The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29
LOSS ON BUILDINGS.
PRINCIPAL STRUCTURES EITHER
DESTROYED OR INJURED.
Street a Solid Mass of Bricks, Glass,
Lumber, telegraph Poles, Broken
Signs and Wire Netting.

Among buildings destroyed or dam
aged are the following:
| Singer Sewing Machine building, al
most totally wrecked, four people in
jured
The Eden Publishing house building,
unroofed and stock damaged.
The daydock Carriage company S
building, unroofed and stock badly
damaged.
ST. Johns church on Hickory street,
lost steeple.
Liederkranz hall, Chateau avenue
and Thirteenth streets, unroofed and
entire building flooded with water.
Brown Tobacco company, lost top
story.
South wall of nail department of the
st. Louis Wire company wrecked, fire
breaking out and destroying it.
Wind swept UP the river front and
completely demolished the Merchants
elevator.
Engine No 90 of the ST. Louis Trans
fer company, was blown from the track
at Gratiot street.
Nflly Foundry building unroofed.
suffered the same fate.
AT Eighth and Mulfann streets, front
of building occupied by the Allen
Buggy company was blown down, while
that of the Matthews & Sons Bag COM
pany, a block east, was served in like
manner.
The building formerly occupied by
Reilly and Walls sales stables on North
Broadway was considerably damaged.
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occupied by the Kupf.rle Brass COM
pany, Second and Mound streets.
The LOUIS Brook factory at Broad
way and Howard streets was COM
pletely wrecked.
Along Twanty-first street between
Olive and Papin streets.
NOT A SINGLE BUILDING,
telegraph pole. tree or sign escaped.
The streets and sidewalks are almost IL
solid mass of bricks, broken telegraph
poles, tin roofing, water spouts, broken
glass and broken signs, while wires
have fallen in an interminable netting.
At 80 South Twenty-frst street,
where ]. T. Swift & Co.'S fresh meat
establishment is located, not a single
window remains intact, the whole place
being flooded.
Buildings occupied by Epstein & Bun
stein, wholesale loquor dealers at 208
South Broadway, was blown down. Ju-
lius Gall, bookkeeper for Epstein, was
injured.
No 61S Choteau avenue, occupied by
the Sawyer Manufacturing company,
was blown down. Those under the
ruins are Emma c. Henry and Isabella
Howard, Charles Lands is buried in the
ruins of the St. Louis Cracker COM
pany at Eighteenth and Choteau ave-
nue..
A store at 1902 Clark avenue is
wrecked.
Grones brewery at Twenty-second
and Clark avenue is almost totally
wrecked.
A CHURCH TURNED OVER.
The Scandinavian church on the
southeast corner of Twenty-third and
Clark was picked up and turned COM
pletely over.
At the Gales wire mill, Twenty-first
and Gratiot, the scene is indescribable.
An immense portion of the roof of the
building lies high up on the south end
of the bridge, while around is a mass
of wires, piles Of roofing and tons of
other debris.
Mr.. Lippies, who was employed at
the Gales mill, said that four persons
not explain how it happened, that out
of 300 or more boys and men who were
in the building
ONLY FOUR WE'RE HURT.
The old three-story building on the
southeast corner of Main and Pine
streets, occupied by the st. Louis COM
mission company, is a total wreck.
Pine street was filed WITH wrrcnage
and goods to the height of ten feet.
The storm visited the store of Penny
& Gentle's at the corner eff Broadway
and Franklin avenue. The massive
pate glass windows on all sides were
completely demolished and the windows
Of every floor blown in, while the water
deluged the store in torrents. The firm
estimates it's loss at $4,000.
The immunity from loss of life and
injury to employees in the Iron Noun
tain railroad yards is a
LITTLE SHORT OF MARVELLOUS.
The contents of the lumber yards in
the neighborhood were Strewn over the
yards like hail. In some cases switch
targets were broken off by the flying
timbers. Pfanks were driven into the
earth and broken off. Freight cars
were demolished and merchandise scat
tered in all directions
The wind lifted the roof off Charles
H. Pecks new building, to the north of
the wall paper company and blew down
the wall of brick buildings two doors
farther north. 1t almost demolished
the building of William Koenig & Co.,
agents eff Aultman & Co., agricultural
implements. The roof and ceilings of
the first floor were wrecked, and The
occupants of the offices saved their
lives by taking
REFUGE IN THE VAULT.
The buildings of the American Re-
frigerator Transit company at the
Levee and Cedar streets, are badly de-
molished.
The Terminal elevator Riddle and
Main streets, was robbed of the south
end wall on the first floor. The fourth
story and roof of McPheeler's dry
goods warehouse on the Levee, between
Riddle and Carr was blown off.
The front and roof Of Fish & Davis,
three-story brick saw mill machinery
on north Main was wrecked.