Show i FREA FREAKS cr 0 ROCKY MOUNTAIN 0 C 1 1 CAMPERS CAUGHT s CLOUD cloua ire JN IN ONH ONE OF THEM BURSTS vir cloudburst cloudbursts are sometimes very do of life Is well as of property they come up so suddenly that it li Is almost almott impossible to escape it theia the ay farer is I 1 caught la in the bed of the creek camper in the nylons usually select the hish high ground above the brtek rather than pitch their tent beside the gently rippling water which may become ft a roaring torrent while they sleep weeping them to destruction before they know that dauser dauger Is near it was from neglect of this precaution that many lives were lost in a cloudburst near morrison colo COIO in the spring of at 1897 some people were camping alone along the borders of the I 1 stream and as it as just after dark I 1 and had bad been raining heavily they had bad sought the helter shelter of their tents suddenly hey they beard the awful and pe cullar culler roar odthe approaching cloud i burst it grew row louder every second Rea realius lizs what bad happe happened ried the un j fortunate fortunato campers men women and cb children Ildren rushed from their tents and tried to reach the higher ground la its the confusion and darkness some turn ed the way and were soon gallas la in mail torrents battling with tree trunks and wrecks of cabins and immense masses of moving stone i tn in the bosom of at the flood thirteen yes went out in that dire night the tb aies odies found later showed the th marks tf tt buffeting with the debris la in ebli of arr anil it li is tha that few it any ot of the unfortunates lost their urea lives by actual drowning occasionally the downpour of rain rala will bo be precipitated on a soft yielding toll soll and instead ot of taking tho the form of or a cloudburst with a wave ot of w water ater currying carrying everything before it the hoi hot surface of the round ground will tike pike on the consistence of molasses 1 and roll lowly slowly but arres seibly own the water courses ibis hap pred in 10 chalk canoa caron near mount princeton Prince toa in colorado three years aeo ago chalk cura ciffra are a peculiar formation at the bead of the canyon tha co so called caned chalk bice being of a time nature which after being dissolved in W water ter quickly hardens azila again ilka like cement coment A cloudburst beean began high sip on the fides aides of the mountain washed awty aw ty tons 0 material from the cliff cliffs and rolled roiled tho the mass almly over the railroad tracks like the pour of lava 1 from vesuvius I 1 the be track tracks were covered core reil to a depth 0 of mx ix feet A can of workmen w WAI put to work on the deposit dp olt but it bloz ed in on the tracks as fast u the men horeled shoveled it out finally all work wa was suspended and the overflow hardened to 0 o th tu I 1 a track was built over it within six ix hours of the breaking brea kinc of at the storm trains wea we running ovel the deposit so bard did the chalk become the rall roas hf ila never to the old track tracks and a 11 th 1 g that was done la in rel relaying aln the tracks permanently dyn dynamite a m its bail I 1 to b be used a magal 1 u 9 |