Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-02
Borean Blasts Shake Up Things
North of Salt Lake in
Great Shape.
TRAINS HIT SNOW DRIFTS.
Power and Telegraph Wires Come
Down and Salt Lake & Ogden
II. II. Out of Commission.

reports from the northern portion OF
the state. brought In by other means
than the usual telegraphic or telephone
communication. bring story of
windstorm during last night and this
morning which came near lifting the
top of everything in sight. All MORN
Ing the wires of the Bell Telephone
company connecting with Utah points
north OF Salt Lake and as far north as
Pocatelo have been out of commission,
the Pocatello line getting back into
working order only shortly before 2
o'clock this afternoon. Communication
with Ogden, Brigham. Logan and other
points north has been impossible, as
the telegraph lines are also reported
down.
Many peculiar pranks are reported On
the part of the heavy Borean blasts
with which this section of the country
was visited. The wires of the Tellu
ride Power company. which are car
ried on steel towers between this city
and the mountains east of Farming
ton. this morning broke loose from their
moorIngs and feel upon the wires of
the Utah Light & Railway company,
stretched along some distance below
The Telluride lines carry 10000 volts of
electricity and the Utah Light wires
convey as much as $4,000 volts of the
volatile fluid. The break occurred near
the Jennings Bamberger farm between
Centervillc and Pennington, and those
who were fortunate enough to witness
| the contact OF the two high voltage
| wires said IL was the most brilliant dis
| play OF electrical effects ever beheld In
| this country. especially when the
| Short Line passenger train hit
| the wires Outside of the pyro-
hC
was most disastrous one, as no trains
| have been able to run over the Salt
| Lake & Ogden road between Ogden
and this city since Z o'clock this morn
| ing.
BLEW A BUGGY OVER.
Another freak of the wind is reported
| from north of Rountiful. The wires of
| the Bell Telephone company were
| blown down, and lineman was dis
| patched with two assistants to repair
them Arriving at a point where
| break had occurred the llneman, who
J WAS straNeling1 with his companions in
| a buggy. got out to lead the horse over
| the track, where the wires were down
! and strung along the grade. The wind
| at that moment attained something
| exceptional in the way of velocity and
| succeeded in blowing the buggy with
| its two occupants over the railroad
| grade.
The trains coming In from the north
report a rough time OF it in coming
over the Bear River canyon pass and
the high ride down the western slope
! of the raZorback range of mountains
| skirting Cache valley. The Cache val
| ley train due here at 11:45. did not ar
| rive until some time later and the crew
reported that the train was stalled
| twice and had to cut through two
| 6rff fbo aclr
near the mountains north of Ogden.
CUT-oFFS "LAVED" BY WAVES.
The wires on the Western Pacific
| crossing the southern edge OF the lake
were down until about O'Clock this
| morning, and 1t was reported that the
waters of the lake were laving the rails
| on the rip-rap track. The regular train
| left for Wendover this morning, how
ever, and succeeded in getting across
the lake without damage. The dam
age to the Lucin cutoff is set forth in
| another column.
The local weather Office reports that
the windstorm expended its fury be-
| fore reaching Salt Lake, the highest
velocity recorded in the city being only
IA miles an hour. between 6 and s
| o'clock this morning. The prediction
| of the weather man that the mercury
| would fall to 22 degrees above zero was
verified, and the wind for few hours
| was of a keen and piercing nature. The
| wind seldom reaches a velocity of
more than 20 miles an hour, in this
| latitude, according to the weather man,
the highest speed ever recorded being
at the rate OF Sc miles an hour several
| wears ago. This velocity however, was
very exceptional. and only lasted five
| minutes.
CAR SERVICE TO THE BAD
The street railway service WAS de-
/ moralizcd during this mornings rush
hours by the wind I'm the vicinity OF
| Ogden which blew down the high ten
sion wires OF the Telluride Power
company. The Utah Light & Power
company Immediately put into service
Its emergency plant, but as II requires
40 minutes to get into full working
action, the service was put out of COM
mission for that period. 1t was the first
serious break the company had OK
perienced this winter. The street cars
ran by fits and starts. when they ran
at all. and several hundred people
settled their breakfast by walking in
The break in the wires was not To-
Gated until later in the day, but after
the street car emergency plant got
into action there was no moro trouble
The incandescent lamp service was
also affected. early in the morning,
Frightening up and then fading away
for quite a while.
The company was embarrassed by
Inability to utilize its new 1.5oo
motor-generator which has been 'in
the hospital" most OF the time since
Its being set up. on account of poor
lathe work on the axle in the shops
of the eastern manufacturers. This has
made II run hot. and has given so
much trouble that II may be ncces-
sary to take the axle out and put II
in the lathe again. The repairs and
tinkering on this machine. is said to
have cost the manufacturers nearly a
thousand dollars. Until 1t runs true.
the machine will not be accepted.