The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-16
City Ls Little Hurt
 By Mondays Storm
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Engine NO. ] was unable to climb the slippery grade but Engine No. 2 made 1t. An old cotton quilt was found sinouldering in the cellar.
 Service Interrupted
 At ll:30 o'clock last night service was briefly interrupted in the east ern section of the city when a limb fell across some wire. Shortly after midnight the Southington circuit was broken due to snapped wire. It was quickly repaired. It was early this morning, however, before ccr- tain streets around Hitchcock Lake had service restored.
 No Serious Accidents
 Branches of trees fell all over the city. Despite the bad going there were no serious auto accidents re- ported. Sergeant George Chatfield, police department electrician, found much trouble with some of the poe lice signal boxes and was kept busy today repairing them.
 Busses Behind Schedule
 The buSses of the Short Line and the New England Transportation Company were slightly behind schedule. A New York train came in 20 minutes late last night but the time was lost the other side of Bridgeport. Local bus service today was on schedule.
 Telephones Hard Hit
 In Q statement concerning teie. phone service, it was announced to- day by L. L. Beebe, local exchange manager of the Southern New Eng land Telephone company that scv- eral toll line services leading from this city were seriously affected and 1t may be several days before the entire damage would be repaired, Several hundred local cases were also reported and this number, 1t was expected would be greatly in- creased by late hour this after- noon. Officials however, reported that local service would be under control by tonight.
 Toll Service Hit
 Toll service connecting Water. bury Danbury, New Milford and Woodbury was greatly affected ma calls were being sent over other routes. More than 250 stations were reported crippled in the Pros- pect, Bucks Hill and Woodbury dis tricts. Naugatuck and Watertown stations reported scattered trouble and 1t was said that all wires were down between Thomaston and the Northfield district.
 Prospect Zone Worst
 The most serious trouble accord ing to the statement, was found in the Prospect section where 1t was found necessary to install an em- ergency cable in order to carry on service, and the least trouble was found in Cheshire.
 The company reported that an emergency crew of 40 men worked last night until ii o'clock repairing all wires whcih were reported de- fective until that time. It was be- iieved that the ma ajority of the wires were damaged by ice coatings be- tween { and 6 o'clock this norn- ing.
 New England Recovering
 Boston, March l6--(UP)-Only q week before the first day of spring, New England was recovering today from the worst storm of the winter.
 4 shift in wind from northeast to southwest and west lessened threat of gales, heavy rain and snow fore- cast for today and it seemed prob able only light rain or snow fiurries would result. Fair weather was pre- dicted for tomorrow.
 Only a half inch of snow fell in Boston yesterday before turning to rain, but in western Massachusetts ard southern New Hampshire and Vermont. the snowfall was six inches.
 Freezing temperatures turned sllish to Ice and glazed highways. Skidding accidents caused injuries to scores. but no fatalities were re- ported. Along Newburyport Turn. pike, trucks were forced to halt on hills and await state sanding crews Red signal flares were placed on hill and at intersections to warn motorists.
 Atop Blue Hill. the Harvard weather observatory. was eneased in tee.
 Along the coast. flood tides. whlp- ped by northeast wind, flooded love lying piers and waterfront streets and cast Gdrift many small craft 6lect. coupled with heavy sens. kept bargas. fishing boats and other RsnalI vessels in the shelter 0f Mew England haFb0Fs. Esongall0Femen halted unloading operations becaMne of threatened rain damage to caF- goes,