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Show NEWTON RESERVOIR BURST. EDITOR LEADER: - Newtonians have been holding meetings for the purpose of getting the requisite spring work done upon their reservoir and water ditches. But, in this respect, they have met with another disaster, for upon emerging from their houses this morning, the ominous roaring of the Newton creek indicated that the reservoir had again broken. It was too true. The main dam, however, did not break, but a smaller side dam. The design is to speedily repair the breach. The mail carrier's horse, in attempting to cross the remnant of the bridge at Newton, which the flood had not swept away, fell, struck its head in falling, was stunned and drowned. Mail safe. Yours, A. P. WELCHMAN. |