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Show ilNNATI FACES SERIOUS SITUATION famine Imminent, Owing to : in a Sixty-inch Water Main cu Saturday. INNATI. O.. Dec. S. Cincinnati Is water fnnnne as the result of the n the sixty-inch water-main on avenue last .Saturday, when three working in a ditoh near by were ascertained today that the break be repaired until some time y. Peremptory measures have en hv city ofliclals to prevent Ihe if water. Several suburbs ate water tonight and the central the city Is Inadequately supplied, rain on the iOden Park reservoirs, ;PlIy the basin of the city, be- Ktvat that Mayor Hunt ordered latovor water is left in them be and sed only in case of fire. ). restaurants and saloons tonight -h f s iTercrs, as what water can nn is usrd only for the most vl- tal purposes. One hospital is entlroly without a water supply and the city hospital hos-pital and other largo institutions arc without water on their upper floors and may have none at all tomorrow. Skyscraper elevators shut down this afternoon. Manufacturing plants will be severely crippled tomorrow, as thore will not be enough water to supply boilers and elevators. Many of these closed today. to-day. Mayor Hunt issued a proclamation late today in which he called upon citizens to use water only for drinking and cooking purposes. Superintendent of Schools Condon ordered all the schools closed, as not sufficient water could be obtained for heating and drinking purpose. |