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Show FIRE ADDS 10 THE DAMAGE BY FLOOD Waters Still Spreading Over Rich Grain Fields of Kern County, California. BAKERSFIBLD .Cal., July 1. Todav JLf!0?1 Jwai.cl'fl , ' tbo rich reclaimed" TWieal lands In the lower part of Kern f.?nl'v MaURd J'eaterday by the hreak-Inr hreak-Inr of the Buona Vista lake leveo continue con-tinue to spread and rise unabated, and all resistance against their progress is mpossible until the. auxiliary lovoo be-ng be-ng constructed at the San Kmedlo rond Is completed and the waters reach that point. lho break in the levee has widened wid-ened continually, and It la reported that tho ertliti) levee Is doomed. Coincident with the break In the levee yesterday was the breaking out of two large fires In. tho grain fields of Miller and Uix nearly twenty miles distant from the lake. After burning all day the fires wore finally extinguished last night shortly before midnight. About two whole sections of grain were destroyed, aggregating between J 5,000 and 20.000 sacks. Intelligence of thepe two fires and the remarkable coincidence was suppressed sup-pressed by the officers of both corporations corpora-tions because of tho suspicion naturally aroused by the two catastrophles occurring occur-ring at precisely the same time. The officials of-ficials of neither corporations will commit themselves. The fire broke out at Button But-ton Illow, seventeen miles from the lake, and at headquarters, four miles from Button Willow. Flood waters from tho lake are rising at the rate of about. r.wo Inches an hour. The advance this morning Is about two and a half "miles from the San Emedlo road, where the fight will be made by the construction of an auxiliary levee to stop the advance. ad-vance. According to Superintendent James Ogden of tho Miller and Lux companv, he does not expect the waters to reach that point for three days. |