| Show EXTENT OF THE STORM Damage Extended to North and East I r UTAH FRUIT IS INJURED L Passengers From Worth and East Report Re-port High Winds and Floods Which Havo Done Much Daiuage Utah Orchards Have Suffered From the Fury of the Storm Lpsses in Davis and Cache Counties Beets and Small Fruits Injured in Weber County High Winds Again Here Greatly to thc surprise of the residents resi-dents of Salt Lake City the heavy wind of Friday continued during thc early morning hours of yesterday and well on Into the afternoon when there was a cessation and people generally expressed a hope that the big blow f was over Trees in various parts of the city were stripped of their branches and billboards were wrenched from their posts and thrown flat upon the ground Motormen on some of the largest streetcars street-cars Bay their time was somewhat Interfered in-terfered with In buffeting the headwinds head-winds The Rio Grande Western offices report re-port severe winds through the preen River desert and mixed wircp but nothing serious Passengers from the north reported very heavy winds In Idaho BO strong that it was feared atone at-one time that the train might blow over But apprehensions were not realized B E Shear the mining man slept peacefully through It all In his Pullman beith and explained this as due to a clear conscience Passengers from the East report heavy winds and floods combined on the eastern slope of the Rockies In Colorado with considerable con-siderable damage Secretary Wright of thc State Board of Horticulture feared yesterday that considerable damage had been done to the fruit crops by heavy windfalls and he has instituted Inquiries The force of the wind as measured nt the weather weath-er bureau In Salt Lake was not over thirtyfour miles an hoiir for periods as brief as five minutes each but the gusts ran up to over forty miles an hour Thc telegraph and telephone companies were busy yesterday repairIng repair-Ing damages Manager Murray said that at one stretch between this city and Ogden fully fifteen trees were blown over on the telephone wires The Otrdcn telephone wires hovovcr got into trouble ngaln last night from 7 oclock until after midnight they were all useless and communication between Salt Lake and Ogden was fm1 possible Out at Mill Cccck especially in the eastern portion the wind was very heavy coming up the canyons and rc vines of the Wasatch range with terrific ter-rific force and sweeping over the city and thC valley to the southwest Salt workers who were near the shores of the lake on Friday and yesterday yes-terday reported great waves rolling over what was virtually dry land last fall |
