The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-14
EAST IN >ICE.GRIP,
BLIzzARD.sWEPI
Cut Off for Many Hours from
Communication with Rest Of
the World.
ALL WIRES DOWN;
MARKET AFFECTED
Foot Of Snow in Pennsylvania
Ships in Peril on Great
Lakes. .

New York, Nov. 14.-Communicatio,,
with the west after having been cut off
Tor many hours by Sundays storm, was
re-established soon after 3 'clock this
morning by the Associated Press. This
was accomplished thru telephone wire
between Baltimore and Chicago. Morse
telegraph instruments displaced the
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 Ca
madam telegraph lines to Chicago and
east OF Chicago as far as Washington.
Wires Out Of Service.
The wire service between Baltimore
and Washington was still completely
out of service at 5 o'clock this morn
ing, poles and wires having been car
RED down in many places by the great
force exerted by the furious gale.
Starting from Florida Saturday
night, the storm of wind and rain came
up the coast at almost cyclonic speed.
Early yesterday morning it was central
off Cape Hatteras, altho it's ever gath
ward.
Rain began falling in New York at S
am. and early in the morning changed
to wet snow. The wind, which had
been blowing moderately, veered to the
southeast and shortly assumed hurri-
cane proportions.
Worse Since 1888.
Wire service out of New York was
Io(s
other time since the blizzard of 1888.
New England telegraphic circuits and
those in Philadelphia and Baltimore
were the only ones in working order.
The damage to wires is the most seri-.
GUS which the telegraph companies have
faced IN many years. It spread over
a wide area and caused a great rush
to get out repair gangs who were hur-
riedly started in the night by special
west and south. Little could be ac-
complished, however, until daylight.
The wires were found to be down
completely north, west and east Of AL
bany and north Of Poughkeepsie on the
New York Central. There was but one
wire working on this route and that ex-
tended only to Poughkeepsie. On the
Erie line, over which many circuits to
{ Chicago are operated, one hundred poles
were knocked down near Port Jarvis,
IN. " No wires were left south of Bal
timore, nor between Philadelphia and
Harrisburg.
Much trouble also exists south Of
Washington. where the storm first ap:.
peared. In the latter city several
inches Of snow fell. The storm began
.. at II clock am. with drizzling rain,
which soon turned into a heavy, wet
| snow.
. Owing to the width of the storm =
path much delay to railway traffic 10
/ expected, as the telegraph largely con-
| trolls the movements Of trains.
New England the Center.
Boston, Nov. 14.-New England was
the center yesterday Of the storm which
since Saturday morning has been sweep
ing up the Atlantic seaboard. When
morning downed yesterday the immedi-
ate storm center was off Cape Hatteras,
the vicinity of Nantucket island.
When at it's height the wind blew
with hurricane velocity. In this city
the maximum velocity was forty-fve
miles at $3.50 O'Clock yesterday after.
noon. At Block Island, R. l., there
was seventy six-mile gale, and at Nan
1 tucket, this state, a velocity Of sixty
miles was recorded.
The storm passed east last night and
+ was severe in Maine and the Maratime
= provinces. At Portland, Me-, at Il
a O'Clock, the wind was increasing in We
:, locity and would, the observer at the
: local weather bureau said, reach hurri
a cane dimensions.
. The cost storm was accompanied by
/ snow, rain, hail and sleet.
}, Private Wires Down.
q The private wires Of almost every
f stock exchange and commission hous.
e were out of commission. One promin
emit firm had communication over itl
direct wires to Philadelphia and similal
communication was had with Boston
tho with some difficulty. On the Cotton
exchange business was virtually at |,
T standstill. All the telegraph wire com
L munication to New Orleans was cut OF
and across the quotation board on TIN
trading floor was written, emo wires.
In the first half hour Of the cotton mar
n ket. less than half dozen transaction
- were made. At the Produce exchang
~ a similar state Of affairs was reporte,
81 q and business there was stagnant. On
o. . Westinghouse reported indirect com
"a munication with Pittsburg and Chicago
a. but all other financial wires were stu
"a out Of commission.
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