The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-07
THROUGH TRAINS
BY NEXT SUNDAY
This is Prediction of Assistant
Superintendent ROwlands of
Southern Pacific.
FIRST TWO EASTB0UND
DET0URED TRAINS ARRIVE
Train No. 2 Changes Crews
Close to Eighteen Times Be-
tween Coast and Ogden.
snecial 10 The Tribune.

Special 10 The Tribune
OGDEN, March g." Through trains
will probably be sent over the Salt Lake
division OF the Southern Pacific by next
Sunday"
This statement. made this afternoon
by Assistant Superintendent Rowlands,
is the most definite information yet Civ
en- out by the officials OF the Southern
Pacific railroad since the disastrous
floods in the Humboldt valley. Nevada.
swept away miles of roadbed aud
snapped the connecting link of the
great trauscontincntal railroad lines OF
the Hartman system:
Superintendent T.. G.. Manson of the
Southern Pacific. with General Manager
W II. Bancroft aud General Superin-
tendent ]. NJ. Davis of the Oregon Short
Line, arc at the scene of thc worst dam
age directing the work of repair.
Detourcd Trains Arrive.
The first two eastbound trains of the
Southern Pacific dctoured over the Ore
gon Short Line by way Of Portland ar
rived Ia Ogden early this morning, y
few hours after tho first westbound
train sent over the same route. cout3lu-
ing the private cars of the White SoX
baseball team of Chicago reached It's
Il
gers Of the detoured trains say that the
damage TO the Oregon Short Line ID
the northwest has been considerable
from the washouts which occurred al
most simultaneously with those op the
Southern Pacific in Nevada. Traffic
however. is being resumed on the Short
Line and within the next twcnty-four
hours all the eleven trains between
Portland and Ogden are expected to ar
rive in this city
At o'clock this evening Southern
Pacific train No. . of February p
reached Ogden. This train has changed
crews somethin" less than eighteen
times since it was first sent out from
San Francisco, and after reaching Bat
tie Mountain, New, finding that tbC
| damage from the floods prevented any
fornia to get another start over The
Shasta route and then south TO OgdeI
over the Oregon Snort Line.
Between . o clock and clock Mon
day morning al the DELAYED detoure,
trains doubtless viii reach Ogden ovel
the Short Line. The damage TO tho
| Southern Pacific Railroad company ::
line through Nevada is more especially
confined 10 stretch Of seventeen mile:
| between Palisadc and Beowawe, where
| bridges have beer washed out and com
| pletely lost in the turbulent waters. and
the roadbed in some places entirely oh.
| liberated.
Operating Stub Trains.
Stub trains now are being operated
from Ogden over the Southern Pacific
for points in Nevada on the east side
of the flooded district, and similar
trains are being run from the western
terminus to the western edge of tho
| humboldt valley for the convenience OF
| Nevada travellers
While there has been considerable
complaint by delayed passengers. who
demanded that they be given tickets
to Nevada points by way of Portland
and San Francisco before the stut
| trains were put IN operation. aud com
plants from delayed passengers bc
cause they were required by the rail
road company TO pay for their own
meals in the dining cars, the railroad
officials here say that everything pos
sible. under the Interstate commerce
law is being done for the care aud safe
ty of the marooued and delayed pas
sengcrs.