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Show AHlfiE LAKDSL1BE. Hmnlrt'ilH or Tons .f Hill V-usU Hov.n. llluddni: the Entire Klitfi. A hiie land sliilc ocenrred lard wct-k on the canal ahont two mils west of IJear Kivrr $r;v. At tlii-particular tlii-particular point the canal is several hundred feet Ikc tin-river. tin-river. Staked ami locscned ini-inense ini-inense q 11 :t 1 1 1 1 1 i s of dirt, brush and sand, weihin hundreds, ol 1. his. cr ickcd oj.i-n, liroko away fmni ihu hiiih and preciilon em-j em-j hankinent above and went tearing down into the tleep river with a tremendous splash. The impetus was so rcat ami the amount '' sand so ponderous that the reai earthy avalanclie h a.ped acn-s- the wide rivta stopping the llnv. f.-rm-in.L' quite a lake. IV -de were enabled en-abled for hours to walk over this udden dam dry sin d. A large force of men has been eniaged on tho canal break this week. |