TOLEDO
BLADE, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1893.
Disaster has established its fortress at the corner of St.
Clair and Monroe. Telegraph poles ripped and broken, a tangled mass of wires
whose twisted and broken end are turned in all directions, a broad litter of
bricks and mortar over the streets and sidewalks, little rivers of water
turning all the surrounding territory into mud, all these are the evidences of
last night’s terrible havoc. It looks as if a furious storm of lightning, wind
and rain had swept the corner.
No cars are running on Monroe street. No telephone messages
can be carried over the wires of that district. The Consolidated, Robisons,
Western Union and Telephone companies have put all their wire men at work, but
it will be impossible to repair the damages so that cars can run before
to-morrow afternoon.
Great crowds of people are swarming about the corner and
crowding against the ropes stretched to
keep them from the ruins. Long heavy poles are stretched along the street ready
to take the place of the ruined ones.
Police are pacing pompously about rapping the heads of
curious small boys who crowd too close. The length of Monroe street is dotted
into people walking to and from town.