Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-11-18
EAST IS almost
CUT OFF BY STORM
WIRE COMMUNICATION TO NEW
ENGLAND AND COAST POINTS
PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE.
TRAINS AND coURIERS
CARRYING MESSAGES
Wall Street Brokers Practically Help
less - Telegraph and Telephone
Companies Busy Repairing Grip
pied Service-Steamer Overdue.

Chicago, Nov. 16.-The area isolated
by the eastern storm and in which
telegraph and telephone communities
ton is practically impossible, extends
from Portland, Me-, west to a point
north and west of Albany, N. y,
thence south to Norfolk, Va, on a line
running east of Harrisburg, Pa, and
west of Washington. On all the great
trunk lines, the wires along which are
depended upon for communication be-
tween the east and west, from the
New York Central at the north to the
Baltimore & Ohio at the south, there
are great gaps in which poles and
strands for many miles are down.
Trains and couriers are being used to
carry messages. One wire between
New York and Baltimore, where con-
wire to Chicago, handled all the news
that reached the west from the Attain
tic coast Monday and most of Monday
night.
Great Cities Isolated.
New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington, within the
storm zone, were almost completely
isolated from the rest of the country
and from one another. Less important
cities suffered as much in proportion
to their interests. Wind, snow and
sleet had Frustrated telegraph and tel
ephone lines, trolley service was al
most at a standstill, electric lights
were shut off, leaving many places in
darkness, exchanges were idle, mails
were delayed or stopped altogether,
railroads operated with difficulty be-
cause of the lack of facilities for the
handling of orders, business Of all
Kinds suffered and much personal dis
comfort was endured
There was little loss of life, but the
scope and variety of the storm are but
feebly shown in these returns. 1t is in
damage to property and through the
suspension of business that the prin-
cipal loss was felt.
Effect in the East.
New York, Nov. 16.-The storm which
swept up through the Atlantic coast
states from the Gulf Sunday and Sun
day night, developing into gale of hur.
Ticane force as it moved northward, re.
suited in the most complete tie-up Of
wire communication that the eastern
states have experienced since the memo.
rable snow storm Of 1888, disarrangee
train schedules, paralyzed trolley linei
and piled several wrecks along the coast
A downpour of rain and heavy snow
which accompanied the storm added t.
the destructive force Of the gale.
Wall Street Feels It.
The big brokerage concerns in Wal
street, many Of whom under norma
conditions operate thousands Of mile
of wire, on Monday found themselve
practically helpless. The exchange
were no more fortunate and the onl
quotations received from Chicago an
New Orleans were the market report
Of The Associated Press. These quota
tons brought were the only figures oh
tanned in this city from the cotton an
grain centers of the south and wes1
BY an elaborate system OF relays an
the use of both telephone and telegrap
wires the Associated Press succeeded i
bridging the path between east and ives
cut by the storm and reached all point
west, north and east, with the exceptio
of small section in the vicinity Of A.
bany.
Work Of Repair.
While considerable progress had bee
made in repairing the damage wrougt
by Sunday nights gale, conditions Tue.
day had by no means become norma
After more than sc hours of steady wor
the repair crews sent out by the telt
graph and telephone companies whe
the serious nature of the storm was fri
realized had succeeded in patching U
the main lines, but the wires in man
cases were worked under most discou
aging conditions and were unable |
handle the great mass of matter Thu
had accumulated during the hiatu
Good connections had been establisht
between New York, Philadelphia ar
Boston, but beyond those points eme
gency circuits were still in use. Wa
street was in much better conditic
than Monday.
In New England.
Boston, Nov. 1.-THE chief DANA,
attributable to the storm in the Ne
HhGlsra. states was TIE Qsiychak