Show 1 PLAYS HAVOC 1 WIRES High Tension Lines From Provo and Logan in Confusion CAR SERVICE PARALYZED r Lights In lii Hc Residence S Sections Cllon Are lC Out Ont for fot huh Half an Hour Other Hom-Other Other Damage Slight The south wing 0 of the furious windstorm windstorm windstorm wind wind- storm that has boon been prevailing pre in th the northwestern ane anti and north Pacific coas coast states during the last few days and which bc began n to move C eastward carl early yesterday morning struck Salt Lake LI about o'clock yesterday a afternoon after after- noon bringing with It a a. drizzling lIng rain rah which lasted aji un hour or 01 so 80 after th the great force fOlCO of the tho wind had subsided The windstorm held forth locally fo Cor or about an hour and a half haf causing causing- considerable con con- ble damage In this city anti and th the sui rounding countr country For the greater part of or the em carl early ot afternoon the atmosphere was fairly fairl i calm but at the time LImo named the wind took speed and amI at nt I 15 o'clock its velocity ve ye- registered 74 miles 8 an hour This speed however ho prevailed pro only a few fe seconds the average velocity between I t an and i 30 o'clock being two twenty I miles an nn hour hO According to reports rec received In Salt Lake the wind extended ex e- tended as far ar south a as Provo Pro In Utah the velocity to that thal point being about the tho same as that recorded l In this city 1 I Great Grent The greatest damage cau caused ed by the sto storm ln in the vicinity of ot Salt Lake Lal-ce was confined to the high tension electric ferd wh wires s coining coming Into this th city from Provo on the south and anel Lo Logan nn and Bear river rl on tho the north as well as RS those from points nearer the city With Ith this exception the thc damage done by bythe bythe bythe the storm was comparatively ely sll slight ht So far as ns was learned only a f fw iw tw trees were felled to the ground and only small sinaI damage was done to Jo local al prop prop- erty erly The on only accident resulting from the storm as far Car as could be learned was that which befell Mrs Irs J I 3 Larson Larsen o of 1505 1503 Indiana avenue a As s site she e was crossing commercial street on Second I South street about aboul 30 1 she sIte was I struck on the left let side of or the face by bya a small falling lIIng sign It made malle a slight cut In her face and site she was removed to her home in a carriage Car Service Jeo Stalled The entire entile local car service system was practically paralyzed from 5 15 to to G 30 o'clock and the tho lighting system except in the Ule business section of the city was as out of commission for a half hour hour about ic same time lime as a result of the damage to the high tension tension wires The Telluride high lines from Provo and Logan which furnish power lower to tho the Utah Light and Power company were blown down at I three J oIntA outside of this this city city causIng causing causing caus caus- ing grounds which were quickly re repaired re- re paired The Bear eat rivet river line operatIng operating ing leg into this city from flom sustained sus sus- l a bicak twenty five miles north of Ogden where two poles were burned burned burn burn- ed 01 UI up and five hundred feet feel of oC cable cabo were ere blown to th thi ground It Is not expected that this line will be he completely completely com corn repaired until mtH this morning A ACoree force Coree of men were put to work worl repaIring repairing repair repaIr- ing tug it shortly after atter the break breal occurred but hut they had not completed their work up to a late hate hour last night OWl Plant Unroofed The trouble that occurred on the Telluride and Bear i rIver Iver high tension lines how however ver was sas not the only damage dam dam- age ago f sustained by the Utah Light it Powel Power com company pan One of the hl big transformers trans trans- formers Cormer at nt the Jordan IonIan transforming station on Jordan 11 river 1 west of oC the elt city burn burned d out about j 15 o'clock and anti the upper power station in Iii Little Cottonwood ean canyon on was completely unroofed by Imy the tho wind about aboul 5 15 o'clock The Tile upp upper tipper r pO Cl power IOSeL station in Little LILLIe Cottonwood canyon Is a a. building forty Corty h by a u hundred feet feel Its tar paper and gravel roof was ripped oft off and anti carried to the east cast side 1 of or tho the canyon I The rafters rafter fell feB In con considerable hl rable numbers numbers num aunt bers hers Imm immediately after after- the tho roo roof had been lifted and the time workmen were compelled to leave the structure as atS a matter of safety They returned however in a It short time tinie and anti covered Co the machinery and anti switchboards with canvas In lit older that they might not be lie injured by the rain lain The accident did not cause a n shutdown at al the plant It was vas during luring the period that intervened intervened inter inter- between the time the tho accidents be began an II to tn occur until s t team steam could bo ho gotten up lip in the central power station in the thc heart of the tho ell city and the Jordan Jordan Jordan Jor Jor- dan power station west of oC the thc elt city that the car service was Avas at a standstill stand stand- still and all lights outside of tho business Ine sections failed to burn The local l telephone companies suffered suffered suffered suf suf- practically no damage e as a result of the tho storm It was stated slated at tho of both companies lust last night that oni only onh slightly more than th the normal normal normal nor nor- mal number of trouble complaints were received Hurricane at Full Fair Grounds I IThe Time The storm ra raged with hurricane force In the vicinity of the Fair Fall Fairgrounds rounds grounds at Ninth West Vest anti and North Temple Templo streets for fOl a short hOlt period It completely ly turned over a delivery wagon of the Wilson Meat Grocery company b by a boy named John Cochran Cochran rolled roiled out on the tho ground round and was waa painfully bruised Another nother boy whose name nam could not be learned was wa riding In the wagon and was waK also bruised up but only slightly Another wagon standing in front o of the Wilson Meat leat Grocery company's company's com corn pany's store was alt also o blown over as was vas a bUSI buggy belonging to a Mr 11 Macomb Macomb Ma- Ma comb while It was wa in motion The force of the wind blew blev practically practical all the windows out of oC the Jackson school building located In the same nel neIghborhood neighborhood neigh neIgh- h- h uprooted several fc trees a ant and ad ripped shingles off roofs of several houses near the tho school |