Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1913 — WATER POURING THROUGH GAMBOA DIKE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WATER POURING THROUGH GAMBOA DIKE

Shrieking whistles and cheering crowds greeted the first rush of. water through the huge rent in the Gamboa Dike when that last obstruction in the Panama Canal was blown up with dynamite. Well In front of the throng of spectators stood Colonel Goethals. silent, but visibly gratified at the moment which marked the virtual completion of his mighty ♦■rs