New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1927, Page 31

HIGH TIDES FLOOD CONN. BEAIJHES (Continued from First Page.) E. Adams, meteorologist at the branch of the United States weather bureau. The flood crest is not ex- pected to exceed 17 feet. At o'clock this morning it stood at 14.2 feet. res D e of w Dam t ! thousands of dollars and three deaths were caused | Istorm as it swept towurd sea. o dangering the < of four scor men on the ( a trail of d |\'|-4) 3 highways and sea-beaten sl erty in its wake The gale, attaining a velocity 84 miles an hour along the |ends of the Great Lakos, |western New York and sent scores [of vessels aground, while a “full v ¥lood in Colchester Colchester, Conn., Dee. 9 () — Secpage water from recent heavy rains flooded the ccllar of the Ran. | gom school here to v, and !Pfi:IDIN‘ were suspended while the fire de- | partment pumped out the | ments. The water level had risen | four feet above the furnaces | A public park, across the street from the school, was partially flooded. High Tides Receded New Iaven; Conn.,, Dec. 9 (UPy | 18 waters of Long Island Sound hetween is city and Saybrook, which were swollen late yesterday by flood tide and heavy rains, had receded this morning leaving dam- age estimated at $200,000, | The heav outh wind, carrying a downpour with it and sweeping flood-tides over a large strip of Connecticut coast, late last nigh shifted to north, bringing a ces tion of the rain and recession of the waves, The greatest damage occurred at | Branford, where a sea wall protect- | ing the Imv Orchard Country club | a quarter of a mile was destro of the sidewalk torn up, and & large number of summer residences | flooded. Damage there was esti- mated at $1 09, The home of Charles B. Doolittle at Branford suffered $25,000 loss. | Among the many houses damaged | by water was the summer home of | Henry Trumbull of Plainville, | brother of Governor John H. Trum- | bull o | Iour passengers in a trolley, stalled in Lranford, were forced to wade through pounding surf to oty Many cottages at Hammonassct beach were flooded when the wa ters reached within a few hundred feet of the state highway. The homes of J. Henry Roraback, 1 of the republican state com- “Tad” Jones, Yale foot- . at Madison, were flooded and considerably damaged. tdown, however, South 1s Affected ted Press. first general country- wide onslaught today found the south experiencing its coldest De- ber on record and the middle west connting a death toll of 34 due to cold. Temperatures throughout — the south ranged from 8§ above zero at Louisville to 55 above at Miami where truck and citrus growers | wers warned that frost was prob- tonight. ) greatest death list was taken in Chicago where nine deaths were attributed directly to the cold. The | remainder of Illinois reported four dead; Canada, eight; Iowa, four; | Wisconsin, three and Minnesota, | two. In northern Minnes and Wis- where th blast was roads | consin, companied by ard, ined rtially blocked, while | ? in Towa communication and trafli were v being restored. Fear of n similar to that of last year which caught 150 freighters was expressed along the | t Lakes, where the waters were | pped by a gale that at times | achied 100 miles an hour. More than a score of vessels were report- ed overdue and un-reported. suffalo reported damage esti- mated at three-quarters of a mil- lion dollars from a gale which wrecked a §1 0 bombing plane 1 floaded homes and warehouses. xtensive damage also was reported at Port Colbu Ontario, More Than 33 Dead hicago, Dee, 9 (A) — More than 34 persons have met death in the sub-zero blast and blizzard which yesterday continued to fan the con- tinent from coast to coast Weather officials predicted the | cold spell would reach its peak to- day but would remain of sufficient intensity for a few days to Keep the weather a constant topic of conver- sation. Chicago reported nine deaths di- rectly aftributable to the cold, and | the remainder of Illinois four; Can- ada’s blizzard toll reached eight to- | day. Iowa reported four dead, Wi consin three and Minnesota two. While northern Minnesota Wisconsin remained partial bound, Towa cities were gradually | restoring communication and traf- fic. Missour!, Illinois and Indiana | and surrounding states experienced the cold without snow. The frigidity | was severe as far west as Cali- fornia and south to the gulf statew taking in virtually the entire nation. St. Paul schools were closed yes. for the second successive | while street cars pushed un- | certainly through the city. ) The mercury hit the bottom of the glass in some British Columbia and Albprta cities, where the read- | ings were as low as 51 below zero. | Three freight boats, held fast fn » Superior ice, were released hy while two others were unac- counted for and were believed to have sought shelter near Sault Ste. | Mavie, Mich. | Blocked roads and impaired tele- graph and telephone communication isolated that northern @ steamer was reported to have foundered and another to have gone aground, in word from Iort William, Ont. A report from Tshpeming, Mich, that 150 men were marooned witn- out food in a mine near thers proved to he untrue. Officials saic they had been unable to get to their homes because of the storm, but had been made comfortable in mine buildings. Situation in East New York, Dee. 9 (P)—A north- west gale that sent temperatures to sub-zero in some places today left {caped dama {tide, other points along {along the | estimated at three-quarters o |age done by the storm |sturgeon | to be pounding to pieces. |moon” tide whipped by an east wind |1 boomed beyond sea walls along the ! |coast from southern New Jersey to Maine. {e Three steamers with §1 men |t aboard, were aground in Lake Ei base- |after fighting a losing battle with the | 1‘tmk storm. Two rum runner: Port Colborne, Ont., and two pack- ¢ age freighters, head up the lakes, 1 were unreported as the gale lifted. |t Swollen rivers and streams along 't |the Canadian side of the border and | knocked off. Other tugs picked up in northwestern Wew York state |t went over their banks and inundated | :ctions of several towns. drivers blinded by snow Kkilled two |f people, one in Buffalo and another |1 at Windsor, Ont. One death result- ed from the storm in New York city. Streams swollen by heavy rains of | 48 hours ago caused heavy dam'n:e in Massachusetts and New shire and again_disrupted flood S habilitation in Vermont. Although New York harbor es- o in the unusually high the coas! ald to have left | S o'clock today Truck to canal ) hoats of th caught their way thre little hope would bl H\xr-h rn over n. Canal officials hurricd use where 80 gr aden hreatened with destruction. | All streams in this vicinity were | pidly. Yudson river | 14 feet wormal here | s flowing over | Juay street, along the river's edge. ate yesterday, two tugs, which at- empted to pass under bridges at his point, had th smokestacks he tows. At Buffalo, according to reports headquarters here, the loor of the terminal wa inder water at one time, several feet HARDING 1 HELD Wers sorlously aftected. Wharves and Sterling Wyman RE-AI’I‘CSth o' piers were damaged along the Jer- | sey coast and homes and cottages | Connecticut shore on Long Island Sound were demolished. | The weather bureau predicted an- | other flood stage in the Connecticut river at Hartford after strcams in northern New England approached record heights, ‘Worst Since 1901 Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 9 (P ing the most severe wind stor 1401, resulting in a moneta 5 lion, Buffalo today was experiencing | near zero weather. The wind e: today had died down to 35 miles an !hour, In contrast to the gale which averaged over 80 miles an hour over a 12 hour perlod. The big grain ships in the local harbor outrode the storm, though several of the boats dragged their anchors and for a time much alarm was occasioned by seeming impend- ing crashes. Several small boats, in- | T cluding two or three tugs, went out of the Ha At Woodlawn, a summer colony a few miles south of Buffalo, many cottages were flooded and 200 fami- lies were marooned. One of the unusual features of the ! storm in the vicinity of the Niagara |2 “‘]‘ tious ‘l tor. He cataract was the death of great mbers of wijd ducks which alight- Stept cinberg, who occupied the been an Valentino, in Ne 1 Negri, the sc came from the nouncing that Penal Gode Violation v York, Dec. 9 (A—Sterling | 50 known as| | | | | | , posing introduced ident ich pert o practicing law without being ad- nitted to the bar and also with sell- of names compiled by an- . The latter charge was pre- erred by James R. Brown, an in- stment broker | the proceeding growing | g episode, whe medic 1oriti tified that he was a victim of randiose ideas” and that he had inmate at Dannemora | During as found guilty orison. He he time of death n Po o Valentino, she was approached by | assisted in | 1 services, ed on the waters of the river to es- © 1l cape the ferocity of the gale, and were carried over the falls. The greatest single item of dam- in Buffalo was the wrecking of the Curtis Con- | dor bombing plane, the only one of | its kind in the world and built at an estimated cost of $175,000. The wind wrested it from its MoOrings. | cheers for the - Wing and tail were smashed and the | jeq cCaptain Roa engine was damaged beyond repair. The navy training ship U. S. §. broke away from her whart and was carried 2,000 feet down the Black Rock channel of the Niagara _river landing upon the rocks. The training ship was still ast this morning and if she is not released before the water gets down to normal, will be high and dry on what is known as Bird island. | Shipping Damaged Detroit, Dee. 8 (UP) were aground and ten others wers listed as missing on the Great Lakes today after a 50 to 60 miles gale. |, The storm had abated and search |, was started for the missing vesscls. || The Altadoe, 5,000 tons, wirelessed | for help last night, reporting she had been driven aground in Lake rior on Keweenaw Peninsula. erew was safe but the ship was said The grain frelghter Agawa, with 22 men aboard, was reported | aground on Manitoulin Tsland The Harmonic, King, Prince and Oglesbay, expected at | Sault Ste Marie, were hours overdue, | Port Colbourne, Int., reported th F. B. Squire, the Saskatoon and Sel- Kirk unheard from as well as two rum runners’ boats. A coal Terry from Toledo also was rcported lost. Upper peninsula points ,.\m,,.d,strmou of a new system of heavy the snow storm of that past three days abatin high were reported in many places with the average depth Ishpeming seven feet, Food had to be rushed late yes |terday to 150 men stranded at the | “ord Mina eight miles west of | liquor valued at $5,000 followed a | Twelve school children | short chase by police on Causcway Ishpeming. were re 1 after spending six | hours In a stranded bus. It required 40 men and two tractors to go four | whiskey in | Miles and reach the bus, just outside Ishpeming. | May Check Floods | Albany, N. Y., Dec. 8 (UP)—With | charged with illegal transportation. From one of our G.Fox & signed his and recently he made n.mon to the British societ ) i ('onn. Booth at Fair agriculture has heen neeticut booth has s age of from $1,500 to $1,800 from the recent New Midland L\plmmn Fatal to | guese ofticer was killed and another serious], Snow drifts 25 feet | officers. 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