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Show GREATEST FLOOD IN NEVADA IN LAST THIRTY-FIVE YEARS RENO, Nev., March 19. The Truckee river has dropped three feet since yesterday, and it is thought the ' worst of the flood has passed. All overland trains are still tied up here and at Sparks, the division point three miles east. At best it will be twenty-four twenty-four hours before trains wll be running run-ning again. Superintendent Jones of the Southern South-ern Pacific company, left Saerantento with three hundred men to repair the breaks at Floriston, but was blocked at Eider, where a snowslide demolished five hundred feet of snowsheds. Numerous Numer-ous other slides are reported in the mountains. The damage- done this city proper will probably reach $30,000. Loss to farmers living in the valleys will reach into thousands of dollars. Every ranch has been abandoned and the owners are being sheltered in Beno and Sparks. A light drizzling rain continues to fall. So far no loss of life has been reported.- On the south side of the river, where thej greater part of Beno lies, the people have been without with-out electric power, gas and wster since 9 o'clock yesterday morning. The flood is the greatest in Nevada in thirty-five thirty-five years. y |