Weekly journal-miner., 1910-01-05
WASHOUTS ON SANTA F
 MAIN LINE
CFrom Tuesdays paIlyl

F'rom Tuesdays Daily)
 Arrivals last night from the main line of the Santa Fe at Ash Fork, make the statement that the most disastrous washouts along the line of that road occurred Saturday and Sunday and the loss to the railroad was heavy.
 The portions that bore the brunt of the terrific flood waters were Blackberry, Crozier and Truxton canyons. At the latter point the water reached the highest elevation ever recorded. At this particular place the Santa Fe has in recent years expended over $1,OO0,000, hop ing to meet any weather contingency that might arise, elevating the road bed many feet above the old water lines, and making other material changes to insure permanent traf- fc under all conditions in flood waters from that shed.
 The grade was excavated, accord ingly, through practically solid rock, on the side of the canyon, and has withstood several floods until the ones of Saturday and Sunday took place.
 Since Saturday nothing but stub trains have passed over the washed out zone, and the damage seen shows there must have been a terrific head The rain was warm, and extended for several miles into the mountains on either side, where the snow was deep, and which yielded readily to the steady and heavy downpour of over twenty hours.
 At Seligman, on Sunday, there were several westbound passenger trains tied up, and it is estimated that over one thousand people were con gested at that point alone. Had the track been kept closed the feeding of this multitude for day longer would have been' serious matter, but one by one the blockade was broken any they proceeded slowly to the coast. At the Needles and San Bernardino all trains were an- nulled and these were scheduled to pass through Ash Fork Monday night at 12 o'clock, en route east. Nine trains are in this list, and it is ex- peeted that schedule time will pre- vail after today.
 Arrivals last night also say that it was reported at Ash Fork last night when the s. F., P. 6 P. left that place that a big washout was reported Sunday afternoon on the desert west of the Needles, and if that was so the westbOund trains that were to be released at Selig man and other points east of the Needles, another tieup would neees- sarily follow at the Needles.
 When the track was closed in Sat urday through the washouts on the Arizona end, it was the intention of the Santa Fe to detour trains over the Southern Pacific, via Phoenix, and thence through Prescott to the east, but late Saturday night or early Sunday morning the Southern Paeifs was caught in a big flood near Yuma, hnd several hundred feet of that roadbed went out. This neeessitated the abandoning of that plan.
 From Ash Fork to the east the track is clear and in fine condition. The trend of the recent storm was from the north to the south, and the zone that carried the heaviest down. pour extended to the east of Ash Fork but a few miles, traveliSg westward until it broke on the des- ert near Bagdad With a short in- terval it prevailed for over thirty hours in some sections, and was the heaviest ever experienced along the Colorado river shed.
 Arrivals in the city yesterday af- ternoon from Parker state that rain has been falling steadily in that place for several days, and eondi- tions were bad in that locality. No damage has resulted, however, to the track or the grade of the Ben gal cutoff, but the weather is re- ported as disagreeably cold for that elevation.