The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-15


has one wire through to Detroit, which
is being used as an emergency wire for
the transmission of rush messages.
The Chicago Telephone company re-
ports the greatest damage to it's toll
service. OF the nine wires it has to
Chicago there are only two in opera
ton. The service to Gary is all right
and there is god service to Hobart, but
1t is interrupted to Crown Point.
All of the telephone wires are down
on Indiana boulevard where the sweep
of the wind from the lake caused much
damage. There are four gangs of men
out making repairs. One gang is re-
pairing the wires between Whiting and
Robertsdale another is at work be-
tween Whiting and Burlington, still an
other is at work in the vicinity of Riv-
erda1e and the fourth is at work in the
vicinity of Hegewisch.
Railroads Have Trouble.
The agents at the various railroad
depots report that all of the through
trains are from ons to three hours late
as result of the difficulty in dispatch
ing due to the interrupted telegraphic
service.
Point were down in one part of the
city and last night was spent in dark
ness. The damage is being repaired
this morning.
In East Chicago and Indiana Harbor
the telephone service was badly inter
rupted There were thirty-four wires
down in East Chicago and between
thirty and fourty in Indiana Harbor
|
the storm and for time the Twin CT
| ties were cut off from the outside world
except for toll wire to Hammond. The
Chicago service was entirely inter
rupted.
| Probably the greatest sufferers out
| side of the telegraph and telephone
companies were the traction and inter
urban lines. In Hammond there was
very little interruption of the service.
The cars ran between Hammond and
| Sixty-third street with a fair degree of
regularity. The service was every
| thirty minutes and that is good consid-
ering the trouble that was encountered
| on other lines. The snow sweeper was
kept going all night to prevent the
snow from drifting on the tracks and
blocking the service this morning.
| Street Car Lines blocked.
rhe Hammond. Whiting & East Chi
cago line, from East Chicago to Sixty
| third street, was a great sufferer No
cars ran until o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon and then only an occasional
car ran over the line.
On the branch line of the Chicago,
Lake Shore & South Bend interurban.
between East Chicago and Indiana Har-
| Dor, the service was not established
until 8 o'clock and then there were only
three cars which got through. The
service on the main line of the South
Shore road was fairly good all day. A
little trouble was encountered in the
morning, but that was quickly rem
edied.
The area of greatest damage seems
to be along the shore of lake. Here the
wind came from the lake at a rate OF
forty miles an hour and created a great
deal of damage until its force was
finally broken by the obstruction in
land.
Ice Plays Havoc.
+ The ice caused many freakish things
The Hammond town clock stopped at
lis Sunday morning and has not been
able to get started since Three street
cars jumped the tracks on the Ham
mond- East Chicago run yesterday and
one was off the track this morning. The
sleet blew against the Indiana Harbor
postof1fce door Sunday night and froze
so that the door was effectually closed
1t requires an hours time to thaw 1t
out Sunday and the patrons of the Of
fee had to wait until this was accom-
plished before they got their mail.
The only reminder of the fact that
there has been spring weather all
winter was the presence of little sap
sucker in town. Usually this bird
which is of the woodpecker variety
does not come north until late in the
spring and the fact that one was trying
to exc out living in the cold, wintry
north at this time of year is but an
other proof of the fact that the weather
is the most .freakish that has beer
| known in years.
The wind from the north has piled VI