Show Colorado River Break Serious Calexico Cal M Cal M J Dowd general i manager and engineer for tor the Imperial IrrIgation district announced that the breach In the Pescadero levee on the Colorado river about thirty miles south of the Mexican boundary had widened from GOO feet to a gap of over 1000 feet teet during the last twenty twenty- twenty tour tour four hours A crew of or men have been rushed to the scene to pile In sandbags to prevent further widening or of the break The flood waters are believed to be running off oft through old channels into the Pescadero river to toI the south The Colorado river was up to second feet discharge at Yu-ma Yu Yu- Yu Yuma Vuma I ma Reports from points up the river indicate that the crest of the present flood has arrived No alarm was felt feltI I by residents ot or the valley valle as the flood Is one of the smallest on record and andI f the cultivated lands are protected bya by byI bya I a secondary line of or levees which are I still Intact The break in the dike occurred Saturday right night when a aI I change in th the current of the river resulted re- re resulted re resulted In tit the undermining of ot the em em- embankment embankment |