Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-14
AN UP-COAST TW|STER
Wind, Pain and Snow Visit
Atlantic Coast States.
CYCLONIC CHARACTER
TELEGRAPH, TELEPHONE AND
RAILWAY TRAFFIC IMPEDED.
Snowfall as Far South as North Caro-
lima and Tennessee-Damage to
Shipping-Rescues.

NEW YORK, November 14.-Communi-
cation with the west, after having been cut
off for many hours by Sundays storm, was
re-established soon after o'clock this
morning by the Associ9 ted Press. This was
accomplished through a telephone wire be-
tween Baltimore and Chicago. Morse tele-
graph instruments displaced the telephone
devices and restricted service was at once
begun. 1t developed that Washington had
been in almost constant communication
with the west during the night. and news
sent by the Associated Press from its New
York office to Boston. thence by way of
Portland, Me. and the Canadian telegraph
lines to Chicago and the west was relayed
back to points east of Chicago as far as
Washington.
The wire service between Baltimore and
Washington was still completely out of
service at o'clock this morning, poles and
wires having been carried down in many
places by the great weight of wet snow and
the intense force exerted by the furious
gale.
New England telegraphic circuits and
those to Philadelphia and Baltimore were
the only ones in working order The dam
age to wires is the most serious which the
telegraph companies have Jared in many
years. 1t spread over a wide area and
caused a great rush TO get out repair gangs,
who were hurriedly started in the night by
special trains over all the railroad lines
north. west and south. Little could be ac-
compiished, however. until daylight.
The wires were found TO be down COM
pletely north, west and east of Alb my, and
north of Poughkeepsie on the New York
Central There was but one wire working
on this route, and that extended only to
Poughkeepsie. On the Erie line, over
which many circuits to Chicago are oper-
ated, 100 poles were knocked down near
Port Jervis. y. Y. No wires were lcfJ south
of Baltimore nor between Philadelphia and
Harrisburg. Much trouble also exists south
of Washington. where the storm first APP
Tcared. In the latter city several inches of
snow fell The storm beg IN at II o'clock
am with a drizzng rain, which soon
turned into heavy wet snow.
Owing to the width of the storms path
much delay TO railway traffic is antic .pated,
as the telegraph largely controls the move
ments of trains
Effect on Stock Exchanges.
The private wires of almost every stock
exchange commission house were out of
commission. One prominent firm had COM
munication over its direct wires to Phila-
deIphia and similar communication was
fculty. On the cotton exchange business
was virtually at a standstill.
All telegraph wire communication to New
Orleans was CIT off and across the quota
ton board on the trading floor was written
mo wires" In the first half hour of the
cotton market less than half dozen trans
actions were made. At the produce ex-
change similar state of affairs was re-
ported and business there was stagnant
One packing house reported indirect COM
munication with Pittsburg and Chicago. but
all other financial wires were still out OF