, 1891-12-27
LIVELY WIND STORM.
Cheyenne Churned Up in the Heart
of a Gale.
Pedestrians Have an Interesting
Time of it For Awhile.
Work ForcibIy Stopped on One of
the Big Shop Smokestacks.

1t was a livery day in Cheyenne yester-
terday. Pretty nearly everything porta.
bic was in motion and old Boreas bonn
barded this devoted town to the queens
taste. The wind reached the maximum
Of its velocity between IL and | o'clock IN
the afternoon it had been blowing great
guns for a dozen hours or more previous
to that. The wind humpedi itself in great
shape. 1t struck a seventy miles an hour
clip and the signal service man got gray
headed and let go of his count. Pedes-
TRANS caught in the midst of the storm
vent with it until they could catch on to
something stationary. Ladies caught in
the storm were in many cases helped
along by gentlemen, Governor Barber in
a REFER and SLOUGH hat performing podi-
gies of valor in this direction at the CAPT
tai.
The storm had subsidized at midnight.
The most e~asterly of the two big smoke
stacks at the Union Pacific shops is now
the subject of a good deal of local interest
and concern. The stack is square built
Of brick, resting on the surface on a
foundation OF massive stone, which in
turu rests on q bed of concrete below the
surface of the ground and heavy spiles
driven into the earth. The stack is l25
feet in height and capped with a mass OF
iron weighing about 5000 pounds. 1t is
in reality a compound affair, a stack
within a stack, for the monster chimney
which is to be seen from the outside
encases another similarly built.
During a wind storm about two weeks
ago it was noticed that a crack appeared
in the smokestack. 1t was at a point
about thirty two feet from the top and
apparently extended all the way around.
| Since then the oscillation of the stack has
been watched with much interest. In
case the stack should topple the apparently
natural place for it to fall is on the boiler
house. This would crush in the roof of
that building. explode the massive boilers
and probably result 10 the death of some
of the workmen. 1t was for this reason
l1ht SUCH u ketH lulcIest WAS ielb III tue
affair and measures were promptly taken
10 remedy the cause of threatened danger.
j. G. Leary aud a force of men were
set to work under the direction of an en-.
engineer. to erect a scaffolding. They
raised this about seventy feet and tn,
work was progressing swimmiuEly whe,
another blizzard struck the town and it wa
found impossible to continue tho labor a
at such an insecure elevation. The wind
storm of Yesterday was the worst that has
been experienced here for number of
years. The wind blew a regular gale, the
velocity being more than seventy miles an
hour. Most OF the work done at the
stack was in lashIng down the scaffoldinR
and even this had to be stopped. One
brick was worked out OF the northwest
corner, and about a score out of the
southwest corner, falling through the
~scatfolding with such velocity that por
tons of it were smashed. These breaks
are now very apparent to the naked eye,
even at a considerable distance. As soon
as the wind will permit the work of erect
ing the s%caffOldiug will be prosecuted with
the greatest possible vigor. The hope
now is that the interior stack is unInjured
and may be able to bear the brunt of the
weight until such time as the outer stack
is repaired.