The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-28
SNOW AND RAIN.
The Southern Pacihc Line Is Clear
to Los Angeles.
Nothing Left of Yuma but the Penitentiary and
Southern Pacific Hotel-Atlantic and Pa
cifc Passengers Coming via Ogden.

The line to Los Angeles is clear, and all
trains are moving. The break at Soledad
Canyon was the most serious, and the last
work TO be done was at Tehuenga, below
the Fernando tunnel, where about 200 feet
of treStling had been washed away. A large
force of men under Messrs. Pratt and Wal
lace moved on toward Los Angeles yester-
day afternoon.
The north-bound overland, due here ON
Monday evening, was the first train de-
layed. 1t was held at Langas. and left that
point for San Francisco at o'clock yester-
day morning The south-bound overland
was started from Mojave at 9 o'clock yester-
day morning. The Los Angeles express left
this city yesterday on time.
Beyond Los Angeles and on as far as Col
ton all breaks were reported mended about
noon yesterday. The next task will be to
repair the damaged bridge just beyond
Cotton. This work has not been pushed be-
fore because of the apparently hopeless task
of reaching Yuma for week or so at the
earliest.
ABOVE THE FLOOD MARK.
The Colorado River at Yuma, according
to dispatches at railroad headquarters from
officials at Los Angeles, began rising rapidly
ON Thursday far above the flood mark it
in from the ella River just above town in Il
perfect flood. On Thursday night it had
risen to thirty-threc feet above the low
water mark. and there WAS great alarm on
Thursday afternoon for the railway prop
erty.
The passenger and freight depots were
both flooded and the water rose to the level
of the big Colorado River bridge, wooden
structure 800 feet long, on stone piers, and
one OF the best bridges on the road. For
ion Of fha frap Frai inn ftf
and down against the bridge the building
was blown up by dynamite and was COM
pletely destroyed
The passenger depot of adobe was soon
collapsed by the action of the water. The
fast-hOwing river put great strain on the
bridge but it withstOod the pressure, and
during the night the river began to recede.
Dispatches received yesterday state that the
entire town has been destroyed by the flood
with the exception of the Southern Pacific
Hotel, a two-Story frame structure ana the
Arizona Penitentiary. Both these buildings
are on the high land back of the main town.
The river dropped seventeen inches in seven
hours yesterday, and Yuma residents con-
sequently are feeling less anxious.
TWENTY MILES UNDER WATER.
All the country eastward for nearly
twenty miles is under water more or less,
and the Southern Pacific track is washed
for fully that distance. The Yiooa ex-
tends also for fully three miles this sIIee Of
the long bridge. Trains are runnln resu-
larly between Ell Paso and Tucson but all
west-bound passengers are held at Tucson.
The Atlantic and Pacific people have COM
menced to drive piles for a new bridge at
BarstOw, and in the meantime they are
handling large number of passengers by
making a foot transfer at the above-men-
toned point. A train-load of passengers
was in this manner delivered to the South
ern Pacific on Thursday evening.
Besides the bridge ut Barstow there is
undoubtedly serious trouble farther south,
though the men in the local Office know
nothing about it. Many of the Atlantic
and Pacific passengers have been sent around
via Ogden. A Southern Pacific special with
sixty of these passengers, which left Ogden
on Thursday, arrived here at 1915 last even
ing, and second special left Ogden yester-
day at IL o'clock in the morning and is due
to arrive here this evening
SNOW AND RAINFALL.
The snowfall in the Serras has been
light, and the season is too far advanced for
any serious difficulty on the Central route
from this source. During the twenty-four
hours preceding yesterday noon inches
had fallen at Summit, 3 inches at Truckee
and the same at BOca. The following table
will show the total rainfall up to date at
several points along the line: