Show SATURDAY HIGHTS STORM considerable damage done to the shade trees some buildings blown down curfs surfs store room damaged plate glass front blown in damage to goods other damage fire alarm knocked out lights out the wind storm of saturday night was one of the worst la the history of ogden city during the past few years nothing like it has teen experienced perien ced since the storm of september 1896 when the kiesel warehouse was blown down the wind began to rise about and strengthened with marvelous rapidity until it reached its highest velocity from 1030 to 1 in the morning probably 60 miles an hour would not be too high a guess as to the velocity of the wind when it was in its glory and the way in which it tore up the trees blew down outhouses out houses and barns and otherwise played havoc with the arrangements and architecture of man was an invitation to study the strength of that which has never yet been controlled the damage done in a calculation from a money value was not very great as the reports from over the city do not include the destruction of many buildings great or small but when the damage to the physical beauty of some of the lots to the decorations in the shape of shrubs trees etc is considered there is hardly an estimate to be made ogden city streets are lined with beautiful large and inviting shade trees they have been tended with almost loving care and they have been brought to a condition of benefit to all who may walk the streets in the summer as a means of protection from the over warm rays of the eun and in the winter as a break against the chilly blasts these were the sufferers and in wanton recklessness the wind from the east played with them grow ing rougher in its demeanor until overstepping all rules of propriety the I 1 trees were grasped in its unfolding enfolding en arms and cast to the ground torn from the earth by the roots and left lying there ruined for all time the parks suffered in this way there are many trees off their feet in lester and liberty parks and all along the streets where are the oldest trees and the tallest taj lest they have gone down before jhb grim reaper i of the other damage burts biff display window was blown in early in the storm a number of the fire alarm wires were burned out the telephone system was recklessly mixed up and to a certain extent crippled cutting ogden off arm telephone connection both north and mouths the telegraph system was dohe up for a time the lighting system was laid off and they are subjects of sympathy to the amount of about 1000 the waterworks water works was given too much of a load and there was work for the force on repairs at second street a barn was blown down while there were in it a horse a buggy and ai wagon the horse escaped but the buggy and wagon are wrecks query how did the horse get away the protected front of the thomas hall was taken to the street by he playful breeze and there was a scattering of trees along the same street the bench seemed to have buffered the most from the jn though he south end dt washington avenue suffered considerable near J W abbotts place a tall poplar about seventy feet high was brought low and ahe tops reached about feet across tha street car track it fell between 1035 and 1050 and the washington avenue car making its last trips went by there at about 1040 with a clear track when he returned his headlight would not work the city was in darkness and he could see nothing he was running along feeling his way over the rails when be seamed to run into a whole grove ha stopped the car and rushed into a nearby house and ailed it he was near lester park there was a laugh at his mistake and he crawled back to the car and found that the car was still on the track A saw and ax soon let him by and he put the car in th ehouse glad to bo through for the night all the way to willard on the north and to farmington on the south there was damage done at and near five points many of the tall poplar shade trees went the way of the others but strange to say the fruit trees seemed to have been invulnerable they were not tall enough to tempt the wind and their roots are more deeply set in the earth |