Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-09-30
|IAsY PERSONS KILLED.
cln Wrecked 10 Tho HsIbOTs and
% The Sea Coast.
,,p,Frs Uttered wiru DEBRIS.
m, r.nnsJisa.ia Railroad nridg''
Al. Largest In the world
Demolished,


s,yANsAn, Ia, Sept. 3d. rhe West
,,tl,o cyclone that swep, over this
nv Yesterday has hardly been squalled
~ intensity and destruction within
q, memory Of those living here. The
vlsd reached tho highest velocity
,.,rly alter ~ o'clock. Tho ineiru'
v,st At the weather bureau registered
a mlls Ter hour, and then went TO
,l,e,a The barometer went TO ESQ.
|nssuld 90 even below the record Of
sMoi 1898, had tho storm continued
lsrgsL
!. The blow was practically over within
iso ani half hour, bat tor ihat TINS
f.gsi with an Intensity hcfei liofo un'
tBoWn. TIN roofs were rolled up
,vsfy . hsfe a. Of Tissue paper There
mus, hAyu been hundred tons Of tin
rolled on OF tho roofs In Savannah.
Bhsks aud wires fell everywhere, and
tuadieds OF roofs were totally dem9I-
hisd. Il Ia impossiolo To enumofaie
ne tuildings unrooied or partially de-
nioJes. Shattered trees covered every
,i,,i aud these with hundreds OF fal.
lsn wires made l,hs streets impossible
" houra Tbs total damage IL esli.
h'su -, "VV'"oV " h'oVV'VVV !"
savannah aud the county.
Iha list OF known fatalities 10 about
ala. ,n N, a.,,h. ,itv rh,,. ha.
,., -,
p"s no way o' 'saon'hs M "A"o
tf4t ihs eoe.i, wnssa ~ u hkslS 'ne
numhrt a hundred. Wallacs
yshn.op. m youue whit. man, was
,,1I,, ,.,,,., ~ a,',m,
''"'s W ns '.''' 49,
'on was kiiieu In mo wreck OF A. o.
B,con's Ia mbor mill. -Four negroes
s.f. Killed In m hous, on Tvellth
,irei: anotb.r pes 40 was klIl.i by a
hlllus tree, CaptnIo x, J, Murphy Of
he tug Turner. was sum- IN Inc river
md dIovped. u. J. Mcclure, Of III.
Plaster oomo.nv. and n
lsgto were drowned on a tug.
DAMAGE 10 sliirs AND bviLDihos
NIw OHLrASs. Bept. MA sreeial
10 lnr Times. ID = u,octst nom Savannah
dated Yesterday tayti A wof,s STORM
lhan that OF Aueu,i. isga. A moi Inn
vof,e in Inc memory OF thns, llylng.
va, At It's height nj 1890 today
business in city was sum ,nded over
DO hour. tho storm b.lny fuIlous fpr
that length OF time. No pots,n dared
10 appear on IA. street. Sisamefs
h,lied and elevators stoppvd running,
electric currents were shut OH. ihrou , n
ioaf or bfeAuse OF bfeakur,. wIndows
and shsdus were blown In ay.ryw h.rs.
vlr,s hurled down. tees fnleed. fence,
llsvn down, houses unroofed and Dor.
Y,.els ssre turned over IN tho IlvsI'
Church steeplos toplle ana Inc .tr,, a
wsie literally sttown W IA debris Of
every lmnginabl, Kind. Psopl, IIy.u
10 dread for an hour In Hayanpsb.
The slout.st bu,I,iia,. Ia ~. 49,.
ifsmbl-d. ThsIs Il the greatest appr,.
TENSION lot NHsrelu Ouk huu Tor small
craft that arc known to have besn In
the blow.
Relatives OF nelson's known 10 be- nj
10, aTe frantic IN tnsir endeAyor 10 10.
csiye news from them early. Thef,
arc ftportA that there a. been loss Of
life In tho city. The Iusg. ms estimated
Will reach $500, OOJ 10 fsDJ. 900.
rhetv was an Indication al ! O'Clock
Of severe wind nnd thai hour the OBJ.
tstver said the win / was over thirty
miles al hour. At 1915 the vslociI,
was sixty-aix miles anu the mir liter.
ally was filled with flying debris. At
that lime tho instflmen,s al The ob.
servers office were blown out OF WORK.
lns Older, tbs barometer at 20. 20. At
1880 II was 2s.g5, anu after that lur.
lhef reports from IL could moi bs as.
cured.
The last report OF tue observer 10.
csly,d from Tibbse was at 1880. The
wind was then blowing forty milea ma
hour there. Sine. then Il mas been
impossible 10 seeure DON nectlon with
The island.
The tramp steeu " nj ~. plant svst.n