Show TRUCK BY A HURRICANE Several Houses Unroofed and Many Trees Uprooted Uproojed TH GALE WAS TEEEIFIC The Wind Attained tho Greatest Yc locitj Ever Recorded Here lociy I Sixty Mile an Hour Was the Report of the Weather Bureau A Root Car I i ned Half a Block Several Narrow Escapes II j I I The most terrific windstorm Salt Lake has known for years swept over the city yesterday morning Fences and trees were blown down in all parts of the city while signs and light objects went spinning spin-ning through the business thoroughfares and wit the dust and sand which filled the air made things very unpleasant for the throngs pedestrians on the streets I At about 1 oclock the wind got under the roof of the CulmerKennett block on First South street I ripping off the sheets I of tin and dumping a considerable portion > por-tion of the metal cornice and brick work supporting i into the street The walk was thronged with pedestrians but fortunately for-tunately no one was injured although there were some very narrow escapes Atthesame time a portion of the ten foot board fence on First South just west of the city hall went over and the Rev Mr Keantz of the Swedish Lutheran church and his wife were struck by jailing jail-ing timber and knocked down The lady escaped with a few bruises but Mr Krantz was badly injured about the left side He was assisted into the police station and after a time was able to go home This same gale upset a wagon at the corner of First South and Main street and at about the same time one of the heavy plate glass windows in the Simp sonHill Pharmacy corner of Second South and West Temple was blown in by the force of the wind A transom window win-dow ol the Equitable Coop was also smashed in and an awning blown down In the eastern part of the city where sidewalks have been cut down for paving the damage done to the trees was heavy The wires of the telephone telegraph tele-graph and electric light companies were badly tangled up in some quarters and the linemen had a busy time of it I CARRIED HALF A BLOCK I The roof of the pavilion at the baseball park was lifted up and carried half a block and several tall chimneys in Perkins Per-kins addition went down One small house in Lincoln park was unroofed but no one was hurt A regular snow storm came up while the gale waa uovving Tae flakes and hailstones were impregnated with alkali dust and left a dirty brown stain wherever wher-ever they fell A NARROW ESCAPE During the storm H P G Coates came near having his quietus while passing the Dooly block A bucket containing some roofing material that had been left on the roof of the building was picked up by the gale and whirled over the cornice I came down with a crash and in the fall scraped Coates on the side of one of his leg Had it struck Coates on the head strange as it may appear he would have kicked the bucketS bucket-S P Sears secretary of the chamber of commerce was among the sufferers from the storm One of the large chimneys of his new residence in Perkins addition was blown down and the brick tore holes in the roof while tho heavy stone caping buried itself in the ground Fortunately no one was hurt Two other houses in Perkins addition are reported to have been unroofed by the gale WHERE I CAME FROM Observer Salisbury of the weather bureau bu-reau gives the following interesting results re-sults of his observation The remarkable high wind that visited vis-ited the city this morning was caused by a violent atmospheric disturbance or storm which has come inland from the Pacific ocean and which swept down upon us from Washington where repurts indicated it to be on Wednesday Thursday Thurs-day mornings report showed the center of low barometric pressure to be at or near Baker City Or when the barometer barom-eter reduced to sea level read 2930 inches The pressure at that time 6 a m at Salt Lake City was 2951 inches The lowest pressure reached here was 2942 sea level at 1 a m during the height of the SIXTY MILES AN HOUR At 1125 t 1130 a m the anemometer at the Salt Lake station indicated a wind velocity of sixty miles per hour This is the highest velocity ever recorded at the Salt Lake station the maximum previously previ-ously having been fortyeight miles per hour hourSixty miles per hour is a velocity rarely reached except upon the sea coast and the prairies 01 the Missouri valley That is lor a straightahead wind The velocities ve-locities of the rotary storms known a tornadoes popularly as c < cyclones have not been determined the facilities for their measurement being poor CA velocity of sixty miles per hour gives a pressure upon a surface at right angles to it according to the old formula P = 005 SV2 of eighteen pounds to the square foot or 162 pounds to the square yard Recent experiments have changed I this formula so as to greatly reduce the indicated pressure The Robinson anemometer ane-mometer has been found to give too high j I values and sixty miles per hour indicates I a real velocity ol fortyeight miles This according to the new formula P = 0H B30 V2 gives a pressure of 77 pounds to the square foot for the wind as indicted indi-cted by the anemometer yesterday In the above formulas P is for pressure in pounds B the actual barometric pressure at the time S the surface in square feet and V the velocity of the wind in mles per hour By them the pressures for any velocity may be computed I GN S |