WORST BLIZZARD IN 20 YEARS PARALYZES ALL NEW ENGLAND

(By the United Press)

A bowling northeast blizzard, perhaps the worst in 20 years, swept into New England last night, paralyzing rail, highway and ocean traffic and causing at least two deaths.

Fifty persons were rescued when a city-owned steamer went adrift in Boston Harbor; hundreds were marooned in hotels and municipal buildings in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut while thousands of stalled automobiles blocked highways. Severe seas were reported battering the Rhode Island coast from Watch Hill to Narrangansett and snow drifts from one to five feet deep were reported by State Police in the southern New England area.

Unofficial estimates indicated that storm damage might reach several million dollars.

Though the entire southern area suffered severely, Rhode Island appeared to have borne the brunt of the storm.