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Show STORM SIIIIAT1 SOMEWHATBETTER Wires Arc Down. Offices Arc Without Definite Jiifonua-Hj Jiifonua-Hj lion, Water Is Rising. REPORTS MEAGKR AND OFTKX CONTRADJOTORY Tlirec Trains Have Left Ogden for San Francisco Via Portland. H "Three (rains will leave Okoch PPpH v so mo time Wednesday night for San PPH Kranclsro, via Portland, Ore, over :-PPRH :-PPRH v the Oro.cou Short Miic. One is a PPpH solid mull tin I In, nnotlier a solid pus- PPPH ''f .vcnctM train and tho lltird Is tho PPRH Whltn Sox Fjiccinl," said Assistant '? BPPPJ urneral Passeiipcr .A front Spencer. Iv "'j nose trains win no ntirsco - 'f fhrnujrli If possible, an tho mall Is r j- insistent and (lie passengers aro I-- mostly for San Francisco, whoro I- they hope to catch certain ships, I-I I-I and must. If possible, arrlvo before v sailing dates." Tim trains mentioned pulled out of r Y Ogden at midnight, Special to Tho Tribune. OGKHS.V, March 2. Six trains on the Southern Pacific, consolidated Into three trains, left for San Francisco by way of Portland, Or,, over the Oregon Short Line, owing to the disastrous washouts In the Humboldt valley district; Xov. Both trains No. 9 of Monday and Tuesday Tues-day left at midnight as ono train over this roundabout route. At 12;15 this morning, Monday and Tuesday Overland Limited trains, consolidated Into one train, went, north over the same route. Flftcn minutes afterward the special train bearing the members of the Chicago Chi-cago White Sox baseball aggregation, which has been held up here for two d.ns. combined with an extra mall train carrying a large quantity of mall which has been tied up in Ogduu since last Saturday, pulled out for tho coast, An extra transfer train from Cobrc, N , which was mndc un at the east oiid or the 'flooded district, with 100 marooned ma-rooned passengers who were due in Og-don Og-don Monday morning, arrived here at 0 o'clock tonight. Thus far no trains have been sent through the Hooded district, which embraces em-braces about 100 miles In the Humboldt alle. The worst damage to the Southern South-ern Paciilo intuits covers a llfty-mile stretch between Paulo Mountain and Winiicinucca, Nov. Railroad officials litre say that this damage will not be repaired for a week. ! Passengers leaving Ogtlcn tonight for (.oldtlcld. New. and other points in that statf registered considerable- objection to paIng full fare over the route by Portland Port-land and Pan Francisco. The railroad companies refused to carry them for less than the regular faro this way, claiming that It would be a. violation or the Inter-si.no Inter-si.no oommerco law. Other trains over the Southern Pacific, until Uw damage Is repaired, will be sent mor the same route as tho six trains dispatched this morning. I Caught Unawares. OGDKN. Utah. March 3. Hundreds of ppss"iiger.s and sixty . members of the Wniie Sox baseball party, who received an announcement early last night that .liicy would be marooned In Ogdeu for several days, were caught unawares a fcv hours later when It was decided thai .Southern Pacific passenger trains would rc roro.itcd over the Oregon Short Line la Portland. Reports Indicating that the Southern Pacific dlstaster is 'he most complete in the history of the road led the White Sox to establish training quarters here. Thcj, with hundreds of passengers from other trains, had scattered ubout the ity wlwm It was announced that the Oregon Short Lino was open for travel. A combination special, carrying delayed mall and coaches, left for tho west over tho northern route ut midnight. Ten nilniifs later the White Sox special departed, de-parted, with President Charles A. Co-mislcy Co-mislcy confident that he would be able to open the schedule of games at San Francisco on Saturday. At 12:'.'0 this morning the Overland Jjimjtcd was sent out Officials could say nothing regarding the condition of trades In Idaho, although th"y believed Hood damage on the Ore-' gon Short Line would not prevent the movement of trains. Southern Pacific trains were brought back from Nevada, today, ami will be Iii iuunu. iuii;i: jui'viicu iiuiicuic lll.ll damage In the Humboldt valley, where the river has changed lis course, will be so severe Unit It will require at least a week before traffic can be even partially partial-ly restored on the Southern Pacific. The Union Pacific continues to operate trains, . i It was reported that 12lko, New. was In danger of severe floods, but a dispatch received late last night from that place sas: "An Ice gorge In Mary's river hrokc late joslerday afternoon and flooded Depth, forty miles