Show BIG DAM GIVES WAY WHY IN MM MONTANA Town of Craig Twenty Feet Under Water and Citizens Camping in the Hills 44 4 4 4 4 4 Mf f Helena Mont n t April 14 4 f H L Burdick of the Rocky f Mountain Bell BelI Telephone company 4 4 at 1030 tonight announced that the 4 water at Craig Cral miles from lie Hel Belen t 4 ena en a had reached a depth of 22 feet f fand and at Cascade Casca e miles dis 4 4 tant tanto a depth of four our feet It is es 4 f that the water will reach 4 the Boston Montana smelter on 4 4 the thc river bank at Great Falls Fails about f 4 midnight The telephone operator at 4 Craig deserted her post at 4 being the last to leave the 4 I 4 village 4 4 M r tt t tHelena Helena Mont April 14 HIn In every ee town and village on the Missouri river In northern Montana the residents are ter and are fleeing to the hills hilIs to escape the flood caused by b the break breaking breakIng in ing of the dam at Hauser Lako Lake this afternoon The town of Craig CraigIn In Lewis and aid Clark county count miles north of Helena Is now more than twenty twenty ty t feet under water and from front every in indication Indication Indication tens of thousands of dollars worth of property will be swept away awa The 40 inhabitants of the town are arc camp log ing In In the hills tonight At a late hour tonight General Manager Gerry Gc rry announced that the water Is re receding receding receding ceding and anti he ho is confident that no dam darn damage damage age will occur beyond Calgi The latest estimate of the loss is Iron ron to Train Service Suspended Train service on the Great Northern line running from Helena to Great Falls l has been suspended and all alt Western Union wires arc are now nov under water messages me be being being being ing received here via lin Havre Hare Mont and Spokane It Is believed that the railroad tracks will be bo greatly otly damaged and train service may ma not be resumed for several days At 1110 11 to tonight Manager Taylor of ot the I Western estern received a message from front the operator at Craig who Is the only man in the deserted town stating that the foot railroad bridge at that point Is fourteen Indies inches under water At Wolf Y lf Creek three miles from the river the lie water is receding fe and arll no great dam damage damage damage age to property is expected there Con Considerable Considerable damage will be done at Cascade mlles miles north of or Craig Damage Unknown At midnight ht it Is impossible to gain any ay an safe estimate of the total damage willed which 1 has been caused by the breaking of the dam darn The Hauser Hawser Lake dam darn was completed 1 last year at a total cost of and many eastern capitalists are art interested In the company The structure was U feet long and nearly nearl 00 feet gave ae way I and was washed down downstream stream |