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Show Tlio Miami itit.r, LnMBTON, Ohio. May 4 -Thu a rent Miami river has lis source In the Ijewlslou reservoir and the big wosteway which hroko yesterdae Tho first break tok away 100 feet uf thu wasloway and tho t,reat rush of water carrludawnyalougcovered I ridge. ust below. Boon another fifty feet of vaatoway broke and In a short tlma tho entire country for three ratios south was Inundated lor a distance ul three miles lu width. Colonel Tor-kins Tor-kins thu chief ouglneer, Is on the sceno doing eirthlug that can bo doue tore air the damage. It la till, mated that tho reservoir loss Is $100.-Old. $100.-Old. Tho lois luliidaii oounty InJiJ. placed brldfesaiid wathudout roads Is $11. 0,11110 larmers along the rlvor loio fonoes and crops, Tho water Is still tnrcadlng ovor the country nround J,ewliton, As aoon ss thn level Is reached the rlvnr wilt rise rat Idly. I'eoilo bo-twieii bo-twieii Degrnf un 1 fi duey are watching nuxloutly for thu result. Tho high wattr mnik of the past will be more than roicbcd, the low ground being In great danger. Warning has bron ample, howovor, and no loss of llfelsanllolatcd. |