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Show 6AMB0A DIKE IS REB1IH Mill LAST BARRIER TO COMMUNICATION COMMUNICA-TION BETWEEN ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC 13 DESTROYED. All the Heads of Canal Department and Members of President Porras' Cabinet Were Present for Epoch-Making Event. Panama. The Oamboa dike, th InHt artificial barrier to actual communication com-munication between the Atlantic and Pacific ocean by way of the Pnnania canal, was reut in twain at 2:07 o'clock Friday afternoon, October 10. Between 3.000 and 4,000 person from the cities of Panama and Colon and the various section of the cunnl cone witnessed the demolition of the bar rler, and, while the destroying of the dike wa spectacular and successful, some diapK!ntment wa evinced .) cnuHe the entire dike wa not destroyed. de-stroyed. I'tter demolition Friday was not followed because of feitr that he conclusion might daimire the railroad trestle crossing the cut near San Miguel lock Two remaining section will be dynamited at some future date. A the hour approached w hen President Pres-ident Wilson In the White House in Washington would pre the button nd send the electric spark over tbe vires to explod the numerous charge of dynamite In the dike, a hush of expectancy fell over all. Then mddenly came the muffled roar of the discharge of sixteen hundred poundi of dynamite, which sent a shower of wnter, mud and rock high Into the air, spreading out as It went upward, the a hole heavily veiled In a cloud of smoke. It wa connldered among local dynamite experts as a remarkably remark-ably clean exploHlon. A section of the dike sixty feet wide wa HHed bodily from It bed and its component compo-nent part scattered far and wide. As water began to pour tnroiuh the rent made by the explosion, whistle were tied down nnd the crowd sent up a great cheer. Not an olmtrue-Hon olmtrue-Hon was left In the opening except some Iron pipe which stuck up here and there. At the hour that President Wllnon ,et off the blast the water In the cut wns exactly six feet below the level of Lake Gatun, and the Inflow of water afterward was in such volume that tbe cut was filled to lake level within an hour and a half. All the head of the canal depart, ments were present for the epoch making event, a alo were the mem bers of the cabinet of President Por ras. The president was unable to lx present. It was Colonel Goethal's day and tbe chairman of the canal commission was the recipient of a shower of con gratulatlons. Half an hour before th blast was set off Colonel Goetbali took bis stand well up toward th dike, but as the time neared for tb explosion be drew back a short d. tance, but still well out In front and In an unprotected position. There h wsa when the mass of earth and water shot skyward. Philippe Runau-Varilla, who wai engineer of the Panama Canal com pany when the French were trying tc dig the great dltCJ, was an Interested spectator of the event |