Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1927, Page 4

. SHIRLING WATERS REACH SPRINGFELD 3cCity Menaced by Swelling Torrent as Connecticut - River Rises Rapidly. Rpecial Dispatch to The Star. SPRINC ass. November it was in the grip = flood e to tis, slow! sweep over Ma western part of the & released fi denling waters, this city came in for 1he brunt of the attack of the swollen Cqnnecticut River. Dikes in West Springfield, fng hundreds of homes, and sim barriers in the Plainfield street se tion of this city, broke under crush of the surging waters, Springfield break came after 1,000 men had labored frantically since last night to save the dikes. situation in Spri ous that a call was issued for abls halp save the barriers alang rial b:iige, hetween v being remain the river front. The one of the maln ar- this « nd West traflic at 7 1eries Sorin Is Threatened ntertained ov of "disease ewer sy more on the ve dan < inoany of | uld add | slen Cor abandoned their homes were directy Salvation Army and the State Armvy thrown open to t H b > on, for there are many marooned in various sections, are at a nd will be s the water izht the United | Electric Ligh power plant v in imminent danger. A shuidown would mean a city in darknes | The business ce city felt | the effect of the flood with water i cellars, ruining - thou- | of dollars’ worth of merchan- | Pumps are being manned to| Keep some cellars clear Hadley Under Water. m all along the Conne rts of ' town of H: ates Exposition were under 5 feet | valuable race | and eight or | ed onthe roof of | . and frantic ef. | forts were b 10 obtain boa to reach them. | The number of deaths in this city | grounds in th of water. les Norses we: marooned en were t It is 2t the crest of the flood will be reached some time morning hou FEDERATION RAPS - DRIVE ON COUNCIL BY TRADE BODIES' nued from First Page.) | i and to advise said Commissioners, {hat in the opinion of the federation, the fanctions of the trade and other bpdies, and of the Citizens' Ad-| Vieo! Counc:! so di e that there is no real issue.” Report Submitted. committee submitted tion a compr on s in analyzed eac ment left with the Commissioners representatives of the trade orgen tlons, contain counci. The report aiso out ¥ arious trade | to the| report, | which | tfons apply themselves to the gueg tions of particular interest to the par- ticular body? While no one can ob- Board of Trade, for stance, indorsing a Jibrary prog and the Chamber of Commerce foster- ing a ‘Father and Sén W duch bodies getting away from their main purpose in attempting to study. dicuss and promote such qu And it civ ations simulta, neously study, discuss take con- tion on shailar questions, do ation It is true that indjvidual ociations have the | gener: erest in local prob- lems, but does such interest justify all of our as50¢ n? Jocal associations considering | all of the questions and proble arise in the District? Should not ail | local organizations apply themselves With the | cm the grip of the death-| protect- | ar | the | The | Geld became | bodied man to turn out and | protective | | But it c THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, 74 Vietims of Flood Identified: Reports of Deathis Increase ated P November Seventy-four persons are known to have lost their fives in_ the floods and storms in New Eng- y the Last thr 1 have been i n refu , have reported many Several persons have reported as missing and are reparts of many other which have not been 5= A B i s 1d_Brock, Richard Thomas, 7 yea and three unidentified per- Mr. and Mrs. and their two (or th cen; Mr. and Mrs. F v and their chil dren: 17 employes of the Ver- mont Hig Nel- Rutland. Vt.—John ¢ a, Mrs. Lucy Salter, Miss Pauline Hall. on, Vt—Mrs. Erwin s and two_children. on, Vi — Martin Shepard. Newport, Vt.—Henry Auger and his son, Marcel Auger. Wertield, M bu Erecene R, Osborn. West Charleston, Vt.—~George Kinney. Worcester, Mass.—Mrs. Mar. folln Cassius. Beclret, Mass.—Mrs. Gustine Carroll. Milibury, Mass.—Mrs. Charles and her_ daughter oston—Marmilla Bardillo. orthampton, Mass.