Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-30
STORM PASSES By,
CITY Recovering
Wreck of Wires and Broken
Poles Marks Its PATH
Service Crippled
RAILROADS REsuMINe SERVICE
Little Prospect for Immediate Resump-
ton of Complete Telephone and Tel
eoraph Service Street Cars Resume
Operations, But Electric Light Serv-
ice is Still Shut Off.

The storm Of wind, sleet and snow,
which swept over the city Friday do
ins an immense amount of damage.
passed during the night, and clear, but
cold. weather set in this morning. All
during Friday the damage, especially
to wire service of all kinds, kept In
creasing, and today the situation III
this respect gives no promise of being
completely remedied for several days
Wires of all kinds are down in every
direction. Hundreds Of telephones arc
useless all commercial telegraph wires,
with a very few exceptions, are down
and dead, and most of the railroad
wires are broken.
The commercial lighting and power
system of the Marshalltown Light,
Power and Railway company is stu
out Of business, because Of the city
order to shut off all power. Street car
service is being resumed, and by To-
night or Sunday at the latest. the
| city's fire alarm system will again De
in working order.
phone Service Badly Crippled.
I, 1t will be days before the local SEW
/ ice of the Marshall Telephone company
can be placed on the footing 1t was
before the storm broke. The most
| strenuous efforts possible under the
aggravating condition of tangled anu
crossed wires and broken poles is be-
ing made to resume the service of eaca
individual telephone just as fast dis
possible. But there are miles of wire
to be stretched, new poles to| be set
and tangles to be untangled and
crossed wires to be uncrossed before
the renewed service will be- as COM
plete as it has been.
4 AT noon today there was but one toll
\ line working out of the city, and COM
paratively few telegraph lines, but in
some directions the service was i'm
proved. The Western Union still had
/ it's Chicago wire working today, but 1t
/ was the only one that was not out nj
commission.
Lights Still Shut Off.
There is no telling when the city
will allow the Marshalltown Light,
Power and Railway company to turn
on it's commercial lighting and power
currents. AS result the many homes
lof the city which depend on electricity
will probably be in darkness tonight
and also Sunday night. The city does
not intend to allow the electricity to be
turned into these circuits until all dan
ger from crossed telephone wires is
passed.
Candles at a Premium.
If. this condition continues for even
| a few DAYS merchants will reap a har-
vest id the sale of lamps and candles.
The sale of candles Friday afternoon
reached proportions unheard of for
years excepting just before Christmas.
Families who had no other Light but
electricity. borrowed or bought lamps
or candles
Northwestern Hard Hit.
| The Northwestern, whicH usually
escanes more easily from storms than
the other roads, was the hardest hit of
any Friday. 1t managed to operate its
west-bound trains thru the day and
night, altho all Of them were behind
| time, but dts east-bound trains were
greatly delayed, some Of them as much
as eighteen hours.
From early Friday morning until
about 1880 this morning not an east
bound train passed thru the city over
this line. The chief difficulty was miles
of telephone poles in the vicinity Of
Colo and Nevada, which had blown
down across the east-bound track.
None of the trains got by Colo until
this morning, the first one being NO.
| 10. due into this city at l:45' O'CLOCK
Friday afternoon. Others followed in
during the early part of the forenoon.
Wrecks Narrowly Averted.
The conditions in and around Colo
and Nevada were so bad, because OF
there being no wires west at all, that
one bad wreck and a collision were
narrowly averted. No. is, the west
hound fast mail bumped into No. -,
the early morning west-bound local
passenger, near Colo, and had not the
engineer of the fast mail had complete
control of his engine serious wreck
would have resulted. No 8, east bound'
ripped into the end of baggage car
that was on a siding, but no serious
damage resulted
All the wires along the Northwestern
west Of here were down this morning,
and 1t was impossible to reach division
headquarters at Boone. 1t was said that
messages were sent to Boone by the
very roundabout way of st. Luis, Mo.
Central Keeps Train Going.
The Iowa Central, which usually SUI
fers severely in storms, passed thru
Friday with flying colors considering
the severity Of the test the road was
nut to- keep traffic open. But for an
accident all Of the regular passengers
would have been operated over the en-
tire line.
One of the two engines pulling NO.
2 north bound into this city last even
ing, was disabled at Gilman, and II
became so late before the train fnally
managed to get into town That II was
abandoned north Of here. This forced
the abandoning of No. 4. south, as tar
as this oity. The train was made up
here. and sent out a little late Both
of the night passengers got thru a