Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-04-13
SEVERE BLIZZARD.
CrlDpIs Creek District Visited By a
Destructive S 0lm.
LIVES LOST IN TIE MILLS.
Hundreds Of pro,prclor' Tents blown
Away- Great DnmBge to
Property.

prNvEn, Col, April ia special
q, the News iiom Cripple Creek, Cola
.,yG The Cripple CreeR district WIS.,
visited by the ssvorc't and most de-
.tuu,lve bl'zsUi ever known today.
An immense amount u damage has
rsen done, aud In all probability some
lives have becu lost In the hills, fu'
uefs to that effect being ia circulation
and general fear IL entertained for tue
prospecton. A light snow started 10
Al n last night, AMI about Q this MORN
Ing the storm removed and the ygloci'
~ OF the wind. whiou was ifom the
northeast, Increased atd continued 10
blow at tue ratio Uf sixty miles an hour
All day. a acItc VI more % buildings
in this city were blown down, and
tsnts, sign8 aud loose lumber were
scattefoI over town. Al the telephone
wires out OF the camp are down aud
up trains arrived or departed this niici'
AtI0:3O the Cripple Crock commls-
sion tufog.Btufy building ON Carr
avenue, near the Midland depot, Tell
with a crash, aud 10 caught Ire ifum
ma overturned stove nud wal CON.
uletply destroyed. The bullIing T.
isolnttd, which prevented general
cJrfagratlOn.
me Boston caio building nj Carr and
aecot Il was partially wrecked.
A large rDumiug house on warren
avenue was blown down about nom
and several occupants were / iurru.
The city IL iu darkness us all the
electric light wires are down. Con-.
municatiun IL cut on with all outsitu
ppi,is, with the exception OF ono toio.
graph wire.
Many store fronts have been blown
in, aud come 0f the husiuuHs b0u ~, a.
well ne trHiueECes, viii need repairing.
la the hills hundreds oi prospU'tOt' live
lu tents, Guu tue aIuIJutv % these
we're blown away. Ino damage 10
property throughout the camp viii not
'all short 90 100000.
The l:gO Pun. train over the Flor.
cue. d Gupplu Creek road was stalled
between here add Anaconda. Onu Of
the sutuTban trains from Victor d.
stuck in the snow bt ElEtou.
On the Midland TERMINAL two pas
ssnget trains ate biockndud at Gilleti.
A dUzen buildings or more were
blown down at Ghlsti, aud n humber
ut Alamau, GJld Field and Victor
shaft houses anu surface Improvements
OIL over tho distric. were badly dam.
aged.
Al Palmer Lake one OF the worst
Hnuwstorms that has ever visited the
town VA the memory Of the oldest iu-
habitnut started about 1880 last even
ing aud hus been raging iuti0usiy ever
since. Tbs wind blow brvuuiy.ivo
miles an hour. The dfi'ts are from six
to twelve feet deep. Pvdesirianism l.
lmpos-iu.u ana the storm shows no
rign VI abatement. The trains In both
directions ate delayed between this
place aud Colorado Springs.
TnE WORST sroEn ESOwN.
DFNvEu, Apul IA special to The
Re- uuIiyau from Ration, n. NJ, says
The worst storm ever knoHn Ia hi.
vicinity srt VA ub al o'clock this
morning. 10 continued until . O'Clock
tonight, win the wind blowing at a
fearful rate all the time, All the north.
bound tfhius ON the Santa Fo are tied
up, ~ lhr apr acura ~ the Ration
NhNNNN w NNNN N'AhN 20 Wv ANNNNN nv
driltrd fun Of snow Ter distance Of
several hundred ee'. Under the most
favorable circumstances II Will prUb'
ably BE- more than twUnty.iour hour
before any tThinB can move over tlt
Ration mountains,
COLORADO CIly, Tex, April IA
cyclone OF limited dimensions but ter
rife force struck a portion OF tue city
at nipht at O'Clock, doiug consider
HUls dAmsge 10 property anu resulting
IN the death OF JamuF, the twelve year
old son VI J. NJ. Solomon. The siOrn
struck tie four room building occupied
by tho family, aud the house Wa
literally splinteTod. Mr. Solomon, viii
ana i've chilIten had retired, ami it /
remarkable that any Of them ESQ pee
alive. james, the oldest Hon, wa
struck on ms head ~ ABORTION OF Ia
tlmDers, anu his skull 'rnolufuu, result
ing In death. Ho was under Ia