The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-25
STORM CAUSES
GREAT DAMAGE
Hurricanes Blasts Bring Loss to Og-
den Men.
FREAKS OF PRANKISH WIND
scoWcRoFT WAREHOUSE is UN-
ROOTED.

Not until nearly dawn yesterday did
the windstOrm raging about ogden show
any sign Of abatement With daybreak
came additional evidences of the damage
wrought by the heavy wind, which could
only DC partially estimated during the
darkness of the night
For the first time in the history Of
Telegraph offices in ogden all the wires
were down in all directions ogden was
completely isolated from Geographic
communication with the outside world.
Two accidents were responsible for this.
one was the blowing off Of the roof from
tle ocoWcroit warehouse near the corner
OF lWeHtN-third street and wall avenue,
and the other was the falling Of some
IIeeS IN ElNerJale. The wires of the
francisco. Helena and Salt Lake circuits
All leave the city 10y way OF Twenty
fourth street When the big mass of
sheet iron roofing with pOnderOus Orders
and beams was lifted off the siX-stOTV
warehouse IL sailed westward nearly 400
Feet and settled down where the wires
Tor the north. the west and the south
cohN"rEc- I'm the space of very few
seconds the entire network OF wires was
broken and borne to the ground.
About the same time. by the falling of
some trees across rhe wires i'm RiverdaIc
The wires To the east were severed. The
failing of the warehouse roof was juSt
a. short distance from the main wires of
an" Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone COM
paiN. and that system luckily escaped a
general disaster.
Tho heaviest Individual loss caused by
the storm was probably suffered by the
John Scowcroft & sons company through
The unrootiuE of their Warehouse. This
Dig sheet of riveted metal was caught by
the gale and strip along the eastern
,pst was torn from its boltings- Then
the wind curled and twisted il about as
ihoGEh IL had been paper. rolling it and
bthuiuS n together into more compact
mass Then. as il was slowly raised
from the roof, beams and supports came
with il till the entire coVcrfug~ was; tossed
inTDrgh ia lir Of
nearly 900 feet The mass carried with
~ a ndrt of the west wall down as far as
the fifth story.
Early in tho forenoon brick rnasous
We're put at work relaying the bricks i'm
INC damaged wall aud all arrangements
were made for replacing the damaged
root Business at tho establishment went
on as usual during the day
me RoCky Mountain Boil Telephone
company maintained some of its wires in
service between Ogden and Salt Lake an
night. y large number Of the teIephonps
OF inns system i'm the city were out Of
The independent company had all its
Sail Lake lines down during few
perieuced with the city service ana The
system was in operation early YESTERDAY
from All over the city and county come
reports OF damage done to houses barns
growing crc-s.
The building of Charles HinchcIiff- and
orc on Carl SamueisOn. each on Twenty
ninth street and each i'm course of con
TIuell"h. We're DANA gpd CouSfdsr bIy
IAN p"yle.s new house on Washington
~ n, thu' near Ihirty-secoud street and
rter On1ndcr s.. on Ninth street At tbc
4Iher eNtre.r" Of the CITY were b3dIv
,s,.I.aE'.g - ne roof was blown off the
I'LL -. - NJ; stephens home ON Thirty
e,.llI street during the night and Mr.
'iittulltii~ secured exemption from tIIrv
"IlN yesterday because of this mfshan
ln Burcn Creek fine field nf 1,'I,[..+
helonEiuE to Philip Garner was GastrI 49,
1li 't rs feared that conSfdera BILE vorIuo-
.I'lI mas hecp destroyed. particUIgrIT
s - .,Sht and where The wind had a clean
~ Le DIS windows or Edgar Stones homo
also blown i'm. His barn was pic5aG mr.,