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Show "first train to arrive at 6 p. m. t Engines Arc Now Thundering Through Palisade Canyon and the Great Flood Blockade is Over 2200 Carloads of Freight to be Moved Oregon Short Line Trains Continue to be Detoured Through Ogden. Passenger trains passed through , PaMsade canyon la?t night, and from ! now on the Southern Pacific line west lrom Ogden will observe the train schedule in force l.efnro the tie-up caused by the Humboldt valley floods, floods. The first through train from California Cali-fornia Is due In Ogden at 0 o'clock this afternoon, and will he followed Jiy six passenger and mall trains. Wert of hero there are 2.200 loaded frel-ht cars sidetracked, which will .Mart to move loniplit. Py early next w eek the concept Inn on the Rout hern Pacific will begin to disappear. 1 Trains from Ihe Oregon Short Line I continue 10 be routed from Granger, ! Wyoming, over the Union Pacific and j sent north from Ogden. The damage i by washouts near Montpeller, Idaho, has not been repaired. The Pear I river Is In flood and great difficulty Is being experienced In placing even a tcninorary bridge across that stream. The damage to the line In Palisade canyon has been repaired and Cue first trains oxer Ihe affected district began passing at la o'clock last night. The trains that left OgJcn Wednesday Wednes-day and Thursday morning for the west have successfully passed through the canyon, as have the trains that left San Francisco on the same daya. Freight to Move. As soon as the passenger traffic Is cleared up todax, the Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, company will devote attention to the clearing up of the frelcht congestion con-gestion over the entire d!l.clon On almost every available sidetrack between be-tween Cnrlln and Oden are freight j trains, which aggregate hundreds j of cars held during the washouts, and on the west Fide of the floods there j are as many more loadx of east hound i freight. It Is expected that the congestion con-gestion will be cleared up within a, week. All of the train crews that were l.v'd off by the company dining the washouts, wash-outs, as well as many extra crews, hae been put to work, and the oros-perts oros-perts are that from now on things will be humming in the traffic pan incut of the Southern Pacific. During the recent floods the officials of the Salt lnk division of the South cm Pacllc company bandied the situation situ-ation In a most commendr.blo manner. Only the iilghe.it worda of praise have been spoken by the paFScngon on the many trains that have been stalled o detoured. Those passengers. !r. order to show their appreciation, have sent to the head ofllclaltf of the Southern Pacific and the Oregon Short l.iuj railroads resolutions of thanks. Not onlv have the official on the roa-I worked early and late nod faithfully, but the offlclala at Ogden have .it o.' the recent washout on the Oregon Short Line, between Montpolier an 1 Horder, on the eas end of the li'abo dhitfon of the road, where aboct 500 , feet of track and the brl.lge over U,e time-? been almost burled In v. oik. During the bu?y days at tbe Union depot, de-pot, when twelve or fifteen restler.s i passengers held here were storming the offices four and five times a day to ask the same xucstlons about two thousand times, those officials managed man-aged to "grin and bear It." As n re. suit of this there wm the largest number num-ber of optimistic passenger.; si 'be Union depot daily that ever gathered In a like place in the United Stat.-s. Officials Have Worked Hard. Ever since the fl'.ft report of high water reached the Ogden office. Superintendent Su-perintendent E. C. Hanson and As slstant Superintendent Thomas Fitzgerald Fitz-gerald have, been on the line direct In,: the repairs. At various point alon ; the affected district Assistant Superintendents Super-intendents Campbell, Bell, Easton. Stlnson and their other assistants have been constantly directing the repair re-pair work. At Ogden Assistant Super-intendent Super-intendent Hollands chief to Superintendent Superin-tendent Man3ou; T. A. McKinMrey. chief dispatcher, and D. .7. Malone, master mechanic, have handled th'.r end of the flood trouble in an eftich ir. manner The bead oflic'als of Cie road who were at the scene of the trouble were General Manager CMviu of the Southern Pacific and general Superintendent Havis of the Oregon Short Line who were on the -asi side of (he washouts, and Gener;:l Manager Man-ager Bancroft of the Oregon Sbrt Line, who was on tbe west side of the w ashout. General Superintendent Davis -vill j.iobably proceed at once to the .sr-sio Bear river are reported damaged The otent of this last trouble c?.nr.ot b- fully learned, but It is sta'ed that 'he Oregon Short Line trains will 'o.? detoured de-toured via Ogden and the Union Pacific Pa-cific for three or four date, at leas'-Passengers leas'-Passengers Were Fed. One problem that the railroad ooni-pnny ooni-pnny was confronted with, but successfully suc-cessfully solved during the iccfV. washouts was the feeding of th? passengers pas-sengers on the delayed and detoured, trains at the expense of tbe company. This was the flr.n time that it became necessary for the railroad officials oi several lines to furnish meals gratis to passengers over lines other than their own, but the plan was suevis fully earrled out Superintendent Fred Gentseh. with his assistant. II. W. McAbee, and Inspector P. .1 Mur-phv Mur-phv of the department of diuiiiT ears and hotels of the Oregon Short Lin-?, were at var'ous point In Idaho during dur-ing the flood and directed the feeding of passengers on the detoured lia'n at Pocatello and tbe stocking of the dining cars tor the long journey to San Francisco by wav of Portl.ir.d The passengers who were Jelryed at Ogden were provided with meal ticket by Depot Master Shields and were given the.r meals at the Pacific hotel by Manager, Bradbury. |