Show SWAMPED WITH MESSAGES Telegraph Companies Cannot Handle Their Business Oakland Cal Ca April 21 The Oakland of ices flees of the Western Vest rn Union and ana an Postal Po tal Telegraph companies are literally swamped with messages filed by people from rom San Francisco anxious to assure of their safety safet There are more on n hand now than can be sent in a week To lo relieve the strain as much as possible packages of messages are being mailed to nearby offices to be sent by b wire to their destinations It is reported that the Western Union company lost all of its office records dating back to 1869 in the great fire All of f its dynamos d namos instruments and Wheat Wheatstone Wheatstone stone tone machines also were ere destroyed The Postal Telegraph company it is reported succeeded in saving its dynamos and type typewriters typewriters writers but little else of value The Pacific Commercial Cable com corn company company pany got out all alt of its property in time and conveyed it to the ocean beach where the he delicate receiving and sending instruments instruments instruments ments were connected with the shore end of the Pacific cable When Whon Vh n this was ef effected communication was r i with Honolulu Guam Manila and the Orient 5 |