Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1908 — BREAK COSTS A MILLION [ARTICLE]

BREAK COSTS A MILLION

That Much Damage Done by the Giving Way of the Hauser Lake Dam. With several houses destroyed In the little town of Craig, Mont., forty-five miles north of Helena, hundreds of heads of cattle and live stock drowned, and the Great Northern railroad tracks washed any for miles the loss from the flood caused by the breaking of the seventy-foot dam at Hauser lake it Is conservatively estimated will be approximately $1,000,000, which includes damages to the dam, wnich totiU $250,000. The dam will be rebuilt at once. The water has receded at all the threatened points, one of which was Great Falls. Mont., wher.e the flood was seven feet deep and there is no danger of further damage.