Show much farm land flooded stockton cal several thousand acres ot of the richest farm lands in the state were completely inundated late saturday when a bethel island lovea burst above antioch Ant loch eighteen miles west of stockton crop losses exceeding was reported hero here the levee which Is matte made hy by subsidiary of the iho san joacin Joa aln river and surrounds the 1 acre bethel island broko as a result of being tampered by brush firo fire fighters A threefoot three foot hole became a thousand foot gap gal from froin which the swirling waters poured town down over hundreds of acres of celery corn tomatoes and asparagus leaving them lit in rula ruin |