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Show I1 FAIR WEATHER FOLLOWSJTORM Transportation and Wire Ser- vice Being Rapidly Restored Throughout the East. LOST TRAINS ARE FOUND I Linemen Gathering Up Tan-( Tan-( gled Wires 800 Miles Still Down and 1000 Poles. New York, N. Y., March 4. Fair weather and thousands of snow shov ' elers combined today to bring about almost normal conditions of transpor-j tation and wire communication between be-tween New York and the rest of. the country. Railroads whose telegraphic servici waB stopped reported all wires were being restored rapidly and regular trains were being resumed, Practically all ol the lost trains on the Jersey Central, the Pennsylvania ; and New York Central lines had been , found early today. In New Jersey, t Avhere Saturday and Sunday's storm ' did the most damage, large forces o linemen began gathering up the tangled tan-gled telegraph and telephone wireB, more than S00 miles of which were still down, together with 3 000 poles. Milk trains, which bring in tlv; larger part of the milk consumed in the city, began running on slightly ; delayed schedules and perishable K freight long delayed in drifts is being be-ing rushed to markets here, fi As an indication of the isolation of 1 certain New York state points during i the recent storm, it remained for n ; resident of Port Jcrvis. reaching here i today, to give first new ot a uau r freight wreck on the Ontario & ' 1 Western railroad there at noon yes-1 yes-1 terday. Fourteen persons were seriously -In-; 1 jured and property worth ?100,000 de-' de-' ' stroyed. Steamer Frozen In Ice. ? ! Lewisburg. N. S., March 4. Frozen ; in an ice pack and drifting at the 1 I mercy of the ocean current of the i southern coast of Cape Breton, out ot ; coal and water and short of provi sions, is the predicament of the steam- Ier C. D, Easlngton, long overdue at thicv port. News to this effect reached here early today, along with the report of the "rescue of First Officer Sabourn and.hreC.of the steamer's crew. |