Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1913 — RUSH OF WATERS INTO CULEBRA CUT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RUSH OF WATERS INTO CULEBRA CUT

Like a mountain torrent the waters of Gatun Lake poured into Culebra Cut through the sixty-foot gap 1n Gamboa Dike made by the explosion of 1,600 pounds of dynamite. At Gold Hill the flood was partially dammed by the Cucaracha slide and within an hour and a half the cut was filled to lake leveL