Evening star., 1927-11-07
SNOW |NTENS|F|ES
FLOOD SUFFERING;
DEAD EXCEED $50
Freezing Weather Adds to
Discomfort of Homeless
New England Thousands.
RELIEF WORKERS FEED
AND CLOTHE VICTIMS
Waters Subsiding in Northern
Area, but Situation to South
Remains Acute.

BOSTON. November {. Snow
squalls and freezing weather added
today to the discomfort of the thou
sands in the New England flood area.
whose homes had been surrounded
and cellars filled with water. Fur
naces were useless in such places. In
many of the rural districts, however.
stoves are used for house heating and
it was impossible in such districts to
get warmth from wood fires,
The dead in the flood are known to
exceed $50. Relief workers bent their
efforts today toward the feeding and
clothing of those driven from their
homes and toward the prevention of
the spread of disease.
Waters Subside i'm North.
While the waters in the Northern
States continued to subSide, the situa-
ton to the south remained acute, with
5000 persons reported routed from
their dwellings in Springfield, Mass.
where the full effects of the Connectl-
cut River at flood state were being
experienced. The rivers rise today
was most serious at Hartford.
The work of relief went on unceas.
ingly. while from Vermont. scene of
the most severe loss of life, came
fresh reports of victims that threat
ened to boost the death list consider
ably.
On the fact of incomplete informa.
ton Of the disaster, which overlook
residents of the Winooski Valley,
where Sc persons are known to have
perished, it was feared that a com.
plete check of the debris-littered river
course would reveal further bodies.
A report from the remote Lamoille
River Valley, the first to come from
there, told of seven deaths and it was
believed in Burlington that there
would be many more.
Bolton led all Vermont places with
s2 fatalities in the town and vicinity.
81 Dead in Waterbury.
Waterbury had q, while Barre was
next with known dead and a re-
ported possibility~that the figure might
reach 20.
Duxbury and North Duxbury were
said to have lost IL persons each, but
reports from there were unauthenti-
Gated.
Despite the magnitude of the blow,
Vermont and its sister States were
making valiant efforts to retrieve their
losses without outside aid.
All troops from Fort Ethan Allen,
near Burlington, VT, were ordered
Withdrawn by Maj. Gen. Preston
Brown, commanding the list Corps
Area, who few to the former city to
take personal charge of the situation
President Coolidge.
proy,in,eIxy colIiorc had hoon dfracf.
ed sent to Montpelier to cooperate
with authorities there.
An Army base has been established
at Concord, N. H., and from there two
airplanes succeeded in reaching Mont
pelier with typhoid fever serum, medi.
cine and yeast.
, flock of Army and privately com.
missioned planes circled ceaselessly
over both Vermont and New Hamp-
shire and brought back the first def
mite pictures Of what happened to
many places.
Tracks and Bridges Gone.
The aviators told of an unending
panorama of inundated landscapes,
barns, houses, automobiles and even
an occasional freight car grotesquely
picked UP by the swirling water and
set down in the alien surroundings, of
wrecked bridges and uprooted railroad
tracks, of burst dams and desolate
farms.
Everywhere relief agencies, the Red
Cross, Army officers. the Salvation
Army and others were working to
succor those most sorely afflicted,
while medical authorities sounded
warnings against drinking OF unboiled
water where there had been any posi-.
Of
places innoculatio against typhus
and other ravages was being urged as
a precautionary measure.
Railroad communica ton was being
gradually restored. In Vermont little
could be done. but in New Hampshire
and Massachusetts the various com.
panies pressed with vigor their efforts
to patch together the intricate net.
work of lines which the storm turned
topsy turvey.
Milk Situation Improves.
As a result, the milk situation in
this city and in other cities unaffected
nv the flood was somewhat on the
road to normal after partially milk
less Sunday. Even today. however. in
the face of strenuous attempts by
milk and railroad companies, the situa
tion was far from satisfactory.
The Boston and Maine Railroad has
succeeded in opening its own lines to
the West with the aid Of 1000 con
str,lction men and hundreds Of cars
of stone. while the Boston and Albany
was still being forced to detour Its
through trains $50 miles through
connecticut in order to reach Albany
y. Y.
ALL SAFE IN CONNECTICUT.