Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1913 — PACIFIC RUSHES THROUGH BREACH MADE BY DYNAMITE AT PANAMA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PACIFIC RUSHES THROUGH BREACH MADE BY DYNAMITE AT PANAMA

The explosion of twenty tons of dynamite, the most ever exploded at the canal, rent' asunder the dyke that held the waters of the Pacific from the canal. The breach left by the explosion was 500 feet wide. A few hours after the explosion, when the tide crept slowly toward the shattered dyke, a workman seized a shovel and dug a little ditch through which the water trickled slowly. Soon this little stream was converted into a rushing torrent which enlarged the gap as it swept on, and for the first tjjne the waters of the Pacific washed the solid masonry of the Miraflores locks, then rushing on flooded that part of" the canal between the locks and Gamboa.