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Show BREAKING OF DAM CAU5ESSUFFERI MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WA. TER RELEASED WHEN DAM GIVES WAY Jror,,.t Art Called to Asist In Re (umg Many Who Were in Path ot Ruhing Water; No Lives Lost in-lrc.it. Mich - S. crc-.s of f;iniilti.-s In Hid viiil.-y c.r llic- Huron rivc-r bfv l.-.-ii Klut itoc k and Lake Krlc; wore driven from llic-ir Iioimch ulic-n thu il.uii ut tti5 i.owi r limit of ttii! Ford Mo lor iciniMiiy at. Flat Itock burnt Kill rc-.-ii!i,-il lllilll.HIS of KilllOIlS ol x ulcer liilo tin! valle y. Moris than fium) acrc-s are report-f.l report-f.l under water which in reported to tin twelvo feet dees. In Home places mul uti.-acllly risiiiK- Tim vullc-y'M Inhabitants were warned warn-ed of tlici flood by troopcTH from the Koulh Itockwooci Htallon of the Michigan Michi-gan Blatu pollen, who Htartcil along the river to roiiHe perHonH living nearby near-by uh Boon an KnanlH at the dam had telephoned the station of the trouble. So rapidly diil the water riwe that the officers were Hoon forced to take to hoatH, koIhk thrus from house to house with their warnlns, ferrying sc ores of fanillleH to safely and send-1 send-1 11 k the men ahead In commundeered boals to aid In the rescue work. No lives have been loHt, bo far as could be learned, although many houses, built below the level of the dam, were inundated. Hundreds of Binall houses, many ol which are set on stilts, line the river riv-er at its hanks, but state troopers believe no lives were lost, because of thu warning. Although water was high around the bridges of the Michigan Central and the Detroit, Toledo & Shore Line railroads below Flat Kock, traffic was not interrupted. Small barns, boathouses, wooden farm implements, trees, bushes and furniture were drifting down the valley val-ley on a current running ten miles an hour. The troopers reported seeing chickens chick-ens clinging to drifting sheds and once a dog, marooned atop a small bain, howling In fear as the waves rocked and buffeted his raft through the wreckage. The break in the Ford company (lain followed the crumbling of the tvrth embankments that flank the new Detroit F.dison company dam at I'raiich Landing, several miles above Flat Itock. The impounded water ot the six mile artificial lake rushed through the break. The dam. which is 32 feet high, was built partly of concrete and partly of earth. Engineers estimated that already al-ready 10,000 cubic feet of earth have been washed away, while the river is eating into the remaining earthworks earth-works and engineers believe more will be swept out. The now power -station of the Edison Edi-son company was to have beeu opened open-ed May 1. The cost was $750,000. |