The region around St. Louis suffered the maximum effects of the Great December storm of the early 1920s. Trains were forced to stop running because there were no signals to guide them and the tracks were littered with ice-covered debris. More than 5,000 passengers were stranded in the St. Louis Union Station for forty-eight hours. The telephone companies had an especially serious problem on their hands in this case, because the storm-stricken belt lay straight across the transcontinental system of communications, which was, momentarily, severed during the disaster.
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