The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-18

New York. November 1.-THE storm
which swept up the Atlantic Coast
from the Gulf of Mexico yesterday ana
last night, developing into a gale as il
moved northward, resulted in the most
complete tie up of wire communication
that the Eastern States have experience
ed since 1888, d~isarranged train sched-
ules, paraIyzed trolley lines and piled
several wrecks along the coast. Rain
and snow accompanied the storm, add
ing to the destructiveness Of the gale.
Telephone and telegraph poles, borne
down by the weight of snow n ice
encrusted wires, gave way before ths
sweep of the wind and whole states
were cut off.
Both the telegraph companies and
the telephone comp mics with long dis
lance wires today reported their fields
of operations restricted to the territory
bounded on the west by Philadelphia,
on the east by Boston and on the north
by Newburgh, N. Y The big broker
age concerns in Wall street, many of
whom under normal conditions operate
thousands of miles of wire, today found
themselves helpless The exchanges
were no more fOrtunat and the only
quotations received from Chicago and
New Orleans were the market reports
of the Associated Press. These quota
tons brought over the Associated Press
were the only figures obtained in New
York city from the cotton and grain
centers OF the-south and west.
BY an elaborate system of relays and
use of both telephone and telegraph
wires, the Associated Press succeeded
in bridging thep path between East and
West cut by the storm and reached all
points west, north and east, with the
exception of a small region in the vi
Cinity of Albany. There the damage
from the snow and wind seemed beyond
immediate repair and with the excep-
ton of trains there was no commune
cation with that region during the day.
The general breaking down of wires
was almost entirely responsible for
the trouble on the railroads. The 10y
ments of trains ould not be reported
NAAo OOLoSS AANO
many cases, were reported.
New York, November l4.-That the
effects of yesterdays storm were far
more reaching h in any similar dis
turbance since the great blizzard OF
1888 became evident today e the
disarrangement of wire communication
continued almost as complete as at any
time during the height of the storm.
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pletely isolated. while whole sections
were reached only by most circuitous
routes. To the west, the only points
having direct communication with New
York were Philadelphia and Baltimore.
The Associated Press, however, hao
succeeded in reaching the west ana
incidentally many eastern points, by
means OF a telephone wire betWeen
Baltimore and Chicago. The news re-
port carried over the regular wires
between New York n Baltimore Wnen
it cache the latter city was transfers.
ed a distance of ten blocks to the tele>
phone office by cabs, was then for7
warded by telegraph to Chicago over a
long distance telephone wire and from
Chicago was telegraphed 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 instance, the Asso-
ciated press regular New York state
circuit, a net work of wires n
ing all the principal cities of the state
Was practically out of service for a
time. Newberg to the north marked
the n of the circuit, points beyond
being completely cut off. Finally,
however, a temporary circuit was set
up by forming a connecting link be-
tween Cleveland and Buffalo. From
Buffalo the report was relayed down
the state as far as Utica. At that point
however, wire paralysis again was en-
cOuntered, leaving Amsterdam, Schen-
ectady, Albany AND Troy completely
cut off from the outside world. The
only report received from that section
of the state today, came by train from
Albany. Fou inches of wet snow had
broken down telephone, telegraph, cleo.
: trio light and fire alram wires in Al
. bany, and vicinity and badly hamper
} ed street car and train service.
While the effect Of the storm was