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Show 110 TOWNS IN SOUTH DAKOTA ARE INUNDATED Heavy Storm in Black Hills Causes Rivers to Reach Flood Stage, Overflow and Do Much Damage NO LIVES ARE LOST, REPORTS .INDICATE Flour Mill Dam Breaks at Spearfish, Causing Heavy Loss and Driving Many People to Higher Ground DKAPWOOD. K V., May 1J (Ily A. P. Th alcat and annwntorm that hrlil away In tha nnrthrrn ninck hill, for Ihx lam two daya waa a ha tod laat nliht after tha heavy precipitation j canard arvrral rlvrra to rrach flood .atatrra and Inundated tha towna of Hpearfish and Bi-llcfourch. No lives were lost. Hpearfish suffered heavy property i damage whan the flour mill dai I brk causing water to rush through the city, demolishing a large. Ire house and livery barn. Hundreds of per-'aona per-'aona In the lower part of the town ; fl'd to higher ground. The precipitation precipi-tation In this dlntrh-t amounted to five Inchca In the lust twenty -four hours. I Thouaanda of rhlrkena and hogs were drowned at Hpearfish. Hinall .buildings were swept from their foun-jdiitlonn foun-jdiitlonn and carried down stream. I Belh'fourche waa partly und-r water wa-ter early today. Many bridges were washed out. and a number of barns land frame bulldlnga wero carried away 1 In the flood watera. Townspeople were warned of the Impending flood enrly j yesterday and fled to high ground. Fury of Storm Materially Abated DKNVER. Colo., Mav 13 fltorms which swept the Kocky Mountain states I Wednesday night and virtually all day j Thursday, apparently had subsided laat 1 nlgnt. From Wyoming and Colorado i points, which had paused through what waa declared to have been one of the worst spring bltxsarda In yeara, ! came reporta of lower temperature. : moderated winds and a ceaaatlun of the , snowfall which had given rise to up, ; prehension on the part of fruit anf J sheep growers. ! At Cheyenne the storm had abated I almost completely. I The severe hleet and rain, which I virtually Isolated Hherldan, Wyo.. had: miba.dt'd late lust night and only a cold wind waa blowing. Communication Communica-tion with Kastern points waa completely com-pletely severed by the atorm, however. how-ever. No trains had arrived since early Thursday morning. Telegraph wires arc reported tlwwn along the Burlington railroad and wind, which Is said to have reached a velocity of fifty miles an hour, accompanied by rain, carried away telegraph and telephone tele-phone poles. The total precipitation was nearly two inches. With the exception of the Kan Juan' region. Colorado missed the heaviest! part of the storm, according to reports I received here. Durango experienced , freexlng temperature Wednsday and j early Thursday. 'omparatively little I damage wus reported on tha western slope. The Denver K ltio Grande Western railroad reported snow on all i mountain pasbes. j |