Show DENVER HAS FLOOD SCARE lATE It IN NIGHT Cloudburst Sends Torrent Rushing Down Stream But Danger Passes RIPS DOWN TREES Nearly Automobile Tourists Have Close Call Eli DENVER Cob Colo Aug Aue 1 In 17 17 In Inundation In Inundation of the th lowlands along alone the Platte rl riser er at LittletOn Valverd ah erde pd Jerome Park suburbs ad- ad adJOininG ad JOininG Denver Denser on the south houth Thurs Thurs- doy loy night Collo follow Ins a cloudburst In Platte Platt can cant on forced hundreds of residents tu lu ii flee fief tr from m their homes Interrupted telephone corn com com washed out the ap- ap to ap q for cor or n B time caused a n flood panic in hn he river riser bottom bottoni lands The rhe waters subsided shortly at- at aft att t at-t t r midnight however howe and acids alde from rom banks bank and In one Olle Instances flooded basements and impassable roads there th r were little e cc evidences of ot the high waters arly any toda today No o loss of life liCe was 1 CP ned The rl river nier er rose about six feet Ceet It coming nas as estimated the water within t two 0 feet of oC the floor of cows Ol of the bridges along Its If ourse Ii 11 four places It bro broke e oer eer er its banks and flooded sur- sur lo 10 land rising abo above aboe e he ht ground floor of se eral score of homes lire occupants of oC which by the police had alreadY with as nS many miny of their as they could hastily rather r-ather ethl roo HITS I DE Totting do down n liatto enn eanOn cam on at- at ar the cloudburst which occurred after 8 o'clock the floo Cloo v c aters raced along alone alon the course cours of oC the river riser through Jerome Par Park nd Vol erle Into lino Denver where her IC he ordinarily small and placid team train s 's imia through the heart or oiHi Iha manufacturing district and the settled bottom lands neat neal S k-S Vie Inc city's s 's nil railroad road ards c y j TC At the first rush of water waler In inI J I tail canyon telephone operators on dut lut at summer resorts tele th the Denver fleecer police depart depart- department lilt ment Evi Evely a patrolman and was as summoned to he task of rousing residents of the lowlands an and l the sarning of th the flood danger danler dam r was os spread tt- tt r uh ho he Imperiled districts to the city at once A few Cw minutes the warnIng warnIng- had teen re- re elved the Ibe torre torrent nt ripped do down don n hug huge trees tres In the hI clu n and bent them crashing Ires is ires communication Denver Dencer and Littleton 10 miles away Ilay r Fil EM GF RID RED At 9 0 o clock ci the Platte Platt rh river riser cr began began be- be bean gan an to rise rapidly along alone its course on the th outskirts of ot the city and Jerome park Yah and Over 0 Oser- Oser Overland er- er land Ilind park where approximately automobile tourists are en- en encamped encamped en encamped camped reported the tho river riser oer o over flo flowing Ing it Its banks bonka About 1000 campers In Overland park parit were forced to flee to higher ground Th The river continued to rise rice until midnight when It hogan began to recede and all Illi danger of flood damage was considered put past Residents who had hd taken refuge on higher r In many eases caws with herl hed pos pus sessions possessions 1 piled 11 1 around thorn them re- re returned re returned turned to their homes some of oC thorn them to wade lIdl about In mud and ana slit silt left by the he receding waters water 00 op |