New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-26

about the damage to wires poles and property.
Captain Reilly of the Thrheth-st station, wa, Was
the first to send in a report about the cohulttE,,
of his precinct IL not encoulaelhg' uo
said that about half the streets were coihPetelAA
blocked by fallen wires and poles. ne eleNaue ed
road and all the surface ralr0ads lad stOPPIIu
running with the single exception oil the oN.h-
ave surface road. This was protected ny uilc
elevated structure from the poles ana Wiz .loTc
There were many places in which the poles WIZ
down and dangerous TO life and properly. Ahoh5
them were SiXth-ave., and lwenty-seNeh9,n ai,d
Thirty-frst SITS, in front of Nos IA, 100 any
40 West Twenty-seventh-st., r llIh-aNt. an"
Tbirtvffth-st. SiXth-avc.. near Thirty 'secohds'.'
and No 1903 Scventh-ave a heavy telegraph cIoss-
piece was suspended over the Iool 81 ,o nonf
in Sixth-ave, near 1hirty-frst-s'.' aIu we Ioc
as a matter of precaution were ordered 10 raw
the building. - no. ,-o,uo &
,ros driving through Park-avc. while the po"SS
,rcre falling lie had been warned by several
policemen 10 take another street put " IIs br
one street seemed 10 be about as sale as auoei''i
When he reached Eighty second-st; tberJ vs. 10
shout of warning and . terrific crash "ra pV ~d
had brol,rn at the corner. close 10 the DOItOl anu
was falling toward Hartman tie MT ms i nonSd
with the whip. bit the animal ha ne instead Of
away from It. Hartman jumped from lhe W"s .I
and escaped The pole struck the morse On t"1
back and broke The spine. NE SS" were ended
Lv n pisfol shot from the revolver OF Doo'oi
Boom, Of No. II5 East FiLhty-fourth-st
DANGEROUS ELECTRIC CURRENTS
The electric nulu 1lO II inc u""-H"e
a deal of fun with the car-horses on those NUS
that were fortunate enough to have Gear 'i"'"
At one time in the morning the cars were stopped
ON obout thrce-ouarters of the surface lines
mole FIJI soon after midnight in front OF no nin
Tbomhcrs-st and wire stretched from Wy AN
pole across the street This was crosscd drvnn bv
electric light wire. team OF hoIses ~, w EGbth
Deris Gallagher on car No. 1lS on me EShtn-
ave line ran against this wire. Both hoiSes ,hc
knocked down. Gallagher thought NAV IT,, ,hc
horses had merely slipped lie luhptu I o, to
car and caught one of the horses ny tle ne 49,,
lift the animal TO its feet. lie Will never IoS
what happened. He got n shock whl'Il ne ne '' IL
seemed TO twist the bones out OF MS ooS for
was knocked down and was UNCONSCIOUS i"i
Tow moments One of the horses was OH '"P, VI
the other and after Gallagher hsd rec3aeiV ni nj
senses he, with two policemen, puiIeu NV Nv i've
off The under horse was lying of ",u WI - ,s
wire which WAS burning its flesh. Inc Wiz was
emf by an expert lineman ana the dc4I "o, ,nI
removed The other horse was unaDe s w S,",'
Cor several hours after the shock IL rcccINci
1;alIaGher was sick and was taken to his nome
in West Fifty-ninth-st. >..-.-..,.. rood had a
4 team of horses on the Nlnih-'Nt' t t%o W"unt
lively dance on Al electric wire OF inc No"mI
Morris Electric Light Company NJ ana! "i ~
Greenwich SITS. There were several wires III , ,hc
s,rect i'm this neI!borhood. J"hh ..loI"n' H.
Irivar cot n shock from the wct rclns nc
yvbinncd the horses and they go' on inc WY
safely. Peter Schmidt, the conductor. I"oN ",,n
Of the rear dashboard wien ,hf W snt down in
him lie soon recovered from the shock. inc
electric light company removed the u"he'io"'
wires from the street
KNOCKED DOWN BY SHOCKS.
