Cucaracha Slide Active.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 7, 1913:
It Has Nearly Filled the Canal Cut and More Trouble Is Looked For.
    PANAMA, May 6.— Increased activity has been shown in the Cucaracha slide of the Panama Canal south of Gold Hill during the past few days. The cut at that point is nearly closed, only one available track being left at the seventy-foot west level across the canal.
As this is the beginning of the rainy season, still greater trouble is expected, and drainage pipes have been laid around the slide to the south to prevent the backing of the water in case a movement occurs during heavy rain.
The Cucaracha slide, which is known as a normal or gravity slide, is one of the largest of its type on the Isthmus. It gave great trouble to the French company in 1887, when it reached a maximum development of about fifty-two acres. More than 2,000,000 yards of clay and surface debris, according to Government expert estimates, have fallen into the cut from this slide since it became active.