Show STORalS IN THE EAST They Are Both General and Heavy and Cause i Much Damage PITTSBUHO Dec 17 Telegraph telephone tele-phone and electric light wires are down and business is practically suspended On II I the railroads no freight trains were running run-ning and the passenger trains that struggled strug-gled through were late from one to six hours The pecuniary loss resulting from the storm cannot now be estimated but it will necessarily be very large This city being almost the storm center has suffered most severely The monetary damage dam-age is very great All branches of railroads and street car lines which have practically suspended has paralyzed business busi-ness and causing total stoppage of operations opera-tions in the oil and stock exchange Through tho breaking of electric light wires horses have been killed two drivers knocked unconscious and I street car filled with frightened passengers set ablaze in a moment The police switch boards and teiehones have been burned out and as a result outlying police districts are isolated Millions of tons of coal are lying in the backwater away from dams and should a rapid thaw ensue the greatest damage I will be along the rivers Reports from the country districts show I even grater damage owing to lack h fHhin nf hn nnf Hnn D l u v uU VU > u ford Pa two feet of IV Wv are reprted vith a complete blockade of the lumber houses along the Blue and Laurel ridge mountains West Virginia and Eastern Ohio have suffered greatly and the situation situa-tion is gowing worse A sudden flood is the greatest clamity now feared At 1 oclock tonight show was still falling aud has nearly reached two feet A few roofs have been crushed in by wight of snow |