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Show i m Salt IiJike Hemic to Canadian Cana-dian Border Not a Line to ) the Coast Is Open. EIGHT TRAINS A BAXD0XE1) !W PASSENGERS MAROONED King Spring Promises. Greater Great-er Damage Than Has the Past Extreme Winter. ita-Mc Salt Lake Route, the Western aeltie the Southern Paellic from Up-; Up-; S lo ian Francisco, the Oregon Short (no llirousli the Snake Klvcr vnlley. io North Punk road down Ihe Columbia I vcr the Northern PiielHe, the Chicago, fllwaukcc & Pwset Sound, the Great oithern, .seven out of the nine trans- Imtincntnl lallroads. were so seriously pablcd Tuesday by Hoods that traffic Is ther entlrelv suspended or practically ought to a standstill Now and then a train creeps aloiifr. inning regardless of the time curd aim meeting to be stalled from a. day to a I cole at any point. Thousands of pas-ngors pas-ngors arc caught In the trapped trains. 1 ousands of tons of mail arc delayed. ,', ii! freight by tle trainlond has stopped 1 dcllnltolv wherever It might be. i Onlv the Southern Paellic and ihe tula I'edown along the Mexican border e still open, and even tlicse lines are ircatenod by the grout surge of waters illlng to the sia from the melting moun-il moun-il in sides of all the Rockies, tlic Slernis I id the Cascades So far the Denver & lu Grande has been more fortunate than ) ly of the others, having but one train tc In the past forty-eight hours. The 1 rcgoti Short Line to Butle is still open. -Ecordliig to Ihe last news, but may Join 7 ie ranks of Ihe cripples at any time 1 'jfc Eegular Schedules Abandoned. I EEast of the Rockies thousands of miles ffiailroruls are either tied up or so seri-i seri-i isly linrullcrtpped by weather conditions Hi but little effort Is being made to J Mrilnhi the regular schedule. There i is but little change in the condition 1 flhe I'nloii Pacillc Monday and It was f II In the clutches of one of the worst i jnns lu the history of Hie road. The : licr piairle roads are affected more or w scrlou.-iy, those to the north by snow, lid and lee. and those to the south by zU water, floating ice and landslides. The present conditions are the worst r Known lu the history of American llroadJng The next ninety days, so Iroad men predict, will be the worst y have ever had to combat. The past liter was the most severe on the rail-hjs rail-hjs tniT known, but the railroad men cau the melting and flood time even ore. Wanner at Seattle. 6EATTM3. W;isli.. March 1. Warm Iml ami ram caused rapid melting of low lu th" Cascade mountains today. Waging slides of snow, earth and rock iqwn on the lailroad t nicks and lurning Ihe mountain streams Into torrents, jj'he Northern Pacific canceled two trains each way and Its other trains ignored ig-nored llio time tables and crept cuulious-'Mpast cuulious-'Mpast poiui.s where danger threatened ikrheail. The Great Northern', whose Iftflcillnc Is burled for ten -miles and jBclII (s operating only one transcon- iTehtnl train cadi way via Vancouver. ph.. was further embarrassed by a Jsliont on the North Panic road up the lhinibl.i ri er. 3 the Puget Found comilry the streams sire already at the danger point. The rainfall here lod.o was light, but heavy precipitation along the coast points In a considerable downpour tomorrow. The Hood may mil cause huge properly loss or be long continued, but conditions tonight are favorable for inundation of all the lowlands. The railroads tonlglit have wrecking trains ready and settlers in the valleys .no preparing to move. On the eastern slope of the Cascades .colder weather is checking the thaw. Ogdcn Tied Up, 00DI.:N. March 1. The ilood situation on the Southern Pacific west of Ogdcn remains unchanged. There is little likelihood like-lihood that traffic will be resinned within the next twenty-four hours. The greatest great-est damage is al Loray. l.",0 miles west of this city, whore 1.10 feet of the roadbed road-bed Is washed away and a watcrwny seventy-five feet deep formed. The company com-pany has a large force, of men building a hridge over the chasm. At Battle Mountain. Moun-tain. Winncmucca and Carlln. Nov.. washouts have occurred which are taxing tax-ing the capacity of the company's construction con-struction forces. The White Sox special train, en route from Chicago to San Francisco, arrived at Ogdcn at 1 a. in. and Is held here indefinitely and cannot get out of here before midnight at the earliest. Freight Train Buried. VANCOUVER, Wash.. March 1. A landslide on the Northern Pacific near Felida today buried a passing freight engine and ditched live cars. The accident acci-dent will delay the traffic of four roads. Owing to storm conditions in th" Cascades Cas-cades practically all business to and from the Pugel .Sound country Is being routed by way of Vancouver. Wash., hence the trains of the Spokane. Portland & Seattle Seat-tle railroad, the .Northern Pacific, the Oregon Railroad & Navigation company and Lbo Oregon & Washington railroad are held up. Five Feet in Colfax. SPOKANE. Wash.. March 1. Colfax, the principal town of the Pakuise country, coun-try, is cut off by Hoods today. Railroad Rail-road and electric lines are blockaded. Bridges have been washed out and water Is standing from two to five feet deep In the business streets of the town. No lives have been lost. D. & B. G. Not Affected. ' Col. I. A. Benton of the local passenger passen-ger department of the Denver & RIo Grande has received the following telegram tele-gram from Major S K. Hooper, general passenger agent at Denver: "The (Denver) (Den-ver) press dispatches say thai the Oregon Short Line Is the only line with uninler- j ruptcd service out of Salt Lake, and that the D. & R. G. is Indefinitely delayed by land slides at Newcastle. Colo. '"Except for derailment at Dolscro. there has been no interruption over the D. it R. G., and trains are being operated, oper-ated, on schedule time. Please contradict any storm trouble reports as delaying our trains.' |