The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-06
ALL TIED UP.
Santa Fe Trains Are. Stopped by
WashOuts.
Those Due to Leave Thursday
Still at Usage City.
TWO RIVERS RAGING.
NeOsho and Cottonwood Are
Causing Trouble,
Damage on the 'sCut Off" is Re-
paired.
TWO RIVERS RAGING.

Santa Fe trains Nos. and l. which
were due to leave Topeka at 11:40 a. m.
and 1.15 p. m. Thursday, did not pull
out of the Santa Fe depot till O'Clock
last night. They got as far as Usage
City, and are now being held there.
They are unable to get any further be-
cause of high water in the Neosho and
Cottonwood rivers in the vicinity of
Reading and Emporia.
Superintendent Mcclellan of the east
ern division is at the scene of the trOu-
BILE Reports received from him are
very meager and uncertain.
Today's No. and No. 1 arrived about
two hours late, No. getting in here at
about 1870 and No. 1 at 3 o'clock. They
were sent over the main line from Kan
sas City. It is expected that the dam
age to the main line viii be repaired by
the time they reach Emporia.
A short 81 out Of Emporia was talk
ed of this morning, but it was decided
to await the arrival of the trains
A short s. was sent out of Topeka
last night, on the schedule of No. 8,
which was tied up at Emporia, as re-
ported in Thursdays State Journal.
It is stated by the officials here that
nothing at all has been received from
Emporia to show whether or not this
mornings rain at Topeka extended as
far south as Emporia, but it is known
that the swollen rivers have been rising
during the night, and that the situation
grew worse instead Of better. Trains
. and II were sent out of Topeka last
night only after assurances were re-
ceived from Emporia that they could be
sent through The officials here We're
on duty till far into the night. When
and 1 reached Usage City, Superintend-
ent Mcclellan was obliged to stop them,
because of the condition of the track
near Emporia. He thought that he
would be able to get them through by 10
o'clock this morning. but the water rose
during the night and up to the present
time 1 and ; are still at Usage City.
It is announced this n Orning that the
cut off is now able to handle traffic,
the damage there having been repaired
Had it not been for the assurance OF
Superintendent Mcclellan that the track
on the main line would be open for ser
vice this morning, ii is probable that
No. and 1 would have been hauled
back to Topeka, and sent west over the
cut off by way of Lawrence and OF
taWa.
Trainmen coming in from Emporia
state that about a mile of track this
side of Emporia is under water. and
that the damage can not yet be estf-
mated.
The track on the Minneapolis and Nc
Pherson branch is damaged and trains
have not been out of Florence over that
branch for "A hours.
For six hours Thursday evening the
Santa F'e depot here presented in a de-
gree the scene of a union passenger sta
ton when the two through passenger
trains Nos. and 1 lay here on the sid
ing awaiting word concerning the wash
out situation this side of Reading.
Swelled far beyond its banks by the
heavy downpour of Wednesday the head
water Overrun the tracks south of the
Neosho river proper carrying away the
ballast and making the track so soft
that it was regarded as unsafe for the
passage of trains. Early in the evening
a work train was started out of Topeka
with quantity of cinders, timbers and
material for placing the roadbed in the
best possible condition temporarily
Superintendent c. T. Mcclellan, who
had been on the scene of the cutof
washout all day. went to the main line
breach and the trains We're held here
awaiting advices from him. until about
9 o'clock Before that time it had been
planned to have them go over the Rock
Island from Topeka to Hutchinson and
the local officials were ready to make
this move when the order showing that
the main line was clear came. Then
they proceeded after the long delay
The passengers were patient as they
could be under the circumstances, Ioafed
under the Sixth street viaduct, lolled
about in the cars or wandered around
town, per inclination. At the Harvey
eating house supper began at $50 and
] continued without intermission until =