The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-05
lLWAY TANGLE IS
TRA|GHTEN|NG OUT
ight Begins to Move Over the
regon Short Line. and All
Trains on Time.
)0DS UPSET WEIGHING
AND ROUTING OF MAILS
thern Pacific in Nevada Is
Tied Up for at Least Ten
Days More.

UdlS MUlC'
70 dood situation is rapidly clearing
so serious washouts were reported
Ia late hour Friday night. the Snake
IS falling. the Overland Limited,
Lbound. arrived In ogden over the
|kn Pacific on time. and after twenty
hes wait left Ogden for Portland
nred over the Short Line. running on
Ito the minute
trains over the Short Line were on
ThuTs6sv, The three trains that
! lpcden midnight Wednesday are still
Hme and will reach san Francisco
;,rt;ay by way uf Portland These
trains were the first TO pull out
1fhe west and include the White
special the solid mail train with the
s-paciflc mail and the train with the
iic steamship passengers.
"a trains of perishable freight and
incL pulled out OF ogden for the
FRIDAY ami other freight trains are
y out MS fast as they can pe ar
ed. Freight and passenger trains
.bound arc arriving in Ogden and
Q cast over the Union Pacific and the
Ter & Rio Grande These two roads
III normal anu Ilo l'NSShN 't''''N -
I'd for by them.
All Passengers Moving.
, Messengers arc marooned in OG-
kthe last OF them getting out at In
lis Friday. Passenger traffic through
Lake Is normal once more. Freight
tastcrn Nevada is moving over the
ern Pacific and also over the east
md OF the Southern Pacific. Some
he passengers al Battle Mountain
carllr. between which points OH the
fern Pacific near Palisade the line
bout nity miles is washed out IN
5. arc being transferred by stage.
passengers not so near the end OF
Iine on the western end are he
aiken To San francisco and routed
Portland or Los Angeles All mail
passengers and through freight on
mstcrn end of the Southern Pacific.
/. Zen Carlin and ogden. has been
hit back 10 ogden and routed west
brtland.
Email army OF men is at work all
\ the line Of the Southern PACING
the washouts are. aided by NIL the
inery they can handle. The man
icnt is sparlne neither men noT
w 10 open the line. The water IN
kfa, especially along The Humboldt
Is rapidly going down. II fell three
tThursdey and was still lower Fri
srmsts in many smaller places alonS
Snake river have been sending out
ed reports about the nood conditions
b Snake and It's tributaries. but the
II reports show that the Snake In
win Falls district rose only about
allen inches and has gone down some,
hat IL would have TO rlse fiNe lcel
It's nresent level TO he as high as
during the food last summer.
Bridges Are Safe.
hbridge over the, Snake 1T Hunting
safe from all present danger, and
0Wilgh At one time some UucasiucSS
.Ielt for the bridge on the oregon
eaa Line over the Snake al PaYctte.
point is now considered out Of dam
minstion Of the stone abutment5
bridges on the Southern Pacific
- went out near iSalisade show that
Iare cracked indicating that they
Undetermined and may have TO be re-
ID. il Is thought now that the
Hiern Pacific cannot restore through
niger and mail traffic inside Of ten
and ii will probably be at lcas,
Weeks before the road is again III
Ill condition.
ID reports that fifty 10 sixty miles
~ tck is gone near ralisadc arc with
II iifty miles near Palisade the track
sshed out only in places and that
~ ral bridges arc gone.
what is the condition of the West.
Pacific between Wells ard Winnie
m "a ls not yet definitely known, ever
- he railroad officials. Indications arC
y II Will take fully as long. II moi
m"rri 10 restore the Western Pacific rs
VII The Southern Pacific. probs blS
Y two weeks for the Western Pa
Both the Southern Pacific and the
n dern Pacific arc normal west o
ID. hcmucca.
Telegraph Lines Normal.
'Aegraph lines have all reeh restored
Svery'n,ns IS again normal In th,
n"esl lne Northern Pacific Is opeI
ss inc Cascades. but the Great North
"hI PROBABLY not be oren for two o.
he X, weeks yet. No definite jnforn,.
W ht hahd concerning the new Mil
tee hne, and II is silll tied up. m.
pe'"ceil seattle and Portland an,
a,i az inc southern Pacific al
.ne racine coast from Los Aneain
,rtland. The southern romie ~ T tT
ern PACIFIC and OF the Sanfa -
pi been affected cant"
ept I'm Nevada near p,Iiso5o
1ascade mountains enst of Seo;tio
uil'on IS about cleared un an,
iner serious trouble between Sal
.~ATfnd the Pacific coast is cs,oct" 49,
IWWe situation between Salt Like ~,
MU VIII bc when the thaw ron,
10 he seen. II The weather maj
ssi Sraoially no serious troubIa n
|G1ultn, put sudden warm snnII
|0b"Fk'ca would probably cause +, t;a
~ east OF This city son,ewhet ~.
fuch mas existed this week In ~
been y i. an depends on the weathc,
lical 4 Mail Weights Chaotic.
pSSss pSss l99e situation has arisen in roc,r
I'd Hi,ns the mails for l05 days o
Is - oil which contracts are mo6
he government and the rs{i
go lhe next four ycpts TN
mas Decn going on FOR about
-,rrs n INC, INC Hood conditions have :
Clt" u'nGs that no definite cor
ran be arrived az.
the weighing will b,,yc In ;
vner again, or whether inc lloG
IN not be counted is Icce
PR Fl ::i:: 4: +: E: e.: T. s: % =:
'ne west ii'SN ''"Pur
7Ma vsden Says Five Days.
,VVeo,,S SMsrch AT least $40 mill
lj,".Ih Pacific RAILROAD has be,
aillr, rcports received
n iha,o =, ItcrS tonight, giving a
Ieae 'ne stub train pyhScl, V.b;,