Douglas Daily Dispatch

(By the Associated Press)

New England flood deaths rose past two score.

President Coolidge, his home state worst hit and Plymouth, his home town, reported damaged, ordered airplane relief.

Lieutenant Governor S. Hollister Jackson of Vermont drowned at Barre, which reported seven known dead.

Montpelier, Vt., lost to communication reached the Associated Press by direct phone, telling of one dead, great destruction and need of relief.

The Red Cross, and Governor Smith of New York, ordered relief agencies into action.

Cold and some snow succeeded the West Indian hurricane with nearly 36 hours of rain.

Weakened reservoirs in New England's rugged hills added one of the sharpest flood menaces.

Maine dispatches told of large areas of famous hunting ground isolated, with the fate of sportsmen therein unreported.

Southern New England, already damaged by its own overflows piled sand bags against the menace of rivers rising from the north.

Boston and many other points were threatened with short milk rations, as washouts stopped shipments.

Canada reported damage from overflow where extreme north New England rivers turn toward the St. Lawrence.

54 IDENTIFIED AMONG VICTIMS OF N. E. FLOODS

Many Persons Reported Missing and Many Other Deaths Reported

BOSTON, Nov. 5 (P) - Seventy-four persons are known to have lost their lives in the floods and storms in New England in the last three days. Of these 54 have been identified. In addition refugees from Waterbury, Vt., have reported many drowned. Several persons have been reported as missing and there are reports of many other deaths which have not been confirmed.

The known dead:

Barre, Vt.: Lieut. Gov. S. Hollister Jackson, of Vermont; Ralph Witers, Gerald Brock, Dean Richard Thomas, seven years old, and three unidentified persons.

Bolton, Vt.: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Fortune and their two (or three) children; Mr. and Mrs. Fred May and three children; 17 employees of the Vermont highway department.

Rutland, Vt.: John Sabula, Mrs. Lucy Salter, Miss Pauline Hall.

West Charleston, Vt.: George Kinney.

Sharon, Vt.: Mrs. Erwin Reynolds and two children.

Bennington, Vt.: Martin Shepard.

Newport, Vt.: Henry Auger and son Marcel Auger.

Westfield, Mass.: Mrs. Anna Kannie, Harold Dewey, Simsbury, Conn.; Miss Helen Moore, Eugene R. Osborn, Worcester, Mass.; Mrs. Mariolla Cassius.

Beckett, Mass.: Mrs. Gustine Carroll.

Millbury, Mass.: Mrs. Charles A. Putnam and her daughter, Dorethy, eight years old.

Hadley, Mass.: Benjamin Denio.

Boston: Carmilla Pardillo.

Northampton, Mass.: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rubeck.

Westerly, R. I.: Albert Blacknall.

Berlin, N. H.: Harold Finnan.

West Lebanon, N. H.: Edward McGee.

Milo, Maine: Roland O. Lyford.

Pemaquid Point, Maine: Robert Creamer (of Wiscasset).

Waterbury, Vt.: Six members of Sargent family, Mrs. Harry Cutting and three children, Howard Heaton,

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Receding Waters of Merrimac Are Giving Up Their Numerous Dead.

LIST IS GROWING

Crisis of Flood in Scores of Towns Will Be Reached Today.

BOSTON, Nov. 6 (P) - As the Sabbath came to the flooded sections of Vermont and New Hampshire, the day dawned on a scene of widespread desolation where more than 100 persons lost their lives. Definite announcement of half a hundred deaths, almost equally divided between Waterbury and Bolton, swelled the toll of flood victims to 123.

The receding waters of the Merrimac and Connecticut rivers in northern New England were giving up their dead and the list of victims of the flood's destruction grew longer and longer as the survivors were liberated from their homes to count the cost of the tragedy.

To add to an earlier list of 74 known dead reports of heavy loss of life in the towns of Richmond, Bolton and Waterbury in the Winooski river valley were confirmed by a staff correspondent of the Associated Press who walked from Burlington to Montpelier, making a survey of the stricken towns as he waded over roads, made hardly more than a path where there were broad highways before the floods came.

The known fatalities in that valley were 61, of which 26 were at Waterbury, 25 at Bolton and 10 in Richmond. Making allowance for deaths included in the former announcements the toll of flood victims now reached 123.

MONTPELIER, Vt., NOV. 5 (P) - A total of 61 dead in the Winooski river valley between Montpelier and Burlington as a result of flood was revealed in a checkup of the towns between the two cities tonight.

The greatest loss of life was reported in Waterbury where there are 26 bodies in the morgue. In Bolton, the next town, 25 are reported dead. In Richmond, six bodies have been recovered with four other dead reported. Middlesex and Jonesville reported no fatalities but a large property damage.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS., NOV. 5 (P) - The death toll in Barre, Vt., had reached 25 and might mount higher before morning, said a dispatch tonight to the Republican from the stricken city. Principal streets of the city were under 5 1/2 feet of water. A woman and three children were drowned when the boat in which they were leaving their marooned home capsized.

Two buses, thought to be filled with passengers, were believed to have toppled into a stream, but this report could not be verified.

BURLINGTON, Vt., NOV. 5 (P) - The names of 13 known victims of the flood at Waterbury were brought here tonight. Reports from refugees indicate a death list in the town of 28.

Six members of a family named Sargent were drowned. Others known to be dead are: Mrs. Harry Cutting and her three children, Howard Heaton, Mrs. Nora Canerby and George Sherman.

Serious conditions in the town developed when the waters of the river were diverted to the main street.

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Cold, Hunger
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developed when the waters of the river
were diverted to the main street.

BOSTON, Nov. 5, (AP)—Cold and hunger stalked the hills of New England tonight in the wake of the most disastrous floods of this section's history.

Substantial reduction in the apparent loss of life furnished the one bright spot in late reports today. Apprehension over the fate of Montpelier, capital of Vermont, was removed by the establishment of direct communication.

Although thirty square miles in and near the city had been completely inundated, only one death has resulted.

Crashing through power dams, reservoirs and all other man-made obstacles, scores of ordinarily peaceful mountain streams now are raging toward the valley towns, bearing with them debris of mill and store and cottage.

The crest of the flood and the crisis in the cases of scores of towns will not be reached before tomorrow noon, but already there has been recorded a toll of two score and more known dead and a property loss which will run into many millions.

Shortage of food and of medical supplies to meet the grave conditions left by the rushing waters is the immediate problem of the most stricken districts.

The exact number was impossible to ascertain because of interrupted communications.

That seven persons, including Lieut. Gov. S. Hollister Jackson had lost their lives in Barre, Vt., was definitely learned this afternoon through a radio message from Barre Times to the Associated Press which was picked up by an amateur in New Bedford, Mass. Later word was that 13 others were believed dead.

The lieutenant governor fell into a pool in Potash brook while trying to reach his home yesterday 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.

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Mrs. Nora Canery, George Sherman.
It was believed that 13 other persons were dead in Barre, Vt. Two others were missing from Newport, Vt.