Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-22 | Page 1 | 2-Hour Deluge Turns Streets into Torrents

2-HOUR DELUGE TURNS STREETS INTO TORRENTS Automobiles Used to Rescue Res-cue Passengers From Marooned Trains in Den-ver-Boulder D (strict DENVER. Colo, Aug. tt (By U. P.) A eloudburat and downpour laatlng mora than two honra laat night flooded hundreda af baa.-menta baa.-menta ln lower Denver, covered etreet railway track with lachea f aand and mud. ' overflowed am-meroua am-meroua lakaa la tha dry parka and ran. In roaring rlvara down, the treeta .. -.', . , Bcoraa of motarlata eaoglit oat tn tha auddaa alarm ran lata water aw deep that their motor war flooded and further headway mad impoa-albla. impoa-albla. . ' ' . ' ' MANY PREPAM TO FLIK. ....... Famine along the lowland prepared pre-pared ta mora when tha finrt fury of the atorm broke, and many left In haata for higher 'ground when th thundering swirl of water wa heard descending from myriad of thoroughfares. As soon aa possible they were Informed that th torm oentered nearly all It fury directly over th city and littl danger was evident In streams. J Tracks of the Colorado A Routh-rn Routh-rn railway were covered wtth mud and debris and tha Interurban lln j from Denver to Boulder waa temporarily tem-porarily put out of-commlaalor.. Damage to property waa eonefd-arable. eonefd-arable. L ts believed, but no estimate esti-mate can n made. Ther were no' heavy losses and the abort duration af the storm minimised damage to flooded baaementa and crop a .TRAINS DETOURCO. Ball traffic for th third tim ln two weeke Indefinitely detoured on the Colorado A Southern railway, with tao feet of track washed out near Coltoa, between Denver and Boulder. - - . Two train on th Colorado A Southern and one on the Denver dt Interurban line between Denver and Boulder have been marooned alnce early laat night. - Passenger were rescued and brought Into Denver r In automobiles. automo-biles. . - All traffl betwn Denver and Bouldsr la now being routed on the Denver at Interurban Loulavllle rout tracka, mclufllng regular train of th Colorado dc Southern. It may be more than ar day before either of the ether two track 1 ln good repair. Reports from - Pueblo Indicate that danger la alight there, although al-though th Fountain river, which eaueed ona of the greatest water diss at era In tha history of th otat In 111, waa th highest It ha bean thl year, and etesdlly lining. Murky eklea thl nv.ming caused soma apprehension of further atorma but only dnxillng rain bare fall thus far.