The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-13

rescued in boats from the marooned Montreal Boston express train, Alouette, after being trapped nearly five hours. Another train, a local, was unable to proceed from Ply mouth station.
 Some Rivers Ice Locked
 Many large rivers in northern New England still were ice-locked and officials feared release of three waters would produce flood peril approaching the 1927 catastrophe.
 Nearly score of towns, including Hanover, N H., seat of Dartmouth College, were isolated by WashoutS and rising waters. Telephone com pany attaches reported their lines had not been affected, but telegraph Company officials said communities tion with sereval small communities had been severed.
 Thousands of persons were thrown out of work in Rhode Island, MaSSa- chusetts and Vermont as rivers over flowed their banks, doused boiler fires and flooded mills and factories
 Five Are Known Dcau
 Of the five known dead, two were killed ill avalanches when snow, ice and mud, loosed by overfloWing streams and unreasonable temper lures, swept down mountain sides burying everything in their path
 The dead toll:
 Henry Roy, 3l, drowned in Pisa taquog river, Goffstown, N, II.
 Eugene Hill, 65, killed in ava lanchc at Glen, N. H.
 Seraphino Nardi, 8, BrocKton, drowned when raft overturned.
 Ezra Ober, 50, killed in avalanche at North Jay, Maine.
 Stephen Hart, 32, downed at Gro ton, Vt.
 Scores were injured, including eight persons hurt when New York -Pittsfleld train was derailed two miles out of Great Harrington because of a damaged roadbed.
 New Hampshire Tn Bad
 Perhaps most seriously affected was New Hampshire, menaced by the Connecticut, which runs the length of New England, and the Pemlge- wasset, Piscataquog, Baker and Mer- rimack rivers. PWA workers, ordered to extraordinary duty by President Roosevelt, joined eco workers in an apparently futile effort to stem ris- ing waters.
 State highway officials estimated there were at least 100 seriously flooded areas in New Hampshire. A few miles south of Gorham, ice breaking in the Merrimack river brought a new menace. An entire company of CCC camp near Jack son was evacuated when roaring waters of the Saco river tore away a steel bridge and swept into the camp site. The l50 occupants man aged to reach a highway a mile and a half away and some were quart cred in a dance hall during the night.
 Ice E Feet High
 Along the Boston-Keene, W. H., highway, huge ice cakes were piled to a height Of IS feet for two miles. Scores of motorists were stranded. At Nashua, couple standing on the back seat of an automobile with water to their hips were rescued by firemen.
 Police, firemen and volunteers worked desperately to rescue scores of persons stranded in houses in the Beebe river section of Plymouth. ". IT, Many were trapped before they had an opportunity to flee to higher land.
 The Souhegan river valley was theratened with one Of the worst floods in It's history Trunk high ways were blocked with tons Of ice. Two small buildings attached Co the Abbott Machine Shop at Wilton r-' carried away.
 Manchester. the Merrimack Tiycr r0se five feet iD 21 b0urf.
 Tn Vermont. White fkyer June ton. whlch bore the brunt of the