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Show A GREAT LAKE. The Colorado Desert West of Yuma Flooded. Fresh Water from a Subterranean I'assase One Hundred Miles of Kailroad Track Will Be Submerged. Los Angeles, Cal., Jnne 30. The floods which began to rise in the salt mines at Yuma are driving out the laborers. la-borers. The flood now covers an area of ten miles square, and the water is from three to eiaht feet deep. Tucson, Ariz., June 30. A special from Yuma says the Colorado desert basin, at Salton, sixty miles west of Yuma, is rapidly tilling up with fresh water from a subterranean passage, believed be-lieved to be connected with the Colorado Colora-do river. At last advices the desert is being converted into an immense lake, and if the water continues to rise, the Southern Pacific tracks will be submerged sub-merged for a distance of one hundred miles, and the Salton Salt works will be compelled to close up. The temperature tempera-ture there is very high, the thermometer thermome-ter registering 145. Another Claim for the World's 'air Chicago, June 30. The officer of the health department asserts he 1ms discovered dis-covered that broken down, emaciated and diseased horses are being made into sausage meat and sold in the poorer quarters of the city. Van Ilcest Wins the Fight. Minneapolis, June 30. The fijjht between Johnny Vanlleest.of this city, and Dan Daly, of Bangor, came off here to-night. It was won by Van Ileest in the twelfth round. |