Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
Gotham is Visited by the Fiereesy
Storm Experienced for Some
Time.
The Streets Are Filled With Fallen
Poles and Traffic is at
StandStill.
The Fires and Police Wires ars
Down and the Service is
Impaired.

&av YoR-s. Ian - The storm which
set Ii last night ard continued until to-
day was the sevcscst of the season thus
Tar. About SIX inches of snow (eu, and
1t was of the wet cinging kind that
fastened i,Sclt 10 every thing it touched,
loading trees until they were shorn Of
their branches or fell PROSTATE as if they
mad been mere twi-S. 1t chung to the
electric wires anti they gave way under
the esSurc and broke in all directions,
or until the poles en- which they were
strung broke unda~ the enormous weight
and fell across sire IS an against hoasAs.
blocking all traffic. = gecks OF trees and
telegraph poles r found on every
street, while irregular festoons of wires
Lung On every hand and detached lengths
of wires were strung on eyery sidewalk.
No such work Of devast alton has
been known since the great biz
zard of March, 1888, and it is a
question if that me.1 D ale storm WIS more
serious in its effects uron the telegraph
poles and wires OF he city. Early in the
morning Geographic and telephone con-
nections Were broken, and, viii the snow
did not offer bar to railroad traffic, the
PROSTATE poles and fallen wires prevented
the running of cars on many streets, and
compelled to move cautiously and were
often brought to stop BY the wires that
had fallen aero. tie ira k.
The police auI fire departments were
especial sufferers All wire connections
between the various police stations and
the central office were broken and recourse
was had to messengers. The fire depart
ment circuits were generally broken, and
as no alarms could be sent out excepting
on few circuits pa rDlS of iremen were
established throughout the city.
Seven huge tGi6g aph poles on Fourth
avenue, between Che Hundred and Twenty
first and One Hundred and Twenty fifth
streets, were broken off close to the ground,
falling with great crash into the cut of
the New York Central railroad, effectually
blocking tie track.
An immense tree that stood in front OF
No. 210 East Broadway fell into the street,
narrowly escaping a car that was loaded
with passengers. In its descent it struck
the telegraph wires and carried down q
lot of poles. The cross bars scraped the
sides Of the brown stone flats on the south
side of the street as they fell and shook
the buildings to their very foundations.
The fall made sound like thunder, start
ling people for blocks away. Many of the
enormous po'es were broken in three pieces
and the cross arms we're shattered. The
houses were 50 blockaded by the wreck
that until near midday ingress or egress
was impossible.
A telegraph wire broke in front of No
| Is Chambers street and fell across an
electric light wire and wed its current.
The wire fell on the hor se5 Of IN Eighth
avenue car and the deadly current killed
one of them 1us family.
The highest velocity of the wind was
thirtytive miles. The storm opened in
the Gulf of Mexico Friday 1t increased
in severity until it reached Cape Hatteras.
The visitation reached New Yark City
with rain, which changed to snow, and
nine inches fell. 1t is thought that the
young blizzard did not extend more than
100 miles inland The Western Union Is
badly crippled by the storm, all wires be-
ing down but three, those being In the
western circuit connecting Albany, Ro-
chester, Buffalo, and Chicago. The work
of repairs will take several days. One
thousand men will leave this city on the
work of repairs.
At Peekskill a hoisted red signal was
showed under as to conceal its color, and
an express train slashed into freight train
in deep cut The engine crews jumped
cars was demolished Travel was delayed.
Long Island is dead to the outer world
Damage I'm New England.
Boston, Mass, Jan. 26.-The storm
did great damage throughout New Eng
land and especially between New Haven
and New York, where all the wires are
down and the only communication is by
by rail. Twelve to fifteen inches Of snow
fell. TolG graphic communication north
and east is slow.
BOTH COURTED THE SAME GIRL.
The Man Who Staid the Longest Gets
Shot i'm the Head.
Dies MONIES, Iowa Jan. 26.-Two young
co,ored men, John Watson and Robert
Nash, courted the same girl and last night