Show CITY TRACTION LINES PARTIALLY ABANDONED Street Car Service Struggles Against Unequal Odds Odd Suburban Routes Almost Completely Paralyzed Gangs Try All Night to Mend Matters WITH the snowstorm in th the section in more than YV thirty years raging in unabated in Salt SnIt Lake yesterday morning traffic on many traction lines running running- g to populous residential al dis districts and suburbs of tho the cit city was entirely abandoned the utmost activity of strongly reinI reinforced rein rein- forced street railway Y hangs gangs proving unequal to a n winning g batt battle w with the I tremendous outbreak that transformed I the thc Great Grent Sl Stilt t Lake valley into a desert of snow now u I Early J j- j arl ariy this morning officials of the I traction company compan predicted the they would have ha all their different lines cleaned up and close to normal within withIn within with with- in forO forty eight hours providing there thero aro arc no further hea heavy falls folIs of ot snow Inca Incase In Incase ca case e another storm came on It was planned to abandon all efforts to open lines now closed and to devote ever every ery available n man to tho the task of keeping tho the most central branches of ot the system tys- tys 8 tem tern at tho the service of or the toe public The work of ot getting tho various lines Into running order a again agan centered last night largely larg-el on tho the Murray larm Springs s Sugar ul House Third avenue Second West and E E. Second South routes It was not expected that all of or these lines would be bo In shape to accommodate accommodate accommodate ac ac- ac- ac men and women on tho the wa way to their places of ot employment this morning but before nightfall some of them at nt least it was slated stated would be bo cleared UD up l Losing Any marl marked ed Improvement In today's local ocal street car ear service over o that of yesterday depends entirely upon weather er conditions With Uh a continuance orthe of or the up let-up in toe tile fall nil of ot snow throughout through through- h- h I out the nl night ht and morning It was regarded re regarded re- re as almost certain that several s more of or the principal lIn lines s would be brought back Into service and that there would be an improvement on I tho those thoo o lines nines which operated unsatisfactorily yesterday The traction company compan kept a large lare force of or men and all of Its snow snow-fl snow fight ht- ht log ing equipment nt work all night The Themen Themen men had been fighting a n losing battle baUle against the storm king ever eyer since Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- urda night and many man were near the point of or exhaustion b but t there was no relaxation In the struggle to force a resumption of ot normal operation Last ul night ht the State str street ct line was out of or service all aU the wa way to Sandy with seven seen cars snowed In at different points Joints Tho The Sugar House line was operating op op- crating with four and five fh oars ears to a atrain atrain train ln from Sugar Sug-ar House to Main street The Hast East and West est Second South lines I were operating Intermittently Intermittent with two-car two trains the tho principal interference ence being cau caused cd b by derailment of cars At the first cessation In the storm yesterday afternoon the Wandamere line was put into operation all the tho way through h the East Eat was heln being handled in III two and three car trains from ruin the lie fair grounds and X N. Fifth West cst to tho the Country Countr club the tho First South cars wore Were running to Olivet t South Temple was running er very close to schedule W Seventh South was vas op operating op- op orating orating- occasionally but could only go so goto goto soto to tho mho Jordan river on account of or de derailment derailment de- de of ot cars Sixth avenue was as beIng bo- bo boIng In Ing oper operated ted in trains the depot loop was operating two t cars car coupled together to together to- to gether and occasionally on other linos train crews crew would show up at tho the traffic tra- tra traffic fic fie center on Second South and Main having struggled led in from rom some side street whore where tine they had been forgotten since early morning or tho the III night ht before and amid hen ben left to fight their wa way as ns best hest th they could Out Chit l nl of Tho The Third avenue a line was out nut of commission all liR day Oa yesterday and the tho ends of or several sl nth other r lines line WN In In like raise miSe Bountiful became e blocked first owing to a high wind and drifting snow IHlOW Midvale became isolated t short shortly afterwards Then the wind whir filled tilled the tho cut on the tho Fifteenth East line Just beyond be beyond be- be yond tho the East High school On Sunday the Fifteenth East t line gave up and the AV W. Second South o was wa stopped a n short distance west welt of oC the Jordan river On Monday the th wind changed and the Ninth avenue line was in difficulty and later Intel was practically abandoned the only track In that district nn an any kind of service sI esterday being a single track on Sixth avenue a The Tho Fort Douglas DO extension of the lime Third avenue anu lino line W wa was 1 filled with huge drifts of snot enow and traffic was abandoned beyond Virginia Vir ginia street on Monday It Il was a as tho the result of