Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-04-28
TRAINS MAY
MOVE TODAY
It is Thought That Repairs Will
Be Completed 50. That Traffic
Can Bs Resumed.
WASH0UTS AT MORLEY
After Getting Western End Fixed, An.
other Tic Up is Caused by Floods
Near Trinidsd...Bridge Unsafe.

Santa Fe trains will commence get
ting through to Santa Fe from thu
east tomorrow. There will be fiftee'
to pass through Lamy tomorrow morn
ing. Trains from the west are al
coming in late.
Nine Trains at Las Vegas.
Las Vegas, N. NJ, April 28.-The
Santa Fe Railway yards at Las Vegas
have the appearance of a metropolitan
union station, being filled with trains
from the coast which are being held
here because Of floods in the vicinity
of Trinidad. mere are now nine long
and heavily loaded passengers in the
yards here, and numbers of others laid
up at different points west of. this
place. The California Limited which
left Los Angeles Thursday is held at
Ration and will be the first train to go
east when the line is repaired. A mes.
sage received here last night at San.
ia Fe headquarters from the division
trainmaster, who is at the scene OF
washouts at Morley, is to the effect
that 1t will be impossible to repair the
break before late this afternoon.
Should the weather remain fair it is
hoped to get some of the trains out,
but If there Is more rain, conditions
will grow continually worse, and the
blockade will continue indefinitely
The pile trestle bridge over the Las
Animas River at Morley, ten miles
west of Trinidad, is in an extremely
dangerous condition and requires the
efforts of over 1875 men to keep it in
position.
Fifteen Trains at Trinidad.
Trinidad, Colo, April 28.-The San
ia Fe tracks are in a very dangerous
condition for distance of ten miles
west of this city. The continued rains
and the melting snow keeps them in
this condition, although several train.
loads of rock have been hauled to the
weak points to be used in strengthen
ing the roadbed. A landslide occurred
at Morley last night. There are now
fifteen passenger trains held here and
not car has moved through here for
four days. 1t is expected, however,
that traffic can be resumed some time
this afternoon.
Traffic Resumed to Albuquerque.
albuquerque, April 2S.-The first
trains to come into Albuquerque from
the west, arrived yesterday morning
at a quarter to eight o'clock The first
was Sundays Chicago limited No. 4,
which had been held at Gallup. 1t was
followed by trains No. and which
left the coast last Saturday, and which
were consolidated into one train at
Gallup. Next came combination train
of Nos 2 and s, which left San Fran.
cisco and Los Angeles on Sunday last
Each Of the trains which arrived here
consisted of thirteen cars, enough cars
to form whole train having bee,
turned back west at Gallup to take the
place on the west end Of part of the
necessary rolling stock now held UP
near Trinidad.
The trains made the hundred AMI
forty-flve miles from Gallup to this
city in fourteen hours, leaving the
Carbon City at o'clock on the pre-
ceding evening, thus making record
OF a little over ten miles an hour;
I'VE fairly crawled most OF the way"
said passenger last night. Though
they have dumped countless trainloads
Of rock into the washouts the track
ls vely unsafe and only the slowest
speed Is permitted"
This morning just before train No.
4, which left Los Angeles Sunday
night arrived in Albuquerque, man
whose name was not. learned, riding
In one Of the chair cars went violent
" insane and had to be taken to a
hospital.