Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-01-31

New YORK, Jan. 2T.-For the twelve
hours which began at 1880 Saturday
night, New York suffered from a storm
which is generally admitted to have
been the most destructive to property,
especially that of the telegraph, tele.
phone and electric light companies, ever
known. Never before have the tele-
graph and telephone companies expert
enced such complete and absolute
havoc. An idea of what wreclsing OF
lines was done may be gathered from
the fact that out of 1900 running out of
this city, the Western Union had but
three wires working Monday afternoon.
The rest, with the poles that supported
them, now lie beside the railroad tracks
and across fields and are caught in trees
The Pos tai Telegraph Company nc.
tually has not one wire working from
the city, while the Metropolitan Tele-
graph and Telephone Company roughly
estimates that $500 of it's wires are laid
low. The total damage to the com
panies mentioned which will result from
this condition of affairs is estimated at
$500. 900. Two weeks unceasing effort
will be required to get the wires back
into the condition which existed before
the storm broke and tore down the poles
and wires. Gangs of Western Union
linemen from Buffalo, Rochester, SYRIA
cuse and Utica are now at work on the
wires running north. The Albany gang
are working south. Between Philadel-
phia and Trenton and between that
point and New Brunswick, n. j., the
telegraph wires are totally wrecked.
All the linemen in the employ of the
Western Union at Harrisburg and Pitts
burgh have been taken to Philadelphia,
in order to rush repairs IN and about
that point. All the eastern wires are
down between Williams Bridge and
Stamford and all western wires be-
tween Williams Bridge and Croton Falls
are in the same condition.
At Pleasantville, which is just back
of Sing Sing, every wire is down for
distance of two miles. Two gangs of
linemen are at work there now. The
linemen working at Cohoes report that
all the wires at that point were found
! in the river. Every one of the Western
Union wires which run along the line
VI OlC fSSU oiloiO idili'abb 10 NO"h
south of Kingston. The Western Union
wires which run through New Jersey
are piled into small heaps on the Jersey
flats. At present the Western Union
has one trunk wire working to Chicago,
one to Buffalo and one to Albany.
The effects of the heavy storm were
very appreciably felt in Wall stree yes
terday. The destruction of telegraph
wires robbed the brokers of whatever
outside orders they might have had,
leaving the stock business in even a
more discouraging state than it has
been recently.
The irst official act of the Commits
sioner of Public Works yesterday was
to notify all telephone, telegraph and
electric light companies to remove dan.
gerous wires and poles which were
damaged by the storm. Rolls and
tangled nets of telegraph, telephone and
electric wires are still distributed all
over the streets of Brooklyn. The sew
cral telegraph and telephone companies
which cover Brooklyn with their wires
estimate their aggregate losses at $780,
600. In Jersey City and Hoboken the
telephone and telegraph wires hang in
tangled masses from broken poles here
and there through the streets. In both
those places the old bell towers have
been pressed into service to be used in
case of fire.
BOSTON, Jan. eT.-Sunday's storm be.
gan at 2:S0 a. M, with light rain that
soon changed to snow. A northeasterly
gale in the early hours of the storm
moved forty miles an hour. By noon
the storm had nearly passed. About six
inches of wet snow fell, which stuck
like glue to whatever it touched and
weighted electric wires, which pulled
away from insulatorS and broke down
poles, of which in Boston and vicinity
about 100 were leveled to the ground.
Sunday night the telegraph wires
were demolished. There was no wire
hence to New York. The Western
Union and the Postal companies had no
outlets to the west via Albany, and the
Postal reached St. John, N. B., with
great difficulty. Monday morning the
Western Union reached Springfield and
Willimantic. The Postal reached Hart
ford. During the forenoon communica-
ton with various towns between here
and New York was re-established. The
fire alarm wires are generally pros
trated and firemcn are patrolling the
streets. The police system escaped with
less injury. Street car service is unin'
terrupted.
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