The Nenana daily news., 1918-06-01
PIERS ARE CUT
 BY HIGH WATER IN THE NENANA
Bridge Piers Undermined At the Crossing; Lost Slough Trestle
 Holding.

Flood conditions out on the line
 are continuing to give the officials
 of the Alaskan Engineering commis-
 sion cause for much worry and the
 actual work of construction has been seriously hampered, delayed and, in
 some places suspended altogether, pending the subsiding of the flood
 waters. The wing dam, erected at the head of Lost Slough, is appar- ently of not much use as a pre- ventive against floods and a very large volume of water flows in the
 old channel of the slough, inundating the country for miles around. The big trestle across Lost Slough is ap-
 parently undamaged, but the true condition of the structure cannot be ascertained with any degree of cer- tainty until the waters have sub- sided Owing to the current being
 impeded to some extent in its pass.
 age under the big trestle, it has cut
 a new channel for itself at the
 southern end of the trestle and there
 by washed away a portion of the
 completed grade.
 All supplies for the use of camps
 situated beyond Lost Slough are be-
 ing held up as it is not possible to
 transport even a small quantity,
 communications having been most
 effectually cut off. Eight head of
 horses, which had been sent for work
 in the neighborhood of Camp 9 (20-
 milel when the Nenana started on
 the rampage, are marooned on q } small piece of dry land, a veritable } oasis in a desert of waters, and feed } in small quantities are with much , difficulty being sent for the use of , the stock, polling boat being used -, for. the purpose.
 }, All of the bridges, trestIes ana } culverts on that section of the road , between the big trestle and the lower \ end of Lost Slough near old Camp 10, are carrying about all the water they could possible stand and are being closely watched to guard
 against possible disaster. The gaps in the completed right of way torn by the floods have not been repaired and locomotive No. still remains , naarooned on a small portion of the : roadbed lying between Camps 15 anc : Is, but it is expected that she will : be gotten over the gap as soon a: : conditions will allow of such ar : undertaking.
 z It was planned, at first, to stop uI . the gaps on the grade, but owing ' to increasing volume of waters the ' officials in charge figured that should the gaps be stopped up it would ' mean that the already very mucf 7 swollen streams will be considerably 7 augmented and the bridges, trestle! : and culverts will be thereby 7 overtaxed and the structures en ' dangered if not carried away alto 7 gether The water continues to ' flow with much force and volume . across the right of way at the two z gaps, an it is expected that pile . driver will have to be requisitioneC . to make the necessary repairs her, . as soon as conditions permit of the . work being undertaken.
 . Indications in Julius creek, whicl ]. crosses the right of way about W ;. miles below Bailey station, pointing ]. to the fact that this stream is carry , ing a larger body of water than i has ever been known to, leads to the belief that a large quantity of tn y waters of Lost Slough is finding it 7 way into this creek It is also prob 7 able that Lost Slough has actually 7 broken into Julius creek, thereb! ' extending its operations to the detri 7 ment of the road to a point in tn = right of way situated about five S miles below old Camp 10, wher a Lost Slough re-enters the Nenan : river. It is, however, not possibl
 to ascertain whether this is so il
 view of the present flooded condi Id tions of the country.
 ,t The damage done by the flood
 to the piers and approachec to tn