Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-05 | Page 12 | Light and Power Shut off by Storm

LIGHT AND POWER SHUT OFF BY STORM Utah Light and Railway officials wore kept busy lost night on account of tho olectrlcal storm, which was tho causo of all tho power ln Salt Lake and Ogdcn going go-ing off at 10:20. Two vivid flashes of lightning struck the wires at Ogdcn, wnero tho oOOO-horsc-powor generating plant is, and the consequence was that for twenty minutes tho city was in dark-rcss dark-rcss and all tho strcot cars wero tied up for about an hour and a half. Power was turned on from tho old plant ln Bear River canyon, which has never failed tho company In four years, and also from that ln the Big Cottonwood. About an hour later tho latter plant was also struck by tho current and another Interruption Inter-ruption was caused, this tlmo lasting only three minutes.