Show much farm land flooded stockton cal several thousand acres of the richest farm lands in the state were completely inundated late saturday when a bethel island levee burst above antioch Ant loch eighteen miles west of 0 stockton crop losses exceeding was reported here the levee which Is made by subsidiary of the san joaquin river and surrounds the acre bethel island broke as a result of being tampered by brush fire fighters A threefoot three foot toot hole became a thousand foot gap from w which the swirling waters poured down over hundreds of 0 acres of celery corn tomatoes and asparagus leaving them in ruin |