—Mr. and Mre. Charles heck. Westerly, R. L. bert Black- nall. avlin, N. H.—Harold Finnan. West Tebanon, N. H.—Ed- ward McGee. Milo, Me.—Roland 0. Lyford. | Pemaquid Point, Me.—Robert Creawer (of Wiscassett). Waterbury, Vt.—! members of Sargent family, Mr. Harry Cutting and three children, Howard Heato Mrs. Nora Canerby, George Sherman. It was believed that 13 ether sons were dead in Barre, Vt. 'wo others were missing from Newport, Vt. WINOOSKI VALLEY REPORTS 1 DEATHS | | ties committee, pointed ‘out that| under the plan proposed by Mr. W son for consolidating the transport l, Cistrict Between Montpelier e A et {-‘*fl)}ea?-.rx::‘lyfin : A dividend ot 13 per cont 15 1t socly | and. Burlington Devastated. 26 Die in Waterbury. holders, while at the present time-ft | 15 forced to draw on its surplus fund | in order to pay 7 per cent. “If a 13 per cent return is guar- o anteed - the €apital Traction Co., as it would be it Mr. Wilson's plan is topted,” said Mr. Clayton, “its stock | would be valuable at $200 a &hs n be bought today for $110. declared that the | dvocating a merger | ny has always | 1 | i | | 1 | | | By the Associate MONTPELIER, t.. November | A total of 61 dead in the Winooski | River Valiey between Montpelier and | Burlington as a result of flood was | rev ed in check-up of the towns between the two cities tonight. | » task for which they were or- tion, whi ral orgdnl and t more de- 1t such feeling ar and that | Advisory Council? 1 3 The greatest loss of life was re-| ported in Waterbury, where there are 26 bodies in the morgue. In Boiton, the mext town, 25 ar In Richmond 8 bodie: covered, with 4 other Middlesex, and Jonesvil fatalities” but. 4 lar a il means, a merger of tric Power Railway & Electric 11 Traction Co. The Juld not be a party ve been ro- 'y fixed, rather t property dam- rate of fare, in accord with practice of the Utilities nrnission opel the pub- utility act for th d it believes that a 6 per cent rate of return is fal nd just; that the base rate raerger company The harde hit town in the valley was Waterbury, which com piete devastated. home in th wn was damaged, and the inhabitants have set up common itchens In rehes nd_ public 1s. The food | Top to bottor réported dead. | arose above floor le the st Air vi el of t VILLAGE IS DESTROYED. Virtually every | Gaysyille, N. Y., Vt., Reported Swept| Away by Flood. ALBANY Novemlier 5 (P).— D.C, nun; e River ew of he Wh ated Bechet, Mass.; when tite water Junction Bridge at White River, ion at White River Junction in path of the flood; automobiles al- ad reported | most submerged at Springficld, Mass. reported no| | vitle, the inhabitants ported. e Sweaters in Vogue. having 1 in time to flee, but most of them lost all their belongings, he re- NOVEMBER 6, 1927—PART 1. JADIEINFLOOD; | 10,000 FLEE HOMES Victims of New England Dis- aster Face Famine as - Relief Is Rushed. supplies to meet the grave conditions | left by the rushing waters is the im- mediate problem of the most stri | district { The exact number was impossible to | ascertain because of interrupted com- | munications. That 13' persons, including Lieut. Gov. S. Hollister Jackdor, had lost their lives in Barre, Vt., was definitely learned tonight. The lieutenant gov- ernor fell into a pool in Potash Brook while trying to reach his home yes- terday and was drowned. His body was recovered yesterday afternoon. The message said the city of Barre had been damaged to the extent of $2,000,000. Big Dam Breaks. A report reached Burlington late to- day that a large dam at Pittsford, Vt., had gone out, and that the city of Rutland was “panic-stricken” as a re- sult. The only m the feeble wire today to the age to get through from St. Albans, Vt., Associated Press said that the St. Albans enger was trying to verif; big loss of life” in the Missisquoi Valley in north- ern Vermont To the deaths previously reported there were added today two at New- port, Vt., and one each in Vt.. Westfleld, Mass.: Hadley, Mass Pemagquid Point, Me., and Berlin, N. H, It was learned that the village