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Show i FLOODS CRIPPLE RAILWAY TRAFFIC Salt Lake, July 30. Floods that crippled threo bridges, destroyed a wagon road nnd covered stretches of track, temporarily tied up train eor-vlco eor-vlco over tho D. It. G., the Oregon Short Lino nnd tho Salt Lako Koute yesterday. Although of short duration dura-tion tho flood In sorno stroams registered regis-tered n crest In somo places higher than that when tho Mammoth dam burst recontly nnd roleaced Its pent-up pent-up wntors, nccordlng to advices. Trains wero delayed and "slow" : orders wero Issued, Two bridges of tho D. It. O. wero washed out at Castle Gate In tho Prlco canyon and ono bridge of tho Salt Lake Koitto was hard hit near Calient, Nev dispatches said last night. Ilccauso a largo forco of men hod been employed In tho vicinity repairing repair-ing previous damage, repairs at Castle Gato wero begun almost Immediately Im-mediately under tho direction of 13. W. Deuel, division superintendent. Ono structure was placed In working order within five hours, whllo tho other will probably bo ready for use today. Tho brldgo at Callente gavo way shortly after train No. 2, which had arrived in Salt Lake yesterday, had crossed. Later trains were- warned and held up. This resulted In No. 20 being six hours late and No. 8 nearly flvo hours lato last night. |