Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-22
THE WATERS WORK.
The Situation on the Various Rail-
roads Leading South,
a Badly Dcmoralizcd Condition All
Around.

The storm of Saturday night was n
of the severest experienced this season,
its ravages being worst to the south of
us and cutting off railroad communica-
ton over the Kansas City, st. Joseph Il
Council Bluffs, Missouri Pacific, Wabash,
st. Joseph q Western, etc. The follow
ing details of the effects of the storm,
gathered from our st. Joseph exchanges,
will be of general interest:
GENERAL DISASTER.
The Gazette v almost the entire
railroad system of the west has been
damaged more or less. At this place
everything is dead in that regard. The
Kansas City, st. Joseph& Council Bluffs,
Wabash, Hannibal and Narrow Guage
are all abandoned. The st. Joseph n
Western is probably the greatest sufferer.
Almost every bridge between here and
Grand Island on that road is down. 1t
will be several days before the repairs on
the st. Joseph & Western will be made
and trains run again. 1t is thought they
will pnt a train out Thursday morning if
they have no bad luck and no further
rains interfere"
THE ATCHIsoN Il NEBRASKA
is washed out at numerous places, butthe
worst is Mt Width Cloud, where the
bridges are gone and a heavy land slide
is found. The Central branch of the
Union Pacific is so badly washed on its
line west of Frankfort that trains are held
or orders. The Omaha extension of the
Missouri Pacific between st. Joe and
Falls City is useless, as trains go neither
north or south. They are now side
tracked, being the regular mail accommo-
dation and pay car. The Missouri Pa
citic from s. Joe to Kansas. City is en-
tirely abandoned, owing to one bridge
going out with high water and land
slides near Pomroy, Oak Mills, and other
stations.
THE WABASH, ST. LOUIS N PACIFIC.
All trains have been abandoned on
this road, on the branch between st. Joe
and Richmond, as well as the main line.
Trains run on pretty reasonable time on
Monday, but Tuesday they were all
abandoned. The Platte river bridge at
Agency is fully one foot, if not more,
under water. NJ. Henry Russell yester-
day sent a gang of men with a con-
%struction train out to Agency to
chain the bridge fast 30 it could
not float. away. They took chains
with them, and skiffs, that they could
row out and perform the work properly.
In answer to the question as to when
they would put q train out, Mr.. Russell
said just as soon as possible. That if the
water went down in two hours and it was
considered safe, a train would go out in
an hour afterwards. They would put
trains through as soon as possible, and do
all in their power to make the road in
passable condition.
ST. JOSEPH AND WESTERN.
yThere is no change to report regarding
this ~favorite line. The road is severely
damaged Several miles of it is under
water from two inches to three feet.
Much of the road is washed; the banks
have caved; the waters have made the
track soft and dangerous, and almost, if
not quite, every bridge between st. Jo-
seph and Grand Island has floated away
with the tide, and those, if there are
any still in place, are submerged in
water. 1t is safe to say that several days
will have to elapse before a train can
pass over this road, even should the
water go down as rapidly as it came up.
AS soon as practicable, a full force of
hands, with the necessary construction
trains, will be put to work, and the road
placed in condition for business.
KANSAS CITY, ST. JOE q M BLUFFS.
This road is now open from Leaven-
worth to Council Bluffs. A train went
down to Leavenworth Tuesday morning
and n in the evening, and one arrived
in the morning and one in the evening.
The road is passably good between there
and ~Leavenworth, but very poor time is
made. A train of twelve coaches, in
charge of Conductor Covert, left st. Joe
at 4 o'clock Tuesday for Council Bluffs.
The coaches were all filed, and
it was estimated that five OF
six hundred persons were on the train.
fThey proceeded along all right until about
sixty miles had been placed between
them and st. Joseph, and they were com.
PEELED to stop. Whether they turned in
for the night some place is unknown. Nc
trains are moving on any of the Chicago,
Burlington q Quincy branches. All the
bridges are down.