Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 32 | Wyoming Storms Halt Freight Trains

WYDMIN6 STORMS HALT FREIGHT THIS Passenger Traffic Given Temporary Setback by Snow Blockades. CITY ESCAPES FLOOD Salt Lake Street Cars and Interurbans Maintain Uninterrupted Un-interrupted Schedules. The threatened railroad strike will not stop freight shipments or passenger traffic traf-fic In southeastern Wyoming. Freight trains are already at a standstill as a ro-sult ro-sult of the drifting snow, which has blockaded every railroad In that section of the country except the Union V u-lfic. which line is In momentary dangei T complete stoppage of traffic. Owing to storm conditions In and about Salt Lake having temporarily Improved, street railway traffic here Is moving uninterrupted un-interrupted and Intei-urbans are coming and going on regular schedules. The outlook out-look for transcontinental travel for the next twenty-four hours is not so rosy. Flood Fails to Arrive. The threatened flood, which was expected ex-pected In Salt Lake yesterday, did not arrive, owing to the. fact that the thaw was slower tlian tho weather prediction would have indicated. Little or no damage dam-age from water had been reported. The street department under the supervision, of W. P. Gillospie worked incessantly alJ day vesterday at the Important street intersections, in-tersections, and kept the melting snow In continuous flow through the storm sewers. sew-ers. Uven with fair weather predicted for today, which will probably bring sunshine with it, the city street department feeis little apprehension for probable floods, Schedules Disrupted. Snow (rouble in 'VPyomlTig yesterday disrupted the Union Pacific train schedule to such an extent that only one of the dav's trains from the east bad arrived on time.1 That was the Overland Limited. The Pacific Limited west-bound arrived in Ogden at 11:55 last night and the Log Ancelee Limited No. 7 was due in Salt Lake shortly after 2 o'clock this morning. The Fast Mail, which Is No. 9. ri,. t rts-rlpn at .VS0 thjfi morninfc Other trains were reported from eight to ten hours late. Calvin Directs Work. According to dispatches from Cheyenne, , the Union Pacific managed yesterday, by use of all available snow plows, to keep some of Its passenger trains moving, but made no attempt to move freight. The Colorado & Southern is moving neither passenger nor freight, the blockadof this line forty miles north of CheyennStfv-ing CheyennStfv-ing been complete since Friday mornT None of the smaller lines is able to op erate. The snow area on the Union Pacific is between Buford and Hanna, a distance- of about 150 miles. President E. Jp Calvin of the Union Pacific waw . last night in Cheyenne personally JPer-Intendlng JPer-Intendlng the fight against the crfmplete blockade. At one time last night it appeared, ap-peared, according to dispatches, that abandonment of passenger traffic would be necessary pending improver weather conditions. It waB reported that all during dur-ing the night snow was driven into cuts by high winds and the difficulty of operating operat-ing passenger trains Increased hourly.