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Show OPEN UNDERGROUND RESERVOIR Flood In Cripple Creek Mine Carries Workmen Off Their Feet. Colorado HprltiKi A dispatch from Cripple Creek I' Hit of the atrlklnit of n aensnilonal flow of water In Ihe bore of the lloosevelt deep drulmiuo tunnel. The How followed ll round of shots nnd wua ao heavy that the workmen were curried off their feet down the bore and narrowly escaped being drottned Water la now i leaviiiR the portal nl the rale of L'l, Oiiii callous n minute, or about four j tlmea tho usual flow. It la supposed I thut an iimlcrp.roum! reservoir or I atreutu hua been opened und thnt n tniitcrlul lowering of the wnter level In Hi" mines of tho district will be liotiioulilo later. |