Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-07

10 save the crown sheet This of course
cut Off the steam supply, and the cars
became dead cold In short order Coal
from the tender and railroad ties were
used for bonflres with which to keep
warm, and q regular camp was insti-
tuted One man was very Sick, having
been brought on bed from Los Ange-
les But he had his wife and u doctor
who cared for him.
There was q corpse in the baggage
car. md to enl!ven things. some ono
rigged up a fake corpse with a sheet,
and when some OF the train hands went
into the baggage car for something.
the corpse" rose and displayed his
postmortcm vocal ability There Was
a general scare. as the train hands
came rushing back pretty near fright
ened out of all fear of the cold that was
is degrees below zero. There was a
hurried investigation. which explained
matters. There was enough to eat,
though there were but two meals a day.
and at night we all herded Into the
sleeper and ate in the diner. The rail-
road officials did everything possible
for the comfort of the passengers. The
road Is pretty badly ripped up. the
bridges are gone, and the men passen-
gers had to go all this time without u
shave"
FOR SEVENTY EIGHT MILES.
'Rill" Eckmann. prospector. mining
man, pioneer OF tho Alaskan gold fields
and Il Utahn by birth and afllliation,
"mushed" out from Callchte on the Salt
Lake Route to Modona and came in TO
the city on n work trnin Thursday
afternoon aftor having been tied up for
Is hours by the washouts. Eckmann
made the overland trip OF 40 miles In
q little less than IL hours and arrived
in Salt Lake without the sign OF a
hair turned He Is the only one OF
several hundred passengers who are
stalled in the washed out district to
get to either end of the route.
That the conditions on the Salt Lake
are much moro serious than have
been reported is evident from the
observations of Mr.. Eckmann He says
that from Rox to Barclay. distance
of rs miles the washout Is complete.
The devastation made by the waters
Is something terrific and there is hard
ly yard of either roadbed or steel.
other than a few stretches which have
been held down by trains, which have
not been swept away. The line from
Phoebe Junction north to the old min
ing camp has been devastated nearly
its entire length and the only communi
cation which Phoebe has with the outer
world is overland TO Modena,
EVERYTHING WIPED OUT
ut is the worst that l have ever
SEEN" said Mr.. Eckmann Thursday.
'It don't look as II a railroad had ever
gone through that country. For miles
and miles there Is absolutely nothing
left OF the right OF way and II looks to
me as If the railroad would have to do
all of it's work over again before it can
run trains.
THE loss to the road is going to be
something tremendous. There Is much
valuable freight stalled at various sid
ingS much pcrishable freight. and
there don't seem to me 10 be any
chance to move it In the near future.
The repairs are going to take all sorts
OF time to complete, and I don't think
that the present weather conditions arc
going to help things n bit 20, there is
nobody suffering. as far as l could see.
There is plenty of grub and the rail-
road has been generosity itself"
Mr.. Eckmann thinks It will be several
months before repairs to the old line
can be completed. although he said In
talking with railroad constructive en-
eineers on the scene that they intended
to lay temporary tracks which would
enable them to open up the line within
two weeks.
Bill Eckmann "muShed" out of his
water Quarantine because he had
got tired OF being tied up. He had
every Inch of that country
and knew 1t like a book He had an
engagement with his sister who lives
on Twcnty-flrst East to take dinner
on Thursday. SO he packed up his Kit
and 'hlt the trail"
Yes. IT was a pretty tough trlp"
said Mr.. Eckmann. But you see knew
the trails and made many n short cut
which cut down the actual travelling
distance to about 80 miles Oh, !
didn't mind it bit. I'm used 10
those sort OF things. But that train at
Modena looked very pretty to me.
Il just want to say one thing about
those Salt Lake Route people They
are the real goods. They don't seem to
be able to do enough for the people
who are stalled on the road There is
nothing too good for them Everybody
seems to take the matter In good
humored sort of way and there are
no hardships other than being severed
from communication with the outside
world. The llnemen are working fast
and 7 do not think that 1t will be long
lpforp all NJ fhn Ny!rac ,,.II1 again bo H..