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Show THE GREAT LAKE IN THE DESERT. la Three Oavs Mure It Promises to Wash Out tli Southern i'anifio Traeks, Los Angei.ks, Calif., July 2. A special spe-cial dispatch says tho water around Salton is now within 2000 feet of the main track. If it continues to come in as it has been doing, it will wash the Southern Pacific track out in three days. The deepest water found is three feet and the shallowest current fourteen inches. Superintendent Dar-' row of the salt works is alarmed and wants the railroad company to send men to fix tho break in the river. The break is thirteen miles below El Rio and about seventy miles from Salton, The Indians are badly scared. All the desert Indians have lied to the hills, and even those as high as the Bonnong are leaving for the mountains. The heat continues to be unbearable. Old residents of this city say that while the water is higher than ever known before, the desert lake i3 tot a new thing and tho ph-nomenon has occurred frequently, but from tho fact lhat the desert is uninhabited and few venture across it, it has not Leon noticed. |