Show Chief Engineer William Wilam Hood of ot time the Southern Pacific lint has hal Just returned r to San Francisco after a n visit to the work on tho thu cutoff and nd says n that tho Limo stories of ot disaster tl astor there sent out from this without foundation It Is 10 Isa isit city sure a it I very peculiar denial ho lie makes make I If It ho he heis hoIs hoIs Is correctly reported for Cor the tact fact of at disasters nt ot the cutoff is notorious otis ous OUI This denial IB In ha keeping with the silly policy some seine sOle railroads have of ot de denying lE denying nying nil ni knowledge of ot wrecks on ott their lines when they occur Chief J Hood has hns hn simply adopted the ostrich policy pol C It I U Is II a mu I very poor one and amid de te deceives deceives no ono one 00 but tho the ostrich |