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Show NEW CANAL SLIDE BLOCKS ALL SHIPS PAXAMA. Sept. 5. A new slide in the 1 Panama canal has blocked the passage of all ships, including the steamers Kroon-I Kroon-I land and Flnla nd. There are twenty-! twenty-! two vessels ai different points along the 1 canal waiting for the reopening of traf- fiC. The dredges have excavated 40,000 cubic yards of mud and stone in the past twenty-four hours, a record in dredg-. dredg-. Ing. There is no chance for any vessels ves-sels to pass through the waterway for I iwo more days. The Kroonland and Fln-lland Fln-lland probably will bp delayed in passing I until the end of the week. |