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Show I HERCULEAN EFFORTS I TO CLEAR SLIDE Washington. Oct. .11. The task of I opening a way through Cucarachoa ! slide, the sole remaining obstacle to navigation through the Panama canal, ca-nal, has heen rarried on as Tush j work" since the blowing up of the Gainbo dike, according to a dispatch received tcdav from the Isthmus. The I engineers have been putting forth I H-rculean efforts tb Hoar the half , mile obetructibn but the work is ot-ten ot-ten undone over night b a slumping baok of the material removed ron and a half of dynamite was ! , xnlodcd October 1" without any sub-! sub-! stantial increase In the flow of wa-, wa-, tet across the dam Since then three shifts of men. working eight hours each continuously, have been trying to create a channel. The recent fcbarp rise in the level of Qfttun lake, however, has Increats-ed Increats-ed the size of the ditch, so that now even million cubic feet of water daily is passing over the slide and j sufficient water now has been admitted ad-mitted to permit the big steam dredges to enter the cut and operate on the earth barier oo |