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Show SILT LAKE ROUTE Three Westbound Trains Arrive After Many Hours' Tie-up. i INTERURBANS OPEN Orpheum and Pantages Vaudeville Performers Will Appear Today, The Salt Lake Route, the worst hit of the Utah railroads during the past few days, as the result of snowslidcs and snowdrifts, had a toss-up with the elements yesterday aDd won a partial victory. By breaking through the blockade block-ade of snow that had tied the lineVLT west of Payson the company was cnS abled to move its three marooned 1 trains out of Lyimdy and bring them into bait Lake by vvay of 'Prove Traffic is still suspended, however, on the other line, which runs from Salt Lake to Lynndvl by way of Eureka. The passenger train which had been stalled at .Faust for nearly two days was dug out by a rotary yesterday I morning, but when it got within a few miles of Eureka it was stopped by another an-other big slide and was unable to proceed pro-ceed farther. The rotary also carried food from Salt Lake to "the marooned nasscncrs. Trains Arrive Here. The three passenger trains that had been held up at Lynndyl on account of the track conditions between that place and Salt Lake arrived here at 1 o'clock this morning. Among the passengers on these trains were tne vaudeville performers per-formers who will appear at the Orpheum and Pantages theaters today, "tatty" Arbuckle, who, it is alleged, has lost several ounces of. weight by reason of the delay in reaching here from the coast, also "was on board, as were a number of Salt Lake people, who were returning from southern California, The trains which arrived from Lynndyl Lynn-dyl this morning used three separate lines of road in order to reach the city. FTom Lynndyl to Provo the Salt Lake tracks were used. At Provo the trains were switched to the Denver & Rio Grande tracks, which were used as far as Murray, and at that point the trains were switched to the Oregon Short Line tracks, over which the last lap of the journey was made. Three Trains Go West. I With the breaking of the blockade ; west of Payson and the making of n-rangements n-rangements with the Short Line a Rio Grande for the U5e of their tracks to get from here to Provo, three pas-senger pas-senger trains left here during the early evening for Los Angeles. To one JJ these trains was attached the privi car of President J. X- Clark of trie Chicago, Chi-cago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad, and to another was attached the private car of E. E. Calvin, president presi-dent of the Union Pacific. At a late hour last night it was thought that the main line of the Salt Lake route, by way of Eureka, would be opened by this morning and that no further delays would be experienced. D. & R. G. Lines Open. The Denver & Rio Grande announced yesterday that all of its branches with, the exception of the one running from Provo to Eureka were again open to traffic. The interurban lines running north and south from Salt Lake were also open yesterday and were running on schedule time, according to announcements announce-ments made from their headquarters. From Ogden came the news, however, that the Union Pacific, Oregon Short jLine and Southern Pacific are again ex-! ex-! periencing trouble. The last train westbound west-bound to reach Ogden arrived there at S o 'clock "Wednesday evening and none was expected to arrive before 3 o'clock this morning. Another blockade 275 miles east of Ogden is the cause of the delay. The Southern Pacific's trouble is the result of a snowslide near Lake View, fifty miles west of Sparks, Nev., which held back eastbound trains into Ogden about six hours. Short Line Has Trouble. Most of the Short Line trains from the north reached Ogden on time yesterday, although No. 42 was several hours kte as the result of snow troubles. Prom Ogden also comes the report that the interurban line which runs from Ogden to Preston, Idaho, was experiencing experienc-ing trouble, caused by snowfalls and winds in the vicinity of Collinston hill. Electric snow plows are being ker work, however, and the company hopes to maintain a fairly good schedule. |