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Show SIXTEEN DIE IN EASTBLIZZAHD HEAVY SNOWS CHOKE ROADS IN ENGLAND; RAIL TRAFFIC IS DELAYED j Wyoming Rancher Finds Grasshopper; Grasshop-per; Montanan Takes Butterfly; Three Succumb To Cold In Chicago Oneco, Conn. Two pascnger and mail trains, one eastbound and the olher westbound, and a snow plow on the Willamette-Province branch of the New Haven railroad, have been stalled In a huge snowdrift at Coventry, Coven-try, It. I., twelve miles east of this town. Drifts from twelve to fifteen feet high had filled a cut In that town and tho trains wore unable to force their way through. Passengers walked walk-ed a mile and a half to the nearest station. New York Bitter cold followed on the heels of a second blizzard in a week that burled northeastern United States under two feet of snow, took sixteen lives and held the section virtually vir-tually snowbound for twenty-four hours. Adding to the heavy snowfall of last week, which took thirty-two lives In the East, storm choked roads everywhere, delayed railroad traffic, particularly in suburban districts, and heaped up drifts ten to twelve feet high in many sections of New England. Eng-land. A storm in Chicago took three lives. While the east struggled through the sowndrlfts, Colorado, Montana end Wyoming weer basking in warm sunshine, fanned by chineek winds from the Rocky mountains, and noting not-ing increased flocks of robins. Great Falls, Mont., usually a stronghold of winter, reported a butterfly. Denver has had a temperature 10 degrees above normal for the first ten days of February. They are plowing in Alberta, but forecasters see a disturbance disturb-ance headed that way. While a Laramie rancher was catching a box of grasshoppers as indication in-dication that winter was over, ten Inches qI snow was falling in Philadelphia Phila-delphia and Washington, D. C, with a foot or more falling farther north. The storm, now headed northeastward northeast-ward in the Atlantic ocean, whipped huge seas and drove coastwise ships to shelter. Railroad traffic suffered heavily, though energetic snow removal mastered mas-tered the situation after some trains In New England had been stuck in drifts. At Brockton, Mass., public buildings were turned over to hundreds of persons per-sons unable to reach their homes. Several smaller towns were cut off from the outside world by the drifts. In Rhode Island a train of the Narraganset Pier railroad was snowed In until only the tops of the cars were visible. Its twenty passengers walked walk-ed three miles to Kingston, R. I. It was the second million-dollar snow for New York City. The ?2,000,-000 ?2,000,-000 thus far appropriated this winter probably will be wiped out. The street cleaning forces exceed 20,000 men. |