Show 1 SHORT LiNE UNE fOOD FLOOD HASTENS REPAIRS Work tn in Nevada Rushed Fast White Situation Situ tion in Idaho Darkens SMALL BREAK AT ORCHARD TRAINS DELAYED AND MORE DAMAGE FEARED FE RED Another washout of small proportions at af Orchard Idaho on the main line Une of the Oregon Short Line west of Moun Mountain Mountain tain thin Home Hon at midnight Sunday night prompted the pushing of operations with wih renewed vigor on the main man line lne of the Southern Southe Pacific Pa in Nevada and und it I was announced late yesterday that every ever Indication pointed to a resumption of through traffic between San Sa Francisco Fran Francisco FrancIsco cisco and Ogden and Salt Sal Lake Uke via yla the main route by the end cd of this week The trouble at Orchard was of small smal consequence cons about sixty feet of track age being washed out but it I in a general of transi transit during the day It I was due to the bursting of ot an Irrigation reservoir Repairs RepaIr were made and by last night the line Une was again open permitting passage pass ge of detoured Southern Pacific trains both east and westbound Because of the unsafe con condition condition of the tracks all aU trains over the Short Line are running under slow or orders orders orders ders W V H I Bancroft and general manager of the Salt Sal Lake dU dl vision of the Harriman Hamman lines who with wih his assistant E H Knickerbocker has been in Los Angeles and San Fran Francisco Francisco deco cisco cisco and who were expected home the first of this week is now at Palisade canyon where the Southern Pacific ex cx experienced exper per perl need its is greatest difficulty from the floods and washouts of f last lat week Practically all aU of the damage sus sue sustained sustained tamed by the Southern Pacific in Ne Nevada Nevada vada vaa has been repaired with wih the ex tx exception X eption of two steel bridges which were washed washEd out at Palisade canyon and which are being From ad advices a advices vices received at the Salt Lake offices it ft I is understood the steel structures were simply forced from their foundations lions tons and that it i will be possible to replace them Material for Nevada Two trains of piling left lef Ogden Sun Sunday Sunday day lay tr for or Palisade canyon where sixteen bridges brids brid e require repairs or reconstruction tion ton and ad 1300 feet of piling ping must be driven Big gangs of bridge carpenters and pile pUe drivers and twenty work trains are working day and nd night to place the track taek from Palisade to Beowawe in condition to allow alow of tho the passage of trains The detoured trains via Portland both from and o the coast coat are making good progress Of ten trains made up from the trains caught eastbound by the floods on the Uie Salt Sal Lake division and detoured via the Shasta Route Rute Port Portland Portland ort ortland land and the Oregon Short Line up PV to 4 yesterday morning eight had bean reported out of Huntington and during the day It I was waa wa expected as many more would receive clearance clearance Every indication yesterday was that by this morning practically everything operated via the detoured route rute would be regular trains Now that passenger traffic Is again moving the railroads are turning their attention to freight shipments One train is being operated each way each day made up mainly of cars of perish perishable perishable perishable able goods with some dead dea freight to tomake tomake tomake make up tonnage It I will be some time before freight trains are again operated on schedule but the railroad officials are doing everything within their power i to sible restore the service serIce as a rapidly as us pos poe possible I Western Pacific Not Open It I had been hopen to restore the Western Pacific system to through freight traffic between Salt Sal Lake Lako and the coast yesterday but up to a late hour no advices of the reopening of the theline theUne theline line Une west we of Wells Wels Nev had been re received receIved received The Western Vestern Pacific is In a position to handle freight business for points as a far west as Wells Wel and and within a very few days at the most expects to resume resme through shipments shIpment No word of additional flood food damage has been re received received received at the local offices of the system system tem tern Mora trainloads of construction ma and workmen left lef Ogden yester yesterday yesterday ester esterday day afternoon for Parisade canyon As a result of the washout at Orchard detoured trains westbound out of Ogden Og Ogden g den did not depart until late yesterday afternoon At many points along the theSna Snake e river It I is flood danger is imminent and serious serous breaks are hourly The stretches of track along Swan valley valey and Port Neuf Canyon between Pocatello and McCammon are in danger The waters in Port Neuf canyon are battering at the railroad grade with wih telling force fore and it I has been necessary to keep a large gang of f men menh with h a work train steadily at work bolstering up the te weak places Slow running orders order Incidental to these nu flu numerous numerous weak places are demoralizing schedules and the arrival rival and depart departure ure nrc of trains out of Ogden is a matter mater of conjecture with wih the railroad officials |