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Show GREAT STORM ON THE LAKE H H Waves Dash Over the Cut-off, but the Damage Is Slight Trains Not H ' Allowed to Move While the Storm Rages Wind H Blows 72 Tides an Hour. H A veritable hurricane raged on the H lake last night, the w.nd reaching the H velocity of seventy-two miles sin hour. Hl FrcishL trains were delayed for bev- H' era hours as it would have been lm- H' pos6ib,lc for a train to have crossed HH the Ogden-Lticin cutoff while the Hi storm was at its height Hji The wind, which blew from tbe north- Hl west, was the most bevere that has H been recorded by the Southern Pa- H clfic for the past year Waves dashed , entirely over the fill and trestle and H huge boulders which support the fill H near Ilambo were roiled by the wares H like marbles The wind reached Its H greatest velocity at about 9 30 last H night and abated at 3 o'clock this morning. No trains wero permitted to venture on the cutoff during this time Superintendent T F Rowlands, Assistant As-sistant Superintendents T. Fitzgerald. Fitzger-ald. F. S Smith and J. lleddy left Ogden on a special train at an early hour this morning and as soon as It was possible an inspection of the track was made. No particular damage was found find traffic was resumed The btorm was the most sovere that the cutoff has ever withstood without with-out the track be.ng damaged. Railroad Rail-road officials state that were it not for the work of raiping the tracks and widening the fill with heavy rock, which was completed last summer, great damage would' surely have resulted re-sulted from the blow. imm i ' i i ij i i i 1 1 1 1 i i i i i 1 1 1 1 i irrn |