Show PUT OUT Of COMMISSION i Telegraph Service All Over the Country Delayed by Electrical Electrical Electrical cal Disturbance GREAT FUSES BLOWN OUT EARTH CURRENT BETWEEN CIN GIN CINCINNATI CINCINNATI AND ST LOUIS USED Chicago Sept 26 Violent electrical earth carth currents believed to emanate from the aurora borealis today disturbed the thet telegraph t service over the entire coun country country country try and for a time stilled the ticking of the instruments in the offices of the I IrEat treat rEat telegraph companies While the drift of the currents no noticeable noticeable in cities from San Francisco S attle attie Omaha through Chicago Si Cleveland and Pittsburg to New York Yorki i was apparently to the east its strength was vas as little more pronounced in one sec section section section tion of the country than another The currents were first felt about I Io Ii 5 Iio o lock in the morning and Increased In intensity for tor two hours reaching the heaviest wave at a m when all ali alithe aUthe the telegraph activities were at a standstill Fuses Blown Out The force of the disturbing currents was so great fuses fU were blown out anc and resistance lamps lighted up brilliantly Shortly after 7 the currents began to subside sub and intermittent ser serice serice ice nce was resumed The condition at 9 was as fast becoming normal Professor David Cuthbertson in charge harge of the local weather bureau declared de declared dared that the phenomena was due to the aurora borealis which he said al aliv alays alays iv ays accompanied a high pressure in atmospheric conditions The center of he the the magnetic storm the weather bu hu hurt burt rt an au declares is in Manitoba No weather leather reports hays have been received to toay ay from north of ot Nebraska Electrical Elet Storm New York Sept k pt 25 For nearly three hours today the telegraph telephone and md cable service of ot the western por portion portion portion tion of the United States was inter by a severe electrical storm w generally accompanies a display c cf f the aurora borealis The disturbance was first manifested at Elt of New York at a m tem temI I preventing the operation of most of the cables and telegraph wires The magnetic influences moved rapidly and disappeared so 80 that by 9 40 a m communication was again c E During the height of the electrical I disturbance the measuring instruments i ill im i the telegraph offices in this city registered re registered ref f the presence on the wires of i upwards of volts of electricity from froman an nn unknown disturbance The disturb disturbance disturbance disturbance ance continued intermittently through f ut the day Tl The Th e principal trouble was with ith the cable lines Due to Earth Currents Cincinnati Sept 25 Telegraph busl busi nr n ss s in Cincinnati today was seriously serious hampered by peculiar earth currents In the Western estern Union offices an ex experiment experiment experiment was conducted by shutting off oft i hr tw batteries and working a single wire Ire b t t tween een Cincinnati and St Louis by the power of this earth current The I plan lan worked all right as long Jong as the earth current lasted la ted but it was not fc for general work as the current cur rent was too unsteady Europe Affected London Sept 85 The whole tele tete telegraphic graphic system of the United Kingdom and all cable services are seriously af affected by the magnetic storm ex experienced experIenced here soon after noon today The underground wires suffered more than the overhead wires the telephone telephones s system being little affected The last occasion on which the wires were sim similarly similarly put out of working order here way was a 5 six years ago The trouble Is at attributed attributed attributed by cable experts to the aurora borealis |