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Show will run over the Southern Pacific's tracks this evening at S o'clock. At Loray, 1U0 miles west of Ogden, the roadbed of the Southern Pacific company, which was constructed In 1SC9 by the old Central Pacific company com-pany through a stretch of country vhlcu. has never been known to be flooded, was washed away at many points. At Loray, a bridge ninety feet In length and thirty feet high was constructed and about a mile and one-half of the roadbed "cribbed." Thirty foot piling was used ft Loray, tut It was necessary to use forty foot piling at points In Palisade canyon. Mr. Bancroft arsl bis assistant, Fred Knickerbocker, and General Superintendent Superin-tendent Davis returned to Ogden upon the same train as did Supt. Man-son. Mr. Davis will proceed to Idaho, to the scene of the wiuvhout on tho Bear river, between Montpeller and Border. A train of seven cars of piling, which the Southern Pacific had on hand at tho end of tho repair work In Nevada, will pass through Ogden this evening en route to the Idaho trouble. Until the Oregon Short Lino can open its lino at that point, all trains between Granger, Wyoming, and Pocatcllo, Idaho, will bo detoured over the Union raclflc to Ogden Washouts Are Many. While the greatest damage was done at Loray and In the Palisade canyon, there were Innumerable washouts wash-outs at other points along the line between Loray and Battle Mountain. In places the breaks that were repaired re-paired by the gravel trains were from one hundred to 2,230 feet in length. The latter break was between Wells and Deeth. In repairing these breaks two steam shovels, one at Pigeon oa the west end and the other at Perth on the east end, and several work trains vera used. These steam shovels and work trains will he maintained at these polnta during the summer to make riermanent repairs. i NEVADA f LOG AS SEEN BY MANSON v j Building and Bridges Went Down the Humboldt River and Miles of Railroad Was Destroyed Western Pacific Roadbed Is Obliterated in Palisade Canyon. Tanned like a long campaigner. Superintendent Su-perintendent E. C. ilanson of tho Salt Lake division of tho Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, returned to Ogden from Nevada at an early hour this morning, where he has been for the past two -weeks tuperlotendlng the rebuilding and repairing re-pairing of the line wbirh was damaged dam-aged by the recent floods. After a hurried trip of inspection through the railroad yards, extending Twentieth street lo Twenty-eighth street, and the machine ehops and the improvement work that Is being done In tho Union Depot yards, Mr. Manson and Assistant Superintendent Rowlands Row-lands returned to their desks In their offices to devote their attention to a niafs of correspondence thot required Immediate attention. While in tho midst of hi work, Superintendent Manson received i representative of this paper and made a brief and concise con-cise statement of the extent of the damage done by the floods. The greatest damape vva In tho Palisade canyon, between Palisade and Beowawe. Here the loss will reach $lon,ooo. The rampage of the Humboldt river in the ten-mile canyon Is hard to describe. Not only did tho Fouthern Taciflc j"t hit hard, but also Ihe Western Paclllc, and the town of Palisade, which was about half washed away. In this affected district dis-trict tho rher changed its course in n number of places, which necessitated necessi-tated the building of three new bridges where there never wa6 thought of placing a bridge. The abutment at one end of bridgo No. 10. in the canyon, waa washed out and the brldgo turned turtle. To pet the line around this point it was necessary to build a "shoo fly" otfi feet In length. Thl3 was accomplished In thre days with two crews of men working nljtht and day. At the six other bridges that were put out of comml6slon it was necessary to build approaches from sixty to seven hundred hun-dred feet In length. Tho olnts where now bridge had to be built wnjs at Tyro, here a ICO-foot bridge was built; at Cluro, a 110-foot bridge, and at Battle Mountain, over tho Reese liver, a 150 foot bridge. In the construction of the bridges pile drivers were kepi at work day and night. In the big spans to be bridged two pile drivers were used, one at oach side of the opening, and nn extra pile driver was kert on hand in caBe of a breakdown. Ono great cause of many of the bridges xolng out was the fact that many of the buildings of the town of Tallsade were washed down the river, and they lodged agatnst the bridges of tho Southern Pacific company, the great floodR beating against them until un-til the bridges weakened and gave way. At. every point possible alon? the line the company, during the flood, had gTeat derricks at work, and as fast as the obstructions btruck the bridges they were lifted from the river. In many cafes thla work saved tho complete demolition of the bridged and buildings. Western Pacific Destroyed. The lino of the Western Pacllic company through Ten Mile canyon was constructed between the Southern South-ern Pacific's present line and the old grade, narrowing the river's channel. chan-nel. Tho Western Pacific lino next to the river was struck first in many cases. Ten bridges of the company were weakened or washed . away. These bridges like the many buildings build-ings from tho town of Pallsada, wore washed against the bridges of tho Southern Pacific. in the Palisade canyon the line of the Western Pacific Is iir.tically, wiped out and will require mouths to rebuild. Ten bridge In this canyon can-yon have been wrecked and many jiii.ccs of the roadbed from one hundred hun-dred to seven hundred feet in length havo been washed out. The Southern Pacific company has given the Western Pacific people permission per-mission to connect with their track at Ili-owawe, and Western Pacific trains with Southern Pacific pilota will uso tho latter'fi tracks as far -west as LMko. The first Western Pacific train |