Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-05-24
THE RAILWAYS.
THEY ARE HAVING A TOUGH TINE
OF 1T.
All the Trains Behind Time-Less Than
One.Third II the Oregon Short Line
OPerated-Why Gully One Passenger
Car Comes 10 HALEY ana Caldwell.

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One'Third "f the Oregon Short Line
OPerated-Why Gully One Passenger
Car Comes TO HALEY ana Caldwell.
The warm weather is melting the
snow IN the mountains so rapidly that
destructive washouts are reported from
all the inter-mountain country. Dur
lrg the past week, all the railway trains
on the Denver 4 Rio Grande, Uulon
and Central Pacific, Oregon Short
Line, Utah Northern, ETC., have been
delayed from a few hours to three DAYS,
The ID. & r. G.. train due in Salt
Lake last Tuesday did not arrive un-
til Thursday; and the Union Pacific
train due at Ogden Wednesday did
ro1 reach there until II o'clock YES
terday morning. The trouble to this
last train was the washing out of a
long trestle work near Rawlins, which
was replaced by bridge in about IS
hours from the time Of beginning work.
The transcontinental express was the
hrss train to reach the break, and the
passengers speak in the highest terms
OF the efficiency of the working force
sent to repair the break. They state
that in one night the timbers were
brought and the bridge put together,
50 that nothing remained to do at day.
light but to level up, lay the rails, and
test the structure. 1t went up as if by
magic.
The Oregon Short Line is washed
out in over 20 places, and the only
practicable part of the road is from
Caldwell to Pocatello. About rs
miles west Of Caldwell the track is
washed away, and part of the con-
struction force has been brought
from the extreme west end of the
road, to repair the break.
At the east end 10 bridges are
washed away, as far as known, and at
least a week will be required to re-
pair the breaks SO that trains can
pass. Such extensive destruction of
railway has never been known before.
1t seems as if everything worked
against the Union Pacific this year.
While the Oregon Short Line is
impossible, the Utah Northern track
is under water in places, and travel
may be stopped on this line any day.
AT present passengers to and from
Caldwell and Wood River are trans.
ferred to Union Pacific cars at
Granger, and to Utah Northern cars
at PocatHlo. The mails are also
transferred at these points, and pas
sengers, express, freight and mail sent
around by way Of Ogden.
The Union Pacific management is
IN bad shape to contend with the
breaks, as for some months past the
force Of section hands has been greatly
reduced. The sum required then
to pay the hands off, each month, will
now last for 10 months. The force
must therefore have been reduced
nine-tenths. When serious breaks
occur green hands must be secured.
who do not understand the work, and
repairs are necessarily slow.
As only two trains, with four pas.
senger cars, were left on the Oregon
Short Line after the breaks, these had
to be split up into four, to keep the
unobstrncted part OF the road in oper-
alton. This accounts for the fact that
only one passenger car comes to Hal
ley and Caldwell daily, instead of two,
as heretofore. But this is entirely in
adequate, as over sixty passengers
left Pocatello last night for the west.
OF this number As were for Wood
River, II Getting off at Bellevue, and
the remainder at HALEY. About half
a dozen passengers remained at Poca.
tello rather than come on vest. The
car was SO crowded that at least a
dozen men were unable to obtain
seats at Pocatello.
Arrivals Mt the HAilnv Antnl