Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-08-23
Storm Of Last Night and Yssler'
day AfteraoOn Cause Him to
Wear Expansive Smile.
PLAYED HAVOC WITH THINGS
Street Cars Collide and Transformers
Are Burned Out BY Light
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The hot spell was broken for a time
last night by the series of thunder
showers predicted by the local weather
bureau, and COL Ludholz the obser-
yer I'm charge is IN consequence wear
ing d laurel wreath above his ample
hrsutc aurcola I'm token Of apprecIa-
ton from long suffering public,
while mctarhorical boquets are being
fred into the weather office as fast
as imaginary messenger boys can car
ry them.
The first shower struck the town
out of a comparatively clear sky early
in the afternoon, the favored section
being restricted TO this city and its
immediate vicinity The mercury IN
celebration of this,mmcdiately dropped
from 40 degrees To- less than 20, but
hurried upstairs again TO regain lost
ground after the shower was over and
hung to SO degrees, Showers fell in
tprmittently most OF the afternoon the
wind rising to a velocity Of 36 miles
about p. IN. The heated atmosphere
was given O. fair rinsing out and the
dust was settled The afternoons pre-
cipitatlon was .O6 OF an inch,
Immense masses Of black clouds
banked up In the northwest sky early
in the evening and later the rains
descended and the floods came with
roaring wind, and % of an inch OF
rain fell The lightning WAS incessant
and the thunder equally go. and con-
siderable confusion was occasloned In
electric lIsht circles In consequence
A uolly wire at Second South ana West
Temple streets went down with a
fash but II was speedily quarantiued,
ana the hurry-up wagon Of the street
railway was presently on the spot TO
repair damages. Lightning struck the
wire operating the fans at the crystal
cafe ON south Main street and tore
one of them TO pieces, scattering the
debris an over the place with noise
like the discharge Of q Calling can
non. A arausformer at the Fourth
West street plant Of the Light & Rail-
way company was burned out by
lightning. which cut off the
lights from section OF the city
for short time until other
connections could be made and stopped
the running OF street cars on several
lines,
SlIkEEl lAlNo ADl4lsllJA'
A sixth street car running on the
Calders Park line was COasting down
the grade on Third South street, vest
bound, with W. s. Ferris. an extra, at
the helm The lights We're all out IN
that part OF the city for time, on ac-
count OF the burning of the transformer
at the Fourth West street station, and
the rain was beating i'm heavily from
theh northwest Ferris meant all right
but he didn't know that there was a
stalled car ahead Of him on the same
track for he cars had no lights, the
windows OF the vesubuie were wet, and
his car was running on a gravity mo-
mentum Presently there WAS a col
lision and a crash, as the coasting car
banged into the other smashing the
formers vestibule, and decorating Fer
ris with broken glass. Fortunately no
one was hurt TO speak OF, and when the
lights and order were restored. the
wrecked car was hauled to the barn.
Supt Reed Is investigating the accl-
dent. The loss to the company by the
destruction Of the transformer Is from
$500 20 81 000
Lightning struck a tree IN front
Of 232 east Seventh South street, and
set II on fire, but the flames were
quenched by the fire department.
Today has opened promising as to a
renewal Of the heated spell but the
weather office looks for more showers.
--- 60
Jim Bush, salt Lake city challenges
any ogden swimmer to swim at SaltaiV
sept ith for 800. ADDRESS, Gen De-
| livery.