TELEGRAPHIC INTERRUPTION
ACCUMULATION' OF TEUU : GRAMS. e «j The local telegraph office has been advised from America, that cables and other business. for Sin . Francisco are ; being mailed to; Oakland from Portland. '-; There are no wires at all leading into ''Frisco, and aU matter for &_; destroyed town is being forwarded by>the huge, ferries.acroisthe from Oakiandl, Portland,.; whence the ; telegrams , and cables I are being despatched, is in the north-west of the States, and is nearly three(• days' ! train journey from Oakland. Tt is not I suggested that the wires are destroyed I between'the/ two"places, but intermediatestations will probably be working at :-■'.- breaking . strain to accommodate their, own" message's.' --•■;;•,-' '•■"" : On Saturday no less than ten thou;. sand telegrams;,, were awaiting-'.despateh. to SanFranciscd, 8000 at Chicago,., and i2OOO at Seattle j probably by this 1 time j the number will be increased ,to fifteen thousand* messages. The' cable office is advised that 'there is "indefinite delay" bn.-all'messages'to'Sah.Francisco. .:.'■ *y
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 96, 23 April 1906, Page 5
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