The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-11-17

New York. Nov. Accommodation
with the west after having been cut OH
for many hours by Sundays storm, was
re-established soon after 3 o'clock this
morning by the Associated Press. Inns
was accomplished through telephone
wire between Baltimore and Chicago
Morse telegraph instruments displaced
the telephone devices and a restricted
service was at once begun. 1t developed
that Washington had been in almost con
slant communication with the west dur
ing the night and news sent by the Asso-
ciated Press from It's New York Office to
Boston, thence by way of Portland, Me,
and the Canadian telegraph lines TO chi
cago and the west, was relaye1 back to
points east of Chicago as far as Wash
ington.
Snow Stops Telegraph.
The wire service between Baltimore
and Washington was still completely out
Of service at o'clock this morning, poles
and wires having been carried 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 Baltimore were
the only ones in working order. The
damage to wires is the most serious
which the telegraph companies have
faced in many years. 1t spread over a
wide area and caused great rush &c
ret out repair gangs who were hurriedly
started in the night by special trains over
all the railroad lines over north, west
and south. Little could be accomplished,
however, until daylight.
Fe,,, po1es Standing
The wires were found to be down com
pletely north, west and east of Albany
and north of Poughkeepse on the New
York Central. There was but one wire
working on this route and that extended
only to Poughkeepsie. On the Erie line
over which many circuits to Chicago arc
operated, 100 poles were Knocked
down near Port Jcrys, n. Y. No wires
were left south of Baltimore, nor be
twcen Philadelphia and Harrisburg
Much trouble also exists south of Wash
ington. where the storm first appeared
I'm the latter city several inches OF snow
fell. The storm began at II o'clock a
pn., with a drzzinG rain, which soon
turned into heavy, wet snow.
Railways Out of Business.
Owing to the width Of the storm,
path much delay TO railway traffic is an.
ticipated, as the telegraph largely con
trolls the movements of trains.
May Have Perished.
About ) o'clock Sunday afternoon the
larb0r police Mt the foot of East l22nd
ttrcct received word that naphtha
launch with two men aboard was in dlN
trcSs off Stepping Stone light, near Hart S
island. An electric launch was mannc,
And started ON a journey of rescue IN tht
fa1fb nj tho .FiTItr tI.t fima
The launch proceeded to the water
about Stepping stone light. The sOuur
i'm that vicinity was free of craft. Noth
ing was seen of the naphtha launch re-
tortpd to have been ia need OF >uccpr
knd the police boat put back TO her sta
! Bad Storm Along Coast.
Boston, Mass, Nov. 1i.-Ncw Eng
land was the ccnter yesterday of tin
storm which, since Saturday morning
has been sweeping up the Atlantic sea-
board. When morning dawned yestcr
day the immediate storm center was on
Cape Hatteras, but i'll the afternoon il
had moved to the vicinity of Nantucket
island. When at its height the wind
blew with hurricane velocity. In this
city the maximum velocity was forty
FIVE miles at 500 O'Clock yesterday after.
noon At Block Island, X. l., there was
I6-mlle gale. and ut Nantucket, this
state, a velocity of sixty miles was
recorded Tho storm passed east last
night and was severe in Maine ana thc
maritime provinces. At Portland. Me.
at II O'Clock. the wind was increasing II
velocity and would, the observer ut the
local weather bureau said reach hurri
cane dimensions.
The coast storm was accompanied BIS
snow, rain, hail and slcet.
Vessel in Distress.
Capt. Krippner of the German steamer
Rabcnfels, from Calcutta. which cam,
out of quarantine and locked yesterday
reports having spoken the Truguayar
bark Nilasar from Brunswick, Ga. fol
Valencia. in latitude 34.12 north, longi
turc 30 west. The NiliSar was sailing with
ont fore. main and mizzen top masts am
jihboom which she reported as having
lost during gale on November / Hol
captain signaled that she was almost
out of provisions and Capt. Krippncr OF
the Rabenfes sent boat with supple,
to him.
Schooner's Narrow Escape.
Vineyard Haven, Mass, Nov. A. Tn,
three masted schooner Bessie Parker
British, Capt. Whelplcy, bound from