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Show WORKMEN REPAIR BROKEN WATER PIPE Cellars ln Fifth South Street Neighborhood Neighbor-hood Hooded by Break In Main. The work of replacing; the broken water main on Fifth South, .between Main and West Temple streets, which gave way early yesterday mornlnsr with a report similar to that of an explosion, waa well under way last niKht, and the water department de-partment announced tha.t it would probably prob-ably b cempletcd by dawn today. Immediately Im-mediately following the discovery of the accident, a force of men under assistant superintendent C. F. Barrett hastened to the Hcene. where they found that the pressure had blown a piece of pipe about, a foot Ion? from tho section directly in lront of the StaaUt apartment The feed pipe for the district was at once cut off at a nearby valvo, but not until many cellars in the vicinity were inundated in-undated to the- extent of Fix Inches of water. Several houses built on the firound below the sidewalk level, und without cellars, had the first floor flooded, much to tho discomfort of the ocrup.-i nt ;. Meanwhile, Mean-while, however, tho water service in the district suffered but slight Interruption, the supply pipe bclnir intact and being hastily connected to another teed pipe. Two new lengths of pipe are belnir nut in placo, the men working all dav vestor-day vestor-day and all of last, nlsht In an effort to finish the job early this morninp. A feature of tho work of repiiirlns the broken pipe is tho fact that, when C. f. Xeslen, city commissioner in cliartco of tin; water nV partmeut, learned of the break, ho h.'tit'iied io t ho htup, donned ovcrtill:-; and bin boot:-, and, se!-InK se!-InK a shovel, worked for four hour.-: with the men under Mr. Barrett's supervision, early yesterday morning. Several ainus-Iny ainus-Iny incidents occurred, euch as a number num-ber of rionschoMen. c.i.Iliiit- the fir alarm office and demandim,- that, the di-p-irt-ment he Kent at om-e to pump out their cell, its. An cx'iti-d lady v ho slalr-d ,at Mhe had a. parly In pi"-:''e.-'s at li-'r home, railed J.k-ilt--iiaiil Wlll;im Krytlt,;- at ,o-He ,o-He hen-hpiart.-i' .. and i e'!ur--!'-(l Ihat h,. send pev-Tal boll'fnicu (-, r:tiTV bci- i'-tii-Intne f!Ue;ls from the lion.--- Io thr kMc-walk, kMc-walk, the ititnrvcnim; mound liclna under a bout, -it foot of water. |