Show SIXTEEN DIE II IN i EAST l il HEAVY SNOWS CHOKE ROADS IN ENGLAND RAIL TRAFFIC IS DELAYED Wyoming Rancher Finds p per r Montanan Takes Butterfly Three Succumb To Cold In Chicago Oneco Conn Two Two and mail trains one eastbound and the tho theother theother oth other r westbound and a snow plow on tho the Willamette Province branch o othe of the tho New Haven railroad have been stalled in a huge snowdrift at Coventry Coven- Coven I try R. R I. I twelve miles east of or this town Drifts from twelve to fifteen feet high had filled a cut In that town r and the trains were unable to force their way through Passengers walked walked walked walk walk- ed a n mile and a half halt to tho the nearest station New York York York-Ditter Bitter cold followed on the heels beets of a n second blizzard bUzzard in a week that buried northeastern United States under tinder two feet of of snow took sixteen lives and held the section vIrtually virtually virtually vir vIr- snowbound for twenty-four twenty hours Adding to the heavy snowfall of last week which took two thirty-two lives in the East storm choked roads everywhere delayed railroad traffic particularly in n. n suburban an districts and n up amis arius ten to twelve reet high in many sections of or New Eng Eng- land A storm in Chicago took three lives While the east struggled through the Colorado Montana I and und Wyoming weer basking In warm sunshine fanned by winds from the Rock Rocky mountains and noting noting not not- ing increased flocks Clocks 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 disturbance disturb disturb- ance headed that wa way While a Laramie rancher was wasi i catching a box of grasshoppers as Indication In In- that winter was over oer ten Inches of snow was falling In inv Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia and Washington D. D C. C with witha a foot or more falling farther north The storm now headed northeastward northeastward northeast northeast- ward in the Atlantic ocean whipped huge seas and drove coastwise ships to shelter Railroad traffic suffered heavily though energetic snow removal mastered mastered mas mas- the situation after aCter some trains in New England had been stuck in drifts At Brockton Mass public buildings were turned over to hundreds of per per perSons persons persons peri i 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 Pier railroad d was snowed In until only the tops of the cars were visible is ble Its twenty p passengers walked walked walked walk walk- I ed three miles to Kingston R. R I. I It was the second million-dollar million snow for New York City The 2000 thus far appropriated this winter probably will be wiped out The street cleaning forces exceed men |