Show i T LOSS ITS t RECORD GALES STILL PHONES DOUSE Buildings gs Wrecked Wrecked- Roads Blocked b by L Wintry Blast By Dy BOB nOB HALE J JA A scene of shattered utility poles oles tangled communication wires roofless collapsed col col- buildings lapsed walls and debris debris- strewn roads stretched northward northward north north- ward from Salt Lake City nearly to the Idaho line Friday Friday Fri Fri Fri- day in the wake of one of the worst windstorms in Utah history his his- tory Accurate estimates of damage were lacking as repair crews worked feverishly M at temporary measures to restore communication tion but unofficial accounts ranged up to Officials of the Utah Power and Light company estimated that damage damage dam dam- age to power lines between Ogden and Brigham Brigha City would total between between between be be- tween and The storm beginning in Thursday struck heaviest in Davis and Weber counties where hundreds of poles oles were down own roads clogged windows shattered and buildings blown down One On person was injured ed John A. A Simpson Ogden was In Injured injured in in- critically about the head when wind blasting against a door he hOe was carrying threw him him- to the ground Heaviest individual damage was caused to the unfinished warehouse of the Amalgamated Sugar company company company com com- pany on Wilson lane in Ogden where a mile an gale sent seh two end walls a side wall and part of the roof crashing into a pile of crushed brick and twisted steel Heavy Loss W. W L. L Hodges construction engineer en engineer en en- said the material loss was from to but th that inestimable in inestimable in in- estimable cost through added labor costs and loss of time would result The building was to have been half completed with sugar to be bo stored in the tho finished half halt by November November No No- vember 1 1 Mr Hodges said that had the storm come 24 hours later the building would have been nearly enough complete to have withstood the wind Police reserves were called Balled lIed out in Ogden to guard business firms against possible looting as windows caved in and ana the downtown district district district dis dis- dis- dis was thrown into confusIon the United Press reported O Operators Busy Only one telephone line from Salt Lake City to Ogden via Coal Coalville was working Friday and operators were swamped as they attempted to care for calls in the tho order of being placed Telephone communication from Salt Lake City to Brigham City was possible only by way of Butte Mont and Pocatello Idaho Communication by Western Union to the north north also was wa disrupted and messages to Idaho were routed to San Francisco and up the Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- coast Highway Blocked The state highway was blocked by utility poles for a time Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day night between Kaysville and Layton and traffic was detoured over county roads Traffic was able to traverse the regular highway Friday although crews crew still were removing wreckage The Layton Kaysville-Layton Growers' Growers Exchange warehouse at Layton was blown down and windows were broken in the Farmers' Farmers Union store Davis county was without lights all Thursday night Centerville still sUll was without power Friday morning the Utah Power and Light company reported while service had been restored to only part of Bountiful Bountiful Boun Boun- because of breaks in local distribution distribution dis dis- dis systems School Damaged The gale ripped off the roof and caved in part of the wall of the Continued on One Page Nine Nye Column One STORM CAUSES I GREAT DAMAGE 1 Continued from Page One Burch Burch Creek school in Weber coun coun- ty Classes were dismissed None was Injured although part of the ther r roof ot crashed through the ceiling of the second floor EA A chimney on the recently finIshed finished fin fin- home of Jt E E. S. S Smoot at FarmIngton Farmington Farmington Farm Farm- ington collapsed and crashed through the front part of the house Damage was estimated at hundreds of dollars Members of the family were In another part of the house and were not injured Two hundred windows were blown out of the greenhouses o of the Lund Floral comp company ny at Bountiful Bountiful Bountiful Boun Boun- at a a loss of A roof was blown from an adjoining shed Windows Shattered A large window of ot the the- Bountiful State bank was shattered and a neon eon neon sign costing was wrecked on the front of the Bountiful Drug company Salt Sal Lake ake City escaped com para para- vely lightly although a high velocity velocity ve ve- wind ripped through the city Thursday afternoon and all night R Pedestrians scampered to safety