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Show FLOOD SITUATION SERIOUS TROUBLE JUST COMMENCING ! Grand Junction, Colo., June S. The ' fiocd situation here tonight is serious ' and reports from the head waters of 1 the Grand ami Gunnison rivers Indicate Indi-cate that tho floods are Just commencing. com-mencing. After remaining stationary all day, tho Gunnison riser here rose rapidly to night, further threatening the destruction de-struction of the municipal p.wnp;ng plant. The-.costly 'Redlanus dam, j.isL above, has been saved thus rar tnroiuh the efforts of hundreds of men, but U Is seriously undermined and a farther far-ther rise may carry It away. The Grand rhcr rose twelve Inches today and Is now the highest it has been for fifteen years. Only hero:c work has saved a number of bridges. The Denver & Rio Grande railway 13 ketping a large force of men on guard protecting Its tracks. All parts of the western slope report re-port considerable damage from "ootfs. ' At Delia the Gunnison rrver Is reported report-ed the highest since 18$ I, with the cr.xt of the fiood to come. r.owianGs aiv flooded, i Part of the big' bridge there ha3 been carried away and It is believed I that the entire structure Is doomed. I The Uncompahgre river at Ouray his I been transformed into a raging tor- rer.t of unprecedented size. 1 ' |