The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-06-22

HITS THIS
REGION
WASHOUTS PREVENT TONOPAH
AND GOLDFTELD TRAIN
REACHING HERE

heaviest ram 10 StTlke OoiuIlelu
since the cloudburst of September.
1913, hit here last night, starting
shortly after Z o'clock. The wea-
Their station reported this morning
that 2.43 inches fell during the
storm.
According to r. w. Robinson,
weather observer here, the rainfall
was the heaviest ever recorded since
the establishment of the station.
The weather man says that on
Sept. Is, 1918, the day the cloud
burst hit Goldfield, 1.72 inches of
rain fell and hat more rain fell
during the course of the storm yes
terday than was recorded during
any entire month since the establish
ment of the station. He said most
of the rain came down in two hours.
Both the Tonopah and Goldfield
and Las Vegas and Tonopah rail-
roads suffered and roads in all d.
rections we're covered with water,
in some instances many feet deep,
and we're badly damaged.
The Tonopah and Goldfield train
due here this morning IA turned
back at Tonopah and no mail from
the north came into Goldfield to-
day. Tonopah and Goldfield rail-
road officials said they expected to
have a train in and out of here to-
morning, as they believed
the damage could be repaired by
then. They were not certain of
this.
Last nights L. V. & T. train was
run to the vicinity of Jumbotown,
where the passengers and mail we're
taken off, and it is expected a wash
out near the plant of the Western
Ore Purchasing company in Column
bia will be repaired SO that the train
can be brought into the depot this
evening. l.. V. & T. officials said
this morning they expected tomor-
row mornings train to leave here
time.
The heaviest part of the storm
to have struck Goldfield
and along the line of the railroad
to Klondyke. The grade was wash
ed away in places, the mud stills
were washed from under a bridge
near the Western Ore Purchasing
company plant and a bridge eight
nine miles put from Goldfield
lost three supports. This bridge is
from 100 to $50 feet long and 20
feet high. The supports were con-
structed of heavy timbers, but the
flood carried away three of them.
The center of the storm evidently
travelled through the valley to Mil
lers, for, although there was no
trouble on the railroad between
Tonopah and Millers, the rain was
heavy west of here to Millers.
The main trouble on the l.. v.
L. T., although the roadbed was
softened in the path OF the storm,
il a place in Columbia where there
is a hole 35 feet long and six fee
deep. None of the bridges on the
road were damaged.
Old timers say they saw
the electric lights go out and the
current come on again as fast or
as many times as last night, the
trouble commencing shortly after
the storm started. The current
made it's final exit at $50 and re-
manned off until the same hour this
morning, when it flickered several
times and finally came on strong
over the line by way of Tonopah.
Last night insulators were brok-
en- and the lines wen down be-
tween Tonopah and Alkali and
HOluLAClu ~ mali ~ SOWo
worked all night making repairs.
Few men went on shift this morn,
ing in any of the local mines ow-
ing to the power being off.
No damage was done in Gold
field. At the height of the electri-
cal display, to the accompaniment
of thunder crashes, a bolt struck
the ground on Myrtle avenue with
a crash that was followed by a loud
cracking that could be heard for
several blocks and a furrow was
torn in the ground. The lightning
display was n of the finest ever
witnessed here.
Automobiles caught in the storm
on roads in this region had diff
Guilty in reaching their destinations