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Show i HIT. TclfryrapljPolesSnap -- 'i!ie Reeds, Some Very Narrow Es-I Es-I capes From the Falling Fall-ing Poles. A nrce, Cutting Wind Traveling at the Rate of Fifty fc1ite3 an Hour. New York City Experiences Her Most Violent Wind and Snow Storm. Nkw York, Jan. 25. A violent wind and snow storm in tlii nit i.-,c night and early this morning proved one of the most disastrous to telegraph, telephone and electric wires that eyer viMted this city. Poles and wires are down all over the city. Many narrow escapes are recorded, and the fire alarm and telephone service wsre rendered nearly useless. A big force of men was put to work repairing as J early as G o'clock this morning. So serious is the condition of affairs that Chief Inspector Byrnes sent out the following instructions to all police cantaiiis ihi Mfivr.,... ..ti.. .5 i. , ' , xuc leconc torm having impaired the fire telegraph tele-graph lines, yos will instruct officers on patrol that wl-.en fires occur, after Bonding in the alarm in the usual manner from the tire alarm box, to go at once to the nearest the engino hoiuo and report." The-city to-night is in darkness, save so far as ga.-dight is concerned. Hv mnph lt.l.ii-c.J t..., : i T. "JCU iiiius come reports of utter prostration of all mean? of communication in and from outlyin towns to New JarsMy. This morning seven huge telegraph i I poies on Fourth aventmwef--,-"'uioff close to the ground,." ' VZll ileal crash into the trssgirger tranri i ork .(ieJLrm'r,KlixtWii tha track and could only be stopped within a few feet of the wreckage. At 2:10, on East Broadway, an immense im-mense tree fell into the strett and narrowly escaped a carload of streetcar street-car passengers. In its doecent it carried down an immense number of wires of every description. All telegraph poles on Seventh avenue from Forty second street to Fifty-ninjh, ..arr .lying flat on the parement. The neavy poles on Fifty-ninth Fifty-ninth street and Eighth avenue suffered the same fata. One of the poles is hanging directly over the entrance parch of tho Roosevelt hospital hospi-tal by wires. At the corner of Fifty-ninth Fifty-ninth street and Ninth avenue the elevated railroad station is partially crushed in by falling poles. At 7 o'clock in the morning a line of im-mensa im-mensa polca 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 75 wires each. On Chambers street an electric wire was carried down by a falling pole and struck two street car horses, killin; one instantly. A number of firas were started by the electric light wires, but extinguished with trifling damage. At 4 o'clock this morning the wind was blowing forty-five to fifty miles an hour. The storm opened in the Gulf of Mexico Friday and increased in Bovcrity until it reached Cape Ilatteras and New York at 10:45 last Hight. The rain changed to snow about midnight and continued until 10 a. m, and nine inches fell. It is thought the blizzard did not extend more than 100 miles inland. in-land. '1 he Western Union is badly crippled, all the wires being down but three, and those are now working in the Western circuit, connecting Albany, Alba-ny, Rochester and Buffalo. The work of repair will take several days. Dozens of men leave to-night to repair the lines. The storm extended over the entire region irom lioston tiirougn the Jotter Eastern States, southern New York, New Jersey, Delaware and south of Maryland. At 8 this morning there were only a few wires running from the Western Union office, and about 9 o'clock they were rendered almost useless. At one time communication to Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, Albany and Boston was entirely en-tirely cut off. The wires to Albany first resumed working. During the day telegraphic aiatter has been sent by train from here to points in New England and New Jersey, to be forwarded. for-warded. IlAituisHURO, Pa., Jan. 2o. The j eastern part of the State was visited by a severe snow storm last night and this morning. Passengers from Philadelphia Phil-adelphia report the storm vary severe there. Great havoc has been done telegraph and telaphowe wires, and telegraphic communication is practc-cally practc-cally suspmded. Jcrsez City, Jan. 25. The storm has made of Jursey City a buried town, as not an effective wire is to be found, either telegraph or telephone, fire alarms or electric light. Except for the submarine cables to New York and Brooklyn, the isolation is complete. The same is true of Iloboken. The Western Union wires are dead on the West Shore Railroad, and the only hope south is said to be. by the New Jersey Central Railroad line. The entire en-tire police and fire force of Jersey City and Iloboken a if, on duty to quell any firo. - us to be inserted in a business chart he proposed to hangup some place In town and which was to be printed or manufactured in some other town. He didn't get it, neither did he pet I enough advertising from among our business men to warrant him in getting get-ting up his fake, we are glad to say. Another snide way of advertising is the hotel register scheme which comes around every few months. The advertising ad-vertising placed therein is just so much money thrown away, but which if expended for newspaper advertising which would be read, would be an investment in-vestment that might possibly bring some returns; but in a hotel regi3tPr j never. Customers do not go there to consult that register to find out who to trade with when they come to town. Show your enterprise and your appreciation appre-ciation of true business principles by advertising iu your, home papers 'and let the fakes alone. Ex. |