The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-23

Two Places the Wi
Sunday morning to the effect that a
large fire was raging in Salt Lake. The
men from that city who Were in Ogden
were most eager TO get home as A re-
suit AS nigh as $50 a seat was offered on
an automobile, but there were few driv
erS brave enough to run the gauntlet of
the storm even at this handsome figure.
Willard ScowcrOft of the the firm of
John Scowcroft & Sons company came
10 the rescue of The Herald correspon-
dent by permitting his machine TO be
used for the trip.
Naturally the residence section of the
city suffered less than the business dis
trict but there were few structures that
did not suffer damage of some nature
blown over and in some instances they
crashed through the roof onto the floors
below. Many of the homes were I'M
rooted and in some sections of the city
not a fence was left standing. 1t was
beyond doubt the worst storm that
ever visited that city.
Good Work of Firemen.
The firemen at the fire department were
Oh the alert from the time the storm
out sleep waited for the ever expected
alarm. About Us o'clock Sunday morn
ing an alarm came in from the residence
of James Hancock on Jefferson avenue,
Eetween Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
street. The boys made a splerdid run, and
when they got there they found that Mr..
Hancock had done much to keep the fire
in check by the use of a garden hose.
Shortly after l o'clock. Mr.. Hancock was
awakened from his sleep by the fierce
shrieking of the wind. Upon looking out
OF the window he discovered that fire
was eating its way along a board fence
toward the house. Without waiting to at
tire himself in the regulation street dress
he rushed out of the house and soon had
Hn don r,fa 2 Ha FL
His wife telephoned the department and
upon the arrival of the ladies the fire
vas soon extinguished IT was very for
tLnate thing that Mr.. Hancock diScov-
start in the houses near the tier of blocks
which takes in Wright's. Clark's. the
First National bank and other buildings
might have gone up in smoke.
Arrived Too Late.
The frame residence of Jim Carr near
the corner Of Thirty-fifth street and JEFF
feTson avenue, burned to the ground a
few minutes before o'clock last night.
l. is said that the cause of the fire was
the exploding Of a coal oil lamp. Famed
by the hurricane. the flames consumed
tho house almost before the telephone had
ceased ringing the call to the fire depart
ment. When the department arrived there
the house was nothing but a mass of dy-
ing emberS The firemen had great diff
Guilty i'm making this run. as the streets
OF all descriptions. Wires were down and
there was great danger from this source
Two of the boys were almost torn from
their hold on the wagon by hanging wires
Damage at Union Depot.
A conservative estimate of the damage
to the Union depot. buildings in the yard
and rolling stock is placed at $4,000 by
Superintendent Manson. The hurricane
struck the depot building with great
force. The clock tower was badly twisted
the clock broken. tin roof damaged. and
the chimney of the south annex so badly
damaged that it will have to be rebuilt
With the damage to the old round house
the new round house. roof of the new
power house, the ice house and the cars
in the yards the aggregate will easily
amount to $1,000.
Superintendent Manson was over on the
salt Lake division OF the Southern Paci-
fic when the storm struck. The storm out
that way was not nearly so strong as in
Ogden and vicinity. There was consider
able snow and the wind was piercing
cold. but the damage done at Sparks and
Otner Nevada towns was comparatively
slight.
There was considerable apprehension
among railroad officials and the public
generally about the condition of the Og-
den-Lucin cutoff. 1t was thought that
the raging hurricane which swept across
the briny waters of the great inland sea
would lash it into such fury that the
dirt and rock fill and the trestle work
might be seriously damaged!
Brakeman Killed.
During the storm that ragged at Bryan,
a small station east of Evanston, a brake
man by the name of Smyth was killed by
a light engine. The brakeman had been
sent back to do some tagging. but the
snow came down so swiftly and thickly
as TO make a binding curtain. He failed
To see the approaching engine, and the
roar of the storm drowned all other
sounds. with the result that he was struck
and killed.
Early Saturday evening a large smoke
stack at the state school for the deaf and
blind was blown to the ground. Scow-
croft & Sons and +. j. Kiesel &, Co did
not wholly escape the storm, although
their losses will be slight. At the uptown
building OF the latter firm the windows
were blown out. and at the warehouse on
Wall avenue a portion of the roof was
carried away. Part of the tin roof of the
Scowcroft building was blown off The
Eccles Lumber company and the Elec-
trio Planning mill also suffered some dam
age to their buildings.
The greenhouses of F. j. Henderson, on
BY the storm. One OF the long conserva-
tories was demolished and many of the
glasses in the other buildings were blown
out. The damages is estimated by Mr.
Hendershot at 5000. The glass is all the
more serious inasmuch as the buildings
had been but recently remodeled and re-
fitted with new glass.
After leaving Ogden and. in fact along