east of here. At midnight, mid-night, alarming messages were received at Klko. but later reports say there Is no danger of the town being severely flooded. Everything tonight Is quiet. The streets are covered with water." Uncertainty pervaded Hip headquarters of the Oregon Short Lino in tills city all. day Wednesday concerning tho Hood slt-J nation because of the lack of definite and complete information. Some. of the most important wires are down and others are working badly. Practically everything known to the local officials appears In ti c dispatches of the Associated ' Press, as It Is the policy of the irarrlman management man-agement not to suppress such news, but to hand It to the newspapers at the carll-. carll-. st possible moment. General Manager Bancroft of the Short - Lino Is on the Pacific coast; General Manager Calvin of the Southern Pacific Is In ono of the trains stalled In Nevada; General Superintendent Davis of tho Short Line Is at Glcnns Ferry, In Idaho; so that tlu local Short Line offices are somewhat bare of the higher officials. Officially, at least, the Short Line headquarters head-quarters are In charge of Chief Cleric 'Smith of Mr. Bancroft's office. Although so many officials aro away, everything Is working smoothly, both In headquarters and out over the lines, toward restoring ihc road to normal condition. All day Wednesday those in charge were at a loss whether or not to risk sending three trains west out of Ogden for San Francisco over the Oregon Short Line and via Portland. Telegrams would no sooner reporl that the, way might be open by night, when other messages would follow telling of new washouts. At 3 o'cloek Wednesday It was deckled to send out of Ogden one solid mall train, one passenger train loaded with travelers travel-ers anxious to catch steamers out of Sun Francisco, and the White Sox special, but at C o'clock this decision was reversed re-versed because of telegraphic news that tho watr was coming up again. At JO o'clock Wednesday night the trains were still held for orders, with llulo prospec ts of getting away until Thursday. If then. At midnight throe trains were sent out. Special Examiner Brown of the Interstate Inter-state Commerce commission is catighl between washouts In Idaho, so no hearing hear-ing was held In Salt Lake. Wednesday, as was expected. Parley "Williams, general gen-eral iiltornev for the Oregon Short Line, who was at the Boise hearing. Is also ono of the marooned passengers. Letters Let-ters that were dropped Into street and business block mail boxes Sunday night for the west aro still at Ogden. as Is westbound inn 11 from this city that was In the Tiostofllen Monday. Nature Alone to Blame. Thero was a rumor in Salt Lake, Wednesday ai 2 o'clock, that Elko, New. was In danger, but the Elko wire was working -at ' o'clock Wednesday night, so no uneasiness was felt for the safety of the town or the station. "Practically nothing can be done until the flood Is over or, at least, begins tu leccdc." said a railroad official Wcdncs-daw Wcdncs-daw "And that all. depends on tho weather. The warmer it geis, the more our troubles Increase. It Is simply 'an act of God.' as the law says, for which no man is responsible." The Denver & Wo Grande Is not affected af-fected hv the floods, ami the Union Paclilc Pa-clilc Is running trains as usual. Trouble Is expected on the Rio Grande, the Midland, Mid-land, and the Union Pacific, when the snows begin to go out of tho Rockies, but so far the weather has noi turned suddenly warm along these roads, and everything Is all right to date. The Santa Fc and the southern route of the Sou thorn Pacific are normal, and little. If any, futuro trouble Is expected. Tho Salt Luke Route, after its flood disaster In the 'Meadow Valley wash, has had no more trouble. Electric lines are running as usual. - The most severe conditions arc those In ihc Cascade mountains, the next severe se-vere In Nevada from Reno cast to the Great Salt lake, and tho next In the Snake River valley around Glcnns Ferry and Nampa. The Humboldt river In -Nevada is said to be at the highest flood pplut ever known. I The floods being on Iho TTarriman system, sys-tem, tlio public Is extended every possible pos-sible courtesy In the way of Information, and no attempt Is made to conceal or twist bad news, the official dispatches being open to public Inspection, as Is the custom of all the Jlartiman roads. Avalanches and Floods. Seldom In the history of transcontinental transconti-nental railroading has tho Pacific shore been cut oft from the rest of tho continent conti-nent as It Is today. Of tho several transcontinental trans-continental lines having terminals on this coast, only the most southern routes are open. The Central Pacific. 