The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-15
GREAT SNOW STORM IN CONNECTICUT.
Damage to Telegraph Wires and Fruit
Trees-The First Couch OF Winter.


From the Hartford Courant. Nov IA.
The first touch OF winter, experienced on
Tuesday, must hereafter rank among the re-
markable storms, and will doubtless be loug
remempeIed and quoted, on account OF its
extraordinary suspension OF telegraphic com.
munlcauon in this vicinity. The TALL OF snow
was unusually large tor this season, and
although good share of it melted as sonn as
it iell, yet on Wednesday morning some five or
six inches remained on the ground, and few
adventurous people brought out their cutters
and essayed sIelghiUg
The dampness and sickness of the snow
caused it 10 cling to branches of trees, tele
graph wires, and simi' ar OBJECTS and they we're
heavily laden with the frozen mass during the
trees we're broken down by the superintendent
weight, and Others were badly injured by the
breaking Down of the limos.
But by far the n ost serious damage done was
to the telegraph lines; not merely in the matter
Of the expense which Will be necessary to put
them in good working oroer again. but also in
fer tor want of telegraphic iaciuties. Never
before was the value OF the telegraph 80 fully
appreciated by our ciIizens, and particularly
our business men, as during the paralysis of
Wednesday, At an early hour on Tuesday
evening the lines, which had been wording
badly all day, owing to the storm, began, one
al er another, to give out entirely, and by 10
O'Clock not q wire could be made to speak,
On Wednesday morning the line men began
their inVestlgauops OF the trouble, and found
Bnough to keep them busy Tor some time In
this city, all The wires were found to be more or
Ness sagged aud crossed" by their load OF ice,
and in many places the poles supporting them
were prostrated from the same cause. More
especially was this the case iu the north part of
the CITY. The pole, OF the Western Uuon Com
pany from the tunnel to the junction OF the
Hartford Providence and Fshkin Railroad
with the branch track of the Hartford and New
Haven TO the freight house on the dock, were all
down, one being broken short of at the surface
OF the ground,
The Ing pole at the Junction" supporting
over thirty wires, was prostrated across the
track and as far as the eye could reach on the
Flsbhill road, occasional prostrated or leaning
poles could be seen. OF course the wires near
lhe junction we're broken tangled, twisted,
crossed, and grounded in the most uupretty
manner and the line men appeared TO have no
special pleasure in their job The wires Of the
Western Union, IN their fall laid direcCly across
those OF the Franklin line, which were badly
strained by their weight.
The view of the wreck from this point was
desolate enough, as more wires centre mere than
any place in this vicinity and nearly all were
badly burst up" Down town the frame on
fhe root OF the building corner of Pearl and
Nam, supporting the Franklin companys wires,
was oVerthr0Wu, and the wires badly mixed
and sagged. Those OF the Western Uuon
across Main street, were in nearly as bad condi .
tlOn. From all directions, engineers OF incom-
jRg trains report serious trouble with the wires.
AT Berlin a telegraph pole fell directly across
the track, and the wires had to be cut to allo w
trains.
In the midst of this desert of electrical stag
nalon, one bright oasis remains South Glas-
tonbury can be reached by the telegraph, com
Menlcauon with that metropolis having been
reestaolshed Wednesday afternoon. of what
account ls the Atlantic cable when compared
With the Connecticut river? What care we for
GaribaldTs movements or the prospect OF i'm
peaehmenti when we can hear that all is quiet
an South Glastonbury? And of what impor
Iance are quotations from London and New
York, when we place before ouI
readers the closing prices of potatoes a
the first and second boards, and thu
street sales too, in South Glastonbury AT an
rate let us be thankful that we can still tele
graph somewhere. Deentions to trains from
tthe storm we're not numerous or serious. Th
evening train ON the Hartford, Providence, ani
Fishkin Railroad got stopped by the sno " II
the narrow dedle just north of Boston Station
and was Obliged to back up and take fres
StArt before it could overcome the obstacle
tie horse cars in the city were obliged to put ol
double teams Wednesday morning, and to rui
less often than usual, owing to the snow on tn
AratskR.