Show colorado river break serious calexico Cal exico cal M J dowd general manager and engineer for the imperial irrigation district announced that the breach in the pescadero Pes Pos cadero leveo levee on the colorado river about thirty miles south of the mexican boundary had widened from GOO feet to a gap of over 1008 1000 feet during the last twenty four hours A crew of men have been rushed to the scene to pile in sandbags sandbars sand bags to prevent further widening of the break the flood waters are believed bell eved to be running oft off through old channels into the pescadero Pes cadero river to the south the colorado river was up to second feet discharge at yuma reports from points up the river indicate that the crest of the present flood has arrived no alarm was felt by residents of the valley as the hood flood Is ono one of the smallest on record and he c cultivated lands are protected by a secondary line of levees which are still intact the break in the dike occurred saturday night when a change in the current of the river resulted in the undermining of the embankment e ban kment |