Show windstorm sweeps mo begioni at midnight friday salt lake wag cut off aiom all communicate on with the outside world wires aie down or disabled all over the intermountain region due to a general windstorm t was impossible to ra se ogden by tele graph after 11 p p and communication with any eastern or western point from there between 8 and 90 clock a connection was made with peno nev for a few minute but it was impossible to get an answer from san francisco and denver could not be reached cheyenne reported heavy lightning about 8 clock every possible combination of circuits was made to reach the outs de world during the night but efforts were futile in salt lake a heavy windstorm prevailed but it evidently was not so severe as in the surrounding region |