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Show RIOlGRANDE RIVER IS t f i RUNNING THROUGH TO WN ! -ALBUQUERQUE, N; May 25. The Rio Grande, swollen to a river al-most al-most a mile -wide, is flowing through the middle of the' Tillage of Tome, twenty miles south of Albuquerque. while the 600 inhabitants of the village are camping on the hills and watching ' their homes being swept away- . . The entire property of the villagers Is j destroyed, along with their crops. A strong dyke had been bunt along the river north and south of the village and It was believed ' that, no matter what the rise this spring, the village waa safe. Tuesday, however, the main current cur-rent began to shift toward the dyke and during ; the night It cut through and Into the town. i ; j r. Heavy -damage Is reported from 1m- , mediately below this city, to Ehgle, tn southern Socorro county, and fear is ' entertained that "other river villages, win suffer before the present .freshet is passed. There is no danger in Albu querque nor to property north of here, i . , " |