Show r oJ ST RM STRIKES STATE Eo F TAH Damage Amounts to Tens of Thousands of Dollars in Salt Lake City William Gibbs Was Killed at Ogden While Trying to Save His Barn and J H Sorenson Was Killed at MurraySeveral Salt Lakers Are Injured Salt Lake City Damage which will run Into the thousands of dollars but which cannot now bo accurately estimated esti-mated was caused by a windstorm of unprecedented fury and duration which swept over the city and county from before midnight Saturday night and continued until Holiday morning For many hours Salt Lake was almos entirely cut off from communication with the outer world with tho exception excep-tion of Park City BIngliam and Provo As a result of the destruction of telegraph lines railroads were unable to run their trains with the exception of the Salt Lake Route and the Rio Grando southbound Tho wind reached a maximum velocity ve-locity of sixty miles an hour and for periods of many minutes maintained a velocity of fiftytwo miles an hour according to the registration at tho local branch of the weather bureau J H Sorenson was killed at Murray Mur-ray and William Glbbs was killed at Ogden while cndcavoilng to save his barn being struck by a flying plank A number of men and women Includ jpg two firemen were seriously injured in-jured here Some IdOa as to the velocity of tho wind may be gained when It Is stated that a train of freight cars on Iht Short Line near Kaysvllle and another anoth-er on tho Bamberger road were blown from the track and Into tho ditch Plato glass windows were shattered and houses were unroofed all over the city Ogden suffered damage to the extent ex-tent of more than 100000 At Lagoon In Davis county the damage was more than 10000 Tho wind was particularly severe in Davis Da-vis county and tho damage will be heavy Four men were Injured In Salt Lake City during the progress of the storm two seriously That a great number of persons were not killed seems almost al-most a miracle as the falling trees swept hundreds of live wires across the streets and sidewalks Imperiling pedestrians |