The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-23
LOSS
 IN NEW LONDON

(Continued from Page D lay across the railroad tracks, Wreckage of other boats cluttered the wide harbor.
 Buildings Took Licking
 The administration building at the submarine base was wrecked and the government dock smashed Connecticut College, on high ground took a beating from the wind but the damage was relatively slight.
 The Ocean Beach section was in ruin and more than 100 summer places were virtually destroyed or moved of their foundations.
 The 7-mile shore front of Groton Long Point, Bushy Point and East' ern Point ct Groton was being pat rolled by militia men under Cap tain William Bushnell. A short- wave radio contact was made with droton early today. Between SC and 40 families were reported ma rooned and homeless. Captain Bush- nell said Hundreds of cottages, most of the unoccupied, had been washed to pieces"
 Crescent Beach at Mantle was washed out and the beach carried away. The same condition existed at Pleasure Beach.
 Communication with nearby Lyme was difficult but the section was said to be much better of" than the New London area.
 Norwich Isolated
 To the north, at Norwich, the city was isolated and two feet of water was reported in Franklin Square In the business district. The Shetucked river overfiowed, carrying of Q New Haven Railroad warehouse.
 Small surrounding villages were declared by the military to be "ifl bad shape" and in need of food ana drinking water. Some families were isolated.
 Fifteen deaths, ten of them by drowning, were reported at New London, waterford, stonington' Mystic, oroton and Old Saybrook' rive of the victims were unidenti- fed. :.
 The boat of Mfr. and Mrs. D. P. BaRg, Holyoke. Mass, was found wrecked near Eastern Point. It was unknown whether they were alive.
 Three unidentified men were Saio to have been drowned when they were trapped in their automobile. Eleven men were reported missing in boats of stonington, Mystic and Plum Island.
 Coast Guard patrol boats con- ducted e diligent search Of the shore line for them.
 Three members of the crew oi tne fasl,lng vessel ocean View" which sai,k of Falkner's Island also were missinR. Three others drowned They were Jesse Hodge, Leesvilic, Va: Kermit Forrest, Round Pona' Me and Roy Grimm, Shelter Island! N. Y.. Captain William Swiis saVeo himself by swimming ashore.
 Shore Colonies Damaged
 Shore colonies between old Lyme and Madison were severely dam- ased. At Hawks Nest 30 cottages wsre ripped to pieces. Rescuers saved a mother and young daughter who clung to c door after it naa been torn from It's hinges. About sv cottages, or nearly half or tne O'a sAybrook colony, were smasneo'
 The high water threatened the summer home of pr. and Mrs Thomas N. Hepburn, parents of tne famous actress, Katharine Hepburn, at Fenwick Point. Miss Hepburn snrinted through water ankle deep to gain the safety of the house:
 Pleasure boats were .::wasnea up along the beaches for miles. Fatrois kept e sharp watch for bodies.
 Fishers Island, of New London, was out of communication with the mainland. The extent Of damage there could not be ascertained.
 Engineer Saves Passengers
 The quick thinking of New Haven Railroad Engineer Harry Easton saved more than . score of passei- gers on his New York. Boston train from possible injury at Stonington.
 Easton, easing Train No. fl over trestle, felt the foundations sag He sent back word to have the pas sengers in the last three coaches move forward. The transfer was hardly completed when the three cars plunged through the trestle, criupiing mainline schedules. Nor- mai train service to Providence over the ahore-line was not anti- cipated until late today.
 The board walk ct Hammonassett Beach, . state park, was blown away, as were the roofs of several buildings.
 Two veteran yachtsmen ct Essex. Captain Nils Elk and Captain Er. nest Bushnell were reported drowr- cd when their power yachts found' cred.
 Police prevented the footing cs demolished cottages at Clinton.
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