Show WAVES BREAK OVER GUTOFF Embankment Damaged by Heavy Salt Water Lashed by Severe Storm StormI I HOLES TORN IN APPROACHES i Water Over Ocr Fill Dohl Doing Consid crable Trains DIs DIspatched Dispatched patched to Scene or of Trouble Ogden 08 den Utah heaviest storm experIenced sInce the I Ion on ot of the tho cutoff which a trestle l 17 miles long across Great Salt SaIl Lake has lashed the luke lake Into waves or of great force sending the thet thelt lt t water Wilter over what Is known as a the till In the lake and washing great holes in the embankments at Rambo and Saline the two points o of land connecting with the big bridge Ono One freight and two passenger trains I are held west wesl of at the tho lake lako but the tho road will be repaired so that the S gore gers can cross at noon today Ono One train came over the brIdge last night The trestle proper has hns not been 1 damaged In the least Md end Is In no dun dungel dunger gel ger The wind has hns been blowIng 46 to 65 miles an hour since a m fr L Tuesday reaching the proportions o of 0 hurricane at an early hour this morning abating somewhat at about 8 this morning There Is III a wind gage at in inthe inthe the center o of the trestle where a rec record recon ord on has hIlS been kept tho construe tion of the cutoff t The highest I l pre Il I so 31 I wind did not t attain t a velocity eo r within 10 miles of at the present storm I Work trains have hao been started out of at LakesIde and Promontory where sev several eral hundred cars o of rock are held lii III reserve for an emergency of at U this s kind and the cars are now beIng unloaded where the breaks In the have occurred G General Superintendent J 3 M Davis and Chief Engineer Ashton of the Oregon Short Line left leU for the scene this morning A lar large force of at men and a steam shovel are main tamed at Lakeside and Promontory Point at nil all times and when the storm broke broko yesterday the men were put to work on the damaged portion of at the track at once The waves washed up from ro O to cO 40 feet high during the worst part of the storm and the tho heavy water through the open work vork swept largo portions of the tho embankment out but did not de destroy stroy th the track The waters of the lake are arc now four and a half feet above zero more than one Inch In depth having been at tamed since Jan 1 On June 1 last at the tho hIgh water period soundings at Midlake registered 60 Inches above zero In January the low water per lod the lake had risen to 65 55 inches I showing that more serious trouble mo may be expected the coming year from high water than has haB been experIenced since the completion ot of the cutoff Some time ago the railroad corn com compan f pan pany constructed a breakwater extend S Ing feet along the side or of tho trestle trestlework work as an experIment In breaking the or of the salty waves In times S j pt storm The result was more or less nC failure as the breakwater washed r oui ut more than a month ago In one of the severe which h tf isit that portion or of the tho lake A proposition Is under consideration among the tho t officials of the tho road to fol low the plans adopted by the tho Dutch government In keeping out tho en encroachments encroachments ot or the sea on the depres depressed Bed sed shores of Holland where break vater having a concrete foundation have proven General lies been ted with In Idaho and lie he Is 18 expected eted to return to Salt Lake to morrow Meanwhile General DavIs and ani Chief Engineer Ash ton are going over er the situation at the tho end or of the cutoff where the tho waves are aro reported as still blowing high at a late lato hour this afternoon |