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Show FK AROUND MUY DlSGEDjy FLOOD Special to The Tribune. OOnr.N'. Mjy IS.- Damage estimated .t J10.0M and :i elgbt-hour blockadn of traffic on the Ore-gun Ore-gun Short Line, resulted today when an outlet to tho Uvl & Weber rVmnlles' canal nt Clinton overnotrod and Cooded unvrrul hundred acren of lund In the vicinity of Cllnion and rtoy. Much of tho land had nlrrady been planted and 11 In Impossible to eay how much replanting will be Decenary. According1 to the cnnal carctaher at KaysvIIIe. the outlet thul ceufced tho tronhlo had heen cut In the canal nl. Clinton to provide 'or road uprlnkllntr. High water In the Wehor rlvor filled the rimal banlc full nnd bolween 1 o'clock and J o'cloolc thin afternoon the water biuWo through the outlet and ruahed In n torrent over the ud-Jolnlni; ud-Jolnlni; land. II wais Impossible to ntop the How and In a few hours tho farms thero nrn flooded. Tho Oregon Short Line tracks for tiro tullcr wero paralleled with r.m;ill lalccs nnd at every bridge water rushed under th traclia rlth force auffl-clne auffl-clne to endanger the abutments. Triiln .S"o. .1 was thn last to pnea over tho traclia before the trouble, and No. i and No. H, conUibonnd. were detoiired over th Iracku ot Iho Denver & Rio CIrande to Salt LaVo CClty. North-Imund North-Imund trnlns were hold until a lato hour this evening and a large force of men worhed at alretiBthenlng tho ahutraents. At 11 o'clock tonight to-night the local ofllclals ot the Oregon Short Line said that trains wcro being operated over tho flooded area without danger. |