The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-22
TRAINS STOPPED
/ OR IN THE DITCH
Wind Blows Cars From Tracks
OF Short Line and Bam-
F; berger Roads.
RIO GRANDE PARTLY OPEN
TRACK CLEAR, BUT NO TELE-
GRAPH WIRE.
RIO GRANDE PARTLY OPEN

Every railroad except the Salt Lake
Route has reports of destruction and
wreckage, and the emergency forces of
the various systems are all at work
The dfspatchers in the offices of the
various railroad companies knew the
story, except, perhaps, for the little
realistic details, at 1890 Saturday night
when. as the wind increased its moan
ing about the buildings of the city, me
keys suddenly became mouonless, the
saunders were stilled, and the terSe but
expressive Zines out told the office
men what was coming.
In twinkling every line. telephone
and Geographic. on both the Rio Grande
and Oregon Short Line roads was down
and out. In a second, Ogden and all
the country TO the northward was cut
off.
But three trains have gone out of this
city for Ogden since Saturday night
when the wires went down on the Rio
Grande system. and these were sent out
wildcat" without schedule.
While the service toward Park City
and Denver was not so badly crippled,
yet it, too, felt the force of the storm
10 some degree.
Creep in Over Rio Grande.
Two trains. hours late. found their
way from Ogden to Salt Lake Sunday
afternoon, and others arrived Sunday
night two of them Short Line trains
that came in over the Rio Grande
tracks.
So far as could be learned last night,
poles are down all the way to Ogden,
and far to the northward. No attempt
will be made to run the trains on any
thing like schedule time until tele-
graphic service has been restored
The Oregon Short Line suffered even
more heavily than did the Rio Grande.
Not q train went out or came into Salt
Lake on this system from the time the
wires went down Saturday night until
Monday Late last evening the Los
Angeles Limited was detoured over the
Rio Grande tracks, running without
schedule.
At Centerville three trains were re-
ported to have been literally blown
from the rails and crashed into the
ditch. In addition to this, about thirty
cars were lifted by the force Of the
gale and hurled tumbling across the
sidetTacks Local yards suffered but
little on any of the lines, but Center
willie seemed to catch the greatest fury
of the tempest.
A wrecker was sent out but was I'M
able to do anything because of the high
velocity of the wind. Nothing could be
done from the Ogden end, because of
the absence of communication
There was no way i'm which the tele-
graph lines could be re-eStablished. as
trains dared not venture out on the
line. 1t is presumed that even a worse
state of affairs obtains to the north
ward. and every available man was
sent on the line, sent out on horses in
ConveyanCes of every description.
The Saltair railway did not suffer. and
the resort escaped with few broken
electric light wires Regular trains
We're run to this resort yesterday, one
in the forenoon and one in the after
noon.
The wind was off-shore on the lake
and the waves did no damage. The hur-
ricane. by some freak. spared the scenic
railway. the pavilion and the bath
houses. The lake was reduced at the
beach until there was but six inches of
water remaining at the end of the
bathing pavilion 1900 feet out. The
ordinary depth of the water at this
point is three feet. 50 the force exerted
by Che wind may be imagined.
Lagoon Badly Damaged.
Lagoon and the Salt Lake &. Ogden
railway did not get off nearly so lightly.
At Centerville siding, between fifteen
and twenty freight and passenger cars
were blown from the rails. The beau
tful Lagoon park buildings were more
or less wrecked. the extent of damage
amounting to at least $4,000.
The shrubbery suffered heavily,
spires and cupolas of buildings were
hurled from their pinnacles, everything
that was not of great weight and Sc
curity being ruined by the rough play
of the elements.
The officials of the railway and La
COON park were importuned TO send a
train out early yesterday morning to
the relief of a number of people, at diff
ferent points between here and La
gOon but refused until the storm
sbated somewhat. A train OF three cars
was sent out under the charge of Con-
ductor Charles Fletcher at $50, how
ever. and had gotten only as far as
CentervilIe when il was caught by the
hurricane and two Of the cars hurled
from the rails, severely bruising the
conductor
AT BOuntiful the entire station build
logs were carried completely away. ac-
cording to reports from there. and the
family of the station agent driven
across the fields for a mile to find shell
ter from the biting winds.
other details of damage. each one of
which increases the amount of loss by
storm. keep coming in, and did so all
last night, as people got to Salt Lake
from various outside points.
AID NOT NECESSARY.
Secretary Shaw Thinks Financial