The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-24
City Escaped Full
 Force Of Blizzard
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Boston, weather reports stated, were staggered by snow reaching depths of 20 to 24 inches. While school authorities in Hart. ford, New Haven and other sec tions of the state ordered no ses- sions this morning, Waterbury
 children were not so lucky and trudged to their respective school rooms.
 Only two accidents were report ed. Lieutenant Michael Cavanaugh of the Burton street fire depart.
 ment suffered spralned wrist and arm whom he slipped and fell while answering an alarm on
 North Main street where an oil
 burner became out of order. He
 required treatment at St Mary's hospital.
 Mrs Cora Gray, e1, of 39 Revere street, slipped on q walk neGr her home and fractured her right wrist. She was treated at tho ~ t.
 erbury hospital.
 Public utility companies this morning reported no abnormal dif- faculties or extraordinary damage. Tho New Haven road, the Connec- ticut Co and local bus companies reported their passenger service going through on all lin s.
 800 Men At Work
 Thoms J. Fleming, superintend- ent of streets and water reported q crew of 500 men, comprised of the regular street department force and Mutual Aid stan, at work with 5O trucks in cleaning the streets of the snow.
 Mr Fleming was out all night supervising the work of clearing central streets and bus lines. Eleven blows were kept Lt work through the night and this morning. Ir the Bucks Hill, Bradley avenue and
 Bunker Hill avenue sections, Mir Fleming reported the drifts to be about four feet deep.
 The radio report. as special announcement from Washington last evening that EZRA men could be used for snow shoveling work, Superintendent Fleming said was erroneous. He said he called Will liam M. Harris, local director, who announced he had received no au-
 thority to put EZRA men to work
 on snow shoveling.
 s f-2 Inches of Snow James E. Walker, plumbing inc spector and official weather report. CT for the city stated that eight and q half inches of snow fell dur-
 ing the 16 hours the storm was
 waging. The storm began at 12:2G
 and lasted until about { o'clock | this morning.
 Mir Walker further reported that the temperature was fast dropping. n.sa Ats Al | 10 degrees above zero. An hour la- | ing wore on, the wind died down and the temperature began to rise Superintendent Fleming said he started his crews out at o'clock
 last night. No tractors were used
 because the blows managed to push through the drifts. Tn men con- centrated on central streets and main arteries of traffic. Bus and
 trolley lines were cleared. Drifts were encountered in the hill sec- tlons of the city. Trucks, arc dump Ing the snow into nearby dumping grounds, the American Brass prop. crty on West Main street and along the banks of the Naugatuck river
 The blows will he kept on today as long as they are needed, guperin- tendent Fleming said.
 Telephone Girls at EOtcI William W. Wren, manager of
 the Waterbury branch of the Southerp New England Telephone Co announced that 15 girl opera
 tors were put up at the Elton for the night when they finished work ing on their shifts around 10;a0
 last evening. This was done, MT Wren said. to insure service this morning and to avoid the situation
 encountered in the blizzard of last
 February when special trucks had