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Show : Mil HE ROUTE IlEBfJTSI!!! Serious Washouts Occurred Between Be-tween Acoma and Moapa Sunday Morning. OVER 100 MILES OP TRACK IS INVOLVED No Through Service Will Be Operated for Five or Seven Days: Again the Salt Lake Route suffers seriously se-riously from the elements, washouts having hav-ing occurred at various points botweon Acoma and Moapa, the stretch of track involved stretching for a distance of 1C0 miles. Of course, it Is only portions of tho track and several bridges on this stretch of the road that havo been swept nway, but so far as operating tho through system Is concerned, it Is virtually off the map. Through. Servica Temporally Stopped Just how long It will be before the track Is repaired estimates vary, but tho most authoritative Information obtainable is to the effect that It will be from five to seven days beforo a through service can be operated. Tho present washouts occurred almost exactly where similar troublo was experienced a week ago, and In some Instances where only temporary repairs had been made. Will Use S. P. Tracks. Until the damage 13 repaired no through passengers will be accepted by tho road. The Los Angeles Limited will go west via tho Southern Pacific route and the cast-bound cast-bound limited will travel on the same tracks. The Limited which went west on Saturday will return to this city and go west on the Hnniman road. The Los Angeles Express, scheduled to leave Salt Lake at 12:05, will only go as fnr as Mo-dena Mo-dena and will return at 7:15 as No. 2. The local service to Tlntlc and other points will, of course, bo continued without with-out Interruption. Men at "Work on Repairs. Trainmaster Smith, other officials and a large squad of additional men arc now at tho scene and busy at theswork of repair. re-pair. Telegraph Service Paralyzed. All the tclegTaph lines west of Modena went down In the storm and could not bo nached until about noon, when the Western West-ern Union office patched up a lino via San Francisco and Los Angeles to Las Vegas. It was a long way around, but trains were moved and order camo out of tho chaos caused by the storm. Washouts Aro Deep. As Is said above, the territory covered by tho washouts extends a distance of about 100 miles. Between Crestline and Callente, a dlstanco of thirty-four miles, about ai even mile has been washed out In stretches of from fifty to five hundred fect In length and from eight to twenty-llvc twenty-llvc feet in depth. Included In this are six bridges and several culverts. Bridge Gone at Caliente. At the west end of the Calienie yards the bridge Is gone out and at Kyle, a station west of Callente, another bridge is out. Eetwecn Lelth and Carp, a distance of nine miles, there aro two washouts of 400 feet in length and eight feet deep. Engines Between Washouts. Between Rocks and Moapa, a distance of fifteen miles, there are six washouts. Length and depth, however, are not known. Between these points three engines en-gines and crews are tied up, unablo lo go In either d!rectlon. Efforts will be made today lo get provisions to the men. Limited Wiped Off Time Card. The Los Angeles Limited and tho Chicago Chi-cago Limited are for the lime being practically prac-tically wiiied off the lime card. Tim Los Angeles .express No. 1, leaving here at l;0l a. m., wil run only as tur as Mo-utna, Mo-utna, and from there will come back as No. 2. Until the repairs arc made no tickets wll bo sold to points west or Mo-tiCna. Mo-tiCna. Army of Men at Work. Roadmaster De Ford of Callente, with all tho torce at his command, is at worn making temporary repairs. Last night tnc Las Vegas and Tonopah branch line or ihe Salt Lako Route sent out two construction con-struction trams from Las Vegas loaded with bridge timbers and with a full complement com-plement of men. Short Line to the Rescue. From this end of the road the Oregon Short Line came to the rescue of the Salt Lake Route, and sent out a construction con-struction train loaded with bridge supplies sup-plies and timbers and also a complement of men. Where Trouble Occurred. Tho scene of the washouts Is through tho long canyon that starts from inc top of- the divide at Crestllno and extends on west beyond Callente. This canyon Is a dry creek practically the entlro year, but tho unprecedented storm and downpour down-pour of water has turned it into a raging rag-ing torrent, virtually n river. Nothing like these storms has been known' In that region for the past twenty-live years. May Carve Out New Line. These washouts will probably result In the road carving out along the side of the mountain a roadway that will place It above the danger of the stream. |