The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-25
STORM KING IS EARLY.
Makes His Appearance And
Tries To Break Record.
FALL OF RAIN AND SNOW
GENERAL ALL OVER THE STATE
-TELEGRAPH WIRES DOWN.

1t was gracfously becoming of the
storm king to send an abundance of
snow and rain into the mountains and
valleys of Utah earlier than usual af-
ter the awful summer siege. Salt Lake
awOke yesterday morning to gaze fond
iy on snow-capped peaks for the first
time in many months and TO resurrect
barrels OF rusty rain-stic<s- Better
still, the storm endured all over the
state and left its trace in many other
parts of the intermounrain country AS
late as $50 last evening reports from
Tintic and Sanpete, the mountainous
regions, showed that snow was falling
and had been falling pretty steadily
since Z o'clock Sunday evening.
The rain began about s p. m Sunday
in the city and the downpour was
heavy until along towards daylight.
Then it showed, covering the noun
tainS with coat of the beautiful, but
leaving the streets only in a muddy
condition, the snowfall being too slight
to measure, and melting as IL fell The
snow lasted from 8. m to $40 a m,
and then the main body of the storm,
which originated on the Pacific coast
some days ago, passed on TO give the
farmers of western South Dakota and
Nebraska a chance It is doing the
right thing over there now.
After the Record.
Sundays and Mondays precipitation
came very near breaking all records
for twenty-fOur hours for the month
of September. The instruments in the
weather Office show that up to O'Clock
yesterday afternoon 1.27 inches Of rain
had fallen. The greatest fall recorded
for twenty-four hours in the month OF
September was on Sept ! and 2. 1896,
the record, being 1-s4 inches. Sept 30.
1878, there was a precipitation Of LBS
inches. So the storm ending yesterday
morning ranks third. Late in the af-
ternoon rain commenced again and the
probabilities are that before the TWEEN
ty-four hours were up last night it
had made a hard try for second place.
The temperature dropped to freezing,
or 81 degrees, at a m yesterday. the
mercury striving hard. too, to get a
record Only on one occasion has II
been colder in the month of September,
on Sept. %, 1895, when the temperature
was 90 and with that exception the
nearest approach to yesterdays freeze
out was SO degrees. in September, 1888.
AS Governor Roosevelt is not within
100 miles of Salt Lake, the old weather
observers are finding some difficulty in
accounting for the phenomenal situa-
ton. Salt Lake was the coolest point
on the weather chart for this region
yesterday morning, Wyoming not ex-
cepted.
General Over the State.
Reports from the station agents of
the Rio Grande Western and Oregon
Short Line show the condition TO be
general. At Silver City il was showing
hard yesterday afternoon and Eureka
had her portion. Fairview saw plenty
of the beautiful, and all over the Utah
division of the Short Line, which takes
in Cache valley, there was more or less
snow and rain. It means great things
TO the farmers, even though il is late.
Mr.. Murdoch is particularly happy be-
cause il will bring his lake up another
inch or so.
The storm east Of Salt Lake played
havoc with the telegraph wires for
awhile yesterday, and during part of
the day communication was entirely
cut off. However, the line repairers
got to work and before the afternoon
was ended the wires of both the West
ern Union company and the AsSOci-
ated Press were working
Director Murdoch predicts for today
occasional showers and warmer.