Identifier: belltelephone7273mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Manhole and telephone conduit lie above ground after flood washed away a Wilkes-Barre street.
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Northwestern Bell salvages remains of cabledamaged by the Rapid City flood. Compressed air and chemicals wereused to dry sodden electronic componit stories could be told for Washing-ton. D.C. and communities in Vir-ginia, Maryland, and New York. Atthe height of the storms fury Wash-ington had 37,000 telephones out;Virginia,48,000; Maryland,83,000;and New York, 50,000. In Chesapeake and PotomacCompany territory, damage wasmost severe in Maryland. More than30 PBXs were flooded, five commu-nications centers were isolated and26 others were on emergency dieselpower when commercial powerfailed. Twenty-two central officesin Virginia also were on emergencypower and waterlogged cable wasa problem in many locations, par-ticularly in Washington, D.C. New York Telephone Companydamage was concentrated in placeslike Corning, Elmira, Olean, Sala-manca and Wellsville, which borethe brunt of overflowing rivers. InPortville, the telephone central of-fice was completely ruined, but aself-contained Bell

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