| Show r KNOW UTAH H L By 3 ALBERT T P. P PHILIPS I In tho time building of ot tho the Lo Los Loft Angeles 6 S Salt Lake railroad tho tiui company followed a water waler grado In Ineada Nevada e th the Mud Muddy riverbed being In places the tIme bed bedot of ot tl the railroad l rho Tho volume volume- of or water at which came down that stream was waB e very small email and no IW storm of nn magnitude hn had marked that section of th tho thio country coun- coun try ry for tot man many years earl Tho The first t intimation that avo ho tho railroad officials nn any causo of or alarm was la late laten te teIn In n December 1005 when a washout occurred In Caliento Cali- Cali ento can canyon on and tied the iho road up for two t weeks The Muddy MUdd had gone on a t rampage S On tho time January 1 I 1 1 1910 no a storm that was sas extraordinarily fierce swept d down Ot 11 tho time Muddy river rl and when tho the waters subsided and amI stock was waa taken of at tho the damage it was found that there thero was no railroad rail rail- road oad for tor fiU fifty miles mile It had Len been washed away by bythe bythe the ho great volume of or water that hind had swept down dow cari canyon on On the train bulletin board a no- no Ico tico was posted indefinitely delayed 0 The Tho damage o b by b tho the storm torm from a t dollar and cent Point of oC view was tas S around c of or tIc the lo lOlls OPS in operating revenue Ia The Tho n 1 Angeles cles limited the he crack train of or tho road was over ocL Iho thu southern Pacific and the time other trains were cle run as i locals from Salt l to Modena and from rom roni Los Angeles Angeles An An- n- n geles to lAB Vegas Train No 1 I caught in lii the time canyon anyon At t Caliente in the roundhouse wet a number numer num- num ber er of or giant locomotives but hut no Ito rails mils to early carry them for or fifty miles It was the the- greatest disaster to a railroad that had ever cr occurred in tho history of the mountain and amid coa coast t aren areas S SA A ht train was caught in iii th the cloudburst ul t on high ligh grade gride in tho the canyon canon and tho the crew remained with whim the ho Ira train in until the track was washed na awa away and their locomotive and cars carz toppled ov over pr r into the time can canyon S S S Work of or reconstructing time Iho road was as LC begun un at atnee once nee but Lut no train was run rumi over O tho washed Ol out t porion por- por tion ion for 01 several cral months When No 4 camo climo steaming Into nto tho Union Pacific station In S Salt lt I ake tho tim bul- bul board read No 4 Is 5 months 21 J days an and 1 4 hours late perhaps the only bulletin of Its Jh kind kinder vcr er poste osted b by a railroad III In the Jho history of or railroading The he freight ht train which hichi rolled roiled down the Iho canyon carried a car ar laden with l motor vehicles chicles an and th the tho other othel car ars car with one exception carr carrying inS miscellaneous car- car rocs goes Tho The cars covered CO with sand purchased b by y I persona t ons in Ogden and other points S S The Tho freight crew after ha having haIn In Lo to abandon their train rain train decided ded e to Avail valL back hack to lx Los s VC Vegas as so u the they clambered up tho the Ido sido of the tho canyon conron an and when the they reached cached the mouth where tho water had spread oa o over or overa r a U great t rN deal of or they asked 1 b by a t lel nn section hand to cone come to his shack hack where ho time stork tork had just arrived ell Tb Tho ho engineer who had somo professional H ability administered aid to lo the tho oman and anti after fixing h her r as comfortably as aR possible pos pus slide sible they proceeded ed on their way to tu Ix Los s Vegas an anCrom and fromi Crom rom there a u. was sent to lo administer to her hel The baby Laby lived lI S S STo To aid the Utah ULah la Eastern railroad which was to torun toun un run between Salt Lake and the time coal fields of Sum Sum- ummil um- um nit mil coun county an act was waa passed by 11 the Je legislature In Iii authorizing certain counties to Issue bonds bond The rue measure neasure was vetoed b by Governor I corse JJ JI IL Emery Later l iter in lit the tho year ear the tho road was completed between Coal 1110 and Park City but Lut It was never carried out as originally projected S S Tho Thio Summit count county railroad which was to be ue a coal carrying inS road between Coal illo and l Echo eho was completed in May 1873 and the tho first st carload of or coal was as shipped from lIJo Coal to Salt alt Lake Lako on May 14 14 1873 |
