New Britain herald., 1927-11-05

could be resumed No train has lof the city for 4S hours.
 Burlington. although nearly i'm mune from the flood itself by reasol Of ifs elevation. did not escape of fects Of the disaster which oyertool ! its ncighbors. All but one bridg went out including inc 40 year ol, steel span to its twin-city of Winoo ! ski
 Inhabitants watched from point Of vantage as houses, barns, live stock and general debris tloat,, down the river Damage 10 th' farmers in Winooski valley was be lieNed 10 have been enormous bu no loss of life has Yet been reported
 On inc face of early reports New [ Hampshire seemed to have escaped more lightly than it's neighbors Along the banks of the Connect. cu. river there was little deviation from the familiar story except tna' no large places Were seriously men. aced.
 Woodsyille, however. held poten- tial tragedy in the desperate strug- gle of William Moves and his fam, fly who's" home was surroundod by he ever rising stream. All ef- forts to reach them in the slnaI. boats available have thus far beer in vain,
 A serious situation obtained temporarily in th" valley Of thu PcmigcWasset river between Bristol and Franklin where mcsscnge had warned the farmers to places ot safety in the belief that the big dan, of the New Hampshire Utility com- pany might give way. All bridges between the two places went out but engineers declared they be- lieved the danger has passed at the dam at Franklin. To the south, the power house Of 1he Eastman dam which supplies Concord street rail ways With their power. was out of commission. The Boston and Maine rom roundhouse near the river.
 Connecticut suffering
 Connecticut, which missed the brunt of the storm, was today feel ing it's after effects The tremendous volume of water which the Connec- ,icut river. swollen by its Iribu- taries. was bearing down toward Long Island sound. The damage has been estimated at near s2,000,00o.
 Hartford saw a rise from normal of 2l feet with the prediction that it eventually would go to 2G. Ad- joining cellars were flooded and tenants were preparing to seek other quarters for safety.
 Other parts of the state reported overtlowing streams and general but not serious damage.
 Reports Of heavy loss of life in Montpelier, Nt,, in the flood had not been confirmed today. The latest word this forenoon was n radio message from the nearby city of Barre picked up by an amateur station in Hudson, Mass. This brief message said that the reports were persistent but could not be verified and made no mention of loss of life in Barre itself, where it had been reported that Lieutenant Gov ernor Jackson and nine others had perishcd.
 A message from Newport. Et. to the same station this morning told Of the drowning of two men when their milk wagon went down with a bridge and of the proba ble drown- ing of two others who were last seen starting over a flooded road in an automobile.
 This brought the New England death toll from the flood to 32 with several persons reported miss ing. The weather was clear and much colder in most sections today and in the upper valleys the water was rcceding somewhat but alons the larger rivers, particularly the Merrimack and Connecticut, con- ditions were getting more threaten ing as the torrents from their tri- butaries worked their way down into Massachusetts.
 River Rising Rapidly
 The Connecticut was rising at the rate of five inches an hour at Northampton this forenoon and the state police ordered the Hadley- Northampton bridge closed. At Turner's Falls the highest mark ever reached, IS feet, 6 inches, was re- corded at the top of the dam and lower stories of mills were flooded. The Morrimack was rising six inch es an hour at olwell this morn- ing and had gone up six feet since last night.
 Barre, Montpelier and St. Johns- bury. Nt, were still shut off from wire communication. Train service in northern and western New Eng land was still paralyzed, with large sections of track under water, bur jed under landsldes or washed away.
 Planes Take Pictures
 Airplane pictures of the devasted regions showed scenes like those of the recent Mississippi river inunda- tion. Houses and barns, or what remained of them churning about in swift flowing waters. broad lowlands changed into lakes, bursted dams with gaping breaches, state roads trac"ablc only by the tops of aban- donod automobiles, railroad em- hankmcnts buried 10 the steel and often times disappearing entirely be Ieath the flood whole towns in :" hirh streets had become canals and pedestrians metamorphoscd into boatmon.
 Disaster which crowded the early reports of the flood particularly in western Massachusetts and central Vermont gave place to newer and more vivid details today but the mystery of Montpelier and the enigma that ShrOu1cd the fate Of