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Show Qivz$ iTZiii. EveryVcy aroocd herr koowg there was sou-C more wind on tdaesday cibt and early Thure-1 Thure-1 day mornicg. OgJen ai?o Lai iu j share, as the following iums from the ' Junction ehow : From the east, heavy freight trairs are now daily coming in without interruption. inter-ruption. List nisht the running board of a freight car on the L nion Pacific was taken off the roof and carried away by the wind. 10 a distance of several yardi. A- Landt's sign at th Junction bakery was blown down this morning, and several paces of glass were broken by h; failing Bgainst the d'.-ors a&d windows. The Central Pacific train was polled in this morning by two eD tines, and even then couid hardly make way against the wind. At a little before 12 o'clock last night a cry of fire was raised on Main street, and had it not been for the prompt action of the night watchmen, Mr. H. Clark, assisted by Mesre. Horepool, Pritchett, Badger and Wilson, Wil-son, it is not at all improbable that to-day the west Bide of Main street would be a heap of ashes. The proprietor pro-prietor of a small store left a little fire in the stove, and the wind arising in the night to a tremendous pitch, lucked up the burning embers on to the roof, which is considerably lower than the roofs of the buildings on either side. The above named gentlemen burst open the back door of the stoor and extinguished the fire in the stove, and also took care of that portion on the roof before any damage was done, (ireat caution should be exercised over these store fires, or we may wake up some windy morning and ficd the business bus-iness portion oi'Ugden gone op like a balloon. Kmigrants continue to come in for ail parts of the west. Last evening a train containing nearly two huadrcd arrived in f bis city, destined mostly to Idaho, Washington and Oregon- |