The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-13
AND FLOODS.
All the Great Lines Centerins In Houston
Are Open for Business.
ARE NEARLY AlL REPAIRED
Through Traffic ON All the Roads
viii BE Resumed Tonight or To-
morrow Morning.

The railroad situation continues TO i'm
prove. and this morning the embargo re-
sulting from floods and washouts will be
almost entirely removed. Business is rap
idly assuming It's normal condition, and
nearly all the lines centering In Houston
have already or will today resume through
traffic.
All Houston and Texas Central trains
between this city and Austin ran on sched-
ule time yesterday. The business on this
branch is exceptionally heavy at present,
but nevertheless everything is moving
along with celebrity and dispatch, and not
the slightest mishap or hitch interfercd
with the working of the road yesterday
The Improvement 9f the tIN,k in the
vicinity of Hearne is progressing at a
very rapid rate. and Superintendent DAT
fan and Lee have large forces Of men in
that section rebuilding broken bridges
and otherwise repairing the washouts.
From reports received here last night
there is every propect that the entire line
of the Houston and Texas Central will
be open for through business by tomorrow
night or early Saturday morning.
AS stated in yesterdays Post, the Mis-.
souri,, Kansas and Texas railroad is open
for freight and passengers from end to
end of its road, and did rushing business
in all departments yesterday.
The Calves tOn HQrrfsnurp and San
tonic Sunset Route) will be wide open
for through traffic today. The washouts
on the line have been repaired, and this
afternoon one of its trains from Houston
will cross the BraZos river at Richmond
for the first time in many days. The main
trouble or interruption with this road
was caused by overfiows upon its track
and now that the waters have sufficiently
subsidized to permit the running of trains.
the service will, as already stated, be re-
sumed some time this afternoon. West
bound passengers who arrived here last
night over the Sunset or who will get
here this morning, Will all leave by TINS
afternoons Sunset train for San Antonio.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad
has made arrangements with the Houston
and Texas Central to operate its freight
trains On the Montgomery branch by way
of Brennan, Hampstead and Navasota.
and gave out the following notice ycster"
day afternoon:
Effective at once, the Santa Fe will
handle all business between Navasota and
Brennan over the Houston and Texas Gem
trial tracks, and all freight Will be moved
without any unnecessary delay over that
route"
This will relieve the present congestion
In the lumber traffic on the Conroe branch,
and will generally facilitate trade and
commerce in that section.
1t is expected that the entire Santa Fe
line will be repaired and opened for bus
mess by Saturday, the only breaks of a
serious character on the road being those
between Richmond and House, near Ar
cola These washout will be all renuilt
and through traffic re-estab lished on the
day mentioned.
In the meantime, the Santa Fe is wide
open for business and is gathering in all
that is offered II. Yesterday 1t maintained
lis through service by using the track of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas af far as
Sealy, and by this means it ran its passen-
ger trains as per schedule.
kilograms received here last evening
show that all the washouts on the San
Antonio and Arkansas Pass railway, with
the exception OF those between Wallis and
Houston, have been repaired and large
force of men is now at work on this por-
ton OF the track. IT is probable through
traffic will be open on this line within
twenty four hours, and much sooner II It
sees fit to use the Sunset rails as far as
Eagle Lake where it can make connection
with its own road. At any rate, the Aran-
sas Pass will soon have overcome the
great disaster which the oyerfiows made so
general, and 1t is likely 1t VIII be IN con-
ditlon to receive through business some
time this afternoon or tomorrow morning.
The New York, Texas and Mexican the
Macaroni) will come through from Victoria
to Houston this evening, and, commencing
tomorrow morning, will run ITS trains
on schedule time. The only interruption
II encountered, and TO which 1t had to
succumb was at the crossing of the Brazos
river near Richmond, and the floods at
that point having gone down, there Is
no longer any obstacle in the prosecution
OF its business.
A Railroad Mans Thanks.
Like all other good communities, the
people of Yoakum were not slow in re-
tor out