Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-14
DENVER BADLY TORN UP.
MUCH DAMAGE DONE EY RAIN.
WIND AND SLEET.
The Streets Uttered Up With All Sorts OF
Debris - Railroads Biockaded
and Wires Down In All
Directions.

DENVER, Col, Oct. 13.-The rain, sleet
and wind storm that began Tuesday
night ended tonight, leaving the city in
a torn-up condition. The streets are lit
tered with limbs and trunks of trees, ,and
all sorts of debris, which before the
storm formed portions of roofs, signs,
chimneys, cornices, and even steeples of
churches. Had the weather been q
little colder, snow would have accom-
panied the storm, and the chances are
that it would have rivaled the
famous New York blizzard in dss-
tructiveness, for the wind blew
at the rate of 40 miles an
hour at times. 1t is only by chance
and the best of luck that the city is not
now mourning the death of some inhab-
itants, for enough material fell from
buildings to kill many pedestrians, but
luckily wayfarers were few, and the
falling signs and brick work, with one
exception, dropped harmlessly on the
deserted sidewalks. This exception was
the case of a man named Jackson. Who
was struck on the head by falling
sign, and for time it was thought he
had been fatally injured, but he escaped
with eight fracture of the skull.
Electric light, telephone, telegraph
and electric trolley wires were mixed up
in the greatest confusion, and as the
wind swung them to and fro, they emit
ted deadly flashes which the passers-by
had difficulty in escaping. Fortunately
no human beings were struck by the
swinging wires, but three horses, being
driven at the time, we're struck and
| shocked to death. William Andrews,
the driver, received severe shock.
Heavy rain filled the cable conduits,
| and for a time the cable cars were
stopped, together with the electric cars,
which, on several lines, were forced to
suspend business on account OF the
breaking of overhead wires. Cellars
were filled with water and great damage
was done to goods, while the continuous
rain beating on the north sides of the
building, has seriously affected some
blocks.
In the suburbs, where the rain and
wind had full sway, many small houses
were partially wrecked, and fences, out
houses and trees were blown about in
Discriminatory.
Throughou5 the middle portion of the
state the severest storm for number of
years prevailed yesterday. Today all
| VIC AhouhehiA IoduS WCI0 LuOTc VI icbh
blocked, and this morning there was
not q wire in operation and no
trains moving, except on tha 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 Fort Worth
trains are blocked somewhere, and as
most of the wires up to tonight are still
prostrated, it is difficult to locate them.
Santa Fe trains due last night did not
arrive till this evening. Rock leland
trains are blockaded between Lyman
and Colorado springs, so no trains can
pass that way, but are running over the
Union Pacific.
on the divide, 80 miles south OF Denver,
today, and it is learned there is from
three to seven feet of snow in the cuts
Cripple Creek reports three feet ol
snow there, and, as the miners were en-.
tirely unprepared for the storm, much
suffering will ensue.
The storm was very violent in Eastern
Colorado, telegraph wires being pros
trated for distance OF more than q
miles, and communication with Denver
and the eastern cities being completely
cut off for "a hours.
Wyoming also received part of tn,
storm, and as the wires between Chey
enne and this city are Frustrated, it i
, impossible to get but meagre report
1t is learned that telegraph lines arr
broken in every direction from Chey
| enne, but are being slowly restored.