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Show COLD HALTS RISING OF SEVIER RIVER RICHFIRT.D. May 13. A cold wavo that h is prevailed for 24 hours, has halted tho floods along the Scvlor rlv-Ist, rlv-Ist, which dropped two Inches yester- de ft but which won again showing slrne of rising last night. Many farm- sra residing near tho river have moil ed. At the bridge nour tho Eisinore sugar sug-ar factory tho river has worn a channel chan-nel across tho road on the east side, and a largo volume of water la passing pass-ing over the highway at that point. A channel has been eut through the gr iil.- and a temporary bridge erected. This Is deemed unsafe, nnd an effort Is being mud.- to duert ttavl b-tw.-.-n Central and Monroe through Eisinore Except for a Kradual Invasion of the river over more farm lands there Is little change in the flood situation. At tho first cement bridge In the south of Bevier canyon, two miles north of the brldfe that i ollapsed few days tdnce. ' small force of men have worked all day trying to removt a huge cotton-wood cotton-wood tree that struck the center pier of tho bridge and lodged there. Doe Kast.on proprietor ..f the Iake- yiew hotel, arrived here from Pish lake today nnd roporls that body of water higher than It has been known jm yeirv Ho Bald that K.inger Olson Ol-son Of the forest service bas made nn i Inspection of the dam at the north end of the lake an-i found It In a d.irurer-oub d.irurer-oub condition. Olson gave it as his opinion that the dam could not withstand with-stand the pressure of the additional water in the lake which Boston claims is fully three feel higher than ever known. Plsh lak. serves as a reservoir for Wayne county lands and much damage will reult "if the dam goes out. Throe feet of snow fell at Fidi lake the past few days and water Is running into the lake from SVSI1 dirsptlon I On top of tho divide on the Klsh lake road, Kaston says there is a snow bank 2Fn feet long and from eight to ten fet deep, which will have to be cirri i -ed by a shovel grlgade before the road Is open Reports from the Otter I creek, and Pluto reservoirs nm to the effect that everything is safe wltn plenty of water behind the retaining walls. . rt r . |