Rutland Daily Herald from Rutland, Vermont • 1

V(; V'S I -I X'. ffs 7x I A USX THE WANT ADS IN THE SERVANT-LEAVING CRISIS." 4 ESTABUSHED IN 1784, X'iXX 1. VH.4 7 PRICE THREE CENTS RUTLAND, VERMONT, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1927. zt- 1 I i XT: SITUATION CLARENDON running through North Many bridges Stream Clarendon village, gone. rV The.

Herald today hazards no estimates of the total loss of life and property in Vermont, It presents instead a tabulation of conditions in places with which communication has been established. In almost every instance tbe report is based on Associated Press dispatches, Gov. Smith of Ne ork and Gov. rumbull 4 of Connecticut Proffer Assistance of f. i y.

Their Commonwealths as News Fron -f T- Devastated Region Reaches Them. Mr. and Mrs. Henry May and four children, and 21 members of a road construction BRANDON Temporary bridge gone. BRIDGEWATER No known loss of life Woolen mills badly damaged, 7 BRISTOL Water four inches Higher in New Haven river.

Many bridges out. No newspapers since Thursday. Total damage $50,000. ARLINGTON Bridge on main road Railroad washed out. down.

'C i Many! Still Cut Off 4 v' 4 Army Airplanes That 4 Have Sitfveyed Strickeii Areas Report Loss Is Beyonch Calculation, With Homes Gone and Roads Destroyed By Angry Waters. i 1 s. Aviators Rush Serum, To Prevent Epidemics 4 '4. 1 I i At the Request of Gov. Weks, General Brown Halts Troops Moving Food to Montpelier, Where Shortage of Provisions at First Threatened.

DANBY Many bridges swept away. EAST MONTPELIER Cut off by broken bridges. FAIRFAX One hundred families homeless. FAIR HAVEN Slate quarries and mills damaged. Loss $100,000.

GOSHEN Road to Rochester wiped out by landslide. WON Gov. Week Receive Aid B1 Biggest loss, plat 000. mill, BARRS Seven dead, fodnding Lieut, Gov. 8.

Hollister Jackson. Gerald Brock, Ralph Winter, three brothers, Dean Clyde and Ralph Thomas. Property loss $2,000,000. BELLOWS FALLS j. No known dead.

Damage very great. Water still flowing 15 feet over dam. Rail service to North Walpole, N. uninterrupted. BENNINGTON One dead, Andrew Shepard.

Property loss, $500,000. CAMBRIDGE x. supply cut off. Food Water needed. js HARDWICK Bridge collapsed.

CASTLETON Mails resumed. Train improved. $75,000 loss. HUBBARDTON Almost untouched by storm. BENSON All bridges standing, damage.

CAVENDISH No known loss of life, houses wrecked. Little JOHNSON supply cut off. Several Food Water needed. BETHEL Definitely announced none dead. JONESVILLE Mr.

and Mrs. William Fortune missing, believed to be dead. CHELSEA Bridges down. Loss not heavy. DHrmSNDEN All roads Impassable.

4: -J -j i Allen Sturtevaht, State Executive Clerk, Replies to Ne tv York Executive, Saying That Vermont Will Be Glad to Call On Her Neighbor If Necessity Arises. 1 7 4 Albany, X. Nov. 6 AP) Acknowledgment of tbe receipt of the telegram sent by Governor Smith yesterday offering the states relief resources in behalf of the residents of the flood stricken territory in New England, was received today from Allen Sturt evant, executive clerk of the state Vermont. Mr, Sturt evants message said it had bcea impossible to forward Governor Smith's jtelegram to Governor Weeks, at Montpelier on account of the isolation of the capital by flood waters.

He said, however, that Vermont will be glad to call on you if We find the situation beyond control ll The message follows: the governor of Vermont the offer of r.pt ot th. people of the state of Vermont for the Vermont flood sufferers. BOLTON Twenty-eight dead. including On (Continue ued Page Eight) TWIN CITIES' FLOOD 't Flood In Brief COOLIDGE HUNT IN NISI FLOM 'J "T-" "'7 Mrs. Sarah Pollard Relates Harrowing Experiences At Proctors ville.

