Electricity was cut off here to-day as the Seward Power plant fell victim to flood water from swollen Lowell Creek after a week of heavy rains.
Parts of the city were flooded to a Gepth of sixteen inches as the waters threatened to undermine foundations of the Standard Oil Company's buildings. Two hundred men toiled throughout the night erecting sandbag dykes in an effort to stem the rising flood.
Highways out of Seward were covered by the rushing waters in many places, Two railway bridges were in grave danger.—United Press,
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