The Holly chieftain., 1921-06-16
Train Service Resumed

Santa Fc Tuesday as far west us
La l.unta. Denver trains and IL
have been annullei until flood con.
dit:ons at.NeDesta. are normal again.
With the resumption OF train ser.
vice, the Helvetia Condensary at
Lamar is again receiving milk.
The following from the Denver
Post explains flood conditions at
Nepesta.
When nature in its rage madly
swirled the waters of the Arkansas
tearing them from their natural
courses and plOwing them with des-
tructive speed thru habitations, It
created freak which today is caus.
ing leading engineers to rack their
brains Where once the still water
flowed through the little town of
Nepesta a milewide lake now stands
and one of the great engineering
problems of Colorado's history, to
surmount this water barrier with
telegraph lines and railroad bridge
Is in the process of solution.
NeDesta is twenty miles south.
west of Pueblo. 1t is part of the
railroad and telegraph artery from
the south to Pueblo and Denver.
According to telegraph officials the
chief destruction to their lines Oc-
Cured ut this point. and even Sat
urday, officials said, the water flow.
ed in roaring current through the
center OF this body of water. Thus
it is impossible. by ordinary means,
to restring telegraph wires or to
erect a railroad bridge across this
new-fOrmed river channel.
La Junta,. south of Nepesta, is
the limit Of travel to Pueblo and
Denver from the west and south.
Trains arriving there are rerouted
mainly through eastern points.
Hundreds Of workmen slough their
way through mud and water on
either side of this big lake seeking
q foOthold, or even solid spot, to
plant poles. ---,..-- y,..,
Both che Western Union and
the Postal Telegraph companies
are handicapped alike by this freak
of nature. Every spare workman
of each company has been sent to
the scene, together with gangs of
men employed by the Santa Fe rail.
road, La Junta. they say, has doub.
led its population due to the influx
of tourists from the south who have
landed there aud found they could
not continue their journey except
by hundreds of miles of roundabout
travel
The swift current through the
middle Of the water hinders the
receding Of the backed UP pool ON
either side and the lake" appears
to be permanent instead of tempOr-
ary backwater of other flooded dis
tricts which soon recedes and allows
reclamation.
w. ~. DIhCh, SupclhhSShuChS VI
the Postal telegraph service for
Colorado and Wyoming said Friday
every available man was being hur.
ried to Nepesta to rush the work of
replacing the destruction.
40 span this hOdy of water with
telegraph lines and a railroad. tres
tie will be the engineering feat OF
Colorados history" Mr.. Black said
There has been no telegraphic
communications in Denver direct
from la Junta for a week except
those messages which are worked
around and they are few"
The Missouri Pacific and Santa
Fe are the only rail lines crossing
the Arkansas at Nepesta. Officials
of both roads are working with each
other to resume the traffic there.
Meanwhile a few trains are being
rerouted to Trinidad, through Pueb
10 and thence to Denver The Colo
RADIO and Southern tracks are used
from La Junta to Trinidad. This
emergency relief has been in effect
only for the last two days, trains
being routed over the east before
that.
Near Fire Saturday