The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-23
MADE The TRIP
IN AUTOMOBILE
Herald Ogden Correspondent
Had Great Difficulty in
Landing His "Stuff."
SCENES ALONG THE ROUTE
HAVOC CREATED BY STORM IN
JUNCTION CITY.
SCENES ALONG THE ROUTE


make the trip between Ogden and Salt
Lake in an automobile. after viewing
the great damage done in Ogden and the
northern part of Weber county.
Finding that Ogden had been cut off
completely from the rest of the world in
the way Of all kinds of communication.
ana with no assurance from the railroad
people that there would be any trains
through during the night. The Herald 5
Ogoen correspondent chartered an auto
mobile to carry the news of the destruc-
9on done In that city to the paper in
Salt Lake. 1t was a difficult matter to
secure driver who would face the storm
IA an effort to get through. but finally
Nnl1am Cortez consented to undertake
the job 1t was q few minutes before 5
o'clock when the start was made, and
everything went well until after passing
Layton. when the wind increased in vio-
ience and before travelling more than a
mile or two further the little party found
themselves In the midst of a tornado
equally as severe that of the night
before. Along the route. almost the en-
tire way, trees by the score and hun
oreds or telephone poles were blown
across the roadway. Several times the
machine was entangled in telephone wires
ana other debris so that it was necessary
TO cut 1t out before the journey could be
resumed. Over trees, poles, wires and
other kinds of wreckage, the machine
plowed Its way. 1t was clearly a case of
luck In getting through many places and
numerous times the wind seemed to pick
the automobile up from the road. but il
always landed Alright and pushed
through the binding storm. BY the time
Pennington was reached. the danger OF
proceeding farther became too great. and
1t was decided 10 make a stop there I'M
III the wind had ceased in its fury or un-
I'll daylight came, when the obstacles in
the road could at least be avoided. In
stead OF abating, the storm seemed to in
crease during the night but when the
day broke, the wind died away some
what and the rest of the trip was easily
made with the exception of the blocking
up OF the machine after a spring had
snapped at Bountiful.
The Storm In Ogden.
Beyond a doubt. Ogden suffered the
greatest loss from the wind storm which
settled over the city early Saturday at
1ernoon. The wind increased i'm violence
ana did not reach its height until late in
the morning 1t was almost impossible to
WAX the streets on account of the high
wind. TO say nothing of the danger from
living boards, signs and falling Chin
neys. An idea of the velocity of the wfnd
can De gained from the fact that more
than score of substantial structures
were blown down, and hardly whole
plate glass window was left in the bust
ness district. William Gibbs was killed
ny being struck on the head by a board
while trying TO save tis barn from de-
StTuction. Frank Josephs. eighty years of
age, was passing Twenty-fourth street
and Washington avenue on his way to a
restaurant. when q gust of wind caught
him up and hurled him to the sidewalk
with such force as to render him partly
unconscious. His face and head were
badly cut and bruised by the fall There
were many narrow escapes and that
hundreds were not killed seems little
short of a miracle
The old Catholic church on lower
T%enty-fifth street was one of the first
buildings to fall from the force of the
Wind. II was completely demolished The
whole front Of the Utahna theatre was
blown in and the interior badly damaged.
Z Re big smoke stack on the new sneIter
OF the Utah Smelling company near the
ogden Hot Springs was blown down aud
the buildings badly damaged. The smell
ter was to commence operations Monday
The transmission line from Brigham civ
running to the smelter site, which had
just been completed, was badly wrecked
and will have to be almost entirely re-
built The large clock In the tower at the
Union depot was blown in and ruined and
the tower badly wrecked. The Rio Grande
Western round house was unroofed and
the roof of the new addition to the Har-
riman shops was carried away. The brick
building on Twentieth street formerly
occupied by the Smith Brothers mattress
works, was crushed by the storm The
Scowcroft and KieSel warehouses were
partly unroofed. In fact, the roof OF more
than one-half the buildings in the b,,si
ness section of the city were blown away
Skylights in many of the big buildings
were smashed. and the wind PLAYED havoc
with the interior Trees by the hundreds
were uproted and everywhere fences were
blown TO the ground
Many Of the windows in the new Wright
building at Twenty-fourth street and
building was about completed. but the
work of the storm will delay its being
occupied for some time. Along lower
Twenty-fifth street in the vicinitv of az
old Catholic church, near the Union de-
pot, the fronts Of several buildings were
blown out as clean as if It had been done
with huge knife. One of the big win
dCws of the Pingree National bank was
blown in and but few of the large cleo
trio signs were left in place EVERYWHERE
the streets were covered with mass of
twisted tin from the house tons wires
boards, bricks and every other concefv
able kind of wreckage.
From Twelfth street to Five Points
more than mile. the large telephone
poles, upon which were strung about sev
tnty-five wires i'm addition to several
cables. were cut off close to the ground
The same condition existed on South
Washington avenue and other parts of
the city. As q result street car service was
abandoned. Cars were left standing i'm the
streets, or where they could be gotten TO
1 lac car barn at all. they were taken there
by dummy engine Sunday afternoon
AS most of the Western Union trans
continental telegraph wires pass along
this route the delay TO through teIe.
graphic traffic can readily be Imagined.
The loss to the telephone, telegraph and
electric companies in Weber county alone
will reach 100000. The loss TO other pro-
pcrty will be even greater.
Isolated From the World.
Early Saturday evening communication
with the outside world began to fail and
by 80 o'clock there was not telegraph
or telephone wire working in any direc-
tion outside the city. On Sunday a wire
between Ogden and Montello was opened
up and this was used by the railroad peo-
pie TO handle the Southern Pacific trains.
Heavy snow storms were reported east OF
Ogden along the line of the Union Pacific
and It is expected that with the abating
Of the wind, the snow will begin to fall
here. Railroad traffic was almost at a
standstill all of Sunday. The Rio Grande
Western succeeded in getting a few trains
through late in the evening. The Short
Line made attempt at running trains
over their own lines on account of sew
eral wrecks caused by the storm, and the
less OF their telegraph service.
"A report was spread in Ogden early