests, in a time like this, should aid that
 department by clearing the hydrants in front of their property from snow, in stead of burying them deeper with snow shoveled from the walk.
 Monday evening two women who ven- tured out on Franklin street at different hours became stranded in snow drifts and raised up their voices and shrieked for help. They were heard above the wind and two chivaIrous men rescued T them from the drifts. if not from death.
 The railroad men have been constantly at work ever since the storm began. On the Norwich and Worcester railroad sev- T eral engines were busy all Monday night in drawing in a freight train from
 JI OtIleN lie. AOHQuCIOT DdNlS tram
 from Worcester Mass, due here. at 7.25 D. m., was stalled at South Worcester for the night. Conductor Roath's train
 north, which leaves for Worcester at : 2.45 ?. m. reached North Grosvenordale
 and was showed in there. At 6 o'clock Tuesday morning the snow blow with two engines attached left for the north and at $40 o'clock Conductor Chaffee's train, which usually leaves at o'clock 5 a. nl., Was despatched. This train reach , ed Webster, following the snow blow, } which reached North Oxford and was } then derailed. The express freight { stalled at North Oxford was shoveled
 out and ran to Putnam, and there the 2 train was divided, and the locomotive Q with two cars reached this city about 2 s o'clock D. m.
 [ No teLegraphid communication could l be established with Worcester and the
 exact progress made by the trains was T not known in this city. Conductor . | Davis train was not expected to arrive e last night. Conductor Chaffee was in, 8 structed to return from Webster. follow. V ing the snow blow and was expected tc : reach Norwich, if possible, before Wed h .nesday morning.
 n This morning at o'clock snow plow Q and train with gang of shovelers ana n a telegraph operator on board will gC p north 10 break out the line and if poSSi
 ble free the stalled trains and get then in motion, and also re-establlsh tele
 graph communication between the head
 quarters of the road in this city ant ] Worcester and way stations.
 Two trains of the New England roaG
 were showed in at Hampton till Monda, night, and all traffic between Willimanti( and Boston is at a standstfll
 The New London Northern railroad dit not get train through Tuesday. Tht train that went north through his city
 Monday evening with two locomotives wa;
 stalled at Yantic and is still there. ]
 Arthur Allen. acting superintendent, wh, was on the train, walked from Yantic tt
 the Norwich station on the track Tuesday
 afternoon. He found in every cut betweeI Yantic and Norwich, between five to sir feet of snow, packed so closely that a ma1
 could walk on it. A blow and two loco
 motives left New London Thursday mo-S
 ing and got as far as Montville. Tner,
 one of the locomotives was entirely derail
 cd and it took until dark to replace it. Tn
 locomotives were then run back to Nev London and all work abandoned. Thi
 morning the regular train will follog th,