Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-14
YESTERDAYS SEVERE STORM
Wires Laid Low in Many Places and Business Frustrated All
 Along the Atlantic Coast and in New England

New York, Nov 14.-CommuntcatiOn 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 Associated Press. This was accomplished through tel ephOne wire between Baltimore and Chicago. Morse telegraph instruments were installed instead of the tele- phonic devices and restricted service was at once begun. 1t developed that Washington had been in communica- tion the west nearly all the time dur ines the storm News sent by the As sociated Press from its New York of flee to Boston, thence by way of Port land, Maine, and the Canadian tele- graph lines to Chicago and the west, was relayed back through the night to points east of Chicago as far as Wash ington.
 The wire service between Baltimore and Washington was still completely out of service at o'clock this morn ing, poles and wires having been car- ried 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 Balti- more are the only ones in working or der The damage to wires is the most serious which the telegraph companies have faced in many years. It spread over wide area.
 The wires were down completely north and west of Albany, north of Chatham, on the Harlem railroad, and north of Poughkeepsie on the New wire working on this route and that <vfnndnd nr,Iu +n UI lya nT1 the Erie line, over which many cir cults to Chicago are operated, 100 poles were knocked down near Port Jervis, N Y. No wires were left south of Baltimore nor between PhiIa- delphia and Harrisburg. Much trouble also exists south of Washington where the storm first appeared.
 In the latter city several inches of snow fell.
 New York, Nov 14-That the effects of the storm were more far reaching than in any similar disturbance since the great blizzard of 1888 Became evi- day when the disarrangement of wire com erunication continued almost as complete as at any time during the height of the storm. Up to 10 o'clock many points were completely isolated, while whole sections were reached only by most circuitous routes. To the west, the only points having direct commun- ication with New York Were Philadei- phia and Baltimore. The Associated Press however. had succeeded in reaching the west and incidentally many eastern points, by means of a telepho.e ~i-e between Ba ttmore and Chicago.
 
 regular wires between New York and Baltimore when it reached the latter city WIS a, ftrred distance of ten blocks to the telephone office by cabs, was u en rwarded by te' graph to Chicago over long distance telephone wire, at q from Chicago was tele- graphed back to Washington and other cities which could not be reached over the regular routes. The same plan was followed in many other cases. For in- stance the Associated Press regular New York state service, network of wires connecting all the principal cit 1es of the state, was practically out of service for a time. Newburg to the north marked the end of the circuit, points beyond being completely cut off. Finally, however, temporary circuit was set up by forming a connecting link between Cleveland and Buffalo From Buffalo the report was relayed down through the state as far as Utica.
 At that point, however, wire paraIy- sis again was encountered, leaving Amsterdam. Schenectady, Albany and Troy completely cut off from the out, side world. The only reports received from that section of the state to-day came by train from Albany. Four inches of wet snow had broken down telephone, telegraph, electric light and fire alarm wires in Albany and yicin-