of Gaysville, in the town of Stockbr Wind8r County, Vt.. had been vi tually wiped out by the flooded wat of the White River. A messenger tramped over the mountains to Bur- lington to report that because of the floods the town of Waterbury was in need of mwad. Officials and residents of Beckelt, Mass., in Berkshire County, where the central village was washed away yes- terday by the bursting of a reservoir, expressed a_determination to rebuild, but appealed for outside aid. The crest of the flood had passed from the Vermont and w Hamyp shire mountains tonight and was rid- ing swiftly through the great indus- trial cen of New Hampshire and A chusett: and the Merrimack Rivers which ceived most of the waters from swollen northern streams, wére danger height and still rising. In the Connecticut Valley the cities re- the at and other mill centers were threatened with heavy damage. In the Merri- mack Valley the rising tide menaced Concord, Manchester and ua, N. i, and Lowell, Lawrence and Haver- hili, Mass. Railroad and highway communication between Concord and Manchester were cut off. Army airplanes were ordered into the flooded area, and planes sent out by newspapers and picture services also were in the air. Every effort tand the numerous other places cut off from any wire service. Moveable radio stations proceeded toward the distressed sections in the hope of being able to send out news of the situation otherwise unobtainable. Railroads Crippled. Washouts and landslides had left the railroads in a state of confusion which cannot be straightened out for several days, and in some cases weeks. A roundabout connection to Albany and the West was established, but New England was still cut off from Canada, and there was virtuaily no train service in Vermont and northern New Hampshire. The Cen- tral Vermont Railway has lost 18 bridges, and many have been swept away on other lines. trom their homes as flood waters surrounded them today in many sec- tions which had escaped yesterday. The shutting off of train service trom Vermont and New York had one serfous result in Boston and other large cities through the loss of milk supplies from the great dairy districts. With only a limited amount of milk available, health authorities urged 1ts aistribution only to families where there were children. Other perishable food supplies were cut off by enforced railroad embargoes. Heavy loss was entailed by the shutting down of many factorles and mills In the river cities. Many places remained without electric light or power, and this_condition threatened to spread to other places, Including Springfield. | Both the Connecticut | of Springfield, Holyoke, Northampton | Hundreds of families were removed | Rutland, T 1 | path of destruction ra _LIEUT. GOV. S. H. JACKSON. _ PRESIDENT’S HOME IN PATH OF FLOOD Region Between Rutland and Lud | low Hard Hit by Rush- ing Waters. | washed out. By the Associated Pres: KEENE, N. H., November he rezion lying between Rutland and Ludlow, Vt.. including Plymouth, b hood home of President Coolidge, suf- fered severely from the flovds of the last three days, Georme W. Benis, a salesman who left Rutland Thurs afternoon and reached his home. Harrisville. near here, today a story of ruined homes and obliter- ated roads along the route. At Cavendish, Bemis said. he seven houses that had been s from their foundations and piled in a conglomerate heap. At the same | place were several automobiles over- turned and viled up in a single mas: of serap. From Rutland to Ludlow, told, the roads have been wiped out. In places it w hard to discover where the highway | nad been. He left his automobile | buried in mud at Guttingsville, Vt., | and hiked for miles over a twisted ss of iron rails that had been a Bemis ntirely | 14 be | From Ludlow on the roads were tess damaged and Bemis was assist- ed by motorists. He sald three | bridges had been washed out near | Cuttingsville, Including a | structure that had withstood storm | and flood for 100 years, near Walling- | ford, Vt. There was railroad wa out 159 feet long in which the earth has dropped away 100 feet. Two Men Are Drowned. ORD, N. H., November 5 (#) reached here tonight that unidentified men had been drowned today while clearing away debris from the Roston and Maine | Railroad tracks at West Lebanon. | One of the men siipped and fell into the Connecticut River, dragging his companion with him. Established 18 Years. 