The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1902-02-22
FIRE ALARM SYSTEM OUT OF ORDER,
Telegraph and Telephone Communications Cut Off and
the Fire Alarm System Out of Service. Tele-
phone Telegraph and Trolley Wires
Weighted by the Sleet Broke and
in Many Places the Big
Poles Snapped Off,

shock Last night will be able to re
port for duty dnrin. the cnmln.
week. lie is suffering from tiou
Bile with his heart and head to-day
! Fcariny that son: Ok the high
current wires might fall accident
ally aud charge telephone, telc'
graph and other wires VITA deadl .
currcnt. ,ha officials OF the electric
company shu. dowl the dvn.mcs
Tor mnncipal lighting. The result
was tEat not an arc light through
cut the city beamed forlh its vel
come RAYS.
some o. the ni.rch1r.s OF through.
on, the city kept their lights burn
ing the greater part c! the evening
to assist pedestrian, on the streets
who were few.
Welsblch lights were burning
brightly, but they cpIid not bear
up very we'll under The act,oa OF the
| c.r.nrnts
ratroimAn Hutton came near be.
! ing a n1atyr 10 duty las, nj, hit u bout
| y o'clock. lie was at SLh aud Mad
| ison streets. where a Plethora OF
wire, was down in tha s'r.c! Live
VIE, mingled with telcpnon" and
telegraph wires there, AID it was
necessary that pedestrians should
lie protected. The wtr@4 'etI dur
ing he afternoon aud I'A'rolnan
john Ford cam. neNr bting entans.
: ed IN them, II. ran fr,h l.,r the
uylc that litl n:ll IN WE, lusL in
ting TO escape.
illtlon discovered ano her wire
dangling meuacin.iy ia the street
ahout y y 'ciock, aud following it
closely with his eye, he can. 10 the
conci nsion that il was Simply
jnc, ani was noL dAn,erDu, lie
IraSpcu il with oae hll 10 remove
il, hnd was s.nl spnn'n, throLgll
thc ar.
Mrs. A IT, Nelson. win lives iu
the house on the southeast cor.
nar, saw palrulnln ilItol as he
took nod .! th- wire. All ,n1 SAYS
she h. was hurried 3 icc, by The lorce
oi the shock he received He was
carried into the Ne son hon: by
Mr. Nelson and pLtro;nln e lott.
H.. was IN al untph,.lois con-
dI'Ion, and us soon aspo,,,oIe word
wa, sent to IN. po'lcs : atom.
Captain Kane urLcrt the patrol I
wagon to the corner in order that Oili-
Ger Hutton cou,d be removed to the
Delaware Hospital. In: patroIcrcw
had Il pai'lou5 TRIP out West Eighth
street, as they Otca.si, catlnged be-
tween fallen wires between Orange
and Tatna!I streets. patroIman
Frank Green thea tJJk il .arye Ian
tern and walked along the mIdd!e Of
the street ahead OF tie horses BY |
this means the wagon arrived at
Eighth and Madison streets. Ollicer
Hutton then had begun to regain
that he be rcuoVed to his home. iu
stead Of to the hospital TnIs was
done. lie reSained Jnscousncs;
later In the night, but seemed parity j.
and numb from the effects
Jf The shock.
Wniic attending to his duties in
charge pf the police reporting mech
lnlSn IN the station house late yes
'crday afternoon Operator Andrew
|lark'nS narrowly escaped serious in.
Jury. lie was rem Drtns Il hopper
from the machine, AMI AT the sil:e
,ime tic wires lea ling from The po. .
Ice signal boxes to the machine lal =
ec,ne charged with electricity. !
llrkins received the force Of tlis u
urrenl, ami was knocked do"n by it.
daAei him for IN instant but he !.
)on recovered himself an continued i
/ charge Of the machine,
Early in the afternoon the fire II
larm system be came disabled, and "
lortly after wald the puIicercpurling u
'Stcm was crippled, and !inaIty was
ut out Of service cntreIv. Occa-
onalv, as live wire would fall it
ross the wires Of the lire alarm sys
IN, the large bell in the ity ha!l Ii
'wer and in the various engine al
onSeS would peal lUrtn. VI
1t vas impossible IT, senl In a fire $!
arm from any Part Of the city. at
'hcu it was fJlnd thl! the D lice. cC
cn c,ud no, use the reporLin ap. T
'ratls, the system Of reports accord. ca
& to schedule WIS abaalJlel. Ii a 81
'llc,man could get near telephone
service, he would report as near to ri
c &C c:nito med time rs possible The tn
rseontS m de Their rounds, and wi
cir rop,rts showed the pltroImcA m;
be On their districts as usual an
City Lincman Frank IIyland did fr,
best 10 keep the muliciplI SIS. an
MS IN sllpc. but the odds we're tel
ainst him. p,
No Drawer set Of men ever worked uIa
rder to prevent accidents AM prop til,
" than the p)lice. Minr OF them tht
d serious misl'aps but Dut still self in
IS forgotten. we
1t was no ordinary task that these mi
IIwart man Ia tn cJnt,ul with bri