Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-03-12
REPAIRED
OFFICIALS RETURN
General Manager w. H. Bancroft
And His Aides Back From
Washout Zone.
SPLENDID WORK OF GANGS.
Hcrculean Task Of Restoring Railroad
Communication With the Pacific
Coast Done With Dispatch.

with the CHEEKY assurance AN trains
running on schedule" and "al lines
clear" the return TO their desks Of
General Manager W. H. Bancroft and
r. H. Knickerbocker. his assistant.
Gen. supt j. NJ. Davis and other Of
hcials of the oregon short Line and the
southern Pacific. the railway situation
in Office headquarters today assumed
the normal routine after the disruption
OF the two weeks Hood situation strik-
ing both Idaho and Nevada
Unless for some unanticipated break.
or some freak OF the elements, the
various railroads centerng into salt
Lake are now well prepared 10 cope
with the situation, The lines la Idaho
are now well protected and no further
damage Is anticipated. The damage To
the tracks near Montpelier Ida. caused
by the Hoods of the Bear river. was
reported as repaired at 1880 o'clock this
morning, and trains running between
Granger wye. and McCammon. Ida.
were stopped detouring by way OF Og-
den
The washout on the Union Pacific
near Julcsuurg, Colo, caused by the
breaking Of the Jumbo reservoir will be
repaired by today.
On the Southern Pacific. where the
heaviest Hood dlmage occurred the
tracks We're cleared Thursday night
but through traffic. in order To assure
complete safety was detained until
Friday morning.
Beginning with last night and con-
tipuiug into this forenoon there was IA
string Of trains, including both those
detoured by way of Portland and those
leaving san Francisco direct over the
S. T. last Tuesday and Wednesday.
According 20 the officials returning
from the flood district early this morn
ing, the task of accomplishing the re-
habilimeht OF the wrecked track was OF
an Herculean nature. and that through
traffic was established within 50 short a
period was due 10 the ability and en-
ergy of the engineering department
ana its corps Of workers
FIRST BREAK OF SERIES.
The FIRST serious break occurred ot
Loray when a Ions stretch of high em-
bankment gave way leaving the tracK
Suspended in the air. This had hardly
been repaired when a stretch OF IL
miles through the Palisadc canyqn
went out ou the crest OF the HOOD
waters.
I'm span OF 400 feet. east Of Battle
Mountain washOuts occurred ~ TOUR
different spots. Between Pallsade sta
ton and Tyrol in an embankment 10
feet in depth l20 feet OF track was
washed away
Two hundred men, the larger part
of them belonging To- tho bridge gangs
and with three pile drivers ana ticf
crews two of the latter working nom
the west. and one from the east. com
pIetcd the work Of repairing the rpnd
I'M practically "a week, what was thought
nj first 20 have been an Impossible
task. For six days "a number OF inc
,fricials including General Manager
NJ "a bancroft General Supt J. NJ
Da,is chief Engineer Ashton; T. O..
NaDson superiutendcnt Of the salt
rake division Of the Southern Pacific;
Thomas Fitzgerald. assistant superin-
tendeut and G.. n. Trout, bridge en-
rincer directed the work Of repair
General Manager Bancroft and his
assistant. Fred IT. Knickerbocker were
caught in the Nevada floods at Harvey
Nevada, while they were returning
from a conference Of OFFICIALS held IT.
Los Angeles % complete the details OF
the reconstruction OF the Salt Lake
route AS announced previously the
iatter company viii construct tenn
norarv line through the Meadow valley
wash. replacing this later with
"high line" route through the same dis
trict.
with the resumption OF traffic on the
Southern Pacific the salt Lake post
office was flooded with California mail
tt,is morning with the detourcd trains
and the direct trains arriving here THIS
morning there were upwards OF halt "A
dozen wagon loads of mail received
from the south.