The San Francisco call., 1906-10-22
De vAsTATES
WIDE AREA.
Sweeps Through the Rocky
Mountains, Leaving Death
and Destruction in Wake
ARE PERISHING

SAIL LAKE. CITY, OCT. zl.-For the
last twenty-four hours this city and
vicinity has been swept by a wind
storm of unparalleled severity In ad-
dition to three serious accidents to
persons, property has been devastated
over a wide area. fire famed by the
wind has obliterated the new plant of
the Utah Packing Company and a mon
etary loss of approximately quarter
of million dollars is entailed. During
the full period of the storm trains have
arrived irregularly or not at all. For
much of the time the street car serv-
ice has been at standstill and the
electric lighting plants are out of COM
mission.
The burning of the Utah packing
plant north of the city, which occurred
last night, is the most serious single
loss The building had just been com.
pleted at a cost of $780, ,000y and was to
have been put in use in a few days.
The project was inaugurated by West.
ern cattlemen and was in opposition to
the large packing houses of the East.
The cause of the fire has not been as
certained- Only small traction of the
loss is covered by insurance.
WRECkAGE EVERYWHERE.
Ruined buildings, fallen ..himneys,
broken windows, loosened signs and
toppled trees throughout this and ad-
joining towns are the most common
souvenirs of the storm and aggregate
an immense loss. The wind attained a
maximum velocity of fifty-two miles
an hour at 9 o'clock Saturday night and
between and o'clock Sunday morn
ing. For hours it maintained an aver
age speed of thirty-eight miles.
the greatest sufferers from the storm
were Captain William G. Cahoon and
Driver Fred Gulbranson of the Fire
Department. They were caught under
2 falling tree as they were driving to
a fire. Cahoon had both legs broken
and Gulbranson was injured internally.
Both are in a hospital.
A beautiful mosaic window, which
cost $4,000, in the new Presbyterian
Church, was broken to bits: the Grand
Restaurant on South Second street was
demolished; the Belmont Hotel was un-
roofed- A freight car in a Short Line
train coming from Ogden was lifted
bodily from the tracks
The. only mail received today was
from Los Angeles over the San Pedro.
Los Angeles and Salt Lake line The
only telegraph wires available tonight
are two to Denver along the Rio
Grande Western and pne to Los An
geles. The city was dependent last
night upon a single copper strand to
Denver for outside communication.
The wind is blowing tonight, but with
its violence diminished.
MAN DIES IN STORM.
OGDEN. Utah. Oct 21.-One man was
killed and 100000 in property was
destroyed by a windstorm that swept
over this section last night and today.
William NJ. Gibbs, while laboring to
save his barn from destruction was
struck by flying plank and killed
TIa Cot 10 Oh, L.
many thousand dollars and other large
buildings have suffered. Trains be-
tween Ogden and Salt Lake have been
stalled since early last night
DENVER, Oct 21.-A general storm
prevailed along the eastern slope of
the Rocky Mountains from Wyoming
to New Mexico today Snow has been
falling in Colorado almost necessarily
for the last twenty-four hours and still
continues tonight. Suburban electric
lines have been operated with difficulty
and railroads have experienced delay
in the running of trains. AS yet no
serious results are reported in this
section, but from Albuquerque, N. NJ,
comes a report OF considerable prop
erty damage there from high winds.
The sudden dropping of the tempera-
ture, accompanied by blizzard condi-
tions in northern New Mexico. has
caused heavy losses to the sheep-rais-
ing industry, if the rumor is correct.
BLIZZARD AT ALBUQUERQUE.
ALBUQUERQUE. n. NJ, Oct. 21.-The
worst blizzard since the great storm
of 1882 is general throughout New
Mexico tonight A high wind is bring
ing a general fall of sleet and snow
the Grand Valley and re-
ports tonight indicate that the losses
to sheep growers will be very heavy.
The storm began here about o'clock
Saturday morning with a high wind,
which rapidly increased in velocity
until by 9 o'clock the gale had reached
the proportions of a cyclone. The
wind carried dense clouds of sand and
dust. Rain soon began to fall and
with the rapidly falling temperature
developed into sleet and snow. The
snow is falling in binding sheets to-
night and meager reports indicate that
1t is much more severe in the country.
Telegraph and telephone service is al
most completely shut off and railroad
traffic is delayed. Some minor damage
has been done in albuquerque, Las
Vegas, Socorro and smaller towns
south of Albuquerque.