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Show THREE TOWNS FLOODED. Cloudburst In Colorado Does DamagA of $100,000. Florence, Colo. A cloudburst Friday Fri-day afternoon in tho hendwntcrB of Oak and Coal creeks sent n raging torrent down thoeo llttlo streams, flooding thrco towns, wnshlng out bridges and doing damngo estimated to bo not less thnn $100,000. No loss of llfo Is reported, though Mrs. J. Burns, nn elderly woman, was taken from hor homo In this city, which had been flooded by tho water. In a serious condition from exposure Hundreds of hogs nnd chickens on. tho truck farms to tho south were drowned and In tho towns of Rock-salo Rock-salo and Williamsburg hundreds ot houses wero flooded. In Florence, Coal creek leaped Its banks nnd flooded flood-ed more than 100 homes. i |