Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-03-02
Trees and Telephone Wires For
ced to the Ground With Heavy
Load of Ice
PORTAGE AND KILBOURN
IN SAME PREDLCAMENT
Crew of Men Wednesday Set To
Work Clearing Roads of Dead
and Broken Branches


The most severe storm in years,
the like of which many of the oldest
residents of Baraboo never experien'
ced before, visited Baraboo and vict-
nifty Tuesday night and continued its
reign Of slaughter to trees and cleo
trio wires through Wednesday and
Thursday The city was in almost to-
tai darkness all of Wednesday night.
Folks about the streets were obliged
to carry lanterns and flashlights to
find their way. Great branches of
trees kept falling all day Wednesday
and long into the night. The trees
became so heavily burdenedG with lei
cles. formed from the sleet3 coatings,
that many could not carry the load
and trees gave way. The branches in
turn fell on the electric wires and
forced many of them from their
moOring.
Sections of the Third ward and
Second and Third streets. were prac-
tically the only parts of Baraboo that
had electric current Wednesday
night. The moving picture machines
at the local theaters could not be run
without electricity Many of the busi-
ness houses of the city, equipped
with gas lights put them in use We'd
nesday evening. ~.
A large force of men, under the
auspices of the city, Wednesday
were set to work clearing the roads of
the fallen branches and wires. The
Wisconsin Power Light C Heat com
pany sent crew of six men to aid
the department in repairing the wires
Il In some places in the rural section
the weight of the ice brought down a
telephone pole and this caused others
to snap, one falling after the other
like row of dominoes
5~..%. Like Bombarding
On Wednesday night the town
sounded as if it were being lombard
ed in time of war. Trees were crack
ing and breaking on every hand. It
was dangerous to be on the streets.
Trains were delayed, some of them
for many hours.
Chimney Broken of
The chimney on the residence OF
Mr.. and Mrs. c. M. Ripley, Vine street
was knocked off by a falling limb
from tree.
Big Poles Break
Near the home of L. B. Irish about
one-half mile of American Telephone
and Telegraph poles are down. The
big poles, some of them new ones,
snapped off at the weakest places.
Windows Broken.
Windows " ere broken at the homes
of Maurice S. Deppe and E. Pfann-
stiehl. Part of tree fell on the
home occupied by the Briscoe fami-
lies on Sixth street, breaking a win
dow and doing other damage
Extra Linemen in the Region
Many linemen have come to this
section of Wisconsin in order to get
wires again in normal condition. It
will require not little time
Worse at WyeviIIe
.Arno Mathews, who is with the
Chicago & North western came from
Wyev;lle and reports the conditions
worse in that section of Wisconsin,
Wading Party
The water ran into the cellar at
the home of George w. Winchester
and extinguished the fire in the fur
mace. A man with hip boots was
summoned and the water was found
to be so deep it filed his boots. The
cellar at the home of Charles OFT also
filed. Both reside on Ninth street.
Not A Rural Line Working
On Thursday morning w. S. Hal
sted, manager of the Farmers Mu-
tual Telephone company, reported
not rural line entering Baraboo
was working. He said it would be
some job to make sufficient repairs to
enable the patrons to talk again.
Mr.. Halsted also reported long Sec
tions Of the American Telegraph &
Telephone lines down. New poles
were shipped of like pipe stems.
No Paper issued
The Baraboo Daily News could not
Be isued Thursday on account of no ell
ectric current to run the machines. In
fact the press stopped before the daily
OF Wednesday evening had been en-
tirely printed. Hand power was used
to get the last city carrier ont and
The Republic then kindly printed the
remainder of the edition on Thursday