Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-13 | Page 10 | Severe Dust Storm Visits Salt Lake

SEVERE DUST STORM VISITS SALT LAKE Little Damage Dono, but' Much Discomfort Dis-comfort Endured for a Short Tnie. An immense amount of hot air was In .circulation yesterday afternoon. It was different from the ordinary -hot air In that it came from the northwest instead in-stead of the east and had, nothing to do with politics. It had evidently collected col-lected all the dust from Victoria to the Warm Springs, all of which was carefully care-fully distributed among tho offices, homes and lungs of Salt Lake. Any person who failed to receive his or her share should register a complaint with tho weather bureau, where the oversight over-sight will be looked in to. ur. nyaii, me local ooserver, neiu a stop watch on the wind and says It was going at the rate of fifty-nine miles an hour. A gentleman who chased his hat two blocks alone; Second South atretf, is willing to make affidavit that Jr. Hyatt underestimated the A'eloclty by about 941 miles. Its force was so gwat that It made three long cracks in' the ground glass door opening frorti.the rotunda of the Atlas block IntV the Northwestern railway office. Tire door had just been decorated with thj? name of the railroad In beautiful td and black letters. Now the sign 1$ ruined. As one of the clerks facetiously described de-scribed it. "It Is a great wlnl break." In olfices and residences pople were compelled either to stlfie In tne oppres-ive oppres-ive atmosphere or aTlmlt the rolling clouds of dust through th' doors and windows. Most persons referred stilling sti-lling to dust. Relief cau.e- about sundown. sun-down. As the wind fell ioe air became cooler and the evening, was pleasant with prospects of rain. 7 The maximum temperature was 85 decrees at 11 a, m.