The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-03-04
THIRTY MILES or
TRACK WRECKED
Fitzgerald Reports Bridges Weakened and Rosdbed Destroyed
Through Pasadc Canyonay Be Ten Days Before Trains
Are Again Moton-Flood- Bound Passengers to Reach
Ogden Tonight Over the Loray Bridge

Southern Pacific officials. after re-
caiviDg the report of Assistant Super.
lntondent Thomas Fitzgerald who
mGde au overland drive from Palisade
10 Battle Mountain yesterday. have
reluctantly admitted that conditions
arc extremely bad. and 1t wlll he
fully ten days before the damage can
be temporarily repaired so as 10 al
low the resumption of passenger
travel over the line in Nevada.
The roadbed is completely washed
ont in many places IN Palisade can
yon and several bridges are so weak
ened as 10 require rebuilding.
General Manager f. c. calvin, who
Ia still at Loray, 100 miles west Of
Ogden hopes to have the bridge at
opened 10 traffic this evening which
VIII allow of the passage Of trains AS
far west as Carlin, Nevada but be-
yond CarlIn the obstacles are so great
as to forbid any possibility of train
movements west Of there.
The seven trains which have been
held at Battle Mountain since last
Tuesday. were started on their return
trip to Sacramento this morning, and
the 800 passengers will be sent east
by the detourng route 10 Portland
The first oi the detoured trains,
which left San Francisco Thursday
afternoon, Is due 10 arrive in Ogden
this evening
One train carrying 600 passengers
left Ogden at 10 a. m. for San Fran
vlsco via Portland, and another VIII
depart at p. m. today.
Southern Pacific train crews and
equipment are being sent out OF here
over the Oregon Short Line. piloted
by engineers familiar with the road.
The detoured' trains are carrying
only passengers with what are known
as flood tickets. identifying tho
holders as having been "marooned
and forced TO take the circuitous
route
The Overland Limited, which left
San Francisco at II o'clock Sunday
morning, with $50 passengers, Is now
at Wells, Nevada, 115 miles west o.
ogden. and will leave that point at
o'clock this afternoon fer the edge o
the wasnout al Loray. and VIII be Tho
first train TO cross the improylscC
bridge when 1t Is opened TO traffic al
an early hour this evening The pas
Eengers should reach Ogden at mid
night after fiye days OF food expe
rience,
The railroad people have given NJ
all thought OF transferring passengers
overland between Pallsade and Battle
Mountain, as even the wagon roads
have been made impossible since the
foods started.
With the completion of the Ions
bridge stub trains Will be run from
ogden to Pnllsade on the cast ant
from the coast TO Battle Mountain OF
the west end OF the break in railroad
communication.
Equipment Short.
With the main limo Of the Southern
Pacific practically destroyed for a dis
tancc Of thirty miles. and washed ou'
and damaged IN number OF places
10 great extent, the Hartman lines
are now facing new trowole-ar
equipment famine al this point. and
II the conditions do not change, II Is
probable that traffic will he tied uI
for few days. to await equipment
for the trains. Thus far the UnioI
Pacific and the Oregon Short Line
have been drawn upon by the South
crn Pacific company for all their sur
plus cars and engines.
Trains arriving from the east Owe
the Union Pacific have to put as mnDl
passengers as possible into each ca
and take all the equipment In an east
bound train In order 10 accommodate
the usual spring travel. To agPrayRt'
the situation. the annual colouIst tray
81 from the east has begun 10 arrIv'
In Ogden. and each train carries from
ono TO two hundred more passenger
row than ordinarily
An instance OF the shortage o
equipment was disclosed at the Unioi
depot this morning at 10 O'Clock. whe,
passenger train. composed OF clevc
cars and A baggage car. was made u
with California-bound passengers, I
BE- detourcd By the way of Portland
AS soon as the announcement wa
made among the passengers that
train was being made up for the Yves
they gathered upon the platform. an
as soon as the cars were placed I
the train they piled on. some eve
going through the car windows.
about i've minutes time every avail
able seat was taken. aud fully a hun
drcd people were left standing upo
the platform. unable To leave towi
and they had 10 wait for train whic
left at o'clock
Dining Cars Scarce.
In connection with the shortage
equipment for the carrying OF passc
sers. tho railroads arc unable TO su
ply dining cars for all the trains, ar
arrangements have been made for Il
feeding OF the passengers at tho b
tolls on the Oregon Short line throur
Idaho and on the oregon Railroad
Navigation line IN Oregon and Il
Southern Pacific line in California; al
Oregon. The two hundred pRSsenge
on the train that left ogden at
O'Clock this morning Will receive di
= Der at Pocatello. and a diner will !
put on their train for supper this eS
ming and breakfast tomorrow mornln