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Show ' Iliratt Ibf a Pflssenoer or f rcrrjlit Train Has Receded Here From 7cst Since Yes-y Yes-y ferc'av; Reno, Nev., Almost Deluged ; end Trute River Is a Torrent. j . ' . ; :' - . Salt Lake City is cut off from the Pacific coast. Traffic on the Southern Pacific east and west of Reno, Nev., isat ' an end. The iron railroad bridge at Verdi, Nev., twenty , miles west of Reno is washed away. A wagon bridge . across the Truckee at the same point is also gone. ; . No trains or passengers have arrived in Ogden or this city from the, coast since yesterday morning- at 7:10 o'clock, when Southern Pacific passenger train No. 6 arrived. ar-rived. All passenger and freight trains on the Southern Pacific were annulled yesterday by orders from headquarters. headquar-ters. The same order is in effect todav. ' WASHOUTS ON THE SOUTHERN FACITIO AND ON THE SALT LAKE T-TE LEAVE SALT LAKE CITY LATED FROM THE COAST. -EPORTS FROM POINTS EAST OF x :no, or rather east of win- NEMUCCA, ARE DISCOURAGING. WIEE3 ARE DOWN EAST OF WIN-NEXUCCA, WIN-NEXUCCA, AND NO DEFINITE REPORTS RE-PORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED EITHER AT THE EASTERN TERMINUS' TERMI-NUS' OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC AT OGDEN OR AT LOCAL HEADQUARTERS HEAD-QUARTERS OF THE 6H0RT LINE. ORDERS WERE GIVEN YESTERDAY YESTER-DAY TO HAVE ALL INFORMATION RECEIVED AT OGDEN WIRED GENERAL GEN-ERAL OFFICES OF THE SHORT LINE, BUT UP TO A LATE HOUR TODAY NO NEWS HAD BEEN RE-v. CHIVED HERE. Truckee river - is a Tagiiig torrent. Bridges for mile have been washed away, 'and traffic of all kinds suspended. suspend-ed. Reno was in total darkness last night because of the breakdown of the power plant. Hundreds of feet of track on the Southern Pacific" are washed out. The gieatest damage was done over the Truckee at Verdi, and near Floriston. Rain fell in torrents in and around Reno last night and all day yesterday. Rain is still falling in great quantities in the same section of country, and weather reports indicate three days more of heavy downpour. Every gully, creek and stream in that part of Nevada Ne-vada is bank full, and the country is flooded for .miles. Road Officials Helpless. Officials of the Southern Pacific are helpless. Steps were taken today, it was said by local representatives, to establish traffic on the road. Passengers Passen-gers were to have been transferred over the Truckee at Verdi by boat, but up to a late hour . today nothing had been beard concerning the success of - the 'plan; No-passengers,!, either ..going to or eoming from San "Francisco ana other points on the paeifie coastyhave been accepted by the Southern- Pacific, An embargo on perishable freight, it is said, has been established. . No encouragement is held out by railroad officials as to how soon through traffic will again be established. News of repair work near Verdi is impossible to secure because of the washing away of the telegraph poles and wires between be-tween Winnemucca and Reno. Mails to and from the Pacific coast will 'either be entirely abolished for a time, or else delayed many .hours. Unauthentic Reports. Trains on the Salt Lake line, it was reported today, are running as far as C'aliente. Efforts were made to secure authoritative statements today from local lo-cal officials of the system, but they had received no telegraphic advices concerning concern-ing progress' made on repair work on the washed-out section in Meadow valley. val-ley. Railroad officials and shippers, together to-gether with the general public, realize that transportation conditions in this section of the country have never before be-fore been so serious. With absolutely no through trains to or from the coast, with tracks washed out in many places on both trunk lines, with rain still falling fall-ing in torrents, the situation is considered con-sidered most grave. Relief on the Southern Pacific is only a matter of two or three days, but the Salt Lake line is likely to remain closed to through traffic for more than ten days. |