Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-05
PASSENGERS MAY
ARRIVE TOMORROW
Teams Transferring Them to
Train This Side of Washout
On Salt Lake Route.
RUSHING REPAIRS ON LINE.
Water Has Gone Down and Work
Gangs Arc Pressing Forward
With Much vIgor.

The passengers on the bclated No. 4
passenger train. held up by the wash
out on the Salt Lake Route, Will, 1t Is
now expected. arrive in Salt Lake to-
morrow night
At noon today the officials of the Salt
Lake Route received the welcome In
telligenco from Supt. IL. E. Van Hou-
sen. who Is at Barclay. near the scene
of the floods, to the effect that COM
munication had been established With
the marooned passenger train. which
since the night of Jan. 1 has been
stalled at Eccres little station five
miles east of Caiente. The message
said that teams were started from Cali
cntc this morning for Ecclcs for the
purpose OF taking Off the passengers
on the train and hauling them back to
Acoma, which point was reached this
morning in repairing the road. The
teams will make the trip so that the
passengers VIII upon arrival at Acoma
be placed on board No. 2, which is due
TO arrive In this city at $50 tomorrow
evening, and while II may be necessary
TO hold No 2 at Acoma two or three
hours 10 give the teams time to ar
rive. il is expected that nll the bclated
passengers on No. 4 will reach this city
some time before midnight tomorrow
night.
The message also said that the
waters had gone down i'm the Meadow
Valley wash. and that the work OF re-
pairing the roadbcd and laying of
rails may be carried on without inter
ruption and the prospects are that
ualns will be again running through
To InlienIP In fazN
repair gang has succeeded In clearing
UP the track as far as Acoma and will
soon be at Barclay, where Supt. Van
Housen is directing the repairing op-
crations
a GREAT TASK
AS The country surrounding the scene
of the washout is very sparsely settled,
IL has been a task OF some magnitude
TO secure teams and vehicles sufficient
To carry off the hundred or more pas
sengers occupying the belated train.
but according to the dispatch received
at noon Supt. Van Housen has sue
ceeded in doing this and II Is only n
question of another day until the pas
sengers will be safely brought back to
Salt Lake City Reports from tho
train have been to the effect that while
the coal supply on the engine gave out,
there were plenty OF ties and wood on
hnnd TO keep up plenty of heat for the
coaches, and that there was no suffer-
Ing on that account. The larder OF
the dining car was also plentifully sup
piled, so that the passengers have suf-
fercd no privntions on the score of
hunger. In fact all that could be done
under the circumstances has been done
by the railroad for the comfort of the
occupants OF the train, who have un-
fortunately been delayed in reaching
their destinations by obstacles which
tho railroad could not forsee nor pre-
vent, and In which the railroad COM
pany was an incalculable loser by dam
age done TO its roadbed and tracks
Up to noon today telegraphic com
munication had not been restored with
Caliente, OF points beyond the washout
district Wires are down all along
the line for many miles, and II is not
known from this side what damage
has been done or what is being done
in the way of operating trains on the
other side Of the washout, Line work.
crs are engaged in repairing the wires,
however, and 1t Is expected that tele-
graphic communication may be re-
established any day.
A RECORD BREAKER.
"The washout on the Salt Lake route
is the worst that has ever happened
TO the road" declared William Lloyd,
superintendent of the Prince Consoli-
in Salt Lake this morning from Phoebe.
THE floods and the snow In southern
Nevada have been the heaviest in
years and traffic has been blocked for
a long time to come it would be I'M
possible for me to say Just how long
but 1t VIII be longer than the last
washout took"
Mr.. Lloyd came In this morning with
Mine Manager Ernest L. Godbe OF
the Prince mine The men were traye-
ling two days on a trip that usually
takes little more than quarter of
the time.
"On account of the traffic to and
from Phoebe. Mt. Montgomery has put
In a stage line between Pioche and
Modena, said Mr.. Lloyd This stage
leaves Modena Wednesdays and Satur-
days and Will continue until the roads
are fixed up We were the first pas
scngers to get out of Phoebe There
werc only four passengers and the
driver In the coach drawn by four
horses when we set out from Piochc
In some places the snow was two feet
and II took us 13 hours to get from
Pioche to Modena. 40 miles. The roads
are now broken and II will require
considerable less time in going and
coming now
I'VE spent that night at Modena
The next morning train came along
and VIC boarded II. The train went
down the road for 40 miles TO Uvada.
where 1t waited all day. We stayed
with the Pullman, and as there was a
dining car on we were fortunate Last
evening the train started for Salt Lake
and we arrived this morning
The road Is in the worst shape I
ever saw II. Twelve miles out OF Cali
cnte at what Is known as the Deiamar
ranch OF Round Valley, thero is four
feet of solid ice on the tracks and it
must be at least three quarters of a
mile across.
"Caliente Is In terrible shape. The
round house there has about four feet
of water In IL and the federal store
which Is almost up on the hill side. /
underst1nd has about foot of water.