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Show WATERMAIN BREAKS AND FLOODS STREETS The breaking of a water main carrying the rit;." water supply at Second Mast and Fifth Sou th streets proved an attraction f-c" hundreds of persons shortly befote fi oV!. k last night and aUo tied up Ihe pedrsf i ia n traffic across Second Fast sirppt tor two blocks for nearly an hour. Thousands of callous of water was fo:r-d nearly twenty feet in the air and continued in spout until workmen arrived on tt'c scne, an hour !a te r. All hough the workmen are laboring in an endeavor to remedy the trouble as soon as possible, l be w a t er works depa rt ment not trie-1 the Y.'a try consumers in t lie vicinity that it vouki he nearly forty-eicht hours before the wn ter could be tu rned on a gain. i |