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Show CITY IS BUSY FIGHTING FLOOD Today was a busy period nr pfflclajs of the City ytreets department and' their water fighting crews combatting 1 the floods that have swept In on Washington Wash-ington u venue from the hills south-, east of tho city. Crews of workers placed barricades and built ditches around houses to prevent flooding andj hullt channels 90 the "water would bej . arrlnd Into the sewers rathe than; spread In its flight and inundate many, houses in the vicinity. The situation at noon today was reported re-ported under control and It la thought that little damage will be caused providing pro-viding the weather does not turn sud-( deniy warmer. A large .rew of men Is also busy under the Washington avenue bridge In removing a oar of gravel that formed form-ed there last ear The gravel had formed Into a mr of dam and the rlv- r channel la being widened o that thai deluge that la aoon expected, will re safely carried In the rlrar bed. J |