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NewsFebruary 18, 2001

An electrical outage affecting 4,200 customers, most of them in the northern and western parts of Cape Gir-ardeau, was reported at 12:25 p.m. Saturday. A spokeswoman for Amer-enUE said the outage was caused when a water company hit a main power line while digging. She did not provide the name of the water company...

An electrical outage affecting 4,200 customers, most of them in the northern and western parts of Cape Gir-ardeau, was reported at 12:25 p.m. Saturday.

A spokeswoman for Amer-enUE said the outage was caused when a water company hit a main power line while digging. She did not provide the name of the water company.

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A spokesman for Alliance Water Resources in Cape Girardeau said his company was not involved as far as he knew.

AmerenUE expected power to be restored to all customers by 3:30 p.m. Saturday or sooner.

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