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Show CULEBRA CUT AGAIN FILLED WITH EARTH Ditch Filled to the 67-Foot Level; Break Wow Extends Back to Upper Terrace. PANAMA, June 13. There has been increased activity in tho slides in Oulcbra cut in the last twenty-four hours. A now movement took "place yesterday on tho oast bank of tho cut, precipitating a large mass of earth and rocks into the canal and covering all tho tracks on the east side, choking chok-ing the drainage ditch and overturning a steam shovel. This break now extends back t0 the upper terrace, and the level is cracked still farther back. The Oucaracha slide started a frosh movement this afternoon, filling the I cut to tho sixty-seven-foot level and bringing in more material than the steam shovels excavated from it for inoro than a niontli past. Another slide which is likely to give serious trouble developed. Thursday on tho west bank of the canaj near' Empire, Em-pire, whore a mass of mud slid into the canal last year. |