Show HOUSES ARE BLOWN OVER EAST wint WAS AT ITS WORST AT 2 A M business section suffered the loss of a number of plate glass windows from thursdays standard tho east wind that swept the city and whirled clouds ot dust around the corners and inco the eyes of pedestrians left a well defined path of de st ruction it started wednesday after noon at 5 and increased in ve locaty during the night to nearly forty miles an hour on thirteenth street the incomplete house of A W putman was blown to the ground and entirely wrecked the walls of pressed brick and part of tho root had been built the material was twisted broken and piled up into a useless mass ot brick rock and lumber the wind sweeps from the can yon and strikes this neighborhood with all its force many fences from five points to sixteenth street were leveled to the ground and in some houses windows were blown in on grant and thirty second street the residence of geo stevens was corn plemely wrecked the cast side of the house tell in after an extremely strong gust of wind had thrown ita strength against the masonry this allowed the uneasy elements to rush in lift on the root and let it fall crashing to the ground broken and wrecked the house was made of red pressed brick aal stone the damages will go beyond the 1 mark in the business section of the city not so much damage was done the business blocks are too firmly built to go down before a mountain wind and they protect less stable buildings and also the plate glass windows thero were a number of windows cracked and broken however the big plate glass front of T H carrs drug store was cracked from top to bottom and the show window of tribe jones was forced in and broken into fragments the small windows in the gasberg house were smashed some signs with glass lights were hurled to the ground bicycle racks cane for rubbish awnings and other loose contrivances on the street were upset the dust found its way into the show windows and this morning costly goods were covered with the fino particles some tin roots cre ripped up and curled into cylinders 0 ruined hoof ing considerable damage of this nature was done to the woodmansee Woodman building on street the good people who have finished their tall house cleaning were filled with wrath ahm they beheld the window aills and carpets ladau with a heavy coat of flue brown dust hiis tiis grievance is common all over the city it has been some years since a house was blown down by the periodical canyon winds that two demolished last night is evidence of abo high speed which reached its maximum about 2 a m the hot days wath the sudden change to cool nights are responsible for the high winds the valley becomes warm the air rises and then the cold mountain air whirls down ogden canyon at terrific speed |