Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-27
THE RAILWAY wAsHoUTS.

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juries Not Serious.
The railroads were almost completely
blockaded ali day yesterday. The Santa
Fe's line to Redondo was unharmed by
the storm, and the Southern Pacific's
line to Saugus escaped injury. On all
the other lines the damage done by tho
storm was of greater or less severity, and
it will probably take two or three days
to make complete repairs.
On the Southern Pacific line to San
Pedro there are twenty-one washouts be-
tween Cerritos and Wilmington in the
same locality thas suffered in the Christ
mas storm. Repairs will probably be
effected today and trains run ae usual.
None of the breaks are very serious. On
the Santa Ana branch the track was sub
merged most of the way from Vinedale to
Downey. Three bents are gone out Of
the New river bridge. This, too, is the
same locality where the last storm
worked such ravaQes as to cause the
closing of the line for over week. On
the Tustin branch about 100 feet of track
| is washed out near Mcpherson. Re-
pairs will not be finished until the mid
die of the week.
The Santa Monica line, which was the
only part of the Southern Pacific system
that got off scot free in the Christmas
deluge, was caught in the storm of Satur-
day night. About 1000 feet between
The Palms and the Soldiers Home sta
tion was washed out 80 as to be impassa-
BILE. This will be repaired today.
Between this city and Pomona there
were thirteen small washouts, all Of
which were speedily repaired, 40 that
| number 20 from the East managed to
tget in yesterday evening. Beyond Po-
mona no serious injuries were reported.
As to the north, it is difficult to say
exactly what the injuries are. They are
limited to the Soledad pass, the road
being clear as far as Saugus, and from
Southside north. The reason why it is
not always possible to give information
with regard to the condition of this sec--
ton OF the line is that it ia included in
a different division of the road,
and no reports are made to
received here yesterday to hold back
train No. IS, which regularly leaves for
the north at 80, until the time for dis
patching 20, which is 10 80 in the even
ing. 1t is not easy to say when the train
from San Francisco will get in, but it is
believed that repairs will be made in
such shape as to let ii in this morning.
The exact state of the Santa Fe line
could not be learned Saturday night as
the wires were down in several directions.
There was small landslide at Caravans,
but the track between this city and Pasa-
dena was repaired yesterday afternoon.
From Pasadena on to San Bernardino
there we're no washouts of serious
character. The Csjon pass, where the
ravages of the last storm have Just been
repaired, and which gang of fifty men
left day before yesterday, was closed for
a short time with landslides. As
the rain did not continue any length of
time these were not serious and the
overland of Sunday will get in this morn
ing. As luck, would have it Saturday
was the first day for weeks that the over
land got in on time and it will probably
be several days before it will meet the
schedule again.
The line to San Diego is closed by q
number of washouts and by the partial
demolition of the bridge at Rivera. Five
spans are gone. One span is gone out of
the Ballona bridge. The chances are
that there will be no trains to San Diego
for day or two but that by transfer of
passengers connections will be established
today.