Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1901-02-23

pairs the train passed over, and at a
point about two miles north OF the
Summit the track was found to be
covered for a distance of about twelve
feet with an accumulation of debris
fully twelve inches in depth.
At a culvert neal Pine Station the
train was again brought to a stand
still, the passage having filed up, and
the water overlooking the embark
ment for a considerable distance,
washing away the roadbed, but no Sc
rious damage being done at this point.
On reaching Curlew Flat, formerly
known as Blackburn Station, about
four miles south OF Paul Lanes upper
ranch, and about forty-four miles from
Eureka, it was found that the track
had been washed away for a distance
Of sixty feet. There had been q big
culvert at this point, which carried
the waters from Curlew, Pete Hansen
and what is known as Old Pine Greek,
under the track from the west to the
east side, and this had been washed
out, it having been unable to carry off
the large volume OF water which had
come down. Mr.. Riddle succeeded in
picking his way across on foot and dis
covered that the grade further on had
also been carried away for a distance
Of 500 yards.
Mr.. Riddle says when the train
reached this point at l 80 on Monday
afternoon. the ice still cliDging to the
sagehrush showed that when the
freeze up occurred on Sunday night
the water had been then fully eighteen
inches higher, and he is confident that
had it not been for this freeze up the
entire track through that neighbor-
hood would have been carried away.
Finding it impossible to reach Pail
SADIE, the train returned to Eureka,
arriving here about 5 P. NJ, and during
the evening Agent Cronaut and Con-
ductor Riddle were busily engaged in
making preparations for the next days
encounter with the washouts.
Conductor Riddle says that judging
from the volume of water he saw go
ing down, and from the conversation
he had with raDchers along the road
he is satisfied Pine Valley is flooded
clear to the foothills. Curlew Flat,
which is a mile wide at the point where
the washout occurred, he said, was
entirely covered with water, while
the current was travelling with the
speed OF a mill race, and as the sec
ton OF road between the Jewell ranch
and Blackburn has heretofore suffered
the most seriously from washouts, he
is afraid the worst inundation is yet tc
be encountered.
E. Boomhower, who met the train
at Alpha on Monday, remarked that
during the thirty years he had resided
on his ranch rear that place he had
never seen so much water go down the
creek as flowed past there on Sunday
afternoon and evening.
Charley Clark, the travelling man,
who was. a passenger on the train,
said that the volume Of water going
through the 300-yard break in the
E. x p. track was greater than is a
ried by the Truckee river in the high
water season.
Several messages we're received here
by Agent Cronant and Conductor
Riddle during Monday afternoon and
evening from superintendent Abbott,
giving instructions as to the necessary
steps to be taken, and when the train
started out again on Tuesday morning
it bore ten men, who had been secured
here to repair the damaged track. As
there is a scarcity of suitable timbers
ucEct biile 10 al IL was uOuknt COulu
be worked to advantage at this end ;
but there is a large supply at Palisade,
and Superintendent Abbott has a work
train with a force OF several men
working this way. The train which
left Eureka Tuesday morning took
bedding for the men, and provisions
sufficient to last several days. The
men will be boarded at Mineral Sta
ton, where there is a large building
containing cooking utensils and every
thing necessary for the occasion.
There are also two carloads of coal
near by, SO the track builders are as
sured of comfortable quarters.
Conductor Riddle was instructed to
take his telegraph instruments with
him and tap the wires at Mineral Sta
ton, in order that progress might be
reported.
In a dispatch to Agent Cronant
Monday afternoon superintendent