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Show flfflT ON OREGON SHOT LINE :;f DELAYS- MANY DETOIMD TRAINS Brcaf. in the Government Dam Near Orchard Destroys Part of the Road, but Repairs fMo Made-Army of Men Working to j Open the S. P. Through Nevada Reports from various points aloni; the Humboldt river are to the effect I'airh n the west to I.oray on the east (hat within the p.isi three days the water has recede, aboul five feet. Humboldt lak", ji Is announced. Is rising. a:id an engineer has been sent I here io make ebserv atlons Through Palisade canyon, as well us -a', other points, the rond will he 'cribbed up,"" and then filled in as fast as the work trains can haul ballast. bal-last. At Depth, Novailu, there i nhout ot feet of a break that will hae to be filled In. At Battle Mointaln, Reese river, which seldom, heretofore, has been known to reach iho Humboldt iicr, Is a ralntr torrent and pust.es throuch part nf the town, having washed away the trucks lor V.on foot easl of the Netadn Central shops. I Pile drivers and u-g fron) lake-! lake-! Bide, on the O-den l.ucln cutoff of the i Southern Pacific, hae been pent to Palisade to work between that point and Battle Mountain. Trti - hlch left San Francisco on Febro rsj and became flood bound In ce trft .Nevada, are again in the flood c it. 'this time In Idaho en the Oregon hort Line. Having been returned re-turned ' to Sacramento from Batll? Mountain and detoured north, tour passenger trains a,e now held west of Nampa, Idaho between which point and Orchard there is a reported washout oi three miles, caused by one of the large reclamation dams of the government ghing way. Word received hero Is to the eft" ret thn. the time of the arrival of the de-toured de-toured trains Is Indefinite. With communication Interrupted by the Oregon Short l ine, this portion of the Incerniounlaln country Is entirely cut off from railroad connection With tho Pacific const. The Southern Pacific people- hae fixed next Sunday as the date for the opening of the road to through traffic from Ogden to San Francisco. Two trains of piling ieft here Sunday Sun-day for. palisade canjn, where slx- teen bridges required repairs, or reconstruction, re-construction, and 1,3"0 feet of piling must be driven. Big gangs of brl )ge carpenters gnd pile drivers ami twen-.tv twen-.tv tyorrt .'(rains .at ii-rrrliiif;day--aiwl night to place the track from Pall-Fade Pall-Fade to Reowawe In condition to allow al-low the passage- of trains. Two of the longest bridges in Pall-side Pall-side canyon were carried into the bottom of the river and wooden slnirliires will be constructed at )dntfl to serve temporarily. Later it tvas reported from Boise that the break In the Orchard reservoir, reser-voir, east of Nampa, which last nlgjif lied up traffic on tho Oregon Short Line nnd held Hilriten transcontinental transcontinen-tal trains of the Union Pacific and So.:ibern Pacific, br.d been repaired, and that all the delayed trains passed through Nampa thir moaning. No detoured trains left Ogden sine" la'.e lust evening, and th-ise scheduled to leave this morning have been marked up to leave at 4:50 p nv The Oregon Short Line' train crew that was at Poraiello this morning to bring In train No. 24. the Portland epre::s, "dead-headed" from the north on 'he Butte express and went to Salt Lake City. Hoed condition; elsewhere on the Oregon Short Line, between Ogden and Pocatello and between Mountain Home and Nampa, cause a great deal of apprehension among the officials of that railroad. The points mostly affected af-fected are In the Swan Lake valley and in the Port Neuf canton, between Pocatello and McCammon. The water wa-ter at both these iolrts Is much higher high-er than It has been In years. Careful WLtch is being tiiad and precautionary precaution-ary measures have been taken to prevent pre-vent u repetition of the Hoods of a lew years ago. From Pocatello west to Portland the Oreton Short Line and ihe Oregon Railroad Sc Navigation Company lines are threatened in many places, and no ascurance Is given at any point of the continued operation of trains. Many lallroad ofnciils In Ogden. as well ns In Idaho and Oregon, have expressed ex-pressed their surprise a number of times that the O. R. Sz N. has been able to escape washouts thus far, as 1hat l'ne t exposed to the flood dan- gers In many places west of Baker City. Encouraging reports have been received re-ceived at the local offices of the Southern South-ern Pacific company In Ogden In regard re-gard io the conditions in Nevada. The pspuranee is new glen that ly next Sunday evening th? line will be open for the resumption of overland traffic. traf-fic. It Is thought that the last detou-e.l I rains will leave San FrancUcu and 0den on Friday. Part of the west bound traffic of the llarrlnian lines at detoured at Gran- ( trr, Wyoming. Su'h trains and th" Overland Limited are run through to Ogden and detoured from here by the way of Pocatello. The work of repairing the line of the Southern Pacific In Palisade Is helng rushed under :be pereona! direction di-rection of General Manager Calvin ind Superintendent Manson. On the west nr, of the washout Vice Presl-Jent Presl-Jent and General Manager Bancroft if the O?don Short Line is directing he work with Assistant Superln end-cnt end-cnt Fltr.gTaM The renalr work vi-Mde vi-Mde patloade cnriou hz been left to the direction of Assistant Superintend-fnt Superintend-fnt Rowlands, so ns to allow Superintendent Superin-tendent Mansion to devcte his time to the canyon. Steam tdiovds have been placed at Perth, near lovelock, on the west and PUcon, near Montello, on the earn, and eli-ht work train are used In hauling ballast for the rebuilding and strengthening of the line t the points afferted by the floods . The weakened track extends from Rye |