Show PF causs MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WA TER RELEASED WHEN DAM GIVES WAY troops are called to assist in res R cuing many who were in path of rushing water no lives lost detroit midi alich scores of 0 families in tho the valley of 0 tile the huron river between flat rock hock and lake erie wore were driven from their homes when when the dam at the power plant ol of the ford motor company at flat rock burst and released millions ot of gallons of water into the valley more mord than acres aro are reported under water which to is reported to bo be twelve feet deep in some places and steadily rising the valleys inhabitants were warned of at the by troopers from the south rockwood station ot of the michigan state police who started along the river to rouse persons living nearby as soon eoon as guards at the dam had telephoned the station of the trouble lo so rapidly did tile the water rise that the officers were soon to take to boats going tarus from frim house to house with their warning ferrying scores of families to safety and sending the men ahead in commandeered boats to aid in the rescue work no lives have been lost to bo far ar at ae could be learned although many houses hullt built below the level at t tile the dam were inundated Ilund hundreds reds 04 0 small houses many ot of which are set on stilts line the river at its banks but state troopers believe no lives wore were lost loat because of the warning t although water was high around the bridges of the lie michigan central and the detroit toledo shore line railroads below flat rock traffic was not interrupted small barns boathouses wooden farm implements trees bushes bushea and furniture were drifting down the valley on oil a current running ten tell miles an hour the troopers je reported ported seeing chickens clinging to drifting sheds and once a dog marooned atop a small fidall barn howling lu ili fear as the waves rocked and buffeted his raft through the wreckage the break in the ford company dam followed the crumbling of the earth embankments that flank the now detroit edison company dam at franch landing several miles above flat rock the tha impounded yater vater of 0 the six alx mile artificial lake rushed through the break the dam which Is 32 foet feet high was built partly of concrete and partly of earth engineers estimated that already cubic feet of earth have been wash washed ed away while the river is eating into the remaining earth war works ka and engineers believe more will be swept out the new power station a 0 tie eltson company was to have been opened may 1 the cost was |