Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-09
REPAIRS MADE,
TRAINS MOVED
SOUTHERN PACIFIC EMBARGO
LIFTED LAST NIGHT
WASHOUTS AND LANDSLIDES ON
COAST LINE OVERCOME
Little Tuiunga Does Great Damage to
Inland Train, but Wrecking
Crews Do Splendid
Work

After a delay to traffc-both passen-
ger and freight-of nearly twenty-four
hours on the inland line of the South
ern Pacific from Los Angeles to San
Francisco, the embargo was lifted at
about o'clock last night, and the
damage resulting from two serious
washouts was sufficiently repaired to
warrant the hope of return of normal
conditions. At the time of the COM
pletion of temporary repairs at the
point of these two washouts all trains
that had started from either terminal
since Sunday noon were sidetracked At
various stations and a total demorah-
zation of traffic existed all along the
line.
One washout was at the station of
Cameron, a short distance to the east
of Mojave while the other was at the
point where the Little Tujunga river
crosses the Southern Pacific tracks be-
tween Burbank and Fernando.
1t was at first thought the Cameron
washout was the most serious, and
likely to entail a delay to traffic of
about twelve hours, while the damage
done by the swelling of the Little
Tujunga could be repaired in a few
hours of daylight.
The reverse proved to be the case,
far greater proportions before it's full
force had been spent.
The Owl train that left Los Angeles
at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon was held
up near Mojave, the track at the Little
Tujunga going out a few hours after
the Owl had passed over. All succeed
ing northbound trains until o'clock
last night were either abandoned or
held at either the Little Tujunga or
at Cameron, and sOuthbound trains, be-
ginning with No. 107 on Sunday from
San Francisco, shared the same fate.
Huge Gangs at Work
Wrecking crews were hurried to both
waShouts and worked all Sunday night.
By 10 o'clock yesterday morning the
track at Cameron was cleared and traf-
f1c began moving in a creeping man
ner. All southbound trains, however,
were stopped at Fernando or at sta
tions to the north, while immense gangs
of men worked continuously to divert
the waters of the Little Tujunga to
new channels in order to permit of the
driving of between one and two dozen
piles on which the timbers of a new
bridge could be strung This work was
completed at o'clock last night and
all delayed trains from the north were
allowed to come through, No. 107 be-
ing almost twenty-four hours late.
night about two hours late.
At the point where the Little Tu-
junga took away the railroad tracks
that stream, which ordinarily is but
a small creek, was swelled to a raging
torrent, spreading out for from a quar-
ter to a half mile and devastating no
little fine farming land in it's mad rush
The Southern Pacific reported last
night that the washouts and land
slides on the coast line had been over
come to such an extent that the north
bound train had been sent out. Early
this morning and during the day q
number of trains that have been
stalled are expected to arrive.
Fair Weather Expected
A light rain began falling early last
evening, but the forecast for today is
fair and cool, with frost in the morn
ing.
Work of repairing the wrecked
bridges has been begun by the Salt
Lake and the Santa Fe. The Santa
Fe bridge at Avenue Thirty-five is not
in a dangerous condition., and it is
thought that within a short time it
will be made safe.
The Cypress avenue bridge Of the
Salt Lake must be rebuilt as it is in
bad condition. On the Pasadena branch
of the Salt Lake a considerable length
of track was inundated and torn from
the roadbed.