Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-15
.gorst that Has Visited Augusta
Since 1898.
New England Telephone and Telegraph
Co. Greatest Sufferer.

u III lGlt lIllo biAS 49,
81 - OILY with the coming OF the
Ii,ht that the havoc wrought
10 n was seen. as since Md
. Sunday, the city had peei
..,,..i in darkness. AT that Time
-. +. tn.nphore wires had become SO
f..t. "a down with snow that they
........ r~,sse.i with the electric light
..rrn wires that it was found
IN cut out the entire SyS-
!, street lights. The power circuit,
0 e-er. continued in operation until
ont 8 O'Clock in the morning, When
too vas cut out. and after that
..- OF A single volt Of current passed
wire in the city until noon.
!,.v.isht found the city streets
-. fro'-ing spectacle. Hardly
could be found that did not
q. o. ,,-aewhere within its confines,
MI isted and broken wires
:...- fa.. weight of the snow had
... .-' [: en- from their fastenings.
.......... . ,,rtirular where this was
...tt. Ill.,. ~, the Kennebec bridge,
.--.. Ne: -s 6 end
/. WI. .... ..... he7vy trunk wires
i... go, ....,. er.tto4 across the
.. ......... :."... oi5and Of volts
.. .. icrp. too, was a
-.. -...A0.-e wires, hang
80 work Of the bridge.
,,ro,, the thanking. The cur
a.,n s,.ut off but the locality
a-.f dangerous. and an Of
~ at each end of the
.rne time. to prevent
sig upon the north
nc ahout the CITY
III - pattan.
to,,, on the
D.. ,....-. e.e hang
.- .. .a..-r At.i'
,..-.... t t.. ia"I
-. I'D Z y
Il .,id west as
.t ;ttn wires more
80 stor
,.a,l, 49,, +,
....,,,,,,, N,
III s.-
ri,,, or ,b.a
.... .y,,.- t....,.1la
4 ~ .r.. ..,.. ,.-. ie+ia
w.. . ..,,.r... 81 .-!oSsed
..... ..,.. ....,.: 81 il tervals
.,... I.- .tr.. .s... Kicker of the
.. ..-.,.. meet. in order to save the
as rom ruin. cut out the alarm.
,It the ruin wrought by the storm
was heavy in the city, in the outlying
districts II was worse People living
outside the CITY. who came into town
in the morning. told of wreckage along
the telephone lines that VIII take
weeks of hard work to replace the
lines in as good condition as they were
before the storm.
col r. w. Soule. who was at his
r...e nj the lake. and was obliged
... ...t team in order to get into town.
.t,trt 10 the Journal that he counted
AZ talephone poles that had either fall
on or were broken off. between Ham
nord's in Manchester and this citv
and also seven of the poles which sup
mort the trolley arms on the Winthrop
Il { of the A., w. 81 G.. Railway. Col.
.>uli, also said over on Winthrop
I'll eet. from the Newberg place to the
Written road. about every telephone
ole was down.
tina havoc was tho Sor1p hatu-aaO
.t,ncbester and Winthrop. and also on
tho rogrs branch of tho Electric Road
vbara tho teIanhona line follows tn.
line of tba road , nortion IF tho way
Al ~ ia r,,ro, talanbona I;,,as 49,.
narly as badly off, and out of COM
mission. and in fact, but few of the
city lines were in service in the morn
ing.
Tho vork of c,earing tho vracL, ee
was commenced &C soon as n,or,;rg
c,me .nd ona of Tho fret n1ao.s where
tho 1iramep rere GOT ar worl, voc on
tho bridpa ,Ianapar O,priep of III.
I,v E,glard Ta,enbopa ,,d ,raior-,.,,,,,
/ 60 had evarv availahla ma, ~ hia
employ at work on Tho line nicking
up and restringing the broken wire ~,
| nm enda,vor n rastora ~, o,,,, ror
vice.
M communicates, h.. ,,hoo oo,,,,
! be had with outside ci,ias ana NJ
! o'Rrien set crows A. work al aIo,r ~
J l'ne as fast as possib,e and boned +,