The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-29
the north and directly on the river bank
BELT LINE WAREHOUSE.

BELT LINE WAREHOUSE.
big new brick structive. This was RACED
to the ground. The three upper stories
OF elevators were blown off and scattered
for blocks. Directly across the tracks
from the Belt line warehouse were the
sandana general office and freight houses.
OF the general offices scarcely one brick
is left on top of another, While OF the
freight houses nothing remains but a
pile of kindling wood. Not more than two
or three of the employees escaped, the
remainder being crushed to death. The
path of the storm thence to the relay
station is marked by an unbroken line OF
overturned freight cars, telegraph poles
and rootiess houses. The car tracks are
utterly impossible and it will be days
before anything approaching order can
be effected. Whole trains of freight cars
were lifted from the tracks and twisted
in every direction Some times the trucks
had remained on the tracks, the bodies OF
the cars being lifted bodily off and hurled
indiscriminately about for rods. To the
right of the bridge, where the bridge troll
ley cars met the local street cars formerly
stood long. row of frame houses. OF
these scarcely the wreckage remains.
Right here several of the
VAGARIES OF THE STORM
We're made evident. In one of the houses
lived John Mckenzie, an employee of the
st. Louis & East st. Louis street railway,
his wife and four children When the
storm struck their home, the mother was
preparing supper anu with ner IN the
room were all her children. The entire
house was raised from the floor and
hurled twenty feet to one side, leaving
the frightened mother and her little ones
standing uninjured, with the exception of
few minor bruises, but the children had
their clothing torn from them.
Across the road, Mrs Patrick Dean and
her two children, aged and years re-
sspectively, were all killed when their
house fell in on them. o. G. Van Houten
an employee of the st. Louis g. East ST.
Louis electric railway, was an eye wit
ness TO the destruction of the Vandalia
general offices.
Up town in the business portion of the
city the scene is one of desolation. Mis-
souri, avenue for two or three blocks on
either side of where once stood the relay
station is hlled with debris. The storm
seems to have jumped little west of that
vicinity and struck the ground again at
the depot. Trudell and Anderson's Of
nee John Drury's big ice house and Of
nce charles HaZelS flour MILL NemaS
and Reymand's office, the court house,
police station and dozen or more
dwellings, were destroyed. Further east
IN Collinsville avenue, Stricklers grocery
tened out. An undertaking shop right
across the street near was not touched
In fact, there is hardly a building re-
manned in the vicinity of the relay depot
with the exception of the swith tower
about hundred feet west. That, by
some
STRANGE FREAK OF THE STORM,
was left almost intact, though directly
in the path of the storm. Almost at its
base We're a dozen or more heavily load
ed freight cars overturned and splinter
ed, What little is left of the Hazel Flour
mill was destroyed by fire after the cy
clone got through with it.
From Missouri avenue east to the
stock yards the storm seemed to shift
along the ground, dropping here and
there and destroying whatever it came in
contact with. At the stock yards again
was the destruction heavy
The National hotel was completely
wrecked, the whole front being blown in
as were half of the side walls. The new
sale sheds were almost totally wrecked
and a trolley car passing at that time
was picked up and thrown to one side
of the road, the motorman and conductor
both being seriously injured.