The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1910-03-12
Recent Flood Conditions
In Northern Eureka County
While 1t Is Not Thought the E. q P. Has Been Seriously
Damaged In Pine Valley, the High Water In Pail'ade
Canyon Played Havoc With the Railroads

ness. reached HalSaQe o u is return nome dt NHo
February 2s. He was accompanied by II R. Bradley OF Bangor
Maine. president Of the Nevada Development and Mining company
of Eureka. To these gentlemen the SENTINEL Is indebted o Tue
facts in the following account of the flood conditions that eAs'eu -
Palsade mp to their departure on Thursday morning, March o; also
the particulars regarding their trip from the time they left Pallsade
to their arrival in Eureka:
When they left Salt Lake there we're no reports OF hlgh water
but on reaching Paisade were informed that the E. d I. had been
washed out through Pine Valley and it would be some time before
trains were again running into Eureka:
About 10 a m that morning the water in the Humboldt river
commenced rising pretty fast, and the Sri family, living on the low
bank next to the river, began moving out their household eheceS
They succeeded in getting out their piano and nearly everything
else of any value before the water reached them.
At this time the ice and debris in the river were threatenlng
the county bridge and two men we're stationed there to keep this
from lodging against the piling
In the meantime the water in the river continued rising very
fast. About five o'clock that afternoon the following buildings
along the low bench next to the river were in about four feet of
water: J. W. Ebert. Murphys saloon, Mrs. Mamie z. Raine, >. r.
Raine & Sons, Mule Shoe saloon, which the latter firm used as a
store house, the county building, containing the Justices office and
branch Jail, and 10 smaller buildings. including the redlight district
Some of the smaller buildings commenced to move out into
tie river that night However, no serious damage was done until
about IL q. m. Tuesday, when the entire redlight district buildings
foated down the river against the Southern Pacific railway bridge
followed shortly afterward by the county building and Murphys
saloon. Nearly all these foated off into the current of the river
and remained intact until they struck the s. P. steel bridge, when
they crumbed like a card house.
The Mule Shoe saloon building moved off its foundation and
foated down the river about so feet, landing against some poplar
trees, where it remained.
The S. P. had a wrecking train and 80 men stationed at the
bridge trying to relieve the strain against that structure caused by
the lodging there of the vast amount of floating ice and debris
The men fastened heavy ropes from the engine to the accumulated
mass and endeavored to separate it, but met with little success
The bridge, however, showed no signs OF weakening, and IS still
apparently unchanged.
Tuesday noon there was about five feet of water in the E. & P.
machine shops and round house, and it rose so rapidly that the
men did not have time to get their tools out A quantity of lumber,
ties and timbers in the f. & P. material yard foated off down the
river.
Fights. P. cars loaded with hay for Pine Valley ranchers were
caught on a siding near the E. & F. shops in about three feet OF
water. An unsuccessful effort was made to pull these cars out on
to higher ground with an engine, but a rope long enough to reach
them was not available. 1t was thought there would be little dam
age to the hay.
Mrs. Mamie Raines store building foated down the river and
lodged against the j.. P. Raine & Sons building, which, with the ].
W Ebert building and Sri home, are the only ones to remain on
their foundations on the south side of the railway tracks and west
of the E. & T. shops.
Monday night a two-inch cable was placed on the south end of
the county bridge and anchored to the bank on that side of the
river. The next morning the bridge foated off its foundations and
is now resting in slack water against the bank Oh the south side
The E. & F. trestle bridge across the Humboldt a short dis
lance below the county bridge went out about the same time the
latter did. The E. & P. bridge is thought to have been entirely
destroyed.
Monday night there were seven East-bound passenger trains
tied up in the Paisade yards by a washed out bridge between Pail
sade and Carlin. This bridge was temporarily repaired and the
stalled trains began to move out of Paisade at ESQ a. m. Tuesday.
After these trains passed over this repaired bridge it went out
again. Up to Thursday no other s. T. trains had reached Pail
sade, the four S. P. bridges that went out between Paisade and
Cluro, 10 miles west of Palisade, holding all trains at Beowawe and
points west of there. The severe washouts between Carlin and
|Paisade held all West-bound trains at Carlin and Elko. The last
train that passed through Palisade bound West was the China
Japan fast mail, which went through Monday carrying mail cars only
THE ROAD FRon PALsADE TO EUREKA
Messrs. Jeannot and Bradley arranged with Tom Plummer to
take them through to Eureka, and left Palisade at IL a m. Thurs
day. They had to walk across the ties on the s. P. railway bridge
and through the tunnel, which was perfectly dry, no water having
entered it, and walked to the J. W. Ebert ranch in Pine Valley
where Mr.. Plummers team was waiting. For this distance, about
one and a half miles, both the E. e. P. and county roads were almost
entirely under water.
Leaving the Ebert ranch they proceeded through Pine Valley
to Steve Naples ranch, about IL miles, where they arrived about S
P. m. Most of this distance the T. e. F. line was under water, but
the county road, except in places, was passed over with little diff
Guilty. At one place the county road was washed out entirely for
more than a quarter OF a mile, and they had to skirt the foothills
in passing this point