Show I 1000 Men Avert Reservoir Break Acres of 01 Beets Saved as Sterling Dam H Holds c 1 S STERLI STERLING G Colo Cob Ma May May lO-AP lO The efforts of 1000 men working in relays saved the Sterling reservoir reservoir reser reser- voir one o of the largest in the state and prevented acres acres' of sugar beets peets from beIng washed out A high wind which had hurled huge Waves across the lake went down today today- and nd the sand bagging of tlc the dam darn strengthened the weakened spots pots The fhe reservoir one of the largest in iii the state at present contains contains' nearly 1 99 feet cje e of f water rt er i The c e a S ac it a lout t tn In n naif alf f dozen places places' the he cement C Abutment cracked cracked- and nd w water ter be beginning beginning beginning be- be ginning to filter tilter through pugh the ce cement cement cement ce- ce ment walls iren Min Men work worked d all last night with sacks ov over r their heads for Or protection protection protection tion against pebbles and sands driven driven driven en by zy the hole to save the the- dam Three hundred men from the Union Pacific and arid Burlington shops shops' re reinforced reinforced reinforced re- re by townspeople hurled rocks s and nd sacks of sand in into o the breach of the damA dam I A large force of men mustered bythe by bythe bythe the Great Western Vestern Sugar company I is being rushed to the dam darn arid and nd the t e Union Pacific has ordered a special train with eighty men and sacks to the scene The towns of Proctor ProctOl mfr Padroni Padroni Pa Pa- and Crook would be Inundated inundated inundated dated should the dam darn break and approximately 1000 1004 people would be rendered homeless Property damage damage dam dam- ag age would mount into the millions I |