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Show "STORIH STIES i STATCOF UTAH Damage Amounts to Tens of Thousands of Dollars in Salt Lake City William Glbbs Was Killed at-Ogden While Trying to Save His Barn, and J. H. Sorenson Was Killed at Murray Several Salt Lakers Are Injured. Salt Lako City. Damngo which will run Into the thousands of dollars, but which cannot now bo nccurntcly estimated, esti-mated, was cnused by a windstorm of unprecedented fury and duration which ewept over tho city and county from beforo midnight Snturday night nnd continued until Itonday morning. For many hours Salt Lake was almosi entirely cut off from communication with tho outer world, with tho exception excep-tion of Park City, ninghnm nnd Provo. As a result of tho destruction of tolegrnph lines, railroads wero unnblo to run their trains, with tho exception of tho Salt Lnko llouto and tho Itlo Grande, southbound. Tho wind reached a maximum velocity ve-locity of sixty miles an hour, and for periods of many mluutoB mnlntnlned a velocity of- fifty-two miles nn hour, nccordlng to tho registration at tho local branch of the weather bureau. J. II. Sorenson was killed at Murray Mur-ray and William Glbbs was killed at Ogden whllo endeavoring to savo his barn, being struck by n flying plnnlc. A number of men nnd women, Including Includ-ing two, firemen, were seriously Injured In-jured here. Somo Idea ns to tho velocity of tho wind may bo gained when It Is stated tliat a trnln of freight cars on tht Short Lino near Knysvlllc, and another anoth-er on tho Bamberger rond were blown from tho track nnd into tho ditch. Pinto glass windows were shattered nnd houses were unroofed nil over the city. Ogden suffered damngo to tho extent ex-tent of more than $100,000. At Lagoon, In Davis county, tho damngo was moro than $10,000. Tho wind wns particularly sovoro In Dn-vis Dn-vis county, and tho damngo will bo heavy. Four men wero Injured In Salt Lnko City during tho progress of tho" storm, two seriously. That a great number of persons wero not killed seems nl-most nl-most n miracle, ns tho falling trees swept hundreds of llvo wires across tho streets and sidewalks, Imperiling pedestrians. |