| Show FACILITY communication light and power are crippled louisville ky feb 5 telegraph and telephone service over a wide range of the south was almost completely crippled by heavy sleet today railroad service also suffered and in some towns the lighting and street car facilities were suspended the tie up was most complete in winy years and although the telegraph companies and railroads have large forces of men at vork it may be two or three days before normal conditions resume alio storm which covers with a thick icy boac kentucky tennessee arkansas oklahoma alabama georgia mis sis and louisiana had prevailed intermittently for three days and the wires broke under the accumulated ice service from louisville to nashville memphis and birmingham was little interrupted south of these cities to the gulf only two or three wires were working imperfectly tonight the fall of snow and sleet varying from one to three inches extended as far north as louisville or several hours atlanta and new orleans were cut off from the rest of the country all wires were down from memphis to natchez and new orleans and the telegraph companies sent messages for points to new york and down the coast but even this service as interrupted for a time two hundred poles went down in mississippi in chattanooga ane streets were filled with broken alies the lighting and street car were turned off to avoid further danger to pedestrians and linemen 1 ARIZONA WIRES DOWN phoenix araz feb 5 all wires are down at the alla river bridge on the and phoenix railroad and n c though no definite reports have been n 1 I receiver it is rumored that a hundred feet of the cribbing put in to repair a former break at the bridge has been washed aw ay the company hopes to transfer passengers tomorrow phoenix and eastern train service extends as far as florence only the santa fo train due here early saturday morning will arrive some time this even fag but no thain will depart until monday dornne the cave creek flood and the capital building by a eca of mud |
