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Show SEVERE WIBRM DOES MUCH HE Light and Telephone Service Ser-vice Suffers; All Breaks Repaired Today. I.-.ma;i arnonntir. to thousands of dollars dol-lars is saM to have requited from the severe wind slurm that swept. Salt Lake and the surronndin? country during the early hours of last nr.;ht. while hundreds of householders suffered considerable Inconvenience In-convenience bv reason of the suspension of public utility service. Hcvcral trees Rcrp blown down. "While none of the main lines were affected af-fected by lhi- storm." f-ald W. M. Srntt. nervue superinin.Jent of the Utah Power & Liht Co.. "si-ores of service wire?, leading from the power lines into the hous ". were torn down, tlirowlnc: homs into darkneHH. Complaints came thick and fast from all sections of the city, and we w ere corr.pe1 hd to fail and put to work every available elcr-lrician. Tie men win work all muht. and we expert that practically prac-tically nil da niae w ill have been repaired re-paired b noon." Tiie lo-"al union or electricians was holding hold-ing a mofttinir in the Labor teniyle when the storm arose, and the meet I'm; was hastily adjourned, with its business un-finished, un-finished, so the men mifcht answer the call. A t the service department oT the telephone tele-phone company it was learner! tnal In numerous instances, due to IlKhtninp, the beils on t he tele pli ones refused to rlnK because the batteries were put out of commission. A few wires were also said to have been thrown down. Where the bells would not rin service was possible on out-cnitr-i calls, but. not on inbound calls. The flarfield and Hlnsham canyon lines wen also badly crippled by the hiuh wind, it is said, but it was thouirlit the service would be fully restored bv noon today. |