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Show WIRES ARE HAMPERED ' BY SEVERE STORK Chicago, Jan. 17 Telegraph wiros from the Missouri river to Buffalo and from the Ohio rier to the Great iAkes wero seriously hampered today. to-day. Fog, sleet and rain disabled manv wires. In Chicago, the temper of the people was put to a severe test when the city suffered tho worst deluge of slush of the season. Four weeks' accumulation of snow was suddenly sud-denly melted by a Jump In the temperature tem-perature and by a steady downpour of warm rain. The streets and sidewalks side-walks became vast pools, In some places a foot deep. Almost the entire en-tire city was covered with from four to six Inches of 'water and In the out Ijing districts the water overflowed the sidewalks and flooded basecuonts. |