Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-07-03 | Page 6 | Levee Breaks and Flood Does over $1,000,000 Damage

LEVEE BREAKS AND FLOOD DOES OVER DAMAGE fAGE B BAKERSFIELD Cal July At 3 At At 4 o o'clock clock this morning the Buena Vista levee which was built to protect thirty thousand a acres res of hi highly cultivated land land went out under the pressure of from Kern river and over overa a million dollars dama damage e was done The levee held back the waters of the Buena Vista lake covering nineteen square miles and protected a body of reclaimed reclaimed re reo re- re claimed land Jand extending for a distance distan e of fifteen miles including the he old bed of Kern lake the property of the Kern County Land company and Miller and Lux This land was covered with crops of growing grain ready for the tho harvests and with alfalfa At 11 U o'clock today Engineer Bockwell Rockwell Rock Bock well of the reservoir telephoned that it would be impossible to stop the break and big forces of m men mou u at once began to remove all aU portable property Five thousand sacks of grain have already been beeta threshed and there is much farmin farming farm farm- in ing machinery including two bi big steam harvesters to be removed The water is advancing l rapidly rap and at noon today more than twelve sections were covered The Th break puts the Sunset railway operated by the Southern Pacific railroad rail mu- road out of commission as s the track runs across the levee at the point where it gave ave way