Show t I I SALESMAN TELLS I i OF WALK Thrilling Adventures Amid Raging Waters in Meadow Valley Wash Railroad Disaster PULLMAN GOES INTO FLOOD ln h by Hath haiti Iut 7 n cro Ii With Dl by both hands to the tho Ic mils with CL chasm 30 feet below with waters Cohen I for Jo Joseph eph Co of New 1 I nn an experience In Il i the uc Midow Valle wash on the tho San this week that he say aya h hI ho I would not for I I Mr 11 Cohan leached Salt Lako carl earlY thIs and Is 1 at t Ute Ul hote To Tile News he Raid RaidI I left lert los Jos Angeles Dec 31 11 on No j i lily train went Into the ditch near Cal lonte lie Its no doubt there thel yet et I walked nd slipped crawled a distance of s to get Rei the tho washout and hero here I 1 ala aln In StIlt Lake It about aboul W 2011 hours hour for It a trip that or 01 I but 11 G hours I went I Caliente wItch effects of oC t I water vater were on nil all sides and our ourI 0 tool or on IL a LeavIng It pulled till the shaky I i roadbed along the canyon callon for two or three miles hon It was 5 stopped by a 4 termination of steel rails the track ahead woe InC I Then the tho train crew started to back I down to Caliento again til th d I watos having con considerably subsided On the wa way back tile the hey heity weight of tile tho train cauSed a brIdge to crash orash un 11 4 del deI It the train In two bay I In ing the diner at al n a angie one i end in tile dItch h tue other on the lalli l vl lev nt II lJ eJ abc a vry attitude u ill deed ded One Pullman went over the Ij I bank but fortunately no one us soil serl I omI hurL Finally after aftel around Call ento as long ns as I could stand It whore where I 1 ii b the way Jo Joe dinIng car conductor proved himself n it prince af afI affording I fording Ilo courtesy to tile the I passengers servin serving free meals to every I I one but bul tile railroad myself I ad two other men decided to walk I from to a of oC 15 1 t b mlles mIles to catch n a Salt Lake train Tile The I experiences of that trip I 1 would not notI I I il repeat for Man lItany a time we ve d wIshed we could turn but e had passed d such places Pisces that It was as If wc ve our back baek of us m full our only I 4 was to push ahead I li I OUT IN TILE THE BITTER COLD COLDI COLDe I e I To add to to tn our tile tho weather r 11 1 hitter bitter tIc bc I I Z zero My companions r I t rC sat nt I I Juan I the train a auditor J JI II I e 0 started at S 46 on n a freezing I 4 morning 1 The fhe w Willi ViUl and I dangerous st every step of I j tile I d distance In I We t to I 3 from on ice covered tie tic to another I not ot knowing hut an any false tell shell mIght I 05 IS into Inlo the creel bed below I the track was gone Rone I we scaled hillsides that I I its liS to gaze back Upon Dot BuL tile the worst thIng or of all was our 1 frightful experience itt In BIK Springs I j canyon Here we were vero compelled to toI I I t get down on our I hands ROll knees n I 11 arl and crawl 1 here er In IL great wash a we weI I reached the tho place of nil all whore J tile raging rIver had bitten out sey j W eor I oral feet of f tile r rails a as It were I bay I log the end protruding from both bothi I sides We 0 had gone One so far wo must I i b ci osa but how the tho question con conI I I fronting us There was but one thin thing and we did It Front From our I crawling I 1 myself Town Toon I i under the tho track the bed of if the river to 30 feet below me all and over overhand hand bland cold an and shivering I 1 made my myVa Va to the end of my rail o Then came camo the most ticklIsh moment of my life I swung m hod body and grabbed the end of tile the rail pro I front flom the side With th II d difficulty I drew myself up safety My MyC C companions followed t b ThIs did not conclude our da days ox ex ext exI I II penances but bul that was tile tho vorst Yo Vo II 1 I I left at a rn m reaching Baclay at afternoon I 1 am amI I I happy to bo be in Salt Lake Lalo today OCe and sound t TraIn Agent C C Moore and NAn N All i II j I demon a passenger oil tile the marooned I I I S at Evcic Eccles Nev left the tue station I on foot Wednesday morning walking t I throUgh lee ice and snow for 17 mlles miles I I with tile thc below belo zero and with cut overcoats through to Barclay sto sta staI I tion There the they caught a train that I night arrIving In SnIt Salt Lake Thursday J none tile the worse for or their experience Mr f I on OIl to ork a N D Mr 11 Moore saye laY The marooned maroone I 1 train broke In 0 but there was no noI I II I other otiler accident It Il reached Callen Caliento to I 1 Ne Now Years morning about daylight I i and I Pulled d out far ril dt f eU the r over t the tracks But 1 near Minto It was found no I progress could be 10 made so 60 the tho traIn backed At eles sta staI ij I b tion the track hall bled I which tied the up for the tIme at att f t I i that point The conductor telephoned I J I I t hack back to for nn an engine but butI I 1 there was ns none non to lJ b had as the round roundhouse house houe was vater Another at atI I to Jet get out was WIlS made b by L g the rear sleeper alt as that wa waI was t II I 4 over a mId could not notI I II I bo f moved