Show RESERVOIR GIVES WAY r HUNDRED MILLION GALLONS OF WATER LET LOOSE One Hundred Rouse Wrecked Causing Caus-ing a Property Loss of 8200000 But One Person Injured Grand Rapids Mich July 2Th big reservoir of the city waterworks system sys-tem located In an elevated situation on a hill In a district In the northern part of the city burst at 5 oclock this morning More than 100000000 gallons of water was let I loose l and rushed down through the valley adjacent flooding an area peopled by about OOO persons Many dwellings were washed away others were badly damaged and all I those within a district for three blocks square were either wholly or partly tied with sand None of the build buid Ings damaged were of costly character as they were for the most part homes I of workingmcn Not a house within L the weop of the flood escaped damage The break was first seen by Hurt I Botsford a boy delivering morning newspapers It was then only a tins strearo but realizing the danger tho boy rouser hundreds from sleep and urged them to escape The reservoir gave way at the gate house near Livingston street LlvlnSton strct pouring down the hill a I tream thirtysix feet wide arid ten fet deep A number r houses were swept from their founda tons and carried away on the food and crushed Some streets were torn up to a depth of forty feet Mrs Cooper of Clancy street was 3 literally swept out of her house by the flood She was carried to the bottom of the hill and buried to her neck in sand She was rescued alive but will probably die No other fatalities wi fataltes or sorlous Injuries were reported Rough estimates place the damage at 200000 One hundred houses 2000 in all al wero wrecked or badly damaged The break in the reservoir grew until it was thlri ty feet wide and more than ten feet deep |