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"A DIVER WAS SENT TO EXAMINE THE WRECKAGE"
WHEN A CABLE SNARLS
C. L. EDHOLM
By
W
HAT happens when a submarine
cable is dragged
by a ship's anchor is
shown in the accompanying-pho-
tographs; this accident
and one hundred eighty feet of chain
remained entangled in a confusion of
twenty cables. As may be imagined,
the results were disastrous, as seventeen
occurred to the New
York Telephone Company's
connections bet
ween B r o o k 1 y n and
1 o W e r Manhattan. A
steamer, trying to make
its pier, was carried too
far by the swift current
under the Brooklyn
B ridge. Dropping its
anchor, it caught the
cables lying on the bottom
beneath the bridge.
When the captain discovered
his mistake, he
o r d e r e d the anchor
chain cut, so the anchor
This Was the Mess He Found on the Bottom
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