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Show Floods In the Southwest. Durango, Colo. Southwestern Colorado Col-orado and northern New Mexico are devastated as a result of the heaviest storms and most severe floods this section has experienced since lSSi. Miles of railroad track, many scattered scat-tered houses and at kast two towns have been washed away, mines have been flooded and temporarily altan doiid, and It Is reported that several lives have been lost. Arboles, a town of 300 inhabitants, thirty-five miles east of here, has been detroyed and several people are reported missing. From Farinington, N. M., comes the report that a nearby village of Navajo Nava-jo Indians has been swept away and that the natives are destitute and exposed ex-posed to the storm. Bayfield and Ignaclo are Inundated and all residents have fled to the hills. |