The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-05
TRAINS ARE MOVING.

lIAItNO ALL UIOWIVOs
Fourteen on the Santa Fe Are Com.
ing East Through Texas.
The Santa Fe railroad officials. an
nounce today that the flood water in
the Canadian rivers and the Red river
in Oklahoma and Indian Territory has
subsidized. Workmen have been busy
night and day in an effort to re-es-
tablish railway communication, and
have just succeeded in accomplish
ing it,.
Fourteen eastbound trains of the
Santa Fe which were unable to get
by the big washouts on the main line
between Trinidad and Albuquerque
left z! Paso yesterday to detour
through Texas These trains have
been arriving at Fort Worth, Texas,
all day today, and are being sent north
via the Eastern Oklahoma line of the
Santa Fe. They will begin passing
through Topeka about tomorrow
Ten westbound trains are enroute
and they will be gotten out of Fort
Worth to Ell Paso during the day.
Traffic has been kept up in pretty
good shape between here and Denver.
The bridges will be repaired on the
main line between La Junta and Den
yer by tomorrow afternoon and the
regular service will then be begun.
The Colorado Flyer will be re-instat-
ed on Friday night.
Freight traffic is beginning to move
again and by next week traffic will
have almost assumed normal condi-
lions.
The Rock Island railroad has been
detouring through California trains
the same as the Santa Fe. The Rock
Island has only one through train each
way per day and consequently has not
so many trains tied up by the floods.
The line direct west to Denver, of
course, has not been affected, but
much trouble has been experienced on
the Oklahoma and Texas lines.
The worst of the foods have passed
and it now remains to rebuild what
has been destroyed The flood swept
everything before it from the head
of the rivers in the mountains near
Trinidad to the eastern edge of the
Indian Territory. Railroad and wag-
on bridges, telephone and telegraph
wires have been cut off and washed
out and colossal damage done to grow
ing crops. 5na
The water has receded by this time
SO that work may progress towards
repairing all damages.
Eight Went Down With a Bridge.
Oklahoma City. Ok, Oct. 5.-One man
heard from, seven are still missing, and
the names of six are known, of a party
of eight men who went down with the
wagon DTlQSe between Lexington ana
Purcell Monday night at o'clock af-
ter battling with the swift rush of wa
tiers for many hours in their vain at
tempt to prevent the bridge from go
ing, the only connection between the
two towns. Judge Hooker, who lives
at Byers, near Lexington, is the man
heard from but he can tell nothing OF
the other men.
The names of five others known to
have been on the bridge when it went
down are:
Woliverk, manager of the oil
mill at Purcell.
Cliff Cooley, a boy, Purcell.
- Williams, Purcell.
- CARMEL, near Lexington.
Will Taylor, a boy, Lexington.
All the telegraph and telephone wires
in the south and southwest portion of
Oklahoma and the southeastern part of
the Indian Territory in the flooded dis
trict are down and information is hard
to get, but that obtainable is to the
Another rise was reported last night
from Taloga. but it is thought if the
water goes down at the present rate
not much damage could be caused by
a second rise. The Santa Fe depot at
Purcell had four feet of water in it
yesterday forenoon and last night it
was clear. Since last night the Enid
and Anadarko bridge in Caddo county;
the Sapulpa-Denison division bridge of
the Frisco at Francis, I. T, the Choc-
taw bridge at Calvin, I. T., have gone
down.
Santa Fe trains coming into this city
from the north go as far as Noble and
come back. Trains east on the Choc
taw can not go farther than Holden |
Vile. West on the same road they turn
back at Geary. No mails have been
had from the south and southwest for
many hours and it is not known when
any can be had from these sections.
Robert Holland, of Springfield, Mo-, |
superintendent of the Frisco,
arrived here today and after an exami- |
nation of the damage done at Mustang,
where the big Frisco bridge went down |
arranged for a force of men to work
there today. The Rock Island has sent |
Out a large number of men west to re-
pair it's tracks and clear away for the
building of bridges. The extent of the |
damage done in the territory cannot
now be estimated, but it is colossal and
t will be many days before trains run |
anything like their former schedule.
No Such Damage Before
Las Vegas, N. NJ, Oct. 5.-"In the |
age has been sustained before as in
hat stretch" declared General Man |
iger H. U. Nudge, who arrived here |
after walking nine miles through |
If track has been washed away and
TWO great iron bridges are gone. In
places the washout is complete, the
entire roadbed having been destroyed +
0eyOnQ nope OF repair II Will " De
necessary to blast long distance in
he solid bluff in order to build a new
-oadbed.
Mr.. Nudge says that Sunday is the |
earliest possible date at which even a |
EN- mile transfer can be made and by
10 possibility can a train be brought
through before October IA.
A train from Trinidad reached
Springer last night. Trains will move
south from here tomorrow.
A Las Vegas merchant made an eff
'ort to drive to Mora today and was
Unable to get within five miles of the