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Show I DM MENACING t NEARJPLFORD Small Town Threatened; I Emergency Crews Work All Night MILFORD, May 26. Emergency crews recruited from the citizens oC Milford worked throughout last night in an effort to strengthen the dam at Adanisville, eighteen miles up the Beaver, river, which is overflowing and threatening the entire valley with flood. If tho dam should break, Miners- ille, a town of nearly 600 inhabitants, t situated a few miles below the dam f. 'at the mouth of the. canyon, will prob-ablv prob-ablv be entirely wiped out. Milford, 111 located at the bena 01 uie mu, LJU-Relieved to be sufficiently far away to be virtually out of danger, and the river courses along a flat stretch for so nianv miles before it reaches here only tho "crops would be damaged in the event the dam goes out. The dam, built four or five years ago bv the Delta Land & Water com-V com-V panv.'now defunct, holds 30.000 acre feet of water at capacity. It Is about hirty feet high. Warnings have been sent to all rest-tlents rest-tlents along the river in the lowlands 1 i-lidvising them to make preparations to ri it decamp in the event the dam breaks, if The dam supplies the territory for V mav nlUes arouud here wilh nTiga" K tion water and backs up water for two ! or three miles. It has a cement core i and is considered to be well built. Whether it can stand the strain put on it bv the choked stream, however, ! remains to be seen. Every effort to I strengthen it by releasing as' much wa- ter as possible is being made. ! i oo |