Boston, Nov. 6 (AP). Without stopping to count their dead nor estimate property losses, survivors of flood-swept Northern Sev England towns today, were oc-3 cupied with caring for the living. i The flood has spent itself in the sections first stricken by the mad waters hat a score of towns left partially destroyed face a prospect of being cut off from rail communication with the rest of thfl country for many days, with the highways presenting a problem hardly less dark. The death list stood at approximately 125 with additions likely as the losses are more definitely compiled.

Property damage at the moment defied estimate. It was known that the final accountihg will reaehatotal ofmany millions of dollars. Airplanes Bring Relief. With the highways impassable and in sfime cases no longer in existence, relief was sent to the itoarooned people from the air. Where broad, smooth highways invited swift, sure transportation before the flood came, scores of ditches, 20 feet deep in some cases, have been cut 'by the rushing waters and stand to mock attempts to drive motor cars through to the cities that were.

Army airplanes today made a survey of the situation, curtailed in part by storms fend snow, Ludlow, home town of the attorney general, John G. Sargent, vfas being swept by a storm accompanied by snow as the observing plane flew over it. Xotthfield, bOme of Norwich university, was also reported cut off and that in the 26 deaths at Waterbury were Fred Charles and all the Barre DeRI, One; Montpelier Business Section pader Water. After a study' of maps and A Telephone conversation with officials in Brandon, Vt, the national guard Aviators decided to establish a base lat Brandon, Vi, tomorrow. There IM a landing field there and facilities for refueling.

1 Tffjy A third plane will arrive- here tomorrow making' a fleet of three to hop off for Montpelier, Gov: Trumbulls Offer. Hartford, Nov. 6 (Jp). Gov-ernor Trumbull announced late this afternoon that he bad sent telegrams to the chief executives of the states of Vermont and New Hampshire, offering Ideal assistance to the people of the flooded areas of both of those commonwealths, 1 1 'X A At thfjwm time, the governor made public hia response to a telegram To-celved from Governor Smith ot New York, in which a sinrilar offer was made to the people of Connecticut. The message to Governor Smith expressed Connecticuts appreciation of his prof-ferred assistance hoi added thathe situation in Connecticut leas net serious enough to warrant Us acceptance.

kindness and consideration of the state of New York expressed in wire. Governor Weeks is ln Montpelier and all communication with that place Is cut off. In some way we understand that word was sent to Washington and the United States government sent two planes to Montpelier and he is supposed to bC to charge of the situation. The chief trouble is in getting communication with to areas hardest hit. Now to reach Montpelier by foot messengers Shall be glad to call on yon if we find the situation is beyond con-troL Will' keep you informed.

With deepest appreciation of your consideration. Ask WGY at Schenectady to broadcast your telegram to Governor Weeks. Airplanes Held At Albany. i Two national uard airplanes, which arrived here this afternoon from Mil-tor Field with the intention of making a surrey of the flooded area, were held overnight by order of Adjutant General: Franklin W. Ward, after Receipt of the telegram from Mir.

Sturtevant. It is expected that tbe planes will proceed tomorrow to MontpeUer i to convey to BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Death toU approximately 125. Airplanes or wading afoot only means of reaching some of the stricken sections. XXV- Isolated New England communities were seen from the air methodically going about the business of their own relief.

Montpelier and sections of Vermont hardest hit reported health and relief measures well under way. Houses And automobiles in many places were piled to wrecked heaps and in hundreds of places highways slashed as if by shell fire by water pouring over steep inclines. Several Vermont and New Hampshire towns were supplied today with medicines and typhoid Berum, by airplane, Randolph, appeared entirely cut off by water and possibly the worst sufferer outside of Montpelier. Connecticuts governor announced his state would care for its own relief. At White River Junction, where the Connecticut river forms the borderline between Vermont and New Hampshire, a new appeared today.

Through much of the railroad yards in this place were under water, surronndfog hills showed lines of cars salvaged on dry ground. Snowstorms added somewhat to the days discomfort. Springfield, reported about 6000 homeless. Connecticut, southernmost of the New England tier to the floods path, reposted rivers rising tonight. i Hartford, expected 30 feet to the Connecticut river before morning, with possible cutting of fts power and light service.

Concord, N. became the concentration point for relief plane, including two of the amphibians which made the South American good-will flight. SPECIAL TRAIN TAKES CREW TO REPAIR ROADS TRACKS. New York, Nov. 6 ().

