. Electric railway journal . rces ever encountered by that system. Within theCity of Detroit there was little serious damage, and theservice suspensions, although numerous, were not of longduration and were largely due to falling trees and the interurban lines, however, the wind had fullsweep and in addition to the damage and delays throughthe collapse of parts of the overhead system, the condi-tion was made much worse by the pole lines of otherutilities falling across the tracks and breaking throughthe trolley overhead system. All interurban lines were compelled to suspend opera-tion
. Electric railway journal . rces ever encountered by that system. Within theCity of Detroit there was little serious damage, and theservice suspensions, although numerous, were not of longduration and were largely due to falling trees and the interurban lines, however, the wind had fullsweep and in addition to the damage and delays throughthe collapse of parts of the overhead system, the condi-tion was made much worse by the pole lines of otherutilities falling across the tracks and breaking throughthe trolley overhead system. All interurban lines were compelled to suspend opera-tion about 6 on Saturday, Nov. 29. Scores of poleson the Pontiac division were blown over or knockeddown by falling trees. These included trolley poles andpoles bearing wires of the lighting and telephone com-panies. For a stretch of 6 miles the roadway wasstrewn with wreckage. On the Flint division a largenumber of poles were down and at various pointsbroken poles, tangled wires, trees and other wreckagecovered the pictures illustrate a surprisingly clean sweep op trolley poles, w^reckage being cleanedfrom right-of-way and new poles erected. poles belonging to other utilities caused much of the damage 200 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 55, No. 4 The Rapid Ry. v/as hardest hit. On this divisionmore than 200 poles were wrecked. In one long cut thetracks were literally buried under wreckage of poles,wires and trees. In addition to this several bridgeswere weakened by washouts. Many cars on all of the lines were in service at thetime the poles fell and these were caught in the wreck-age. Fortunately no one was injured. The strandedpassengers proceeded on foot, by the aid of passingmotor vehicles and where possible by vehicles furnishedby the railway, to their destinations or the nearesthotel. At the railway offices it was early realized from thereports coming in from all sources that it was a caseof urgent need of men and materials. Extra gangs oftrack men and line
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