| Show LAKE DAM GIVES WAY AY People on Missouri River in North Northern ern em Montana Are Terror Stricken and Fleeing TOWN OF CRAIG UNDER WATER I iii itt lilt ii abs l Cit in 11 1111 In III I ii Iho i I ic nIHil hIlls ci i t of ot Unknown ii hut Very rr Great Helena Mont April H In every and ii nih village vii Ingot on ott the tho iI river In lii Montana the he residents arc are and are aro hoeIng to the llio hills hIhi lo to IS ca Ii tin 1111 iii blood caused by b the he breakIng of ol tho hl great dam at lit er lako Inko this afternoon Tho Iho lie town of or Craig CraIgIn In Lewis and Clark county 11 46 mlle miles north of Helena Is II 1101 more attire titan than iO O 0 feet feel under tinder water aler amid from every of or dollars worth of ot property will vill be Im swept t away Tho rha inhabitants of o the thc town tire arc camping in inthe tho the WATER DINO At n II hate lato hour tonight Al N 1 1 H 1 Gerry Cerry Jr li JI general of ot the lie Power company im nn that the water Ilter Is III receding mid antI ho IH Is confident that no HI will occur beyond Craig The Th latest estl of tho Ito loss i Itt 18 front from Om to Train f on the reat ein hue Una from tout Helena to 10 reat Palls Pall has been und anti all West Vest em alit Futon wires arc now under water alor messages being received hero lucre vie via Havre Mont and Spokane It Jl Is be lIved that thai tho tim railroad tracks racks will vIII willbo bo be J greatly cd mid train service I may ilia not b be J resumed for days At t 1140 tonight Manager Taylor falor ot of the Western Union received a Il from toot tho operator at lit Craig who Is Ille lie only on man In ho the tho town that tho th toot railroad bridge at that point Is 14 inches under antler water I lor At VoIr Creek from front the river tile the IB Is receding and no great to 10 t property plO rt la III expected there Con le damage will bo ho done dono at itt Cas Cascade cade 6 tables north of oe At Al midnight It IK is Impossible to 10 gain any safe rate estimate of the tho total damage which ha has boon been caused by tb tho the break breakIng Ing bag of or the lie darn dam DA DAM if COST I rite Tho lake hake datil wits was completed last Iest year ut iii t a Il total cost of or and nut nm eastern capitalists are arc ILl Interested In lii the Iho company rite Tho structure was waa Oh r jet iet long tenth and nearly gave way and was WILI down rite Tho break III In tho Iho h structure occurred shortly before 3 1 I this 1115 afternoon Oon and amid was vas caused according to Manager dorry Gelt by b tho lw bucking of steel plates neat near the lower loer expansion joint WHEN WIlEN IT WAY AVAY WAYt At t t tho the time the tho structure gave w way 11 y about 30 mOIl men were at al work In the power which is situated about yards on ott tho the north of or Ito s that thUl all Ill these men escaped and that 50 feet teet of oC the lie ilam llam wits destroyed leaving heaving about 1 ft feet at either end of tho the structure Af After tur lie tho first was WIM noticed It was wall 15 11 1 minutes before Ito tho structure gave hl Ve way Wll with a terrific wash Five ivo dwelling houses occupied by l tho lie office building taut and stable washed wash ell down tho Iho hue river us as the tho great Hood of or p through the thu large commits of ur steel nut and iho Ihie timbers used In Iu tho thu structure ture title wore left lert strown on Ott both bot II sites sides of or orthe the river Ilver a 0 great gruit ot amount of or It vas 1 carried on down the tho stream For Kor Koru Forit u it few tew minutes after the break tho thu pow power CI er itemise antI ninny oC ot the tho small ll lug along the ito river near neur tho the dam data siti Ille were ivere Hooded but bitt later hitter In lii the thu utter noon the tho water tater 11 receded and tutu the tIu build built buildings ings wore were found to be Intact The Tho pow power er ea housu was trios only slightly damaged unit and It I t IH lit It hil that thal all al I the machinery wIlt WI II bo saved although ii It II will trIll bo Ito some Nome somewhat what damaged from rota the Hooding of ot the building A hl Circuit Gront Northern train from remit Falls Fails J to lu Butte Butto mint nar narrowly rowl escaped destruction by b the tho Hood blood this at lit t ii It Will was Hugged Just In by b the operator at nt Cascade nut ami returned to Great Flails FaliN not however before taking tOI ItI ItIl aboard l a IL Hock flock of or sheep whoso whose pasture was tilts under A message from Cascade 26 miles be he beyond yond und Craig says that hat In tl last half hour the tho wilier water ms risen rison four feet felt anti and 1111 IH lii the rivers banks Mayor of Great Falls hns has Issued a II warning to those thoRo In the lowlands lowland to lo nil for 1111 emergency enoy A special to tIle the front from Cascade at itt 10 I thin morning says that the lIll water continues to rapidly und anti that lie llio big steel brIdge lg at lit that point Int IH Is doomed The fhe surface of o the tho hoot Hood Is black with ranch houses livestock estuck 11 uld haystacks It Is that nothing can prevent the river tout engulfing Iho hue lower sections ot or Great Falls I |
