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Show i A'.l t'..d r.!'.roaJ raatlr,,? from .'t Ltke have heen practically "shot to pieces" as one prominent railroad oHlclal put It ty the storm which acema to be ur.tverf-tl all over the western slope. The worst sufferer la the fait Lake r.cute. At the operating department of trls r3 this morr'rr, It wi confessed that "it wou 1 be 1 ten t 'Vs before we are opei.i!ng tnrouph tiins." On the "-eet the.tai'iC even puts tne date as lar o.f 8 thr weeks. In a i utlon to 1 0 tulles of track txMng fraf h Is down, and It Is next to lmro1 tie to kwp up connection between ttvs end C'f the line and the Beat cf ti,4 tronUe. "V,'e have no tracks to run our crs on," was the terse way an otliclal cf the road Ktated their condition this riorii-Ivv. riorii-Ivv. "Water la reported to be thre f-et ti.ber than ever before known In that fUon. - 'lt.li disaster looms up bo darkly tht the trouble of, the other roafls pale l'o Inn: zniflcance by contract, fctlll the l.-o Grnie has its woes. The rainfall and r.ielLiPg of the snowbanks has loosened the foundations of the mountains, and there la more or lesa "Bhlftlnr of the scenery Rrolna; on" along the line ot that thoroughfare of travel. Accompany Ins this is the lack of telegraphic communication communi-cation from the East. The Oregon Short Line seems to have escaped better than any of Us fellowa. The schedule Is disconnected on this line, but It is due chiefly to the failure to connect with other lines. - ' Southern Facinc tratna are reported to be eight hours late: Indeed, some of them seem to have been lost entirely. The Union Pacific suffers similarly. Fortunately no lives have been lost, ana reports are that the belated passenger are being comfortably cared for and fed, Until the break are repaired trains of the Salt Lake Route will be dispatched over the Southern Pacific to Sacramento, thence to Los Angele via Bakersfield.,In the case of the Los Angele limited it has been dolded to operate thl train to and from Salt Lake and Chicago, beginning begin-ning with the sending of on) East tonight on regular schedule time. . . . |