The Nenana daily news., 1918-05-31
WATER TROUBLES HAMPER WORKERS
 ALONG THE LINE

the Nenana river continues to cause trouble along the right of way and by reason of the flooded condition of } the country in the vicinity of camps } g, Is, 16, p and the section gangs, } and washout on the grade between Camps 15 and 16, about 15 miles , south of town, the work of the rail- road builders is being seriously ham, pered.
 The level of the water in the Nenana began to go up on the 25th
 instant and has increased steadily;
 last night it had reached to within
 a small fraction of the highest water
 mark registered last season, with
 no indications of subsiding at pres ent. The warm weather now pre- vailing, will, it is thought, further
 add to the volume of water; and anticipating further trouble, the
 Commission officials in charge have
 taken all the necessary precautions to protect the grade and other prop erty from possible damage Men have been placed at and near every bridge, trestle and culvert to pre- vent the driftwood carried down by the floods from accumulating and
 thereby endangering these struc-
 lures. Portions of the finished
 grade threatened by the encroaching
 waters are also being closely
 watched.
 Washout On Railroad.
 The first serious setback to the work occurred on the night of the
 18th, when by the insidious action of the flood waters, a small portion of the grade was washed away, leav- ing the rails and ties hanging in space. The exact location of the washout is about half a mile south from the dragline camp (Camp 22) l on section of the grade which had been cribbed up with timbers and finished with frozen material last fall, and although not of a serious nature, has had the effect of marooning locomotive No. 5 on the roadbed beyond Camp 15, confining her operations to that part of the road beyond the gap and to within as near the end of steel as the floods will permit her to reach; quite a volume of water flows with considerable force right across the grade at the washout. It is expected that the damage will soon be re- paired after the waters have sub- sided some. The steel gang (Camp 16) and section crew No. 3 are located beyond the washout. Flood Threatens Camp
 The rapidly rising water seriously menaced the dragline camp (Camp 22) but gang of men, hastily re- quisitioned by Foreman Blakey from 1 the force of the steel gang, were put to work lacking and cribbing up the camp cars beyond the reach of the | creeping waters, and it is believed l that the level to which the cars have now been elevated will preclude the possibility of the camp being flooded out. =. l.
 *. -:" Lost Slough I r Lost Slough now carries a very considerable body of water and much of the ice which had been stranded on the bars shortly after the break up, comes down this channel as we'll as some drift. A force of men are constantly on duty on the big trestle here to prevent damage to the struc- ture from the ice and driftwood. It is reported that considerabl drift is gathering against the dams erected at the, head of the slough and hopes are entertained that the jam thus formed will eventually reach such proportions as to effectually stop and turn the bulk of the waters into the old channel of the river and thus carry it away from the grade. This slough, which has been the cause of much trouble to the Alaskan Engineering commission, crosses the grade near the camp at 20-mile, flowing under the big trestle and for a distance of about