Show PORTAGE LEVEE BREAKS Wisconsin River Makes Sea of Water Six Miles Wide and Ruins Crops Milwaukee Sept OAl Portag Yls the Wisconsin river reached a Hlijo of 12U feet at the Government lock at noon today when the city levee on the wont de of the river broke and duo entire district between than I YIsconsln river bridge and tine Haraboo river covering a space of six mllu Is lL sea of water Seven hundred feet of newly built city levee waa washed away Forte residences III the district uro surrounded Hundreds ol arcs of potiitoos corn nnd millet are ruined At Prairlo du Chlen the Mississippi I and Wlnoonnln rivers have rlaen twentyfour Inches during the lurid twentyfour hours Crops on the low lands aloiu the MlsHto Hlppl above the city are being flooded and many acres of corn arc already underwater under-water |