The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-06
CHAOS LEFT BY THE STORM Baltimore is Almost
 Isolated. WIRE SERVICE IMPAIRED Poles on Ground in All Direc-
 ti0nS. Army of Linemen h at work Regain ing the Damage-Ras1roaa TraMc Has Been serfeusly
 Hampered.

Baltimore. March 5.-Practicaliy iso lated from the outside world. save by flick ering wireless communication and belated trains, Baltimore to-day made every effort to bring order out of chaos
 The storm that brought havoc in its wake gave place to clear sakies and cool. bracing air. A multitude of tel- egraph and telephone wires not only in this city. but for long distance in many directions, lay on the ground. trains ran in anJ out of the city without orders and city trafic was generally impedsd. Gangs of work men throughout the storm worked all day in an effort to secure tempo rary service
 For from thirty to fosty miles in all directions poles and wires lay In mass of tangled wreckage. Miles of poles and wires however, will have to be rebuilt entirely. On the West ern Union route between Baltimore and Havre de Grace. Md, over one thousand poles with about iSo wires went down and approximately the same conditions existed between Bai- timore and Washington.
 The Postal Telegraph and Cable Company is in much the same condi- tion. It brought e large gang of linemen gathered from as far north as Albany. N. r., to work at various points In the affected territory. The long distance telephone service brought linemen, some even from as far away as Vermont and the company expressed hope of having sorue limit ed service by tomorrow. Toward Washington the telephone company company was in the worst shape.
 Many through trains went forward without waiting for connecting trains some of the latter being sent on as specials from the regular connecting points.
 were felt on the Baltimore G Ohfu Railroad line between the Susque- hanna river and Martinsourg. W. Va The company bent every effort to es-. tablish temporary telegraph senvice Ga expedite the trains.
 No confirmation was received of ths report that i've men were frozen to death while travelling afoot from Pa tuxent river to Annapolis
 It is estimated that at least 100 miles of electric wires lie prostrate within the limits of the city as a result of the storm and more than 800 poles are down. The monetary loss is estimated at s250. 900. not including the loss of receipts to the telephone. telegraph. electric power companies and railroads the latter being placed at figures fully as high as those of the former. The bulk of the loss falls on the railroads.
 Thousands of men have been work ing all day In desperate endeavor to re- pair damages. Railroad tracks at Ball. timore from the north are in better condition than those between this city and Washington. The block system wires are down. alth hough block orders to a certain extent are still in effect
 The long distance telephone people report 500 poles down between here and Washington. while between here and HaWre de Gras. about 800 sections of wire are down. Between this city and Harrisburg, scattered wires are broken. but not many poles are down. All the trouble in this direction is south of the Susaueh anna river. The town of Annapolis Is a mass of tam gled electric, telegraph and telephone wires. Communication by rail from this point to Annapolis is almost nor mai.