OCR Text |
Show FREAK STORM PLAYS PRANKS IN SALT LAKE Electrical Storm Blamed For Five Fires During Night SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug-. 29 (U.R) Surgeons operated oper-ated by candle light here early this morning. Firemen answered an-swered five fire alarms in seven minutes. Airmail pilots flew without guilding beacons. bea-cons. A violent electrical storm crashed crash-ed and crackled over the city for more than an hour. Lightning- daggers dag-gers broke electrical transmission lines and set frame dwellings blazing. Two bolts struck the Salt Lake Tribune building. Sleepy "graveyard" "grave-yard" shift newsmen were aroused arous-ed as blue flames licked down pneumatic tubes. Precipitation from the storm was .1)2 inches. H subsided at dawn. Dust dry Utah county which has panted for moisture all season with scarcely any respite, was lashed lash-ed by an electrical storm Tuesday Tues-day night that swept the entire state and caused damage in some sections. Cloudburst Reported Provo canyon was the center of the most violent electrical displays dis-plays and the hardest rain. In South Fork the river was converted con-verted into a muddy mass as thick as pea soup and thousands of fish were killed in the lava-like stream. The storm raged nearly all night in the canyon but subsided before midnight in the valley. After a light sprinkle on and off during' the day the storm grew in proportion pro-portion in the canyon and had turned "into a cloudburst in the South Fork sector early in the morning. |