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Show STREET GAR SERVICE AFFECTEDLY STORM Many Telephone and Electric Elec-tric Light Wires Also Down at Ogden. ?oeciai to The Tribune. OGDEN, Feb. S. The heaviest snow-:ail snow-:ail of the present winter and ono of the ;wavif?t in recent years brought all the nUcotnforts of Interrupted street ear service. Broken telephone wires and crippled crip-pled electric light service to Ogrden residents resi-dents this morning-. Most of the damage n-suitin? from the ten-Inch fall of snow V nad been repaired by this evening-, but the city had not recovered from Its sudden precipitation into a covering- of snow that retarded every form of traffic. Transformed suddenly from light rain hat started falling- before last midnight, the heavy snow continued to fail through he morning- hours and until noon today. TYliile: fully ten Inches of snow fell in this rjtv. perhaps the depth did not exceed eight Inches when the storm had ended. IrTo?den canyon fourteen inches of snow covered the ground this noon1. The failure of the electric current supplied sup-plied to the Ogden, Uoran & Idaho Kail-way Kail-way company by the Utah Power & Light company crippled the street car service during the morning and produced the j-rpatest inconvenience for Ogden citizens. Willi no available current during the rarly morn in? hours, the street railway company could not clear its tracks of snow in preparation for the service at 6 .V clock. of the predicament in which the traction company found itself, General Meaner P. D. Kline said: Our company purchases all of Its power for the operation of the system from the Utah Power & Light company, com-pany, and our inability to operate this norning was caused entirely by the failure of that company to supply us with power. Our company did everything every-thing In its pou-er to get the cars In motion as soon as possible, having- arranged ar-ranged at y o'clock to connect with the Bamberger trolley wire so as to r;rt the service. This method handled the operation until 11 a. m., when the Utah Power & Light company again furnished power, which was on until 1":14 p. m., when it again went off until 12:31 p. m. It was through no fault of the railway company that there was no service early this morning. Duetto the soggy condition of the snow, it clung to wires and trees until breaks resulted from added weight. In many ln-fctanced ln-fctanced the branches of trees crashed to The ground, carrying telephone ajid electric elec-tric service wires with them. Even' available "trouble" man in the emplov of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Tele-graph company, the Utah Light & Railway Rail-way company and the Utah . Power & IJsflit company was on duty early this morning repairing damage. |