The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-14
TEE STORM is OVER.
Leaving Denver in a Demoralized
Condition.
STREETS Uttered WITH DEBRIS.
Miraculous Escape of Pedestrians from Fall
ing signs, Bricks, Chimneys and hurch
ples-Commuuication Cut Of.

DENVER, Colo, Oct. 13.-The rain, sleet
and wind storm that began Tuesday night
ended this morning, leaving the city in a
tornup condition. The streets were lit
tered with limbs and trunks OF trees, and
all sorts of debris which before the storm
formed portions of signs, cornices, Chin
neys and even steeples of churches. Had
the weather been a little colder, snow
would have accompanied the storm, and
the chances are that it would have rivailed
the famous New York blizzard in destruc
tiyeness, for the wind at times blew at the
rate of over forty miles per hour. 1t was
only mere chance or the hest of luck, that
the city ie not now mourning the death Of
some of its inhabitants. for enough ma
teriai fell from buildings to
KILL MANY PEDESTRIANS,
the falling signs and brick work, with one
exception, dropped harmlessly On the de-
serted sidewalks. This exception was the
case of q man named jackson, who was
struck on the head by a falling sign and
for time was thought to have been fatally
injured, but who escaped with a slight
fracture of the skull.
The electric light, telephone, telegraph
and electric car trolley wires were all
mixed in the greatest confusion. As the
wind SWING them to and fro they omitted
deadly flashes, which passers-by had diff
Guilty in escaping. Fortunately no human
being was touched by the swing wires, but
three horses being driven at the time were
struck and
SHOCKED TO DEATH
William Andrews, the driver, also received
a severe shock.
The heavy rain filed the cable conduits,
and for time the cara were stopped, to-
gether with the electric cars, which on sew
erai Inca were forced to suspend because
of the breaking Of overhead wires. Celiers
were filled with water and great damage
was done to goods, while the continuous
rain beating on the north side of buildings,
has seriously affected the walls OF some
blocks.
In the suburbs, where the wind and rain
had full away, many small houses were
partially wrecked, aud fences and trees
blown about indsscriminately.
Throughout the middle portion of the
state the severest storm for number OF
years prevailed yesterday. Today all
mountain roads are more or less
blocked, and this morning there
was not q wire ID operation, ana no trains
moving except on the South Park branch
of the Union Pacific. No trains moved
either way last night or this morning on
the mountain division of the Union Pacific.
and the Fort WorJh trains were blocKaded
somewhere, and as most of the wires up TO
nightfsll were still FRUSTRATED, it was
DIFFICULT TO LOCATE THEM.
The Santa Fe and Midland trains, due
here last night, did not arrive until this
evening. The Rock Island was blockaded
between Limon and Colorado Springs, so
no trains can pass that way. but are run
ming over the Union Pacific. Snow plows
operated In the cuts on the divide fifty
miles south of Denver today, and il
was learned there are from three to
seven feet of snow in the cuts. Cripple
Creek reports three feet OF snow there,
and as the miners in that vicinity were en-
tirely uhprepared for the storm, much suf-
ferlng will ensue.
The storm was very violent in eastern
Colorado. telegraph wires being pros trated
over two niles, and communication be-
tween Denver and eastern cities COM
pletely cut off for twenty -four hours.
Wyoming also received part of the storm,
and as the wires between Cheyenne and
this city were FRUSTRATED it is impossible to
get but meager reports. 1t is learned that
the telegraph lines were broken in every
direction from Cheyenne, but are slowly
being restored.