New Britain herald., 1927-11-07
Death Toll Mounts to l50-BGzzards and Dropping Tempera- lures Add to Suffering Drinking Water Be- Geved Polluted.
Many Sections Cut Off by Washouts and Land slides Face Famine Aviators Flying Over Stricken Sections Give Vivid Accounts of Ruin.
By tho Associated Presa

By tho Associated Presa
 New England, with . death list of at least 15o, was digging itself out today from the wreckaSe left by the floods of the last few days. The water was receding except in Connecticut.
 Snow and freezing weather caused considerable suffering in many sec tons. There was food shortage in some Vermont communities and ef- forts were being made to relieve this With supplies sent by airplane. A plane landed food and medical SUD- plies in Montpelier.
 Try to Prevent Disease
 Much attention was devoted today to the prevention of disease in the flooded areas. Easements were being cleared of mud and water soaked rubbish. residents were warned to boil their drinking water and premises were being disinfected.
 Railroad service had been re stored on some lines in western Massachusetts and southern and central New Hampshire but was sull badly disrupted because Of the scores of bridges swept away and the in numerable washouts and landsides. A number of important highways in | were under water for q time were passable again today.
 Mills Are Closed
 In Lowell and some other places some of the mills were shut down because of the high water which had flooded their power plants.
 In the meantime the work of rc- lief went on increasingly while from Vermont, scene of the most severe. loss of life, came fresh reports Of victims that threatened to boost the present death list considerably.
 g Dead in Bolton
 The little town of Bolton led all Vermont places with 32 fatalities in it and its immediate vicinity.
 Waterbury had 21, while Barre was next with seven known dead and a reported possibility that that figure might reach 20.
 Duxbury and North DuXbury were said to have lost 1o persons each but reports from these were un- authenticated.
 Despite the magnitude of the blow, however. Vermont and it's sis ter states were making valiant ef- forts to retrieve their losses without outside aid.
 All troops from Fort Ethan Allen near Burlington. Vt, were ordered withdrawn by Major General Pres ton Brown commanding the first corps area who flew 10 the former city to take personal charge of the situation and the relief measures directed by President Coolidge.
 Previously soldiers had been di- rected sent to Montpelier to cooper ate with authorities there.
 Army Base At Concord
 An army base has been established at Concord, ". F.. and from there two airplanes succeeded in reaching Montpelier with typhoid fever se- rum, medicine and yeast.
 A flock of army and privately commissioned planes circled cease lessly over both Vermont and New Hampshire yesterday and brought back the first definite pictures Of what happened to many places here totor mentioned only in connection with death lists.
 The aviators told of an amending panorama Of inundated landscapes. barns, houses, autom obiles and even an occasional freight car srotesque- ly picked up by the swirling water and set down in alien surroundings of wrecked bridges and uprooted railroad tracks, of burst dams and desolate farms. On the face Of admittedly incom- plete information of the disaster which overlook residents of the Winooski valley where S6 persons are known to have perished 1t was feared that a complete check of the debris filtered river course would reveal further bodies. A report early today from the re mote Lamoille river valley the fiji: { 10 come from there. told of seven deaths and it was believed in Bur lington that there would be many more.
 In region where planes are not ar every day commonplace. the in habitants found little time for sky gazing. Occasionally there would bc a wave of a hand. the aviators saif and then the group would return wearily to the task of rehabilit, q ton.
 Everywhere relief agencies. th. Red Gross. army officers, the Saliva