1 houses | road | road yards was flooded SHAH, 812 F St. l "AVAGES OF FLOOD TN FROM PLANE Observers View Inundated District in Flight Over Two States. By the Associated Press STON, November 5 rirplane to fly over V. Hampshire since nd the lesser stry nks to ke disastrous flood o The firs 1d New cut River A n their ew Kngland's wmos arried an Associated Ss reporter into the district toda Following the ragi Connecti; the plane penetr. ne rth far as White River Junction Vt.. where fast approaching darkness and the lack of a landing field forced the return to its home airport All up the river. which has spread out three and in some places many more times its normal width, the In his the ways lowlands mile stretches of and railroad tracke were On higher ground. w s held the ¢ waters in the river's normal hridges: had been swept force of the te n 1 trace of wreckazy wi high co and not remained to show 0od s s and dwellings on nks have been damaged to a de- » which cannot be accurately m ired until the waters recede. operty losses caused by the an into millions of dollars along t | line over which the Associated Press plane flew, Charlestown, N. 1 its first terrific blow from ing waters as the plane passed over that tewn. A substantial wooden idge. which once rested on ‘hree huge granite piers, had been smashe a4 o bits by the first crush of wato-s, and the river nhad overspread 100 yards of land on cach side, fill and facto to the level of first-floor windows, A few miles north. at Noit Charléstown, the flood carried aw second bridge, ‘but left the piers standing, though oniy a two of m showed at The which ¢ bridge was under water hundreds of yards on each tracks ‘which ran paral the highway were washe few dwellings near the riv were engulfed and abandone owners fled yesterday when the first warning against the rushing flood was sounded. indsor, Vt., t was harder h and nothing celving > onrush- for next point novti . The bridge was gone showed where it on. vod. The land is low at the rive und it was flooded to such an extent that it looked like a lake.and con fused the plane’s pil.t, who flew b a map which used lakes as landmar score of dwellings stood in the center of this new-made lake, These houses anneared undimaged from an altitude of 3,000 feet, hut the water flooded past them so swiitly that it wpeared certain that they would be hed off their foundations before he next daybreak. _A great part of White River Jun tion, “one of New England's greate railvord centers, under wate L large part of the immense ro and the rails \ w.hed away, Several railroad bridges and trestles were down and from the air it ap peared that months would be req to restore the terminals to normaley Exclusive Opticiana. Specials Monday and Tuesday $ Fine Quality Shell Frames Finest Quality Toric Spherical Lenses 7 EYES E. 00 Notice for - Goverament Employes 30% Discount on Your Ocvlist or Hospital Prescrip- tion Registered Eyesight Specialists AMINED FREE BY DR. 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STEINWAY “THE INSTRUMENTS OF THE IMMORTALS" Recognized cverywhere as the highest Standard of weellence by which buildings to provide me supply was seriously affected. known dead was 26, with more deaths | mont 3 feared. i land reported to the Albany | more important than they are this Bolton, a nearby, had | livening News today by a staff re-| Winter, particularly if they are made a reported de 53, altho h | porter who penetrated the flooded dis- 1 of angora weol. l‘a}”ls prefers them in bodies had been recovered, { tricts and finally hed Putland. | two tone and plain effects, with V homes were completely wash. TH e wag na loss of life at ys- | necks and e sleaves. v in Richmond iile the high- y Bridge over the Winooski at that | ” S T Jonesville suffered vast damage, to- | The Bank th.at Makeq You a Loan with a Smile {gether with' the village of Middlesex. | In these two towns all live stock hzd; rished . The road from Burlington to ,\!'vnl—i The terms Of Morris Plfl" Loam are simple and practical and fair —it is not necessary to have had anaccount at this Bank to borrow. Ver- | Corresnondence of the Associated Press Rut.