Some Charleswood residents will be without power into this evening.

Manitoba Hydro said earlier this afternoon about 1,400 customers had lost power.

A spokesperson says about three quarters of those customers have since had power restored, but the remaining customers won't have power back until about 7:30.

Hydro says high voltage wires are on the ground; the line between two poles was severed in South Charleswood, at Eldridge and Oakdale, but Hydro doesn't yet know how that happened.

The outage is affecting some traffic signals as well.