The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-01-07
Prom Mondays Daily.
THE gT0RN.

A storm has been raging with great
fury since Saturday evening last The
Wind Is high, accompanied by snow and
sleet, the former drifting BADLY, and the
latter coating everything out of doom
with ice. Travel has Ibeen inpeded
both BY road and rail. and pedestrians
seem to hsve great difficulty.
The telegraph wires being down makes |
communication abroad difncuIt Our
press dispatches are pigeon-holed In |
Kansas City and St Louis, the private |
wires by way of the Equator and North |
Pole being fully occupied.
The telephone service is also In
trouble, some thirtY-five wires beng
down as we go to press.
The railroads, Of course, are suffering
much Inconvenience. and the passenger
business somewhat delayed. There are
between ninety and one hundred poles
down between here and Florence. the
weight Of ice on the wires being too
heavy, and the wind too strong tor the
poles. Even between the RmporiA depot
on the Santa Fe and Junction, several
poles fell. The wires are crossed. and
some fun in wilderness of SORROW is
the result.
The Western Union office in this city
has been as silent as grave all day.
Early this morning q wire talked"
feebly on the Missouri Pacific, but il
sickened and died before noon. The
railroad folks communicate with To-
peka by way of Ottawa, Fl. Scott and
) Kansas City, and TO Newton by
way Of Springfield, Mo-, Wellington,
and Wichita. Notwithstanding all these
embarrassments, the passenger trains
went east to day on time, which leads tC
the belief that the storm is east and
not much west of this point. The
cold wave signal was reported in st
Louis Saturdays dallies TO be flying a
that point.
The street car service has had Q grea
many "ups and downs" as testified
to by the much.shaken passen
gers on our various lines
One car was known to leave The
track five times in the length of one
square and citizen said he should cal
the attention of the city authorities Il
the fact that the cars were covering sld'
streets not justified nor authorized by tn
charter.
The Missouri Pacific wires are tn,
only ones that are In working order.
The street cars had some trouble thi
. morning In getting their trabks cleared
, In order to make their runs.
The trains going east were both OIL
) time, but only came from Nickerson
there are no trains from beyond tina
> place.
We are informed that all the Western
T Union telegraph wires east and west OIL
= the Santa Fe line are down. No com
: municatIon can be had either way.
Pedestrians and teams and horse car
have very generally given the streets ri
to the blizzard which has been driYini
with greater or less degree of fury al
through the day, and there is a CORES
ponding dearth in local news.
The large telephone pole in front c
= G.. w. Benefits grocery leans towar
!, the street so much that it broke out tn
curling along the sidewalk and stron
, guy had to be run from the pole to
: post in the alley east of Commercis
street.
Manager Webb informs Us that abou
thirtY-five telephone wires are down an
some Of the poles are broken of entirel
h by the sleet. Only about fifty-five wire
3 are in working order, so If any of tn
subscribers fail to get connection don
blame the company. Mr.. Webb say
they will endeavor to get them up IN
short time.