The San Francisco call., 1906-04-05
DEBRIS STILL
BLOCKS TRAIT F|C
Schedule Held in Allegiance
on Valley Line From San
Francisco to Los Angeles
STORM IN THE SOUTH
Snow Reported in Mountains
About Pasadena and Rain
Falls About San Diego

LOS ANGELES, April 4.-Southern
Pacific officials in this city state that
the landslide on the valley division at
Tehachapi will be cleared away by to-
morrow morning. The Owl train,
which was detoured over the coast line
and due to arrive here at a. M, ar
rived at this afternoon. This is the
last trip 1t will make over the coast
route, as 1t is expected it will be sent
over the valley line by tomorrow. No.
nortnbound and No. southbound,
which were annulled because of the
landslide, have been rescheduled. If
the track is not cleared when these
trains reach Tehachapi the passengers
will be transferred across.
BAKERSFIELD, April 4.-Trafflc
conditions over the Tehachapi Mountain
as result of the landslide at tunnel
II Monday morning still remain un-
changed, and from what could be as
certained today the track will not be
cleared and trains moving over the
blocked section before tomorrow or
Friday.
Large forces have been steadily on
the work of the blockade ever since
the slide occurred and until today were
making no impression upon the great
heap of debris that is blocking the
track. Earth from the hill has stopped
falling and now the laborers are ac-
complishing something by their work.
The Southern Pacific is still transferring
passengers from one side of the blockade
to the other. The large amount of bag
gage from the trains is being handled in
the, best way possible, while express and
mails are still irregular.
The wreck on the Santa Fe at Wasco has
been cleared, and now traffic from the
north is meeting with no setback aside
from the slow track in the recently
washed-out districts, which causes all
trains to run from one to four hours
late. The eastbound passenger trains are
being held here from twelve to twenty
hours before transferring passengers All
freight traffic over the hill is at a COM
plete standstill.
PASADENA, April 4-Since yesterday
morning succession of snowstorms have
occurred on the higher mountain ranges
back to Pasadena. At Alpine Tavern, on
Mount Lowe. yesterday several inches OF
rain fell, and the fall was even heavier
at Mount Wilson. where deep drifts
formed. Late last evening the snow de-
scended the mountain side and reached
as far as Altadena, but the rain with
which it was mixed melted 1t so rapidly
that it did no damage.
Early today there was another heavy
snowstorm on Mount Lowe and Mount
Wilson and the two peaks exhibited a
gray color until nearly noon. The re-
cent snowfall on the range is said to
have been the heaviest of the season.
SAN DIEGO, April 4.-Rain began
falling at noon today, with indications
of prolonged precipitation. The storm
will be of no ~beneht and if it should
continue 1t would do damage by de-
stroying the repair work already done
to bridges over the still swollen
streams. AS a result of the recent
heavy rains the San Diego River has
been changed west of this city. Instead
of emptying near the mouth OF False
Bay as heretofore. the stream has cut
a new channel across the Old Town flats
following a slough passing through
Duckville, a collection of shooting
lodges belonging to San Diego sports
men. Some of these houses have been
damaged and one carried away.
SALINAS. April As a consequence
of the recent heavy storms the Salinas
River is very high and is cutting into
the south bank on the county road near
Agenda, three miles south of this place.
1t has already carried away the road
bed until the track of the Salinas VAL
ley Consolidated Railway Company and
the Coalinga Oil Companys pipe line
are suspended in the air some fifty feet
The Supervisors visited the scene this
morning.