Show WILL THEY REACH TS I ZlUlions of Caterpillars Traveling Ocr the Colorado Mountains A vast incalculable army of brown caterpillars cat-erpillars is devastating a tenmile wide stnp of country east of Cripple Creek says the Denver Republican The horde was noticed soon after the recent heavy rains and it has been moving slowly northeast since then There are millions and millions of them They mlions tlem cover the ground over a space of ten miles square and the Sank of the army is now within one mile of Cripple Creek while the main body is passing over Mount Pisgah The worms feed on the qualcenasp trees but their squirming Brawling bodies cover the ground everywhere Fences are brown with them rocks are coated with them and streams are clogged with them and vehicles on the road crunch through them the-m rlads of pulpy bodies I Is a strange thing this horde of brown caterpillars emieratins to the northward and eating everything as they go The people east jf Cripple have got accustomed to them hy this Ime The army moves slowly and its path can be traced by the de vastatlor They seem to care for nothing but the quakenasp trees A gentleman who came from the camp yesterday rode rive miles in a carriage through the worms remember and i was an experience he will |