A gang of about 300 laborers" recruited ln this city left tonight on a special train for Pitts field. from where they will be sent to work repairing highways and railroad tracks. SEVEN KNOWN DEAD CANADA FLOOD TOLL TO FRAME Million Dollar Property Reported From Quebecylsew Brunswick Provinces. (Special to Thi Herald.) Proctorsville, Nov. 8 p).

The following graphic-description of the flooding of this town by the swift flood waters of Black river later Thursday night was given to a Rutland Herald reporter here this! morning by Mrs. Sarah Pollard J37 yea! old aunt of President CooUdge. Mrs. Pollard and her son Fred kept an all vigil while the mad torrents swept through this peaceful community was at home on the night of the awful flood when word came to us that the river above us had risen to a point where it threatened at any moment to sweep, down on ns. That was about 9 oclock, Fred reported at once at a group that went on guard at the dam to give warning In case the water came through and I waited at home for whatever tostrucions might come.

The weather was terrible. It was raining torrents. The night was black from 9 oclock until word kept arriving that the water was rising higher and higher. The peopjein the town and nearby were ordred to prepare to move at any moment I was afraid of what might happen and then I wasnt very much afraid. It was my second experience along the line.

While I was waiting for more messages, there was a. sudden roar that just shook the whole town. I harried to the windows to the room of my house and watched the flood for a moment the river looked peaceful enough. Then, suddenly something that looked like a huge gray monster came crashing down the hills from the north over the valley, right across the railroad tracks and through the lowland on the other side of the tracks. I could easily make out the rushing, water despite the terrible Weather and the darkness." The water rushed about as though It would swallow up tbe whole countryside.

I could hear people shouting and I could see figures moving about in the valley. I dont know who they were or what happened to them as the flood rushed on, everything was swept before it- Wreackage was floating the valley. I could also make out mew and cattle caught ln the rush of waters. On the flood whirled wiping out the railroad station and everything near it. It was the most terrible sight I have ever witnessed.

I didnt sleep all that hight, Not until the dawn, began to break did the terrible scene etod. Just as. It began to get light the flood seemed to slow up. Even then the sight wjui awful. 1 do not expect BWfflfWitn ess House Group Will Meet To day at Washington to My Outline Worki Social to The Nov.

6. Seven lives, and property damage estimated at 000.000 is the toil of the flood which engulfed the twin cities of Montpelier and Barre following the, torrential rains of last Thursday. In the capital city one man, Byron Nelson, was drowned, being carried down Main street to his! death. His body was found near the city hall. Far greatr loss was suffered by Barre.

six persons, including Lieut. Gov. S. Hollister Jackson befog drowned. The other dead are Gerald Brock, Ralph Winter and three brothers.

Dean Clyde and Ralph Thomas, aged seven, nine and 11. The business section of Montpelier is under 12 feet of water, stores are submerged and no one is allowed about the main streets unless op necessary business. Former Mayor Frank Hawley was rescued from his store by means of a bed sheet-rope. Percy R. Bailey, janitor of the First National bank, was saved after having been imprisoned in the flooded bank for nearly two days.

For 30 hourB be stood in water knee deep, clinging to a casing neqr the ceiling of the bank room. Stores Chases Monumental. Stores havesuffered monumental losses, one concern, recently having added $40,000 in stock to its supply, being entirely ruined. The same conditions prevail in 1 Tbe Montpelier city government has called a special meeting tor November 17 to see If $30,000 will be voted to repair bridges and walks. Telegraphic communications established today indicate that the foil-force of the flood was felt at Waterbury, where 30 are reported dead and culable property damage caused, and Mrs.

Ralph Sargent and tb there children are known to haw drowned and Mrs. Henry Cutting and her tour little children were swept away in the flood. Hours later the bodies of Mrs. Cutting and her children were found clasped tightly in each others arms. The raging river tore throngk the cemetery in Waterbury, washing up numerous bodies which were whirled about ln the maelstrom.

Waterbury, with only 10 minutes warning, was engulfed in flood waters as tbe Marshfield dam and the MontpeUer reservoir burst through their West Bolton Death Toll 25. At West Bolton Mr. and Mrs. Henry May and four children were drowned when their home was carried away in the torrent and dashed against the Bolton bridge. WUliam Fortune of Johesvllle, his wife and three children are missing since the flood end it Is feared that they were drowned.