when a foot 30 sheet metal smokestack smokestack smokestack smoke smoke- stack collapsed atop the hotel and crashed to the street Hoods and radiators of two parked automobiles were smashed Workmen Workmen Workmen Work Work- men straightened and replaced the stack Friday KA A window 15 feet high was broken brok- brok en n on the Second South street side of the Continental National Bank and Trust company building None was vas Injured Glass in the Felt building barber barbershop shop isHop was smashed The wind wine opened a fire alarm circuit Four persons reported at the emergency hospital h spital for tor removal of foreign objects objects objects ob ob- from eyes The Tho i storm was held indirectly res responsible for one traffic accident Geraldine Jacobs 10 Second avenue was struck by an automobile automobile automo automo- b bile le and suffered minor injuries The ahe driver V. V Lockridge F. F 28 Second avenue said he could not see the girl because the wind wine was blowing against his face A large tree fell across the boulevard boulevard boulevard boule- boule vard at Fort Douglas Trees were uprooted In all sections of the city Prison Panes Broken Windows were broken at the state I prison and the Salt Lake general h Hospital spital Officials a of the telephone comp company com- com p pany ny reported their northern Utah s system stem suffered damage of ot between and MAH All normal communication In lUtah Utah and southern Idaho was out they said and emergency routing was in effect About telephone poles went down between Salt Lake City and Brigham City and Bountiful was Ithe the only Davis county community with service Friday morning H Repair Crews Crew Rushed More ore service to Ogden was expected expected ex- ex to be possible by afternoon All ll available repair crews were I d from Salt Lake City Ogden and Brigham City worked all night might and Friday Telephone officials said they 1 never had experienced a worse storm t rm In this territory Several upright structures supporting supporting supporting sup sup- porting a volt line of ot the Utah Power and Light company near mar near Farmington and north of ot Ogden Ogden Og Og- d den n were blown down However volt lines Into Ogden were not damaged Local distribution trouble was experienced 1 Iff iri Ogden U. U A A. Hale chief engineer of ot the Utah Power and Light company reported ported that at noon Friday elec- elec itric service was being furnished all communities E in the firms firm's territory the worst storm in Utah inist tory Poles Blown lown Down 4 I As s soon as local distribution lines Unes ere ire repaired he said power would I b be restored to all customers Service to Bountiful was cut off oft when nine poles were were blown down pear Becks Beck's Hot Springs but was wasI 1 restored I at 3 a. a a m m. Service to tot t F Farmington was resumed at noon Lines of the Bountiful municipal power plant were disabled throwing th lice entire town Into darkness 1 L W. W NIms Ogden division man man- 1 tiger of ot the power company esti esti- Jin ted damage there at with tOO LOO poles blown down or shattered Load Transferred Service to customers there then was I expected to be bo restored before eve- eve ning Territory north of Brigham City d only slight Interruption of service when the load was being Bing transferred from the disabled Salt trace Lake City line to the Jordan ordan and Provo steam plants In Jin order to maintain service to residential and commercial users the power firm curtailed in varying mounts amounts the current furnished the Utah tah Copper company at Bingham causing using the mine to limit operations for or a time UK Boxcar Afire r I-r Postal Telegraph reported at least poles down but service was re- re to normal Friday flashes of at light were I been fleen in Davis and Weber counties lines fell A boxcar was afire set afire 8 t. t afire near the Growers' Growers warehouse ware- ware J douse h house use at Layton LIghtIng service was Interrupted l n l Salt alt Lake City for a few minutes J 6 p. p m. m Thursday ii i tA A wall of ot the tho Salt Lake company warehouse In Ogden gj as w s damaged and crashing sections imaged maged s a parked automobile L Property damage was com para para- ively light being confined mostly and small wooden structures i gA A forecast of ot below freezing tem tem- in Salt Lake City Friday night followed the storm Thursdays Thursday's Thursdays Thursday's Thursdays Thursday's Thurs Thurs- days day's maximum temperature of 54 degrees was the coldest maximum of the season The wind reached a high velocity at p p. p m m. Thurs Thurs- day Southern Utah received rain rain- rainfall I fall The prediction is for unsettled rain rain-I weather in all alJ Utah |