The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-02
All TranscOntinentaI Railroad
Lines at a StandstilI
Except Those From the East
Via Los Angeles.
NO OVERLAND TRAINS.
For Three Days at Frisco Over
the Central Pacific.
The Chicago White Sox Are
Tied Up at Ogden.

Seldom in the history of transcon-
tinental railroading has the Pacific
slope been cut off from the rest of the
continent as it is today. OF the several
transcontinental lines having terminals
on this coast. only the most southern
routes are open. The Central Pacific,
Northern Pacific, Great Northern and
other northern roads are at a stand
still, SO far as through traffic is con-
cerned, every line having been blocked
by floods or snowslides. The only open
route is via Los Angeles and up the
coast and even that far south one line
was totally disrupted over month
ago, when a hundred miles of the Salt
Lake and San Pedro route through
Nevada was washed out.
The Central Pacific is blocked in
northern Nevada, east of Elko, by
the roadbed. No overland trains have
arrived via Ogden on the Pacific coast
for three days and delayed trains are
held at stations throughout Nevada.
In the north the sudden increase in
temperature, following heavy snowfall.
has blocked the lines of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific through
the Cascade mountains. Small slides
have interrupted and delayed traffic for
several weeks, but the great avalanches
of the last three days have completely
tied up the lines and caused heavy loss
of life. From all parts of Washington
anu northern OI0BOn, TSpOTLS OF lIli-
pending floods have been received and
it is thought probable that the railroads
will have new difficulties to face IN
the lowlands before the mountain lines
have been cleared.
Telegraphic communication through
out the northwest has been interrupted
by the storms and in some cases to-
tally cut off. Because of this it has
been possible to secure more than
meager details of the disasters.
White Sox Tied Up.
Ogden, Utah. March 2.-Yesterday the
Southern Pacific officials looked forward
to the opening of the road west of Og-
den within "a hours; today they admit
that the floods in the Humboldt valley.
Nevada, are SO widespread in their de-
| structiveness that it will be a week
before any semplance of a restoration
of traffic will be attainable.
Three large bridges are cut in
Palisade canyon. 300 miles west of Og-
den and between Hareny and Cluro In
Ten Mile canyon. the Humboldt river
has changed its course and is now
sweeping in an irresistible flood where
the railroad track ran.
And to add to the alarming condition
warnings were issued at Elko, New,
this morning that the crest of an un-
precedented flood is at Deeth and is of
such proportions as to submerge all
that district near Elko as 1t passes
down the Humboldt valley. The people
of Elko have been advised to desert
the business district which is the path
of the food. Trains which were started
west from Ogden yesterday. are re-
turning to be held here indefinitely.
The White Sox special train will be
held here a week and Comiskey has
decided to start training at this point
The players have secured the local
work and will do field work at the ball
grounds and at the Utah Hot Springs
north of Ogden.
Snow Melting Rapidly.
weather prevails today all over the
state of Washington. The mountain
snow is melting at a prodigious rate
and it is not unlikely that the Puget
railroad connection with the east and
south before the day is over.
The Northern Pacific. which has
been clearing away rock and snow
having less trouble in keeping its
tracks open in the snow region, but on
the west slope of the Cascades the
Washouts in number of places.
A Northern Pacific train started for
Portland this morning, but there is
great uncertainty about its getting
there. The line to Portland today was
tied up by three washouts. These
breaks have been repaired, but all the
streams are going out of their banks.
Most of the trains between Portland
and Seattle have been annulled-
The Great Northern main line
through the mountains will be closed
for a week longer, it is expected
The weather bureau does not offer
much hope. The rainfall has been
light, but the temperature continues
the same as Yesterday at all points.
Humboldt q Mile Wide.
Reno, New, March 2.-Central and
western Nevada is experiencing the
worst flood in its history. The Hum
boldt and Reese rivers have gone be-
yond all bounds, washing away rail-
road and county bridges and inundat-
ing the valleys and lowlands from
Deeth to Winnemucca.
The Humboldt river at Carlin is
mile wide with the crest of the flood
not yet reached. Five railroad bridges
at Beowawe and Battle Mountain have
been condemned. The street railway
bridge at Palisade is in danger. West
ern Pacific men at Carlin have dyna-
mited the ice in an effort to save the
bridge Reservoirs north of Elko have
broken and ten feet of water is rush
ing down the canyon near that place.