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Show Thousands of Acres of Iowa Faring Under Many Feet of Water MUSCATINE, la., April 7. A breal; in the Muscatine- Island' levee at a point twelve miles south of this city late last night hh.3 inundated thousands thou-sands of acres of farm land and the overflow of a considerable part ot South Muscatine Is threatened. At least 20.000 acres of farm land will be covered by from three to sixteen six-teen feet of water. ' Hundreds of workmen are engaged In erecting a barrier across a slough which extends upward from the flooded flood-ed aroa to tho city. Only tho success of this enterprise will stop the necessity neces-sity of several thousand people leaving leav-ing their homes. With- tlic breaking1 of t'hn levce. the man power pX the city .was mobilised to check the' water advancing from 'the south and to aid in the removal of families from 'the flood urea. But little lit-tle livestock was saved. Tho low.er Hart of Mu.catlne Island, which is framed lor its truck crops, la an inland soa many ml'js In extent. Tlie break occurred within a mile of the point where u similar flood originated four year." ago. A thirty-foot thirty-foot gap soon extended tho length ot a city block and thu roar of the on-rushlng on-rushlng waters could be heard miles away. It Is expected that tho break here will result In a lowering stage at other points, thus reducing the danger of floods elsewhere. |