Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1912 — FOX RIVER DAM BREAKS [ARTICLE]

FOX RIVER DAM BREAKS

Head of Water Hurled ir.ia Ot. Cl—lies and Aurora, 111. Aurora, 111., April 5. —The Fcx r : -c! i dam at St. Charles went out <.r:- ;te > desperate efforts cn the part cf work- , men to hold back the water. A jam of ice tore a huge hole in the center: of the dam, and great mountains of I ice and water rushed into the lower portions cf the city. Dyr.tr. ite whs used to break. up the jar.:, but with little success. The river* shewed a rise of four feet, the highest point ever reached at St. Charles. * CO N ST A NT I NO PL E—The Turkish Porte has decided to distribute $60,000 among the Malissori tribesmen of Albania in accordance with the agreement reached between the tribesmen and the Turkish government, whereby the revolution was ended. PUTNEY, ENGLAND—The big annual eieht-cared rowing contest etween crews representing the Oxford and Cambridge universities, which started at Putney bridge, was declared no race aftey both the shells had become waterlogged. 1.".’ ■:; ■ '■ ' .• •. ■’ ’. . if - NEW '£ORK —Senator Joseph M. Dixon, head of the Roosevelt national committee, reached New York on his way to Vermpnt and issue a statement claiming the state for Roosevelt, •