GREAT OCCASION
PANAMA CANAL PRESIDENT WILSON PRESSES A BUTTON RELEASING THE WATERS OF THE GATUN LAKE. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received October 11, 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, 10th October. President Wilson pressed an electric button at the White House and exploded a huge^ charge of dynamite under the Gamboa Dyke, four thousand miles distant, allowing K the waters of the (latun Lake to flow into the Culebra Cut. Light draft vessels are now able to navigate the greater part of the Panama. Canal. Steam dredges have started the work of deepening the channel. Pacific Coast cities celebrated the blowing up of the dyke. Bells were rung and sirens and whistles blown and the car services Btopped. The waters of the Pacific and Atlantic are not actually united yet, as the Culebra Cut is eighty-five feet over the sea level, but the waters of the Ga.tun Lake extend from the Pedro Miguel locks to the Gatun locks — approximately twothirds of the entire length of the Canal.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 89, 11 October 1913, Page 5
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