Show WHERE THE WILD WATERS RUSHED Flood Does Great Damage to Railway Property B M IS A SUFFERER CAME THROUGH THE OAXYON WITH FRIGHTFUL FORCE Railroad Track Ties and Roadbed Swept Down the Stream Like So Much Driftwood Heavy Steel Rails Bent as Though They Were Made of Lead Wrecking Crews > Are Now at Work OMAHA April 20A special to the Bee from Moorfield Neb says Details De-tails of a flood which occurred in this section of the state on Saturday night I show that it did great damage The scene of the greatest damage is on the B 11 four miles west of Farnum j The damage to the railroad property far exceeded any idea entertained before be-fore the full extent of the effects of the storm were realized Where the greatest damage occurred oc-curred the track follows a deep cut starting at the end of Plum Creek canyon The torrent of water came through the canyon with frightful velocity When I reached the point where the canyon intersects with the railroad track the current was diverted di-verted through the deep cut The raIlroad roar track tie nn rnnh i swept down the stream like so much driftwood At the west end of the cut the topography of the country changes abruptly and instead of a deep cut there i a fill seventyfive feet high and 200 feet long The embankment embank-ment was washed completely away The steel rails were bent and twisted by the violence of the flood a if they were so much lead and big drainage tiles weighing 1000 pounds were torn out of the ground in which they were originally buried seventyfive feet deep and washed down the canyon for a distance of 400 yards All traffic is suspended Wrecking crews are at work on both ends of the washout About half a mile of the roadbed has been washed away but the wrecking crews will construct a temporary track for immediate use All westbound trains are stopped at Curtis and those eastbound stop at Eustis Damage to property of farmers farm-ers in the valley cannot yet be determined known deter-mined No lives were lost so far as |