Show A SOUTHERN UTAH TORNADO CAUSES A tremendous RATTLE Wb washington ASHINGTON utah august 1885 1886 editor deseret news having just got over a big scare and in ila order to be up with the times as aa it ls la fashionable koiv a days to read c of f earthquakes cyclopes tornadoes etc we respectfully announce to the world at large largel that we can now sympathize with others ethers as we have had il a tornado all to ourselves at about this ibis pm all hands in our oar factory were suddenly brought to a standstill we thought though tour our time had ome A heavy clutia cloud came rushing towards us ue from the southwest toe atte rain and hail came down in torrents there was one heavy clap of at thunder which fairly shook the earth then windows and doors smokestacks smoke stacks tender bars lumber etc were flying in ever every y direction trees were torn up by the roots and limbs broken off all sizes up to eighteen inches in diameter in town it swept diagonally across and seemed about one block in width it tore up trees blew down two or three small houses bouses and stables and flattened down nearly ull all vegetation in Us its course churls the last aaen of it it was making us ila way towards silver reef keef chave I 1 have abot heard of anyone being hurt but quite a number were badly seared scared the damage to the factory is ia but small one inside door was blown into shivers the water ran in torrents all around the building but old did not injure our dam or ditch there is a great deal of sickness here at present consi consisting stinK mostly of I 1 malarial fevers in some soine families f am aliea nearly all the members are down with it yours in haste baste A R |