Show ONE TRAIN WAS LOST ON THE SANTA FE SYSTEM sleet storm over chicago and does much damage to chicago jan 13 Chi cagos telegraphic communication with tho outer world vach pi was paralyzed by yesterdays sleet storm was slowly being restored to normal condition today the construction departments were busy all last night in the work 0 repairing poles and broken wires emergency cables were pent out by the telegraph companies and were strung along fences in the rural districts two hundred poles in the vicinity of grand crossing were carriell car to the ground and a number ojie tho chicago northwestern farond fI rond com banys western division there was less daniago to lines of the illinois central which left open communication to some points in the tel e graphic service of all roads however was more or less affected considerable inconvenience also way caused to patrons of the long distance telephone service many wires being blown down with alre alarm and police telephone devices practically out of the old watchtower watch tower system used only upon extreme occasions was resorted to all day yesterday and throughout last night firemen were stationed clan er in the towers surmounting station houses or at a vantage point thai would best enable them to detect u blaze in the vicinity in order that the department might respond promptly most of the mail trains chicago ran behind their ducs the heaviest sufferers were the through trains from the north and from the south and southwest only one train however was reported absolutely lost that was the pacific coast train of the santa fo system due in chicago at in iho evening dispatches along the line reported at a late hour that the wires were all down and that they were to locate the through train she is sup posed to be lighting her way blindly toward chicago at reduced speed The steamer iova of thy good put into racine in battered condition but with no serious injury recorded to beat or crew the boat had left chicago saturday night bound for milwaukee and northern points early in the morning she was struck by the heavy seas and buffeted about in a manner that threatened destruction to the steamer tho storm gave employment to many idle men and work to all avail i 1 able extra men on the payrolls of tho telephone telegraph and lighting companies the transportation companies also used extra outside men to somo extent the street cleaning used all of its regular men and those who wore recently laid ok today tho city authorities may give employment to the great army of idle mon now dc pendent upon charity many thousands of dollars will be put into circulation cu as a result of repairing the damage and clearing away the debris |