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Show GREAT STORM SWEEPS EAST 1 : Extraordinary Snowfall, Wires Down, Train Service Demoralized, Demor-alized, Trolley Cars Stalled Pittsburg Pa Nov 10. Still iu the grasp of a bllzzatd that for twenty- jfl four hours has almost entirely cut off the outside world. Pittsburg todav is floundering through almost a foot of snow and making every effort to repair re-pair the thousands of dollars of damage dam-age and restore lines of communication communica-tion and transportation. H All suburb communities are cut off from telephone communication and ibis crippled condition extend.. H through West Virginia, down tho Oh'i valley and into the eastern part of This morning there was only one IS lame Western Union wire west to 'I Chicago and one east as far as AI- H toona. The Postal Telegraph company had nothing It could depend on to remain standing, and all business waa taken subject to delay. H Throughout the city this morning, in almost every direction wis a vlst.i of fallen trees, stalled trolley cars and JH a picturesque enfnnKlemcnt of broken telpgraph and telephone wires covered with snow and Ice Every available lineman of both S telegraph and telephone companies is I being pushed to his endurance to re-BtQre re-BtQre normal conditions but represen tatUes of the companies say it wiil be days before they will recover from H the storm effects. U New York. N. Y.. Nov. 10. Trains j from the west were from one lo seven hours late In reaching New York to- ij M day The Twentieth Century Limited! Limit-ed! due at 9.40 a m. was posted to arrive at between 3:40 and 4 40 p. m B Oilier New York Central trains were r not so seriously delayed. J eleizraph and telephone companies f reported today that the center of wire H demoralization was in and about I Cleveland. I( ONLY ONE WIRE WORKING M New Yorl' Nov 10. Mess-ages for Chicago were sent via Atlantic, Mem- phis and St. Louis over three wires (n place of thirty-six which normal- i Iv connect It with New York. There was only one wire between New g York and Chicago. Western Union officials said the trouble was prin- Clpally due to tho blowing dowu of poles. Practically all Pennsylvania rati- j-road j-road trains duo from the west were chalked up from one to seven hours ssdfl late. 1 |