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Show TERRIFIC WINDSTORM. We learn from Superintendent Thatcher of the U. & N. R. R. the following items of the damage done by the windstorm of last Sunday night, along the road. He states that the hard wind reached no farther north than Franklin, although above that they had some storm, and that the train coming in from that way did not encounter the wind until it arrived in Franklin. There were two box cars blown off the track at Smithfield, some of which were loaded. Some of them were more or less damaged, but to no great extent. The body of some of the cars was broken in, but they can be repaired with little expense. On Monday the cars were put on the track and brought into Logan. The wind blew so hard at Ogden that the conductor of the passenger train sent a dispatch to the Supt. (Superintendent) at Logan to know if he should make a start but before the answer could return, the wire was blown down. Receiving no answer, the train started and got as far as Honeyville, where it stayed a short time to see if the storm would abate. They ventured out again and proceeded as far as Deweyville, where they stayed all night. There were four cars blown off the side track at that place. The train proceeded on Monday morning and arrived here at 7 a.m. The mail carrier not being at the depot to receive the mail, it was taken on north and did not get here until Tuesday morning. In Logan there was some damage done to property by the wind. A large pane of glass was broken in one of the windows of Ormsby and Riter's drug store, and a large globe that stood in the window was thrown onto the floor and broken. The front of D. B. Lamoreaux's store was blown down and a large pane of glass was broken in one of his windows. The post office door was broken off its hinges and thrown into the room. In one or two instances persons narrowly escaped injury from adobes falling into their houses. We also learn from a person from Richmond, that the family of Harrison Beck, narrowly escaped with their lives. They felt unsafe to remain in the house, the wind was so high, and went to the house of a neighbor; they had been out but a little while when their house was blown down. They had a child sick at the time, which we learn is getting better. The front of the co-op store at the same place was blown in. |