'Northern Pacific. Great Northern and other northern roads are at a standstill so far as through traffic traf-fic Is concerned, every line having been blocked by floods or snowslldcs. The only open route Is via Los Angeles and up the coast, and even that iar south one lino was totally disrupted over a month ago, when a hundred miles of the Salt Lake, Los Angeles & San Pedro route through Nevada was washed out. The Central Pacific Is blocked in north eastern Nevada cist of Elko by floods which destroyed many miles of the roadbed. road-bed. No overland trains have arrived via Ogden on the Pacific coast for three days and delayed trains arc held at s la Hons throughout Nevada. In the north the sudden Increase in temperature, .following the heavy snowfall, snow-fall, has blocked the lines of the Great Northern and Northern. Pacific through the Cascade mountains. Small slides have Interrupted ami delayed traffic for several weeks; but the great avalanches of the last three days have complotcly tied up the lines and caused heavy loss of lite. From all parts of Washington and northern Oregon reports of Impending Impend-ing floods have been recch'bd. and It Is thought, probable that the railroads will have new difficulties (o face- In the lowlands low-lands before the mountain lines have been cleared. Telegraph communication throughout the northwest has been generally Interrupted Inter-rupted by the storms and- In some cases totally cut off. Because of this It has been possible to securo only meager details de-tails of the disasters. Hold Trains One Week. OGDISN, Utah.. March 2. Ycstcrdav the Southern Pacific officials looked forward for-ward to Hie opening of the road west of Ogden within twenty-four hours; today they admit that the floods In the Humboldt Hum-boldt 'valley. Nevada, aro so overwhelming overwhelm-ing and widespread In their dcstruc.lvo-ness dcstruc.lvo-ness that it will bo a week before nnv semblance of a restoration of traffic will be attainable. Three large bridges are out In Palisade canyon, 300 miles west of Ogden. and between Harney and Cluro, In Ten-Mile canyon, the Humboldt river has changed Its course and is now sweeping In an Irresistible Hood where the railroad, track ran. To add to the alarming condition, warnings were Issued at Elko, New, this morning that the crest of an unprecedented unprece-dented flood Is at Dceth and is of sifch proportions as to submerge all that district dis-trict near Elko as It passes down tho Humboldt valley. The people of Elko have been advised to desert the business busi-ness district, which Is In the path of the Hood. Trains which were started west from Ogden yesterday are returning, to be held here Indefinitely. "Wires Aro Down. SAN FRANCISCO, March 2. Information Informa-tion received by the local offices of the .Southern Pacific lato today Indicate that tho. tlc-up of oycrlttnd trains in Nevada' will not bo as protracted as earlier reports re-ports presagi-d. Vice President and General Gen-eral Manager E. E. Calvin of the Southern South-ern Pacific, on his way home from Now York, was on one of tho trains tied up at Elko. Nov.. and has assumed personal direction of tho forces which are clearing clear-ing the way. Word from Mr. Calvin received here this afternoon lias led to the abandon- meat of the plan to route overland trains over the Shasta lino via Portland, Or. Assistant General IVIanaper W. R. Scott maintain? that the Xevada lino will bo cleared in such a Hhort time that re-routlni? re-routlni? of trains will bo unnecessary. Should such a step prove advisable, however, how-ever, the Shasta route will contlnuo to bo available, as thero Is little or no snow alone; that lino. The last two trains that can arrlvo over the Southern Pacific overland route until repairs are made came In this afternoon, aft-ernoon, twenty-four hours late, with the eastern mails and passengers. These trains bnrely escaped the worst washouts wash-outs and were able to work slowly through. The Southern I'acille officials hero confess they do not know how many passenger trains aro tied up between rtcno and Ogden. Telegraphic communication by this route was lost today and wires cast are now routed via J-os Angeles and the Santa Fo. There wero eight passenger trains stalled at Wlnnemuc,ea, Nov.. yesterday, yes-terday, half a dozen at lmlay. and as many more at Golconda- Thcso are small stations on the desert and the passengers pas-sengers arc amusing themselves with Impromptu dances and other pastimes. |