The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-06
More Trans Expected.

Through train service between Cali
fornia and Utah points was re-estao-
lished early this morning with the ar
rival at Ogden over the tracks of the
Oregon Short Line of two passenger
trains from San Francisco, the first ar
rivals from the Pacific coast since the
disastrous washouts which completely
demoraliZed traffic across the state of
Nevada the first of last week, and
which practically isolated Salt Lake
from the outside world for several
days. During the next twenty -four
hours between ten and twelve trains
from California points. sent over the
Shasta route of the Southern Pacific
via Portland, are expected to arrive in
Ogden, and eastbound trains are now
headed for the coast, carrying hundreds
of passengers who have been held up
for nearly a week through the disas-
trous washOuts over the entire state of
Nevada, and portions of Utah and Cal
ifOrnia.
Advices received at the offices of the
Oregon Short Line in this city late last
night We're to the effect that two South
eTn Pacific trains, coming from San
Francisco via Portland and the Ore
gOn Short Line, which left POcdtello
Ida, during the early evening, were due
TO reach ogden at o'clock this morning
and would run through to Salt Lake.
At least ten additional trains are on
the way, and the Short Line offices
here have been advised TO expect them
during Sunday and Sunday night
During the past two days the South
ern Pacific has been operating six pas
senger and one freight train each way
ever the route of the Oregon Short
Line through Idaho, west from Ogden,
and this number is to be greatly in
creased during the next thirty-six
hours.
Two Trains Arrive.
The two trains which arrived in Salt
Lake early this morning left San Fran
cisco last Tuesday, and have been zen
route" since. They carried several hum
dred passengers. a number of whom
We're for Salt Lake and Utah points, the
others for the east.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Ogden last night said:
Notwithstanding reports from the
San Francisco Office of the Southern
Pacific to the effect that through trains
will be run over the line within four
days, local officials of the company as
sert that it will be ten days at least be-
fore the washouts in Palisade canyon,
in central Nevada, can be temporarily
repaired so as to allow trains to pass
From Palisade to BeOwawe, a dis
lance of seventeen miles, the Southern
Pacific is a mass of wreckage,. with
bridges destroyed and weakened and
roadbed Obliterated. Progress in re-
pairing the line viii be slow as the
walls of the canyon are nearly vertical
and the bottom so narrow as to prohibit
the reconstruction work from proceed
ing other than from the two ends of the
destroyed track.
The Western Pacific, which parallels
the Southern Pacific through the Hum
bOldt valley, is completely destroyed for
miles, suffering from the floods even
greater damage than that sustained by
the Hartman line.
Stub trains are now being operated
from Ogden to Carlin, and from the
west side of the floods to Battle Noun
tain, leaving a gap of sixty miles where
hundreds of laborers are attempting to
repair the flood damage. The waters of
the Humboldt river are receding and
further flood destruction is not looked
for.