Show S KING H HOlDS SWAY One Railroad Is Out of Corn Com Commission mission a Train Is Missing and Communication Is To Totally Totally tally Cut Off at Some Points H H H t Miles of track and brid bridges ell washed out ont resulting in n a corn com complete 4 disruption of traffic und Dud the of all through BerT BerTice ice for n a of 01 ut at lend least thirty days wa UI tile thc meagre but bu only In that be b be officials ot of the Salt inks 4 Ins After a snow that flint held all trains on the Montana did of the tle Oregon Short Line In Its iti grip for lor over oer forty eight the tue traffIc way fu was liS cleared yesterday afternoon unit h by midnight all 1111 delayed traffic I The Th Denver Rio 1110 Grande re sowed Immell nearly traffic yes cs after the repair to Its un tracks ilear eur following the washout Saturday morning fbi companies iii on account of the weather of the three doys reported Ight the of nit ull offered The Postal ii Iee reports report only tile the del delay II of varying hours hourI lii in the receipt of mail the I service Henlee beIng that of south Houth era ern California 4 4 6 While Salt Lake enjoyed an almost Sunday the weather elements In some places combining Into a driving piling whirlwind of snow and In others thawing out the snows of the te mountains Into canyon torrents played havoc with the commercial highways leading into the city All railroads were blocked for periods ranging from twelve hours and IIi in the case of one road the Salt Lake Route It will be at least thirty days and perhaps a longer period before the damage can be repaired sufficiently to resume normal traffic The Salt Lake Route Is the worst suf ferer from the weathers of the past few dos days and the damage sus tamed Is still A stretch of Continued on Page Two I STORM KING HOlDS SWAY SAV Continued on Page Two track In Rainbow canyon between 90 and miles In length with Its brIdges either washed out or under water Cali CaIl Caliente ente completely Isolated from the sur surrounding surrounding rounding world and with the only hope ot of earl early communication with that town depending upon the successful efforts of ofa ofa a brave messenger who left Aoma A oma yes yesterday yesterday afternoon with the determination to reach Caliente and return b by this aft afternoon afternoon all telegraph wires down and no means of ascertaining the real situation in Rainbow canyon was the extent of the Information that only served to render General Manager R It E Wells Veils and his as assistants assistants more helpless In tile the Immediate relief of the situation last night The disaster on the Salt Lako Route began early Friday afternoon and was first reported as a washout below Lund While hadt hasty preparations were be beIng beIng Ing made for the repair work advice of a washout near Minto at the mouth of Sawmill canyon canon was received and almost on top ot of this all communication was broken by the destruction of both tracks and wIres In canyon the gorge which receives the flow of the Meadow Valley wash Communication Cut Off AU All day yesterday General Manager Wells used every effort to communicate with but without success Acoma Ncr Nev was the tho farthest point west to be communicated with from Salt Lake and owing to flood condItions and the Interruption of telegraph service In Call CaU fornia Los Angeles could only be corn com communIcated with by way ot of Chicago Ad Advices Advices vices receIved from Los Angeles were to the effect that was out of communication from the tho south and west leaving the officials herb heM still In the dark darkas as to the extent of damage or full cir circumstances of the situation A report received by General Manager Wells late last nIght from Superintendent I H C Van Housen who Is at Acoma stated that snow fell feU there during Sunday night and until 3 p m in yesterday with a change to freezing Yesterday afternoon DIvision Engineer R H K Brown started over the tracks from Acoma but was confronted with the difficulty ot of shovel shovelIng shoveling Ing nearly a foot of snow off the roadbed to ascertain the condition of the tracks He Be announced his intention ot of making way to and will wUl establish means ot of communication Early yesterday afternoon a messenger started out from Acoma for the purpose of reaching Caliente and ho Is expected to return to Acoma some sone time this aft af afternoon t with the first report of conditions there Train No 4 Missing Train No 4 due In Salt Lake January 1 at 4 p m so far as the officials know knowis is flood bound at Caliente although It may have been either caught In the rush ot of waters to the westward or plunged Into the wreck ot of the washout The last heard ot of that traIn was at Caliente but untIl the messenger returns from his haz hazardous hazardous trIp Its exact whereabouts will wUl be This train was the only one caught In Inthe inthe the floods lI others being turned back and the passengers detoured to their des den destinations over other lines Early yesterday morning when the tho ex extent extent tent of the damage to the tracks became known aU all freight destined for points Over ovel the Salt Lake Route was refused and about cars ot of freight caught on the western side of the washouts were or tiered dered returned to Salt aJa to be dP di diverted over the Southern On Sunday the Spit Lake sent two trains over the Southern Pacific but beginning yesterday esterdAY all passengers were given over to tim Ufe P Pacific at Ogden the tickets beIng bing transferred there te Im impossibility ot of runnIng trains th r hJ LOS Angeles Limited has b In both the Salt Lake Route iDd nd tb U PacIfIc Until this the fUll of the damage to the tracks Is ascertained the officials will be unable to determine or approximate approximate mate when will be resumed but General Manager Wells said last night that traffic would necessarily be sus suspended for thirty days das if not for a longer period In CalifornIa the tho road also suffered through washouts on the Santa Fe joint line from Daggett t San Bernardino last night stated that travel there had been bean AV At present and until the flood damage Is repaired servIce will willbe b be maintained between Salt Lake and Acoma Ncr Nev Worst Storm In HIstory On the Montana division ot of the Ore son gun Short Line the tho storm In over oer eight years was experienced Saturday and Sunday The temperature at Dubois Ida was reported Ii degrees below zero yesterday and the weather conditions were such that tIle the rescue of snowbound traIns was attended with extreme witty Northbound train No 1 leaving Salt Lake Thursday night for Butte was caught In the snow at DuboIs Dubols and wn only released yesterday afternoon at after atter being than hours At C 6 o lock last night the track In northern Id Idaho ho ad Mon Montana Montana tana was practically cleared and all trains releasEd b by midnight On the tho Idaho divIsion of the Short Line trouble and delays delas have encountered encountered by the severity of the Weather There has hns been little snow but the weather is abnormally cold rangIng from z zero ro to 30 degrees below west of Po Poca tella On the Denver Rio Grande Grando the prIn prIncipal cipal tr uble encountered the last few days was the washout occurring a mile mUe and a half below Riverton This damage was repaired and all traIns were running on practically normal time yesterday The Western Union Telegraph compan was forced for a time yesterday esterday to op operate crate erate wIth southern California by way of f Chicago but last night with wires working to San Francisco was able to handle all business With the washout on the Salt Lake Route the direct wires to Los Angeles are down and messages for tor that territory have to be sent by way of San Francisco Business for Portland and Seattle as well ns as Spokane and other InterIor northwestern points has also to too togo go o by way Of San FrancIsco because of loss of wire communIcation with the tho coast The Postal Tell Telegraph aph company after slight trouble Sunday reported all wIres up last |