at tI tile time e A fr r I IiI I j om ith t two cars of C o were r also iI it there thele over oer an lIn undermined I track the thc traIn roiling over Into till thc river with the hOI of I I I th the H 12 horses hors wee drowned I Finally the traIn managed t to run west tt n of oC n a mile to n a nr r higher point where It remained ns as no flO not t l progress could be made Cither way I p Then th the water root got low In llio engine i i i I betting tho Ore fire GO out to save Ito tho crown sheet This ot at coura cut ort off the tho steam supply and the 1110 Cars car cold In short order Coal COlli from the tender and ties tes vole u used ed for bonfires with which to keel warm and n a regular was Ono One man loan was very ery sick having ell U on l a bed from o Los o Ange Angelos 1 I Iwho los l But lie had his I wife I and a doctor Will who cared for him There was n a corpe In the baggage car and to things some on ono rg rigged up n a fake corpe with a sheet and when some of the halll hands hand went Into tilO baggage car for th the corpse corpo rose roSo and displayed his postmortem total ocal ability There a general scare ell as aM the train hands clinic rushIng back pretty near fright out of all fear of the tho cold that was wasS S 8 degrees belo below zero was n a which matters There was enough to eat though here thore were but two meals II a da dann day nn aniT at night we all herded Into tile tho and ate ato In the tho dIner Illner The rail railroad roa road did everything possible for tile the comfort of th passengers engers The road Is pretty badly rIpped UP tip the tho bridges zire lite gone and the tue men pa ell GelS gers load had to go all this time without shave I I FOR S MILES I Em Eili prospector mining man pioneer of at tile tho gold folds and n ii Utahn b by birth and n mul hod out from on Ito tho Salt Lake Lako RoUte to and In to tilo tho city on n a work train Thursday afternoon been tied up for tor 48 hours hourn b by the tho made the overland trip or of 40 lii III liia a little HUla less than 12 hours 1111 arrived In Snit Salt Lake without the sign Of df II a hair turned turnell lIe Is the only one ot of several hundred passengers who are aro stalled In the washed out district to get to elthel end of the tho route That the conditions on the Lake Lako ais much have hao beell reported Is evident from ruin tho ho observations of Mr Ir Ho sa say 1 that trout flom flux Rox tO lo Barclay a distance or of 78 miles tile the Is complete The Tue devastation made mado b by the waters Is 18 there Is hard hardly ly by II a ynid d ot of roadbed or steel other II a Cow 1111 been held down by trains train which haw have nut not been awn away Tins The line from Phoebe to tile lie old Ing cump ha bIaS Wen devastated nearly its and the only cation which hUll with tue tho outer world Is overhand to EVERYTHING WIPED OUT It Is the worst that I have ever seen Mr Thursday It dont look hook as Ir If n a railroad hail had ever one through that Foi Fa I miles nilles ZulU and miles there here Is absolutely left of oC tile the right or of wa way anti It to tome tome me as If the tue railroad would have to do doall doall all ot of Its work over oVel again before It can run trains The Tue loss to the road Is III going to be tremendous There Is mUch valuable freight stalled nl at various sid sidIngs sidings Ings much perishable rel ht and there dont seem scorn to ma 1110 to be any allY chance chanco to move It In the near future The repaint arc going to take nil all sorts of time to complete and I dolt doht think that the present eather condItions condition are to help things s II bit o 0 there thero Is i nobody suffering as alS far us as I 1 could see lIeo There Is plenty of grub tend l the tho rail mU railroad road has been generosity Itself Mr think It will ill ho be several before beCore repairs to the old line IIno can be 00 completed although lie he said In talking with railroad en engineers engineers on tile tHe scene that they Intended to la lay tracks which would enable them to up the line within weeks Dill DIU out of hl water quarantine because he had hati Jot got Well tiled ot of behl being tle tied up ul lie InU over Inch or of that countr and knew It like d a boole He had Un with lIh hi his sill sister tor ho lives all oit Fast tU to oil Thursday So lie he pocked t up UI IllS hili kit and hit the tue trail Yes It was tas d a pretty toUgh said Mr Ir Eckmann Put But you Ii see C I kneis the trails and made n a hult cut cut down the actual distance to about 32 12 miles fillIes Oil Oh I It n a bit Im used t tO those e sort of things But that thal train at Medona looked VOl very pretty t tO me meI I just want to sa say onO one thin thIng thore Salt ait Lake Lako Route Till uro the tho ical goods s They dont seem tu to bo be able ablo to do enough for the who are arc on the road ThIe Thele Is nothing too good for them Everybody to take the matter In a J good sort or of a way and there re aid no hardshIps other than linen being belnA severed from Cram with till tue outsIde ivorid linemen mn ne workIng ft anit I ito do not think that thai It will bug all or of till lie aires s will again be If in |