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Show WEBER RIVER FLOOD IS RAGING Tho Weber rivor is now at flood stage and much bottom land 1b being submerged. Many farms on tho west side of the stream, Just south of the Bamberger bridge, aro Inundated and the -water Is spreading out and extending its zone of destruction. Sugar boets and garden truok are under -water and farms never before in danger of floodg aro being damaged. dam-aged. Those who Hto along tho river state that tho channel has been filling up for a number of years with tho debris of the stream and that whero onoo a deep waterway kept the river at its highest fully within bounds, the present pres-ent shallow banks allow the flood waters to cover a wide area. The farmers had built lovoes to protect pro-tect their gro-wlng crops, but the sudden sud-den rush of water last week swept the embankments a-way. |