The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-09
WIRES ARE AGAIN
 CAUSING TROUBLE Communication in Many Dlrec- tions is Cut Off by Storm RAILROADS HAVE TROUBLE Slides on Tracks Delay Travel On the seaboard and the A. G. S.
 Has to Use Southern
 Tracks.
RAILROADS HAVE TROUBLE

The wire troubles out of Birmingham increased yesterday and last night com munication wss very limited. Nearly all the railroads were hampered more or less, and both of the telegraph companies have had trouble. The long distance wires in many directions are not working, and in other directions they are working badly
 The Louisville and Nashville was not able to get wire communication north of Decatur last night and their wires in all directions are working badly. They had connection with Montgomery, where the wire stops, but it Is understood that there is trouble south of Montgomery with the wires. North of Decatur 1t Is said that many of the wires are down and that some places are entirely cut off from the rest of the world.
 Only Atlanta Communication.
 The Southern had the only communca- tion with Atlanta last night They had one wire which was working, and from the little information obtained over that, the city is still in very bad condition. The lights are out, the street cars were not running and travel was practically stopped. Communication was obtained through the railroads alone. The Asso- ciated Press tried in every way to get wire into Atlanta last night, but was unsuccessful.
 
 connections with Meridian and Chatta- nooga, but not north of the latter place. All northern and eastern connections are bad, and Queen and Crescent train No. came in two hours late last night. wait ing for connections at Chattanooga. The Southern from Atlanta, due at 10:O5 o'clock, was an hour late, due to delay in connections.
 The Louisville and Nashville train due at O clock yesterday afternoon was three hours and thirty minutes late, chiefly be- cause of the connections from the north.
 The Postal Telegraph company was un- able last night to get connection with At lanta, Chattanooga, Nashville and Louis vile, but 1t did have connection with Augusta, via Jacksonville, Memphis. Mo- bile, New Orleans and other southern and western cities.
 The Western Union had a great deal of trouble. They had wire to Cincinnati, Montgomery, one to New York via Deca- tur and Chattanooga, and fairly good connection with New Orleans and Mobile.
 The connections with most of the cities where there are wires is very bad indeed, and the wires are working very slowly and inaccurately.
 Land Slides.
 The Seaboard and the Alabama Great southern are practically the only roads that hve suffered on account of the heavy rains in the last two or three days. and from thaw-outs after. the freeze. The Alabama Great Southern had a landslide in the cut at Irondale yesterday morn ing. but it was cleared last night. The trains were handled over the Southern tracks and for that reason there was very little delay due to the slide. There was no fatality as result. An important train had just passed through the cut a few minutes before the slide, but after that all trains were witched over the Southern. The rack was prac- tically cleared last night
 The Seaboard reports that has two