New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-14

to East One-hundred- and thrty-second-s
where they were landed
The passengers We're George Colon of No. 11S
East One-hundred- and twenty -second-st.: w. Fl.
Ward. of No. 229 East Observation-Disclosures
teenth-st; f NJ. Mcdonald of Glen Ridge New
Jersey; Charles Chapman. Of College Point:
Richard Horstinan, of No. II Catharine-st.. Al
bert WeIzert and his brother. otto, of No 10
East Eighty -ffth-st. and 1.646 Second ave. re-
spectively, and four Italians. whose are
not known.
Captain HaIIock OF the Patrol said:
The night was one OF the worst l have ever
experienced the river In addition TO that
the movements Of the Patrol and the Edison
were rendered doubly hazardous by the treach-
erous character of the waters all about where
the Port Morris is ashore
Soon after the Port Morris went ashore word
was sent TO the offices of the Merritt Chapman
Wrecking Company, in South-st. There IT was
said there was little probability of any wreck
ing boat or crew being sent out last night 10
take off the ferryboat The weather was too
bad. he said. to make any attempt
MATE LOST FROM OYSTER sLooP.
While the oyster sloop Laura May beat-
ing her way down the East River in the storm
in the afternoon the boom swung around sud-
denly while the sloOp under the new WILL
iamsburg Bridge apd knocked the mate, known
fresh. squaIIy breeze blowing at the time. and
before The captain of the sOOp. Fred Odlunl,
could go TO the assistance of the mate he had
been swallowed up in the waves which were
running high. The wind bore the sloop away
from the man quickly. Odlum reI,orted the ac-
cident to the police Of the CharIes-st- station,
and a lookout was kept along shore for ths
body Odlum said that he knew the man by no
other name than Captain Paul" and that hs
had shipped with him only for that trip The
sioop was bound from Princes Bay with q
cargo of oysters. consigned to G. Thompson. IN
West Washington Market. The sloop halls
from Perth Amboy.
THE TIE-UP OF THE TELEGRAPH
The hurricane and snow in the South and
Southwest completely crippled the telegraph SER
vice between this city and the cities of the South
and West The Western Union and Postal COM
panies were cut of from direct communication
with these points In extent and area the wire
service suffered more than in the blizzard OF
lSSS
Early In the evening the Western Union Com
pany sent word TO all its local offices 10 accept
business only with the understanding that IL was
subject to delay Tor all points south Of Balti-
more Harrisburg Philadelphia. and west by
way of the Reading route, New-York State and
New-Jersey. The only places which the company
guaranteed to hold direct telegraphic communi-
cation with were Newark. Elizabeth and New
Brunswick.
]. ]. whalen. night manager OF the Postal
Company. said early in ne evening that the
business of the company was badly crippled In
the territory vest Of Philadelphia and south OF
Washington. Direct communication with that
portion of the country was impossible
He attributed the damage 10 the high wind and
to the weight of wet snow.
Of H0tb 1via We az a
state how great the damage was and as to how
long the service would be crippled
In the early portion OF the evening the Postal
company, being unable TO transmit messages TO
Washington. turned over the business to the
Western Union but the Western Union. being
in the same crippled condition between New
York and the national capital was obliged to
refuse it.
Employees os the Western Union said II wa.
the worst tie-up of service the company had
ever had. A large force of wire experts were at
work last night trying 10 make roundabout con-
nections to carry the most important messages.
Employees asserted that the business OF both
companies was practically at a standstn be-
tween this city and the cities OF the South and
West.
The Postal sent by cable some OF its most ur-
gent messages TO Canso, y. s. from which point
they were wired 70 Montreal and thence for
Soon after noon the telegraph companies began
to feel the effects OF the storm. As wire after
wire went down. and city after city was lost.
the repair gangs informed but. owing to
the day and the heavy storm. II was long after
dark before the full force could be mustered.
Late in the afternoon il was reported that over
one hundred poles along the Erie Railroad had
gone down. completely putting the New-York-
Buffalo Chicago wires by that route out OF
vice. Recourse for short time was had TO
wires by way OF Albany and Syracuse but a
few hours afterward the pressure OF the Ice on
the wires carried them. poles and ALL TO the
ground outside of Poughkeepsie. thereby et-
fectively closing the service.
Special trains were engaged on most Of thu
roads running out OF Jersey City and Hoboken
and dispatched late last evening laden with
wire repairing gangs
At II O'Clock last night Mr.. Whaien. Of ths
Postal Telegraph Company, announeed that the
situation getting worse. He said that the
wires between New-York and Albany wers
down and that all communication between New
York and south OF Washington was completely