The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-05
FREIGHT TO NORTH
AND TRAINS WEST
Passenger Service Established
Between Ogden and CarIin
on Southern Pacific.
SECTIONS ARE WIPED OUT
TRAVELLER FROM NORTH TELLS
OF IMPENDING WASHoUTs.

Ogden, March Alt least $40 miles OF
the Southern Pacific railroad has beer
restored to traffic, reports received al
local headquarters tonight giving assur-
ance that the stub train which left al
$40 this morning reached its destina-
ton at Carlin, New, tonight
Seventy-eight passengers who have
been held at Wells, New, since the frs
day of the flood, have started eastward
over the repaired track, and are expected
here early tomorrow morning. The loca
train TO Carlin tomorrow will carry a
large number of carpenters and concrete
workers, and local officials promise to
night that through traffic over the di.
rect line will be restored within five days
A report that shortage of passenger
coaches would cause delay was officially
denied tonight.
The oregon Short Line road, officials
say, will have no trouble in operating de-
toured trains. The first trainload OF
through passengers from San francisco
will reach Ogden at about noon tomOr-
row, having travelled via Portland, Ore.
Union Pacific trains continue to arrive
on time. and many California hOme-seek.
ers, together With through passengers
held here awaiting the opening of this
Southern Pacific direct line.
With the Southern Pacific tied up fos
at least five days more by floors, the
freight that has accumulated at Salt Lake
and Ogden was started toward the coast
yesterday over the Oregon Short Line and
o. r. d N, to Portland and then down
10 san francisco over the Shasta route
The movement of heavy freight that
has congested the railroad yards and sid
ings of the system for the last week, ac-
companied by the heavy passenger traf-
lie over the cfrcuitOus route, augment OPP
erations on the Short Line to the fullest
capacity. ]. NJ. Davis, general superin-
tefdent of the Oregon Short Line and
Southern Pacific, Salt Lake division, re-
turned from Glenn's Ferry to Ogden yes
terday, and reported that while the wash
out IN Idaho had been repaired, the track
was still dangerous. Mr.. Davis will &c
TO the scene of the washouts in Nevada
While freight was being moved out OF
Ogden over the Oregon Short Line pas
senger service was re-established on the
Southern Pacific, trains being sent out
as far as Carlin, New, from which point
they will return, doing only a local SER
vice.
Sections Wiped Out.
An Associated Press dispatch from og-
den says:
Southern Pacific officials. after receiy-
ing the report of Assistant Superintendent
Fitzgerald, who made an overland drive
from Palisade to Battle Mountain, New
yesterday, have reluctantly admitted that
conditions are extremely bad and it will
be fully five days before the damage car
De temporarily repaired so as to allow
the resumption of passenger travel over
the line in Nevada.
The roadbed is completely washed out
in many places In PaliSade CANYON. and
several bridges are so weakened as to re-
quire rebuilding.
General Manager E. E. Calvin. who I,
sun at Loray, 100 miles west of Ogden
announces that the bridge at that point
over the 150-foot washOut was opened IL
TaIIlc' allowing the passage of trains
as lar west as Carlin. New, but beyond
Carlin the obstacles are so great as to
forbid any possibility of train movements
west of there
Seven Trains Returning.
THE seven trains which have been held
at Battle Mountain since last Tuesday
We're started on their return trip to Sac
ramento this morning and the 500 passen-
gers will be sent east by the detourins
route to Portland.
Southern Pacific train crews and eouip-
ment are being sent out of here over the
oregon Short Line, piloted by engineers
familiar with the road. The detoVred
trains are carrying only passengers with
what are known as FLOOD tickets" iden-
Trying the holders as having been ma
rooned" and forced to take the circuitous
route"
Traveller Gives Advice.
my advice to the people of the west
is; Don't travel unless you have to- 3"
s2id M, W. Davis, vice president of E. A.
Howard & Co, a hardwood lumber firm
OF San Francisco. who reached Salt Lake
last night after nearly a week among the
HOODS of the northwest. Il have been
hauled about over the Northern Pacific.
the oregon Short Line and other roads in
an attempt to get back to San Francisco,
and am still on my way. I will say, how
ever, that the oregon Short Line is the
only railroad doing a regular business in
the northwest, uninterrupted by floods.
Inere is so much snow in eastern
Washington, near the scene of the disas-
trous slides, that when it melts great
line in Washington, where the snowsIides
buried two towns, there is eighteen feet
OF snow. When it melts there will he
something doing" Mr.. Davis will start
TOT san Francisco today via Portland.