| Show lOST TRAIN 1 FLOOD TIED Passengers Are Blocked Prom From Towns and Are Burning t th Ties Ripped From Track Caliente Is Still Off the Map I 4 4 I f I e H H 1 Salt Lake Route Houte train Xo So 4 4 Lo Ul to Salt Bait ond due here January 1 I after being lost three In the of canyon Xe ev I liUN found yesterday afternoon stalled five miles east enst of Caliente 4 Nev I received slated that the 4 Isolated were being well cared for and although tnt b by waters and wrecked to the froit nod nud rear 4 were thoroughly 4 4 WIth the engine supply 4 of coal conI gone ties are being ripped up and utilized for fuel to keep the coaches warm With VItia a veIl stocked cur car the passengers 4 are In no danger of hunger 4 WIth the tracks out ut the 4 only means of relief to the pus pa 4 en rs on the stalled Xo No 4 Is by bya 4 wagon a on conveyances 4 i it t 1 t tt n t t t ti With VitIa characteristic promptitude under orders from the officials of the Salt Lake Route the sparsely settled country in the vicinity of the flood disaster was scoured yesterday esterday afternoon tor teams and wa wagons wagons gons with which to reach the tue passengers and bring theta them to Barclay whore a train will be In waiting for them thein themAs As regards the tho extent of damage caused by tile the floods and torrential rush through Rainbow canyon the tho local offices of the road were still unadvised last night From the best Information obtainable the dam ago Is more severe than at fIrst antici anticipated anticipated and the period of repair work may extend to sixty days das before the road will willbe willbe be in readiness to receive through traffic In the little Information received at the local officers of oC tile the Salt Lake Route yes yesterday es regarding the flood situation on its Ii lines es was the eagerly sought Bought for news of train No 4 due In Salt Lake January 1 and which was last reported at Call cute ente From Acoma word was re received that the train had been located five miles east of Caliente and while It Is stalled unable to move moe either forward or backward on account or of the condition of tile the track and the lack of fuel for the en engine engine gine yet all its passengers are not only well and comfortable and thoroughly pro provided provided vided for but bul are cheerful Wagons to the Rescue The position of the stalled train is about twenty miles west of Acoma and owing I to tIle the condition of the track the passengers goes gers can only be readIed reached by wagon con conveyance conveyance It will probably be three or four days before they can be brought to Acoma owIng to the difficulty of securIng securing Ing wagons and the necessarily toilsome progress through the canyon In the meantime however every assur anco Is given glyen for the safety and care of the passengers The train Is well stocked with provisions provIsion s and there is n no 0 danger I Continued on Page Six I LOST TRAIN TRAI N FLOOD TIED TI ED Continued From Page One ne neof of any sUffering from lack of food Ties are being torn tom from the track and steam Is kept up for the purpose of heating the tse cars and the tho passengers are well and comfortably housed during their for forced d Imprisonment As soon as wagons can reach th stalled train the passengers will be brought to Barclay BarcIa six miles west of Acoma and a train will be waiting there thereto to receive them and brIng them Into Salt Lake As to tile the full extent of damage to the road on account of the floods the infer Information mation Is still meager meag r Tim The messenger sent out from Acoma Monday afternoon with Caliente as his objective point had hadnot hadnot not returned to Acoma up to a late hour last night nor had any advice been re received from Division Engineer R H K Brown who started out Monday on an Inspection of tile the track west of Acoma coma Information received from Los Angeles yesterday esterday was also meager and failed to cover the extent of the damage to the tracks From the present Information however the original estimate of nearly miles of track with a number of bridges washed out and probability of from thirty to sixty days das to repair the road seems to be the result of the floods through the Meadow valley wash and Rainbow canyon Caliente has now been Isolated from the surrounding world for over hours and the conditions th there re are not known So tar far as the officials of the Salt Lake Route Roule have llave been able to learn there has been no fatalities and the loss through the floods has been confined to tostock tostock stock In the valleys and property OfficIals Working Hard From the beginning or of the flood the of officials of the tho Salt Lake Route under the personal direction of General Manager R RE RE E Veils have strained every effort first for the care and comfort of the passengers gem gers and then to the rescue of the road Passengers caught on either side of the flood district have been cared for and the continuation of their journey over other routes arranged for by representatives tIes tives of the road oad Material and crews of men are being sent forward to the scene of the wrecked I track from east and west and as soon as the floods abate the repair work will willbe willbe be hastened as much as possible I From Los Angeles last night tele telegraphic telegraphic graphic advices stated that the floods In Nevada had been attended by some ta fa The wires carried the report that the railroad telegraph operator at Rox sixty miles west of Caliente had made Ills his way to Guelph a distance of four mlles miles by railroad but fifteen mites miles by bythe bythe the circuitous detour he was compelled to ID and that from the thet t J It heights overlooking the valley he cou 1 look down upon the devastation caused cause 1 had seen one corpse float past on the tho torrent No confirmation of this operators 1 r rort had been received at the local or o ices flees of the Salt Lake Route Aside from the Salt Lake Route ail al alother other entering Salt Lake rt r ported normal conditions and with tew fe minor exceptions nil all trains operating or o time The Oregon Short Line had Its Montana divIsion cleared through the snow block bloc blockade ade at Dubos Dubols and north Monday nigh and all traffic both passenger and freight was returned to the schedule Superintendent J M Davis Dals left yesterday morning on an Inspection tour of the ri 11 snowbound distrIct The Denver Rio Grande line Une was clear yesterday esterday and all trains with the ex cx exception of one reported on an time The only delay on the line occurred to east bound No 6 which was held at Ogden an hour for connections The Southern and Union lines each reported traffic clear and the Western Pacific had Its freight trains taing running through without Interruption The new line the Western reported I a having escaped trouble of any kind either from floods or snOW |