or very er unusual conditions conditions- that the three day snowstorm snow snow- storm torm caused eo so much inconvenience to tho time public Henry L. L Reach general n manager er of th the traction company yuld said last lt night Walk allt out to the middle of ot the car tracks and brush awn away tho the surface snow There you ou will find a a. compact slab of oC snow lIno almost as S solid loUd as a. leo ice which has resisted the continued et- et ef efforts efforts forts of or the tho to dislodge Tho The wet streets of or Friday and Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- da day caused the tho snow which was wal quite damp at nt all times to solidify and tho weather was wag cold enough to prevent nn any extensive e melting at nt any time po so there thelO was no water ater run off Automobile Aid Adi In Troubling The favorite place on lh the street for automobiles with within their wide rubb rubber r tiros Is with the time two left hand wheels on tho the car tracks and amI the thc other two vo Immediately outside As 4 fast as 15 tho the street was gone gono over oer b by snow sweepers lii this became the choice path and was used extensively eh Saturday night Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- lIa day and Monday Monda until the time snow b became came HO 0 deep everywhere e that the number of machines on the streets was materially materially mate mate- reduced These vehicles crushed the soaked water snow now down to a hard crust and squeezed out a quantity of water J an-J tho the next vehicle repeated th the th- performance This same sam con condition I prevailed on practically all the tho tracks of or the company compan and It became unmanageable unman unman- by 11 Sundo Sunday night The Tho snow sweepers were used up and had to besent be besent sent to the car house to be with brooms A second time the time brooms broom were worn out and at present the weepers sweepers are arc using th their lr third set of ot brooms In three days lays In the effort to dislodge this solid poUd snow base I Tho The condition described b by Mr Ir Beach Deach resulted in many derailments As the i snow snout became deeper and the sweepers I failed ailed to clear the tracks down to the I I I rails the tho wheels ran In snow grooves s which filled rapidly and the street vehicles traveled with wheels on tho the rails bringing in snow from tho mho sides Ide and packing packing- it on the top of or the rails In this ways nays a a a. crust of ot hard sno snow was formed on the ball of or each rail strong enough to lift and derail the cars In Inmany Inmany inmany I many Instances Instance Trouble on GrAd When a derailment occurred the sweepers sweeper were unable to get et pa past t tho the obstructing car and could not tal take e euro care of ot the tr track beyond This proved particularly particularly particularly par par- troublesome on the maim many heavy heavy- grades around the th city It was wn In these places placeR the street cars r first ceased to 10 operate Tho The crossing criss-crossing I of automobiles In an effort to stir sur surmount ur- ur mount the various st steep ep grades g helped In iii th the packing of snow on the rails The traction company gave most mot of ofUs Its Us energies ner les last nl night ht to attempts to open up those lines JInes which offered the best hest prospects of a possible clearance leaving the most mORt difficult tasks to th the thelast thelast last as it was felt that in this way at nt least a a. number of the blocked 1 lines nes could soon be gotten olten Into operation Tho The Utah Power Light company compan reported that its service had not been Interrupted on account of or the storm and that the only wires Ires which went down on account count of ot the snow were tho those c swept away by a snow snout Slide glide at ut Park ark City It Th The transmission lines lineR from Grace to Salt Jal Lake and anal tr from n Provo to Carbon county were ere not In- In with It was WiS said although some omo of the distribution lines Jines were jammed for or several s minutes at a n time It was wu said s that th the service Interruptions interruptions interruptions were infrequent The line lino from Grace was waR In the heaviest lct of the snow but reports received at the offices yesterday yes yes- yesterday Cl asserted that no damage had been heen done There was is little trouble locally on account of distribution troubles p ilant Donn n. With 6 26 With time the Tonopah S Nov No Dec temperature at zero towns of or southwestern southwestern south south- western Nevada alla entered today toda their third day 3 virtually without heat power or artificial light Searching parties sent Int Sunday to hunt h and repair the tho breaks in the tho power lines tines which supply this territory from the White mountains mountains moun moun- on the California border horder ha have hanot not returned Two men from one aile of the those these c parties are re reported to have o been badly badly bad bad- flurries today cal caused caled ed l ly frozen Snow Snot anxiety lest the parties be lost and amid their trails trail obliterated All mines are arc shut hut down Tho The best hotels hotI hotels were without heat and the most mot cheer WRit was found in the humblest miners miners' cabins where miners' miners candles stuck in empty bottles supplied the tho usual Illumination and gnarled pinon wood rood the usual warmth I |