The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-14
SALT LAKE ROUTE
OPENS ON SUNDAY
After a Suspension of Three
Weeks Traffic, 1t Is Said,
viii Be Resumed.
TICKETS ON SALE TO
Los ANGELES TODAY
Cost of Calamity to the Road
Is Now Estimated at
81, 100000.

Line open Sunday. l have advised all
concerned TO accept all freight, Including
live stock and pcrlshablcs"
This is the brief official notification OF
the reopenins of the Salt Lake Route for
through traffic. which IL is stated, begins
this evening. received by J =. Moore.
local district freight and passenger agent
OF the Clark road from his superior at
Los Angeles. Fl. ". Gillette The Los
Angeles Limited Will be the flrst train
out and Will leave on the initial trip at
i:45 this afternoon. The westbound ex-
press Will depart at l2;oj and the Limited
from the west Is expected to arrive on
time this evening at 5:3j
Line Closed for Three Weeks.
For three weeks Division super.ntcnd-
ent Van Iousen. Engineer Brown and
other officials OF the operating, malnte-
nance or way and engineering depart
nents. WITH an army OF men. havc
worked night and day 10 repair the de
Struction caused by the deluge OF TWEEN
ty-one days ago. 1t was a re calamity,
unprecedented In its severity and deYas-
tatton, and the time II has occupied In
It's repair The proyerblal Oldest inhabI-
tantS recollection il defeated In an at
tempt TO recall such storm. and the
disaster has been added 10 from time 10
time by a recurrence OF the storm, less
severe, however. 5ut which has washed
away much OF The grade that h.d been
temporarily repaired. and otherwise I'm
pedcd and hampered progress. Forces
have been at work night ard day. When
II Is remembered that the storm left i'll
Its wukc a Strotch OF track for a hun
dred miles more or less devastated. the
work tGUt has been accomplished By the
repair gang can be better appreciated.
II has been an arduouS task but as sue
cess rayor@ the brave, SO m this Instance
have the lubors OF the officials been at
nt.n
What the Calamity Cost.
What the calamity has cost the road
ii Is hard to estimate. conservative
estimate, however, or the Losses In re-
cclptS for freight and passengers and
the cost OF repairing damage would be
the road has been seriously injured But
like the physical damage. that Is not
irreparablc. The officials Will see TO II
at once that the road viii be put in such
4 condition that recurrence OF Il SIM
llar calamity will be impossible. And
those who have charge of the freight and
passenger departments VIII begin their
work with rodoublcd energy and tho lost
prestige VIII soon be regalncd
General Rejoicing,
There was general rejoicing In the local
Offices Friday when the announcement OF
the resumption OF traffic was received,
and one feels sure that the hearts OF the
citizens OF Salt Lake, In fact OF those
road passes, VIII be with them IN their
time OF celebration.
A dispatch from San Francisco says
that ex-senator Thomae Kearns OF Utah
has returned to that city after attend
Ing meeting OF those Interested In the
San Pedro. Los Angeles x Salt Lake
railroad. He said that the railroad,
which had suffered severely from storms.
would be reopened Sunday. and added:
Will Rebuild Part of Road.
1--WE have decided TO rebuild tho road
SO that it will stand In future the hcnv-
lest floods. In other words, We arc pre-
pared to spend between half n million and
n million dollars to put the line In good
condition. Perhaps the sum VIII not
reach one million but II VIII be clcec to
three-QUarters of million before the RI
pairs are completed and the road put in
good shape"