Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-29
RECONSTRUCTION.
The Work of Repairing
WashOuts Goes Tn.
ADVANCE MADE YESTERDAY
The Northern Line of the Southern
Pacific in Bad Shape-COn-
ditiOn of the Santa Fe.

The San Pedro line Of the Southern
Pacific is whole again, 80 this city can
sendan receive passengers to and from
the North. Trains are running between
this city and that port on schedule time.
A gentleman who made the trip to San
Pedro day before yesterday says that the
reports Of the damage done in that di-
rection are very far from being exagger-
ated and he declares that very lively
work has been done by the company to
get the track in usable shape in so short
space Of time. In one place he says
there was yawning chasm under the
track into which three or four carloads of
sand in bags had to be dumped to make
an impression upon it.
The important feature of the opening
of this connection is that it allows the
Southern Pacific to bring up their con-
struction materials from San Pedro to
attack the work on the other lines with
greater vigor. At noon yesterday Mr.
Flanders, the Superintendent of bridge
building for the Southern Pacific, went
to work WITH pile driver and q gang of
eighty men on the north bridge
over the Los Angeles river, which
carries the track to Mojave. Last even
ing the pile driver from the north arrived
and began work at the other side of the
came bridge, and q connection will soon
be established in that direction. The
Tejunga bridge is now passable, and the
landslides are being cleared away. The
chances are, however, that this branch
of the road will not be entirely open for
more than week. The track between
here and Saugus will probably be all
right tomorrow.
1t is expected that the line to Yuma
will be repaired 80 that a train can get
through today. The San Gabriel river
is still running very high at Ell Monte,
and it is difficult for the pile-driver to
work. Transfers will have to be made at
this point for several days. Another
load of passengers got into East Los An
geles by the hand-car special yesterday,
and about ton of mail was carted into
the city. This is the eastern mail of
three days which has been collecting on
the hands of the Southern Pacific since
the confusion began. The mail question
has been considerably compile tied by the
fact that just at Christmas time a much
larger quantity of matter has to be han
died than at any other season of the year.
Work is already beginning on the lower
Southern Pacific bridge over the river.
The pile-driver will start in today, and
temporary structure will probably be
erected in couple of days. A train will
be sent out this afternoon from East Los
Angeles, carrying the mail and passen-
gers. They will be the first who have
gone through toward the East since the
blockade began.
The injuries to the Southern Pacific
line north of Saugus turn out to be much
more serious than was at frat supposed.
1t was not until yesterday that the Off
cials at this end OF the line learned of
their extent and severity. The expert
ences of party of passengers who came
through on foot are narrated in another
column. These gentlemen declare their
belief that the road cannot be put even
in temporary shape inside of the next ten
days.
On the Santa Fe line train left San
Diego early yesterday morning and got
up as far az Santa Ana. A train was run
from Oceanside to San Bernardino, the
passengers being transferred at Lytle
creek. Another managed to get from
San Jacinto to Riverside. Connection is
established between Pasadena and San
Bsrnardino, and the mail for the East
from this city was sent out to Pasadena
in wagon.
Things will probably be put in such
shape on the line between here and
Santa Ana today that trains will manage
to get over the whole distance 70 San
Diego, with one transfer at Rivera.
The Caion pass is still in bad shape,
and probably will not be cleared for
three or four days. All overland passen-
gers are being sent around by way of
Deming. The first load Of these will get
in tomorrow.