Show I SALT SALTAIR AIR RESORT IS WORST il SUffERER IN YESTERDAYS YESTERDAY'S STORM Loss Estimated at Caused When Bathhouses Are Washed Away Blowing Blowin at the rate rte of a mile mie a a minute one of ot the worst worst windstorms that has over ever visited the tIme vicinity of ot tho the Great Salt lake did dlf damage estimated at between and at the altair resort yesterday yester yester- day afternoon This same wind which was at Its Is height In m Salt bait Lake City shortly after o'clock yesterday afternoon worked considerable damage In the tIme city while blowing at a aless el less velocity than at the lake lale probably betwee between be be- tween twee forty and forty eight miles mies an hour During th the short time that the cyclonic cyclone wind raged at Saltair bathhouses ex extending extending ex- ex tending into the lake were completely de do lae Th TIme TIme-so so bathhouses composed the northwest pier A crow of men went to the lake yesterday to move the bathhouses at the tho far end of the pier e to the east side They had bad scarcely commenced their work wh when n the wind and the heavy waves Vr wrecked the pier Time The wreckage was strewn alon along the beach for a I long distance Heavy pieces of lumber were picked up by the wind anc and carried through the air with great speed A number of the workmen narrowly es escaped escaped es- es aped Injury Part Tart of the embankment under the tIme trestle was washed awa away anc anca and anda a work train which had started out on time the track was held at the resort all al night i In speaking of the work of the storm this morning moring J. J E. E Langford Sr general genera manager of f the resort said The wind at the lake yesterday was as one of the worst that has ever visited the resort The Vave waves tat are reported to me mo to have been bee the highest In the history of the resort resort It I was tho the salt sal In the time water water beating the bathhouses from underneath underneath that caused most of tho the damage The waves were very heavy Practically 20 bathhouses were demolished You Tou fan an ean figure what the loss to 10 us will be when I Isay Isay Isay say that each ascii bathhouse costs us in tn the neighborhood of oC 40 O to build and equip It I with pipes The damage to the embankment embankment embank embank- ment merit at the tho tracks track will wi be slight and this ought to be repaired b by noon today Many May Pranks in City In Salt Lake Lake- City yesterday afternoon the fierce wind flayed man many pranks Pc- Pc were ere forced forced to move somewhat more quickly than thams they really realy wanted to The They took tool shelter in lit 11 stores and doorways finally after fighting the wind as long as possible le Many Man signs sonic some of them thom large electric signs were blown down and anc tossed about the street At the Mission theatre a portion porton of the tar tar paper on the roof was as loosened anc and carried several blocks blocks' away Persons on the street saw the big sheet of paper fly fly- fy- fy ing trig through the air all and md believing that the entire entre roof of the theatre was about to be carried away scurried for places of safety A number of ot houses were partially unroofed unroofed unroofed un un- un- un roofed on Federal Heights One house in particular i was considerably I Id d damaged A Apart Apart part of the of-the the he roof toof t was di torn If off f and amid carried to the roof of a residence nearby The Tho wind blew down the foot steel stel tower erected on the university campus last lat summer by the tlc Sterrett Air Lift Lit Pump company The bench sections of the city suffered the most damage Some Damage Damage in State In the outlying districts dIstricts' of the city the wind worked havoc with wih the the- the roofs of ol barns chicken chiken houses and various arious other outbuildings outbuildings' Reports from about the state tell of considerable damage Miners' Miners cabins acre 10 unroofed unroofEd at BIngham telephone telephone tele tele- phone poles pol wem were blown down and railroad rail rai- rai road traffic impeded It I is estimated that the damage there wl will several hundred I e dollars h mC m a. a of the aras The Tho storm t was In character and It Is reported that there was little lite wind in the vicinity of the cutoff Fears had ha been expressed that there then would be a repetition of the wind damage of a few weeks ago |