Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-26
FRUSTRATED WIRES.
A Great Sleet Storm East of
Chicago.
New York City Struck by q
Hurricane.
Complete Pr0stration and Entangle-
ment Of Electric Wires.
Telegraph and Telephone Communication
Almost Entirely Cut Of wids Ex-
tent Of the Storm Area.
Associated Press Dispatches.

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dAN-E -ERANCIsco, Jan. 25--7 :25 p.m.-A
heavy sleet storm prevails east of Chi
cago. Chicago now has only one duplex
wire to New York and one to Wash
ington.
New York, Jan. PA violent wind
snow storm in this city last night and
early this morning proved one Of the
most disastrous to telegraph, telephone
and the electric wires that ever visited
this city. Poles and wires are down all
over the city. Many narrow escapes are
recorded, and the fire alarm and tele-
phone service is rendered nearly use-
less. A big force of men was put to
work repairing the damage as early as 6
O'Clock this morning. So serious is the
condition Of affairs, that Chief Inspector
Byrnes sent out the following instruc-
tions to all the police captains this
afternoon: 1.-THE recent storm having
impaired the fire and telegraph lines.
you will instruct the officers on patrol
that when fires occur, after sending in
an alarm IN the usual manner from the
hre alarm box, to 60 at once to the near
est fire engine house and report"
The city tonight is in darkness save
as lar as gaslight is concerned. By
much delayed trains come reports OF
utter prostration OF all means of COM
munication in and from outlying towns
to New Jersey.
THE WRECK OF WIRES.
This morning seven huge telegraph
poles on Fourth avenue were broken off
close to the ground, falling with great
crash into cut OF the New York Cen
tral railroad, effectively blocking the
track. A passenger train was thunder.
ing down the track and could only be
stopped within a few feet of the wreck
age.
At 2l0 East Broadway an immense
tree fell into the street and narrowly
escaped q carload of street car passen-
gers. In its descent it carried down an
immense number Of wires II xif tlescrip-;
An the tslk kssph poles on seven ii.
avenue, from" FoFty-seventh. street 10
Fifty-ninth, are lying fiat on the pave
ment. The heavy poles ON Fifty
ninth street and Eighth avenue suffered
the same fate. One ofthe poles is hang
ing directly over the entrance of the
porch OF Roosevelt hospital, suspended
by wires. At the corner of Fifty-ninth
street and Ninth avenue the elevated
railroad station is partially crushed by
falling poles. At 7 o'clock in the morn
ing line OF immense poles fell with
crash, carrying not less. than 100 wires
and numerous cables two inches thick,
In which were incased from forty to
seventy-five wires each.
On Chambersystree an electric light
wire was carried down by falling pole,
and struck two street-car horses, killing
one of them instantly. A number OF
fires were started by electric light wires.
but extinguished with tr:fling damage.
AT A o'clock this morning the wind
was blowing thirty-five to forty-ive
miles an hour.
THE STORM MOVEMENT.
The storm opened in the gulf of Mex
leo Friday, and increased in severity un-
til it reached cape Hatteras, Saturday
morning. and New York at 1O:45 last
night. The rain changed to snow about
midnight and continued until 10 a. M,
today, and nine inches fell. It is
thought the blizzard will not extend
more than one hundred miles inland,
The Western Union is badly crippled.
all the wires being down but three. and
those are now working in the western
circuit, connecting at Albany. Roches-
ter, Buffalo and Chicago. The work Of
repairs will take several days. One
thousand men will leave tonight to re-
pair the lines.
THE STORM REGION.
The storm extended over the entire
region from Boston, through the lower
eastern states, Southern New York, New
Jersey, Delaware and the south OF Mary
land. Ats O'Clock this morning there
were only few wires running from the
Western Union office, and at 81
o'clock nearly every wire was rendered
useless. At one time communication 70
albany and Boston was
enterely cut off. The wires to Albany
were the first to resume working. which
was at 10 o'clock. During the day teie-
graph matter had to be sent bv train
rom here to points in New England and
New Jersey to be forwarded.
THE STORM IN Pennsylvania.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. 25.-The east
III P0ic VI tuis. STATE was visited by q
severe snow storm last night and this
Passengers from Philadelphia
'eport the storm very severe there.
Great havoc has been done to telegraph
md telephone wires, and telegraphic
communication is practically suspended.
BURIED CITY.
JERSEY Cry, Jan. 25.-The storm has
made Jersey City asburied town. There
9 not an effective wire to be found
ither telegraph or telephone, fire alarm
y electric light. Save for the sub
marine cables to New York and Brook
yn, the isolation is complete. The
anne is true OF Hobokefl. The Western
Union wires are dead on the West Shore
abroad, and the only 'comnunication
outh, is BY the New Jersey Central I
allraod line. All the poles on the vast |
meadows are wrecked. The I
ntlre police and fire force OF Jersey City |
no Hoboken are on duty to quell any |
Over NlsGAra.
MAG ARA FALLS, Jan. rs. Tonight the
oI d0&t Island saw n1tfi 20 l1fJ [