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Show EARTH 1 BOCK SHOES DELAY WESTERN PACIFIC All tralnn. both passenger and freighf. are annulled today on the Western Pacific and It is not known whether travel will be resumed tomorrow to-morrow or not. The cause, as stated by the local operating department of the road. Is a combination of rork and earth slides in Feather River canyon j on the western of California division , of the road. For the last two weeks, rains In northern California have been continuous con-tinuous and heavy, consequently all the roads have been troubled with softened roadbeds, necesnitating extra careful running. The rains have been ( more or less torrential in Feather Rtv- ' er canyon, so that a rapid shifting of the face of nature has been a forecasted fore-casted thing, and the softened hillsides have taken to moving, and, covering up stretches of Western Pacific track. There Is no intimation that any trains have been marooned between any or tnese suoes. tnougn mai is a possibility; and If eo, their release depends de-pends on the celerity wlthesrhlch the ; railroad company can get wrecking and steim shovel outfits out there from Sacramento, i |