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Show LEVEE BREAKS AND FORMS GREAT LAKE MUSCATINE. la.. April 9. The breaking of tho Illinois levee at a point a mile above the high bridge which spans the Mississippi river at this point had flooded 7000 acres of ground at 'ten o'clock this morning and the overflow of fully forty thousand additional acres lying below the district dis-trict first affected cannot be averted. The flood will create a lake two miles wide and twenty miles in length. Tho levee, weakened by waves which plunged against the barrier for days, collapsed without warning shortly short-ly before midnight. The several hundred hun-dred families residing in the district lying behind tho levee 'had moved out, averting any loss of lire. Tho loss to farmers nnd land owners will approximate approxi-mate a quarter of a million dollars. ' oo |