| PARI Sweaters have never been destr e of ( ion of th ville, n fupon whi ate of return is to he | T cd £hould be asc ed by a new val of the companies to be con- aluations be bascd estments made by rathe n upon re- costs; he merge uld be relicved of p sinz policemen as wel n, if not all, of the stre . and that no guarant t return should be written s in the charter of the merged nding Seen. ation respocti ubtedly due to a!lpp subtedly due to | py purpokes. Should | Misu all other Piano Values are judged. Wl Estav. New Steinway Pianos Are Priced as Low as 1857 s comp product nies ANY STEINWAY PIANO MAY BE PURCHASED WITH A CASH DEPOSIT OF 10% AND THE BALANCE TO BE EXTENDED OVER A PERIOD OF TWO YEARS. $8 7 5 ORTHOPHONIC VICTROLAS " THREE TYPES: DRTHQPHONIC—ELECT[\’OL:I—I\*;IDIOLA %95 to 51,500 L1 ¥-1 re | advisory | pelier along the Winooski, was im- passable and no ‘automobile traffic | n 24 | roadbed of the central | Vermont Railroad was covered with | water virtually all along the 40-mile stretch and in 1 places the tracl have heen washed away. Self-imposed mart fect in all the towns of the valley. Park Loan. ration gave its indorsement | initiated to urge the - Stores Co, 10 design its new building to be erec at Four- teenth street and Pennsylvania ave ¢ | nue in iy with clhiars ¢ |and digni of uned for the vicinity 1 |ized President Yaden to cal | committee consider the proposed $10,0060:200 n from the Federal ¢ for park development. Col. U. 8. Grant, 34, director | For each $60 or fractionboriowed you agree to de- posit $5 a month in an account, the groceed: of which may be used . to cancel the note when due. Deposits may be made on a weekly, semi- monthly or monthly basis as you prefer. Loans are pass- ed within a_day l‘l);mmly or two after filing eposit |l applicarion— Montin wm; few excep- $10.00 || tions: $15.00 ). ¢ $20.00 $25.00 $360 $30.00 $540 $45.00 Easy to Pay @& Portable Types: $17.50, $18.00, $25.00, $40.00, $50.00 and 575.00 “PT Rutland Residents Flee. E RUTLAND, Vt., November 5 (#).— hlic building 1d public parks, | Residents of ‘the lower part of this Delano of the National | €ity Jate tod. began leaving their id Plannin ommis. | homes when a”crack appeared in the invited to attend this|Pittsford Dam on East Creek, 6 miles above Rutland. The damage aired by an emergency force e and tonight officials of the Vermont Hydro-Electric Co. said they believed the Loan $120 $180 $240 $300 ioners. rs 1o ad- Player Pianos:swnda quaiy Absolutely Reliable—As Low as $478 25¢ MORRIS PLAN notes are usually made for 1 year, ;gaug thj? may $1,200 $100.00 [|. pe £henfor ony $6,000 $500.00 (| 5572 momthe. "MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H Street N. W., Washington, D. C. ““Character and Earning Power Are the Basis of Credit” $525, §585 .$675 $375, $450 lor:cment also was glven to the | Fdward T. Tevine, dean duaste school of Amer or making a scientifi survey of all the citiz as- ons in the Distriet, object chi. he said, Is to ascertain the scope and effectivencss of these organ mmit- | 17 3 v. - local |- Mass., High Officer Elmer ¥ Several Hundred Musi ol Splendid Selections—Left Over Wrom Our Special Clearance Sale. Retired for Disability. Emery Hathaway, at the Gloucester, nd W flfl‘illll' Richardson, at Den- ver, Colo., having become disabled in the line of duty, liave been transferred to She retired list of the Army. tment of anc A nsider the o 10 o pufirage. ot of L a0 B s on _the crger g ions, W 1 MeK #@layton, chairman of the public utili ~li_ wie . . Al About one out of nine persons In México belong to the modern or Euro- pean type of civilization.