Show Rising Flood Waters Threaten I Canadian T Town own and Farm Land VANCOUVER B. B C C. June 4 Constantly AD-Constantly Co AP-Co rising waters of the Fraser river menaced the tho town own of T f Asa A Agas gesso iz i 70 in miles east Cast or of here today while weary workmen labor labored to reinforce dL holding th ff dam sole soie barrier holding b back the mUddy flood LT S r Twenty seven residents of low lying ly ly- lying ly- ly ing farm lands in the tho district were hurried Into the town when three private dikes gave way All AH residents of at the town had pre pre- rev re- re v received orders to bo be read ready to evacuate their homes at a moments moment's moments moment's mo mo- mo- mo ments ment's notice and a fleet of ot trucks and automobiles was standing b by ready for immediate te use Other Fraser river points were reported reported re re- re ported In increasing danger The flood surrounded the palatial Harrison Harrison Har Har- rison Hot Springs hotel and flooded the boiler oom Tho The hotel is a well known health and pleasure resort Farmers and their wives worked side by side in the Dewdney district striving to stay the waters of ot Dewdney Dewdney ney ncy slough tributary to the tho Fraser from overflowing their farmsteads The women filled sandbags and the tho men banked them along the sloughs slough's edge Elsewhere the ilie Fraser crumbled dikes and flooded lowlands The Skeena river In northern British Columbia stopped rising and man many white and Indian families were moving back to to their homes Conditions also had improved In the southern interior region |