1. Nineteen highway workmen perished at West Bolton when a boarding bouse in which they were quartered fell before the flood. Most of the bodies have been recovered but are not yet Identified- At Richmond 19 persons, three horses, five pigs and 250 chickens were imprisoned in a little cottage for two days and nights before their rescue wm effected. The cottage, situated ob the crest of a hill shove the Richmond river' was to momentary danger from the rising water. The river, ordinarily a stream 200 feet in width, tuts swollen to a mile.

I Montreal, Nov. 6 seven known dead and millions of dollars of property damage inflijcted, flood waters were receding tonight-from the eastern townships of tjiia province and western New Brunswick often a day of pkxtiaUy sunny weather. Telephone service was restored to-day many sections bringing reports from further isolated communities disclosing the full extent or the territory flooded by the torrential rains of past 72 hours. YEAST GREAT NEED OF FLOOD VICTIMS members of jhis family, seven in number. Earlier reports bad fold of the death of the John Sargent family, totalling even also.

Hanover Editor Visits Scene. Joseph Osum SktonerT editor of the Hanover! (N. Dartmouth was back at his edltoral office today after a perilous trip in which he won the honor of being the first outsider to penetrate to Barre, Vt. Leaving Hanover-qt oclock Friday night he reached Barre, 54 miles away under normal conditions, at 9 oclock yesterday morning, traveling, however, 109 miles. He spent four hours on one hill and finally had to abandon his am tomobile and finish the Journey on foot At Barre and Montpelier Mr Skinner told the Associated Press he was arnaied at the extent of the-property damage wrought by the flood, terbury, Nov.

6 (jPV A checkup id in nine towns of the Winooski valley today by an Associated Press correspondent, -based wherever possible on officIalTRed Cross figures, showed a loss of 67 lives, Recover Several Bodies. The towns covered and the dead in each were found to be as follows: Richmond, six bodies recovered, Jones-ville no known dead, Bolton 28 dead according to Red Crois figures made public here, Waterbary 20 dead. Mid-dlesex none, MontpeUer two, Barre seven, Duxbury and North Duxbury, 12 each. AU the figures seemed to be well authenticated with the exception of those for Duxbury and Nogth Duxbury, where such confusion reigned that the Red Cross acknowledge that the figures were at best- rough estimates. These towns lie along the Winooski river over a stretch of almost 50 mH in a valley that has been devastated by the Good waters.

To one making the long and perilous Journey over the submerged highway and the wrecked tracks of the railroad the chief wonder seemed that the death list had been no larger than it wiak AH the towns in this group had placed themselves tinder armed guard to prevent looting' of tbe flood wrecked homeB and gradually troops from Fort Ethan Allen and National Guard units were arriving to take over tbe patrol duty. Today Waterbury seemed to havb undisputed claim to befog at the very center of the worst destruction. With a larger death toll than any other. Its homes, too, seemed in more hopeless condition than those of towns nearer Montpelier on one de and Burlington dn the other. Waterbury Feera Typhoid.

Tbe principal dread in Waterbury today was the Spread of pestilence from the choked sewers and the refuse for which there was yet no means (Continued On Page Eight) an airman trying to see Just what the situation is was forced back by a norm at Bethel. Randolph Apparently Cut Randolph, from the air Beemed almost entirely cut off by water, an aviator reporting that it seemed to be the most: seriously damaged town south of Montpelier. Aviators flying over Montpelier said that, the waters had receded and the river was back In its banks. Army planes have reached Vermont and New Hampshire towns with supplies of typhoid serum, medicine and wit, as Major General Preston Brown, commanding the first corps areas, ent by plane to Montpelier to con-ter with Governor Weeks on the question of relief measures. Lieut.

Col. Foulois, commander of Titchel Field, flew to Concord, N. for a survey of the flood district. In addition to the typhoid serum being supplied, pneumonia serum is also needed. Montpelier Now Has Food.

