Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-16
STORM BOUND.
The Overland Trains Stopped
by WashOuts.
BAD LUCK OF THE RAILROADS
Communication With the East and
San Francisco Cut or for q
Day or More.

DAY Win poIIecI 6VhiauCu6 VI DAu LUCK
for the railroads. The incessant rain
softened the ground under the tracks,
created new channels for the streams,
washed out the roadbeds and submerged
the rails in q variety of different places
on both the Southern Pacific and the
Santa Fe. 1t is difficult to say which
lisa anfFaYsd tno worst: Both Of them
we're completely demofalised when the
day began yesterday. and both of them,
bv the exertion of their utmost endea-
vors, were in fairly good shape by night.
Number II Of the Southern Pacific.
which is due here from.San Francisco at
2 :25 am, will not be in until six o'clock
this morning, or perhaps later. Two
sleepers and coach ran off the track at
Southside. in the Soledad caflon, at 4
O'Clock yesterday morning. The ground
under the track was loose, and the rails
sank down into be mud under the
weight of the train. The engineer,
knowing what condition the roadbed
was in, was running at q very slow rate
of speed, go that no injury whatever
was done either to the train or the pas
sengers in It. The passengers remained
in the car until after daylight, when they
were transferred to cars sent up to their
assistance. They arrived in this city
Yesterday at noon. 1t is estimated that
it will take about eight hours work to
clear the track. 1t is rather difficult
undertaking, as the cars will have to be
lifted up on the rails, and as the whole
thing is submerged deep in . mass Of
soft mud, it is not easy to perform the
operation. Passengers coming on the
train from San Francisco which gets
here regularly at 4 10, were transferred
over the break, and arrived in the city 8
little late.
Yesterday morning, about O'Clock,
the Southern Pacific operator and agent
at Cabazon, just beyond Banning, tele-
graphed to the general Office here that q
terrible cloudburst had taken place in
the mountains, and that the water was
tearing down into the valley in q fierce
food. He said he could hear it roaring
long before If. was in sight;
ct last it came and carried
everything before it. The storm
lasted only a short time. but when it was
over the Southern Pacific track was COM
pletely knocked out. There are half
dozen largo washouts all along from
Mammoth Tank to Indio. The overland
from the East was caught by this storm,
and will be delayed until some time to-
day. Number 10, the east-bound over
land, laid over at Banning waiting for
the road to be repaired at White Water,
where there iE q washout OF 100 feet,
and for the numerous breaks below there
to be bridged over.
Number 20 started out Saturday night,
and got up, se far as Saugus, but was
caught by the disaster in the Soledad
caflon and came back to this city. It
left again last evening at o'clock.
The storm on the Yuma desert appears
to have been quite an unprecedented
affair. Indians and MexicRns who have
lived in the section for many years de-
clare that they had never seen anything
like it.
Csion pass played its old trick on the
Santa Fe road, dumping down great
quantity Of earth all over the track. The
overland was stopped and will not get in
until sometime today. A construction
train was Immediately dispatched to the
pass, and it will probably be cleared out
early today.
All traffic between this city and San
Diego was shut off yesterday by num-
ber of small washouts on the surf line.
At San Juan the end of the bridge was
washed away and at Enc initas there is
some little damage done. As soon as the
storm stopped men were set to work, and
by nightfall the road was in condition
again.
Both the roads escaped injury ON their
connections with San Bernardino. The
Southern Pacific track at Ell Monte has
been repaired, and its lines to Santa
Monica and San Pedro and Anaheim are
all right. Owing to the confusion oc-
casioned by the upsetting of the sched-
ule and the fears that the track had been
washed away during the night, the Santa
Fe held back it's local trains until noon.
At night everything was in shape again,
except that the overlands were still out
of the calculation.