The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-29
MILES Of RAILWAY
WIPED FROM MAP
Salt Lake Route Will Not Run
Through Trains for a
Month.
III MAY BE FIFTY DAYS
BEFORE LINE is REPAIRED
Road Suffered by Storm More
Than Any Road in History
of Country.

Perhaps never in the history of rail-
rosding in this country was so great
damage inflicted on a road by storm as
was done Saturday night TO the Salt
Lake Route between Acoma and Las
Vegas. a distance of loo miles.
Wiped From the Map.
The storm practically wiped from on
the railway map 100 miles of railway,
Railroad officials who have gone over the
line. or what was the line, state that the
destruction wrought by the flood was the
greatest they have ever seen.
Fifty Days to Repair Road.
Every indication now Is that with all
the force that can be put TO work upon
the sections named II will require from
forty to fifty days to make the repairs
tc the roadbed and rebuild the tracks so
as to enable trains to run. Tho 10th to
tie 18th OF May. il Is now stated is the
time when the road will be restored.
Piledrivers at Work.
Early this morning a piledriver from
the Southern Pacific road left Salt Lake
to reinforce the one sent down on Mon
day. Another piledrlver is now at work
between Elgin and Carp and still another
Is at work above Rocks,
Van Housen Takes Long Walk.
Sunday morning Superintendent Van
Housen and r. K. Brown, division engi-
Reer Of maintenance and way. left Rocks
on foot and Tuesday evening showed up
at Mnto ten miles west OF Calientc. a
distance of seventy miles Part OF this
trip was made by climbing along the
side OF the mountains.
Work on West End.
On the west end OF the damaged sec
ton. General Manager Wells and Division
Engineer OF Maintenance and WAY les
sup. with full complement of men and
piledriYerS. are at work
Superlnten1c lent Dyer of the telegraph
system has three gangs of men along tho
right of way repairing the damages to
the telegraph line. This he will prob
ably have completed In two or three days.
Train Between Washouts.
on the siding at Eccles is double
header train OF twenty cars loaded with
oranges. Part of them are In iced cars
and part are not. Between Mimic and
Eccles. on the main line, Is another dead
engine caught between waShouts there
The crews OF these trains, OF course have
been compelled TO abandon them
Trains Run to Aconla.
Beginning this morning. the passenger
service OF No. ] was extended 70 Acoma
Cahente. 1t will probably be ten days be
fore n train Will run into Caliente from
the east
Supplies Giving Out
BY the temporary abandonment OF
trains in this region, the residents along
the line and in the towns are left with
out Supplies, At Caliente, the base OF sup
plies for a vast mining region the stocks
are being rapidly depleted, and IL is feared
that much suffering will result. The same
a IN
devastated district,
Financial Loss Heavy.
In addition to the direct loss for repair
work and rebuilding of the road, which
will he enormous, the loss TO the railroad
by the suspension OF traffic, which has
been unusually heavy, both in freight and
passengers, will also be very heavy.
Heaviest Storm Ever Known.
As stated in The Tribune Monday no
such ralnstorm has visited the State of
Nevada within the memory of the oldest
inha bltants.