The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-23
RAILWAYS HARD
HIT BY STORM
No Trains Can Be Run
West Over Katy Until
This Afternoon
FRISCO, IS DETOURING
Local Telephone Service is
Practically Restored but
Long Distance Impaired

Results OF the terrlIlc Wlnu anu
rain storm which swept three states
sunday night were still in evidence,
locally. Monday in impairment OF
both telephone and railway services
which It will be impossible to COM
nletely restore before Tuesday noon.
according TO officials of the COM
,anies. washouts have played havoc
with railway service on both the
KATY and Frisco while during the
dav telephone connections between
tulsa and surrounding towns was
in the main cut off.
with a few exceptions, all local
telephone services which went out
sunday night have been restored.
Telephone workmen were busi;y en-
gagged repairing fallen telephone
poles over the city which were
broken during the heavy wind
storm and by Monday evening most
OF such breaks had been repaired.
Washout on Katy.
Train service on the Katy west OF
Tulsa to Oklahoma City and other
points was made impossible about
ii o'clock Sunday night when the
heavy rains a few miles out of Sand
Springs caused spreading of
tracxs and in some places washed
the rails outS entirely. Officials said
late Monday that the tracks could
not be repaired so service could
continue until Tuesday afternoon at
3 o'clock by the earliest.
In the meantime special trains
are being run by the Katy from Mus
kogee to Tulsa bringing only Tulsa
passengers and returning with pas
a.
southeastern points. Oklahoma City
passengers over the Katy are being
detoured from Muskogee over other
routes.
Frisco Trains Dctoured.
All Tulsa-St. Louis passengers
over the Frisco were being detoured
by the railroad authorities over
other lines as a result of washout
OF railroad bridge across White
oa.; creek, this side of Vinita. Pas
sengers were taking the Frisco to
Claremore where the Frisco was
switched to the Missouri Pacific line
and taken to Wagner. From
Wagner passengers were trans
ferred to the Katy and thence to
Vinita, where the Frisco lines were
used again.
Trains from st. Louis to Tulsa
over the Frisco are taking the re-
versed route, authorities said. The
bridge will not be repaired so serv-
ice can continue for several days, 1t
was thought. Tulsa Oklahoma City
service over the Frisco has not been
interrupted. Santa Fe train service is
also still in operation.
Long distance telephone service on
the Southwestern Bell Telephone
company was entirely out of COM
mission on nearly all of the trunk
lines throughout Monday. telephone
authorities said. The lines probably
will not be repaired so service can
be resumed before noon Tuesday. 1t
was thought.
All Trunk Lines Impaired.
The Tulsa a-Oklahoma City trunk
line, the Tulsa -Muskogee line and
the Tulsa-Wichita service were out
and long distance service with
Sspulpa demolished. Tulsa Kansas
City service was badly crippled.
Considerable damage to the fruit
crop Is expected to result from the
heavy wind and rain storm, It is
thought. Damages estimated at
$500 to $1,000 were done in the
big fruit orchard owned by w. II.
Lenfesty, $40 South Guthrie avenue,
which is located one-half mile south
west OF Turley. OF the 1900 cherry
trees and 500 peach trees. 100 trees
were blown down or so badly dam
aged they will have to be taken up
Lenfesty said.
The great damage to the oat CROP
will result from the heavy wind. ID
the belief of County Farm Agent j
S. Malone. Considerable hail was re.
ported near Turley and fruit trees in
this section especially suffered
Peaches and other fruits were
shaken from the trees in grea,
numbers all over the county. re.
ports indicate.