Show COLORADO HIT BY CLOUDBURST Dr fly Associated Press DENVER Cole Colo July 30 Hun 30 Hun Hundreds of homes were flooded crops were damaged and train and automobile auto automobile mobile traffic halted in a terrific rainstorm that swept a wide area In Colorado last night Three army officers were struck by lightning and one seriously in injured injured in- in while playing golf during a storm on the Fitzsimons general hospital course near Denver A cloudburst in the Black forest northeast of Colorado Springs sent senta a wall of water down Templeton gap flooding Papeton a mining settlement settlement settle settle- ment in a section of the northeastern northeast northeast- em ern part of the city Thunderstorms and a series of cloudbursts centering near Pueblo hurled swirling waters into the south side of the city and flooded hundreds of homes Fire and police rescue reserves answering calls by bythe bythe the score at Pueblo estimated the number of homes with flooded basements basements base base- ments at approximately 2000 The irrigated farming district near Greeley suffered heavy damage from the hardest rain recorded in that locality since 1919 Two hundred feet of track of the Union Pacific was washed out the city limits The heaviest crop damage reported was in the vicinity of Windsor Wind Wind- sor 12 miles north of Greeley Denver received a heavy rain but no damage was reported The three army officers injured when struck by lightning were Major C. C H. H Glasscock Captain Kenneth T. T Fulton and Lieutenant H. H B. B Dierdoff Major Glasscock suffered burns and shock His condition was condition was serious to today day The officers were walking to toa a tee when the lightning struck them All were knocked Three men whose names were not learned were reported to have had narrow escapes from drowning in Templeton gap One man was rescued Yes res cued after he had been carried some distance in the rush of water Ap Approximately Approximately Ap- Ap proximately homes in Colorado Springs were said to have been darn dam aged Automobile traffic cast of Colorado Springs was at R a standstill today with several bridges washed out Washouts were reported to have tied up two trains between Pueblo and Colorado Springs |