7 At the request of Governor Weeks, General Brown has baited a movement of troops from Burlington to MontpeUer. The Vermont chief executive advised the army officer that XfftherJ3eeds exJst soldiers.or supplies. Food from St. JohnsbuVy rellered that vital question for the capital. Messages by circuitous routes and persons fighting their way through the mud from the Winooski valley have eonf rmed earlier news that the most stlcken towns in the floods sterbury, Bolton and Rich Reports of severe loss of life these three places persisted, alii811 tody's reports made no ad eitions to the tentative total of three fl0d vlctlm8 ln the Winooski MoutpeUer.

escaping with alight loss was hard bit physically and although the city remained isolated by of transportation facilities the iy residents stood in the debris Jut them and started the work of repair. Wafers Recede At Capital. the water reached a ft In the busincM- and receding carried away cousee and automobile which bad 25 floating in the streets, in con-X to the high water at the Pital, the flood reached only four or feet in the streets of Barre but i4 it.t.hrouh the town with a veloc-Sg iWt by. its -neighbor. The Iffy Gov.

8. Hollister JackacmMMk atttributed to the speed of the rush- t1 eeomed wJKB state official stepped from his automo-kh death hlS home be wai1 The passing flood was succeeded by Rutland, VL. and Becket, wholesale destruction ef A amuy was reported, when news came Find Flood Victims Body. Rerlto N. Nov.

6 The body Harold Ftonen, who losth is life iy while trying to prevent a break boom owned by the Brown company, by which be was employed, was recovered last night 9 Sufferers Unable To Manufacture Bread Pending Its Arrival Require Salt and Sugar. 1 Boston. Nor. 6 Wants of flood sufferers, as outlined to army authorities here, are simple. Requests came from the stricken sections for yeast, salt and sugar.

Yeast was placed at the top of the jHst because the first thought of tbe hungry seemed to be for bread. Although flour has heed supplied there' teas no yeast with it anything like it again. I dont beliove flour alone wlll not make good Washington, Nov. 8 flood waters in New England still writing a story of destruction, the machinery of Congress will be set to motion io-morrow in an effort to provide a tion-wide policy for flood control. Actual work will get under way at the capitol with the meeting of the House flood control committee at which time its chairman.

Representative Reid of lllinoia will outltoe briefly the work to be done. He said today that while the committee efforts at the outset would be directed principally to needs of the river system, be would urge that the needs of all nation's turbulent rivers be kept-constantly in -X (x, The chairman said he would solicit the views of bfher committee members before hearing statements from several, delegation from the Mississippi valley area, the largest being thgt from Chicago beaded by Mayor Thompson. X. Meeting of the committee has been approved by all of Its members, the chairman added, and although there was no legal authority for it to tit during the recess of Congress, none of the membership had any doubt that this would be forthcoming later. The committee is awaiting the recommendations to be made by army engineers who have been studying the Mississippi flood area, to assist ft in Its work and addition -Reid his requested tbe American Society of Civil Engineers and a number; of scientific institutions to appoint committees to advise with it )-7.

Dale Pays High Tribute To IjiUTieut Governor BY $. D. B. (Spscitl to The Washington, Nov. 6.

Senator Porter H. Dale toddy paid the following tribute to Lieut-Goy. 8. Hollister Jackson who lost his life in the Vermont flood: "Governor Jackson was the son of a distinguished clergyman. He was educated at Toronto university and the University of Vermont and well known for his literary tasi His good sense and fine expression were often apparent to the editorials of the Burlington Evening News.

In business be had been president of the American Granite association, in law he had been president of the Vermont Bar association and to politics ha had been lieutenant governor with the probability of being elected governor next year. Through many years I have admlred hta ability and cherished his friendship. Ois death is a deplorable loss to Vermont and a keen sorrow to me. 4 l-'fl I the people here will ever seen any-thing sllke it again, either. It was a sight that no one can describe id all its JX 1 bread.

The salt Is another necessary constituent and sugar placed last was evidently regarded as a luxury. Weather Conditions SMALL DAMAGE RESULT FROM 1 KENNEBEC RIVER FRESHET- WaterviUe, Nov. 6 (). Affor a rise of seven feet to 24 hours, the peak of which was reported Saturday night the Kennebec rjyer began to recede todby. Little damage vim reported fromthe freshet but it pair of horses to harness drowned somewhere above Shawnut was eeen going and the dam to over the dam Washington.

Nor. 6 (JF). Generally fair weather will prevail Monday ln the Washington forecast district, followed by widespread cloudiness on Tuesday. The temperature will rise almost generally east of the Mississippi river except New England during Tttesdayi "if! i WaterviUe, j-;" ii tr J..