Show EXTENT OF DAMAGE IS NOT YET KNOWN Chief Engineer Tilton Returns From Devastated District Distri t Prepared to Report That the Meadow Valley wash flood ot of January 1 was one of the most destructive five tive In Its effect towards the Salt Lake Route ever recorded In railroad annals was evIdenced In the all air ot of official dr clr des cles yesterday after atter the arrival In the i city of Chief Engineer E G 0 Tilton who has just completed a survey surrey of the and devastated district through canyon Mr report to the chIef offIcIals of the tho company was of a purely informal or ormal mal nature yesterday conveyed lri in less than half an hours chat Altho gh no officIal Information was given WWI evident however that the chat the worst fears that the stretch of Rainbow canyon has been ob obliterated completely and to such an eX eXtent extent tent as to forcibly argue the fu future f U ture use ot of the former grade line Mr complete report will not be ready for submission before Monday All of yesterday esterday and the greater part ot of today will be devoted to preparing the rep reTort rL Enough has been gleaned how however however ever to confirm the former supposition that the prIncIpal recommendation will willbe be a diversion of the route to avoid the present location through the Meadow Val Valley Valley ley wash and Rainbow canyon with Its shifting sand formation and recurrent tor torrential floods Mr Ir Tilton upon his arrival In the cIty yesterday morning found three chIefs awaiting VIce President W H Bancroft Second Vice President J Ross Clark and General Manager R B E Wells In e to a query last night Mr Clark saId SOur Our engineer arrived today after mak makIng Ing I a survey of the district vIsited by bythe bythe the flood and although he Informed us In a general way as to the damage I wrought yet the complete details will not be known until we receive hIs hi formal report upon which he Is now at work Until that report Is received which will wUl perhaps be Monday we can arrive at no determination as to what will be bedone bedone done Mr recent trip was perhaps th tho most In railroad history Re Resolving Resolving solving Itself almost Into the survey surrey of D a anew new territory ven though old he was wan compelled to make his way by foot or horseback as If In an wilder wilderness ness neES sleeping out In the open with the temperature below zero and facing the tho hardships of a pioneer In some places It was found Impossible to traverse tbt th former route and the survey surrey of the tho wrecked road had to be made front from the heights ot the cU sll mountains |