The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-01-16
IN STORMS GRASP
Kenosha Has First Real Winter
Storm Of Year on Sunday.
Everything Tied Up i
RAILWAYS FORCED TO QUIT
Telephone Wires Drop Down on Wires
of Kenosha Gas & Electric Com.
pany and Service Is Cut Off
for Fear of Accidents
(From Mondays Daily.)

Kenosha was held fast in the grasp
of the first real storm of the winter on
Sunday, for the snow fell from early
Saturday night until late Sunday night,
! burying the city with drifts and COM
pletely paralyzing business. The streets
of the city swept by the snow on Sun
day were practically deserted, and Sc
veral Of the churches failed to hold SER
vices on account of the storm. The
continued storm of snow and wind play
ed havoc with all of the public service
corporations. The Kenosha Home Tele-
phone Company and the wires through
out the six hundred lines of the com
pany were out of order. Men worked
in the storm Sunday in an effort to re-
pair the damage that had been done
but late last night few of the phones
were in working order and this morning
the condition is even worse than it
had been yesterday. Tt will probably
take several days to get the damage
from the tsorm cleared away and the
phones in working condition again.
The damage done on Sunday was the
greatest that has been sustained by
the telephone company since it's organi-
zation The falling of the telephone
wires not only interfered with the
service Of the company but it made
it impossible for the Kenosha Gas and
Electric Company to utilize it's electric
plant Sunday night and most of the
city was plunged in darkness during
the storm. The lighting company only
has two wires down as result of the
storm but when the current was turned
into the circuits Sunday morning it
was found that the fallen telephone
wires were crossed with those of the
electric light company in many places
and the company decided that it would
be best to cut off the service entirely
The street lights were burning along
Main Street Sunday evening but only
under close guard and the electric
light company had a Waterman on the
street all night to prevent the telephone
wire crossing the electric wires and
causing further trouble. The Electric
Company had force Of men out this
morning inspecting the wires of the
company and just as soon as they are
found to be clear from the telephone
wires the service will be resumed It is
certain that the lights will be burning
this evening.
The storm badly affected the running
Of all trains both on electric and steam
lines. All trains on the Northwestern
and especially those from the North
were off schedule and the storm in the
Northern part of the state was so severe
that it is thought that it will be several
days before the regular schedule can
be resumed. With the electric lines it.
was hopeless fight. The tracks were
covered with great drifts of snow and
the snow plows could do nothing with
these drifts in many places. All traffic
on the Chicago and Milwaukee road
was cut off for more than seven hours
and only two cars came into Kenosha
over the Milwaukee, Racine and Ke-
nosha during the morning and in the
afternoon service on this line was prac-
tlcally abandoned. The cars on the
electric lines are running this morning
but it will probably be some time before
the schedule can be maintained. The.
PKenosha Electric Railway Company had
It's cars running early in the morning
and service was maintained on broken
schedule during the day It should be
said, however, that Superintendent
Russell kept his cars running better
than any of the through lines.