Show at 7 thursday morning a mishap befell tho telephone exchange in salt ijane city the result of contact between a telephone wire and a street railway wire the current waa carried ato the central office burning out lour drops and creating great havoc communication was off from telephones about 80 telephones were burned out in different parts of the town fortunately no fires resulted though in tho central offiel the woodwork was burned only telephones have been in operation today to day it will take several days to make ro pairs tho loss to tho telephone company is heavy and cannot bo estimated |