Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-26
ANOTHER DAmAGINe sronm.

with Now York ny
Wire Cut O6-Many Poles Down.
Much Damage Near BostOn-East-
ern Press News Sent BY Cars to
New York-Blizzard Days Recalled
Trains and Boats Delayed-New
Haven Telephone Poles Suffer
Again.
Blizzard days of 1883 were recalled last
night, owing to the snow storm and winds
Yesterday. Communication with New York
was cut off, so that the eastern states
were cut off from telegraphic communica-
ton with the rest of the United States.
further by wire. The long distance tele-
phone wires to New York were in the
same fix. Many Geographic and telephone
poles, New Britain and in eastern Massa-
chusetts generally, were down yesterday
and last night and eastern press dis
patches had to be sent to New York by a
messenger on the midnight train.
The storm seems to have conferred in
it's greatest violence between South Nor
walk and New York and near Boston, al
though New Jersey also had a severe
network of wires on Grand street, the prin
cipal thoroughfare, is thrown to the
ground and completely disabled. Through
this section there have been 100 wires upon
pole.
The Western Union Telegraph company
have had no communication with New
York since early Sunday morning. The
storm has thrown down or broken about
one hundred poles and two miles of wire.
This has not been disabled in continuous
stretch, but the poles have been thrown
down in sections along the line from
Bridgeport to New York. The line be-
tween this city and South Norwalk was in
use some hours after the New York wires
were down, but section between Bridge
port and South Norwalk was broken early
Sunday morning. Forces of inemen were
set at work all along the line yesterday
morning, but the communication with
New York will not be completed until to-
day. The damage to the poles is confined
principally to those on the west side of the
railroad tracks.
. The long distance telephone wires have
suffered with the telegraph wires. Com
munication with Boston was cut off short
ly after midnight by the wreckage of the
above Neck bridge in this city. At this
time it is said that there was perfect
hurricane through this exposed stretch.
Sunday mornings havoc among the poles
is about half mile above the stretch of
poles which were broken off and thrown
down by tho storm of q week ago. The
Telephone company had established one
pair of wires through to Hartford last
night. The damage by the storm in tho
capital city was but slight. Superinten-
dent Baker of the Telephone company
went to that city upon the 5:52 train yes
terday afternoon and passed through to
Bridgeport upon the midnight express. In
Bridgeport itself the damage by the storm
is not so great as to disable the local wires.
The greatest havoc among the long dis
lance wires was at Glenbrook, where they
are all down and the poles are broken in
much the same manner as they were here
week ago. The two recent storms are
the severest which have visited the east for
some time and what sections the first
storm did not affect were disabled in q
great measure by Sundays storm.
Three or four inches of snow on level
here yesterday. The snow began to de-
scend in big feathery fakes at about
o'clock Sunday morning and kept on doing
so until about 10 o'clock a. m. The fall
ing snow caused thin audiences at the
churches at the forenoon services The
steamer Elm City was delayed. She left
New York city at midnight, but put in for
harbor near theforts owing to the blind
ing snow storm and remained there until
9 a. m. when the snow fall ceasing she
started up again, arriving at her dock here
at about 3 p. m. She had fifty passengers
on board.
The snowfall delayed the trains. The
Air Line train due here at 7 olcock last
evening was an hour late owing to the
snow on the tracks.
The mountaineering brigade found en-
ployment in clearing off the sidewalks
again yesterday. A pedestrian who took q
constitutional walk late yesterday after
| noon reported the sidewalks as cleaned of
| more generally in the outskirts than those
in the center of the city. Many sidewalk.
| within rifle shot distance of the city hal
had not been touched up to 7 o'clock last
| eveninp