Show havoc among telegraph wires never before have tho the telegraph and bono bona companies in and about new york experienced uch such complete and absolute havoc anidos an idea of what wrecking of lines was done may be gathered from the fact that out of 1500 2500 running out of the city tho the western union bad had but three wires working mhd rest with the poles that supported them now lie ile beside railroad tracks and across fields and are arc caught in trees postal telegraph company bad had not one wire working from the city while the metropolitan telegraph and telephone company roughly estimated that 2500 of its wires were la laa 2 low the total damage to the companies mentioned li estIma estimated tad at two weeks unceasing effort will be required to get the tho wires back into the condition which existed before the storm broke and torn tore down the poles and wire wires gangs of western union linemen from buffalo rochester Syra syracuse cuso BLU utica are am now at work on the trunk wires running north the albany gang are working south between philadelphia and and between that point and new now brunswick N J the telegraph wires are totally wrecked |