Show fLOOD HORRORS ARE DESCRIBED Passengers of Colorado Southern Train Reach Denver SEVENTEEN BODIES FOUND TELEPHONE OPERATOR DIED A HEROINE Denver Aug 29 IThe The Colo Cob Colorado Colorado rado Southern train bearing the refugees from the district of Folsom N M 1 flooded Hooded by b the Cimarron river pulled Into the Denver depot shortly after 11 this morning and tired and hun hungry hungry gry gr passengers hastened to hotels Among the passengers were Frank D Jones a real estate man of Dallas Tex and J F Green and F L of a Fort Worth Tex fex These along with 11 10 other passengers were held up by b the flood about seventeen miles from Folsom with bridges washed out on both sides of them for tor hours Beyond Description The scene at Folsom simply cant can bo ho described said Mr Ir Jones 1 I have never neverseen neverseen neverseen seen such a picture of or waste and desola desolation desolation tion since I gazed at the ruins of Galves Galveston ton after it had been ravished by the tidal wave The entire business district and a great portion of the residence section was washed down the tho stream fit ream and the few business ess houses remaining had water up II to tl their second floors When we left lett Folsom seventeen of the missing persons were acco nt ed for Seventeen dead bodies were found fount at various point down the river some ot them miles below belo Folsom The principal merchant of or the town D Dagner B Wagner agner was drowned and his body has not yet been recovered The body bod of his wife Wite was found eighteen miles down the stream and that of his little daughter a amile amile amile mile below that point Two streams converge a short distance above Folsom and without a note of oC warning and while most of the residents of ot Folsom were In bed Thursday night a huge wall of water crashed and tumbled down each stream from the mountains and united In an immense mountain of or force as M It swept down on the village More Victims To the list of ten known yesterday este da to I have been drowned are added seven more victims They The are I Charles Wheeler heeler Mrs Charles Wheeler Mrs S J Rooke Antonio Salazar Miss Salazar Mr and Mrs Joseph Guerin Many are still missing and several days may ma elapse before a complete list of ot dead Is obtainable Residents of the town who lived on high ground and beyond the reach of or the tor tot torrent rent saw houses containing families swept away before their eyes pow powerless powerless powerless erless to render them any assistance Eye Eyewitnesses Eyewitnesses Eyewitnesses witnesses of or the disaster tell of seeing the lights flickering for tor a moment In doomed buildings and hearing the structures crash together as they the drifted Into the narrow canyon canon and were crushed like bits of pasteboard Some lights could be seen een a distance of nearly a mile down stream before the buildings were finally broken brok n I up and the occupants drowned An en entire entire entire tire row of buildings was swept away way a and others were jammed together In shapeless masses hundreds of yards ards from their foun bun foundations foundations Everywhere f are seen bodies of drowned cattle and horses Only stone buildings building and those on higher ground were left standing Heroism of Mrs Rooke To Mrs Irs S J 1 Rooke Booke telephone operator who lost her life In the flood many man resi rest residents residents dents owe oe their escape In face of certain death this brave brae woman stayed In a doomed building until every ever method or of escape was waif cut off ort by water sending lending alarms to every ever resident who had a tele telephone telephone telephone phone It was learned today that Mrs Rooke had received ample warning to allow her herto he het hert to t escape esca e A resident of ot Hills telephoned to her at 11 ii Thursday night that the waters were rising rapidly and that she would be flooded ou within an hour If It she did not leave Instead of or heeding the warning the little woman set her herself herself self to the task of saving others Number after atter number on the telephone exchange was called cabled up with the brief warning Pick up and leave leav lea at once a flood Is coming down the valley valle Over forty residents seen this morning said that they had received the warning from the central office and had at once prepared for the terrible emergency Ap Apparently Apparently Mrs Rooke nad and the list of ot subscribers ot of the exchange when the waters reached her herThe herThe herThe The body bod of the woman was found this morning twelve miles down the canyon canon The head piece worn by b the telephone operators still gripped her car ear The tele telephone telephone telephone phone cord was broken Division Super Superintendent SuperIntendent Superintendent J 1 D Slack arrived at Folsom at noon today toda from California and took personal charge of the work of ot rescue and track repairs |