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Show DENVER CUT OFF FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD Wires Down, Fire Alarm System Almost Al-most Destroyed, Six Thousand Telephone Wire Useless. Denver, Colo., March 24 Eight inches of wet, clinging snow, following follow-ing several hours of steady rain, did damage in Denver last night estimated at from $200,000 to 300,000 and cut off all communication with the outside world bo completely that up to a lato hour this evening, It had not been restored. re-stored. Erery wire or the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies, com-panies, very toll line of the telcgrapn company was carried down by the heavy snow along with hundreds of poles, the clty'B Are alarm system was almost destroyed. Fix thousand telephone tele-phone wires in the city wero rendered useless and hundreds of trees in trie parkB and along tho boulevards wero badly damaged. For several - hour this morning atreot car service was at a standstill and thoufionds of people peo-ple plodded to work through the slush. Suburban electric lines wero put out of commiiMslon and trains on all railroads rail-roads wero many hours lato, as tue train dispatchers were helpless. In the vicinity of Seventh and Larimer Lari-mer streets pdles aro down for a aiR-tance aiR-tance of a mile, and the groat mass or telephone, telegraph and electric wires In falling, carried with them part of the Larimer street vianuct and completely blocked railroad and ctreet car traffic. Many small fires were caused by broken and trofised wire. i |
