The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-07
Through Service on Salt Lake
Route Once More Out of
Commission.
WEEKS TIME REQUIRED
TO RECONSTRUCT LINES
Heavy Snow and Rains Cause
Rushing Torrents in Cali
ente Canyon.

According TO meagrc advces received
yesterday the through service on the
Salt Lake Route has again been put out
OF commission by another washout near
Caliente and it will evidently require at
least a weeks time To reconstruct the
line so that train service may be re-
Sumed. The damage was done Tuesday
and IL seems that the washouts occurred
al the same place as those which caused
the former suspension OF traffic.
For distance OF about. sixty miles the
railroad runs through box canyon
Caliente being located a about the mid
die point in the canyon. Deep gulChes
tributary TO the canyon connect with the
mountain rav!Res, but the canyon is
nearly always dry. During the past three
or four weeks. however. the rains and
SHOWS have been unusually heavy and
the little canyon stream has been trans
formed into raging torrent.
The first disastrous flood occurred on
Washingtons birthday, when about
CWenty-seven breeches were made In the
roadbed. These varied in length from
ten TO one hundred feet and were con-
fined TO about forty miles OF track They
had all been repaired by O'Clock last
Sunday afternoon and the fair weather
at that time indicated that there would
be no further trouble. but Tuesday this
region was visited by a second raInstorm
more severe than the first and il is
supposed that the damage TO the tracks
was also greater.
AS the railroad officials who are at
the scene OF the washouts arc so busy
with the work OF reconstruction that
the local offices are not being informed
as to the extent of the damage. not even
a guess is hazarded a. To when the reg
uar traffic will he resumed. The gem
eral manager and the division superin
tcndcnt are now In the canyon with all
available construction material. and are
doing everything within their power TO
repair the track. The passengers who
left this city on Monday nights west
bound fam were brought back to the
Oregon Short Line depot Yesterday morn
ing ar8 were sent over the Southern Pa
cific, which system Will take care OF
all the travel until the Salt Lake line re-
sumcs through service.
Various opinions have been advanced
TO account FOR the predlcament in which
the san Pedro linds itself. among these
being that the roadbcl les too near the
rivers and creeks, and some Of the local
railroad men assert that the evaporation
from the Salton sea Eas caused an un-
usual mount OF precipitation. They say
that the company VIII md IT. necessary
TO C!TCumVcNt this canyon by q circuit
ous route or construct an expensive road
bed Of concrete and steel on the present
location. II is an acknowledged fact that
the rains I'm that locality have been heaV-
Ter this year than ever before, and II Is
also well known tha; the walls OF thr
canyon are so precipitous that the tracks
could not bc elevated without the CON
struction OF a costly grade or jrestle
work Senator Clark VIII arrive at the
scene OF the damage within the next few
days and ~lH decide as 10 the future
course uf action,
Meanwhile only one train will run over
the Inc each day. and this will pcne-
;rale Nevada as far as conditions WI
permit. Train 40. I will leave Selt Like
at p. m. each day and WIN run at least
as for as Acoma. Nev. Ii VIII provide
accommodations for passengers bound for
that point Milford. Ncwhouse. Modena
and intervening points. and in this way
southern Utah VIII experience no incon-
venicncc because OF the flood .ill through
hHtr ffN ha ENI1 10 In 1nl I,,s
other lines. 1t will ho diverted either
AT Salt Lake or I'm the East.