The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-09
SALT LAKE HIT
BY 4 HURRICANE
Hundreds of Trees Leveled
by WindStOrm.
ELECTRIC WIRES DOWN;
STREET CARS BLOCKED
Portion Of City Was Left in
Darkness.

SalL Lake was visited early last even
ing by a windstorm the most severe in
many years, one that wrought much
damage to trees, fences. electric lights,
street car and telephone wires. The
path of thes torn seemed to be through
the eastern part of the city. and the
damage was the greatest from Brig
nam street north and between l. and
n streets. That part of the city pre-
scented q picture of desOIatiOn after the
storm passed over. especially as the
electric lights We're out in the streets
and pitch darkness reigued i'm many
places. To add TO the confusion, the
Third street car line was blocked for
several hours.
Shade Trees Leveled.
The havoc among the shade and or
ndmental trees was worst on Brigham
street. and there Thomas Weir. David
Keith, b. A. Mcmillan. O. a. Palmer
and William +. Smrdley were the chief
sufferers. 1t seemed that i'm each ease
the best and most prominent trees We're
singled out for destruction and. as they
were thrown with great violence across
/ the lawns, they carried destruction 10
much other shrubDery- One tree thrown
/ down in front of the residence of Mr..
Smedley, giant box elder, planted, no
doubt. by one OF the pioneers, tore up =
whole section of the cement pavement
and came down with a crash that could
be heard for blocks. Mr.. Smedley stated
/ that he would not have lost this mag
nificent tree for $500. The ground on
! all sides in this part of the city was
/ literally covered with the branches of
/ trees torn off by the force OF the wind.
One Of the large Brigham street cars
/ was just crossing Twelfth East as the
/ storm broke, and the street car men
/ think that the only thing that saved
/ 1t from being overturned was the fact
that all the windows were open At
/ thiS point the storm seemed to come
/ direct from the south, but all the trees
/ were thrown in a nOTthWesteTly direc-
$tiOn- At the corner of Brigham and
Ninth East a fine old poplar was
/ thrown across the track, but in ten
/ minutes 1t was removed, the damage
1 was reCtidedsand the cars running. on
/ Third street there were a number OF
/ trees thrown across the street between
/ + and j a number of poles were also
thrown down, the wires we're broken
and cars were stopped till near mid
night.
Electric Wires Down.
The greatest danger arose from the
fact that "a number OF electric light
/ wires were knocked down in different
places north of Brigham and east of
Main street. As quickly as possible the
Utah Light q Power company cut off
/ threw it into darkness In the extreme
northeastern part of the city the light
was cut OF from the houses also. North
Main street was cut out, as was also
a section near Fifth and Sixth East
I and Third South. This was done to
save pedestrians from touching live
wires. All hands at the light com
pany's establishment were ordered out
to repair the damages wherever posi-
bic, and to warn people ageinst wires
that were down. Thanks TO this pre-
caution, no accident of any kind was
reported, but the work Of repair on the
light wires in most cases IS still to be
done
The telephone wires were badly out
OF order in many directions all even
ing, but no serious damages were re-
ported superintendent Jackson of the
southern Utah last evening. said that
the storm was quite general. and that
he found the wind blowing hercely all
through Sanpete and Sewer counties
The worst blow was just after
o'clock in the evening. The high wind
came up from the south with but little
warning. hats went flying through the
air. houses were filed with dust, and a
person could easily have imagined
himself in Kansas or Nebraska. The
high wind lasted but for a short time
but there were gusts all evening long,
and many nervous people looked for
still more serious damages than those
recorded above.
The only accident of a serious nature
happened at the corner Of B and
Fourth streets. John Browning, a
Young boy the son OF Mrs Jennie T.
!. Browning. was in a cherry tree at the
time the storm came up. and before
he could descend he was thrown 20
the ground with such force as to break
his arm.