The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-01-22

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savs. salt Lake people have not yet
heann To realize what the catastrophe
% the Salt Lake route means to Salt
Lake Even the business community
who are directly interested do not real
;ze what il is. When the earthquake
visited San Francisco, with the great
fire which followed, when so many lives
were lost by the destruction of build
ings bv the tremors of the earth and by
the flames which afterwards devastated
a great city, the world was appalled,.
What the earthquake was to San
! Francisco the food of January LIST was
to the Salt Lake route and the world
at large passes up this catastrophe as
a mere nothing. Salt Lake has not yet
come to know what it means.
When on Sunday next a new time
card goes into effect upon the Salt Lake
route. then will Salt Lake, then will
the travelling public of this great, big
world of ours begin to understand what
the catastrophe is what it means. Time
card number 33. which became effective
at 1901 O'Clock on Wednesday morn
ing, December /, gave the time OF
twenty trains cb the Salt Lake division,
over the Sixth district between Salt
Lake and Lynn, III miles southwest of
Salt Lake. Six of these trains were
palatial ones, two of them, the Los
Angeles limited and the Los Angeles
special, were the equal of any trains
in America. They were equipped WITH
every modern convenience for the com
fort of travellers and every known de-
vice for the safety of travellers was IN
use upon these palatial trains. They
were the equal of the Pennsylvania and
the New York Central limited trains,
but they differed from these in that no
extra rate of fare was charged to ride
upon them. These trains were palaces
upon wheels.
Through Trafnc ceases.
When time card No. 81 becomes eff
fective at 1901 O'Clock on Monday
morning, January II, the number OF
these ~palatial trains will not appear
upon the time card. On the schedule
will appear the time of -four trains.
Three of these will run to Garfield, the
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fourth one to Tooele. On the line VIA
Provo trains will run to Lynn, from
there to the end of the track at Acoma,
one mixed train will run. This is a
partial effect of the food. Every indi-
cation is that the time card, which VIII
again carry the numbers of the p%alatial
trains between Salt Lake and Los An
geles, will not issue before September
/. Perhaps people will now realize
what the calamity is.
From Barclay, a station 800 miles
from Salt Lake, to near Moapa, 30S
miles from Salt Lake, a distance of 93
miles, there is practically no railroad.
At one point away up on the side of the
canyon, - feet from the head of the
Meadow Valley wash, a monster freight
locomotive lays against the canyon
wall. There is no track there and the
train of thirty cars, which it was haul
ing, has disappeared. Two of these ears
carried eighty-one horse. All but seven
were drowned. Twenty-three of the
ears in this train carried structural
steel for Los Angeles. Great steel
beams and uprights-they were like
those used in the Utah and Newhouse
hotels here. Steel ears carried these
steel beams. They now lie in the river
bed with these great beams wound
about them as if they were wire, so ter
rife was the fiood of water.
Road Bed Obliterated.
Between Barclay and Caliente, a
distance of twenty miles, there is moth
ing left of the road bed. High up on
the sides of the canyon, fifty feet from
the river bed, can be seen what was
steel rails, which weighed ninety
pounds to the yard, bent like reeds.
Others were cut in two as if they had
been sawed in twain. But there is no
steel highway. Men have made the
trip along where the road bed was and
have gone into Caiiente, but in making
this journey they rave taken their lives
in their hands and have had to elmo IN