Charles DE Forrest, of No. 800 Grovc-st., Jcr-
sev City. caught hold of a wire in DcshroN>es-s'
10 push it ont of the way, at the WESTINGHOUSE
crossing. lie dropped into the mud and Slush
rs II lie had been hit on the head with a hammer
and his fingers were badly burned by the wire
II was a telegraph wire crossed WIN an f.c.,Ir
light wire Mrs Amanda PARCELS, of hunters
i,1in, struck n dangling wire which was hanging
in front Of her face with an umbrella. ana TOOK
a seat on a borse-car track III East If'N i"uI'',
ST The electric fluid burst KID glove. burner
her fingers and ripped open the sleeve on her rlsht
William BradstreCt. boy living at Greenwich
Wrs,-st.. near Chrstonhcr-,,.. while holding .
crossed telegraph wire in his hand. lie th"lsh,,
int WAS about it ni in i gSH'd" lie was sh,
burned and badly frightened and was cfrle'.
home by a policeman. Policcruon Mcdonnell. Of
the Mercer-st station, wSile making paSogc-
nj Blocker and Greene SITS. got shock that made
him think that policemans life was not a happy
one. After he picked Rlm>c!l up dnJ t ".] ,e
That he felt the electricity 90 through H. The
hole was probably made BY the fal! iiis gloves
were burned and his right hand slightly injured
Dennis O'Halloran. a cablnan. VINO had stand
in front Of the New-York Hotel, caught hold "I
hanging wire IT East l!ouston-st. ana broadway
Hp thrown from his tfn, anu Ebl Il N'F'iI
scalp wound by the fall. His wound was dressed
by an ambulance surgeon, and he went home
POLES SCATTERED EVERYWHERE.
Poles are living in the street in front Of Nos
21s, 22S and 242 West Fonrth-st. Telegraph
wires are hanging in front Of Nos. As. $50, SD
800 and GI2 Broadway. Several electric light
wires in Fourth-avc near Tcnth-St were IN q
dangerous condition. and the Brush East dN'r
and Manhattan electric companies Were inl' f,,
I;,o Dol ap1Nt irpg ara
of No 2OS Narick st, No. 30 SiNth-aNc.. 40 Siu
Broadway Nos. 33s, 3i6, 4l4. AZ. $50, az
5O2 ia, $40 and $50 East Four'efnt i-sl. me
Dolcs stretched across the street, and the cars
were stopped. Poles down in fIs'-si. near
Seoond-ave. and there was a special hfc-aiar -
box broken at First-st. and Scrohd-aHW' mere
are n large number Of wires down on lhlrdaF".
between Observation-Disclosures rtY-cIgnh-st ana
Observation-Disclosures ninth SITS, d.ns'lous
pole was torn down at I.iglth-aNc. ana IWHN,
hrst-st, which stopped the horsccars Tor scN'Ih
When the pole fell against the Union Square
Hotel an unknown man VINO was pi''II- "''
struck by pieces Of falling glass ana signify cu''
and also got mixed up with The lahhe wires.
He would have been crushed 10 death had not l4e
pole struck the hotel; There was coisldciapic
excitement in the hotel and some OF the guests
rushed into the street. The weakness ol The polr
had been noticed and the guests had been warned
to keep away from the north SIDE OF thc mo.e1
and mo- one was hurt. Quiet was soon restored
after the pole fell and il was lowered into the
street by several wOrkmcn. a..
4 dangerous pole was torn down al NdRe ana
Broome sts and the street was impossible al ltldge
anu Willett SITS. from hanging wires Danger
Gus wires were reported i'll front of No. is ana ~
Beecker-st A big tree fell against the house 2t
No. 127 East Sevcnty-nrStsl. ana ddlnde'u 'Hc
glass in the windows.
OFrICIAI. LETTERS.
Mavor Grant Yesterday received the following
letter from j. Ebert Smith, the superintendent OF
the Fire Alarm Telegraph:
His Honor the Mayor: / have the honor to report
thai considering the present condition OF the various
telegraph and telephone in tins clty, IN my JudE
mcut the electric light currents should not be allowed
on overhead wires this night Everywhere broken
Wlrcs are down and upon the lines Of the electric Aght
systems and 10 put those wire, 10 use would be cN-
treneIy hazardous TO life and prOprty.
tated the following reply which lac sent. To-
cether with Mr. Smiths letter, to'Captain Wash
burn the Superintendent Of Police, at Police