Show IN NEW YOEK CITY wires are down and outside communications almost shut off general news YORK jan 26 special the city is partly isolated on account of bryere st orais most ot the telegraph wires are down poles and wires are dow i all over the city many narrow escapes are recorded and the lire alarm and telephone service were rendered nearly useless A big force cf men was put to work repairing A early as G 0 clock thia morning so ia the condition of affair abai chief inspector byrnes sent our me following instructions to all police captains this afternoon the recent having impaired the fire telegraph linsa you will instruct officers on patrol when fires occur after sr in the alarm in the usual manner from alie fire alarm box to go at once to the nearest fire engine house and report last night the city was in dark FO to speak as nothing but the gocr of the gas beis gave bihl to the pedestrians all talf graph poles on seventh avenue from forty second street to fifty ninth are h ing flat on the pavement the heavy poles on bilty ninth street and eighth avenue the same fate one of the hanging directly over the entrance porcu of the hospital by s at the corner ninth fand ninth avenue the elevated bleva ted railroad station i partially crushed in bv falline poles aa 7 in the morning a line of immense poles fell with a crash carrying not less than one hundred and fifty wires and numerous cables two inches thick in which were enclosed from 40 to 65 vires each on chambers ati bot an electric wire was carried down by a falling pole and etrick two street car forsea killius kil liui one ins ant y A number of tires were started by the licht wires but extinguished trifling fling damage |