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Show CLOUDBURST IN COLORADO. Raging Flood Sweepa Down Colorado Valley, Caualng Much Damage. A cloudburst at the head of th Cache La Poudre river caused that stream to ovorflow ita banka, and meagre reporta received In Denvor Indicate In-dicate that great damage has boon caused by the flood. The rush of the flood caused tho dam which bolda the water of Mvtngaton lake, Ixty-flve miles above Fort Collins, Colo., to break, and this added volume of water swept down the Cache La Poudre, practically wiping out th towns of Llvermore and I A Porte, respectively fourteen and three nillos above Tort Collins. It Is reported that one person per-son waa drowned at the former place. At Fxwt Collins the river, which normally nor-mally la about the width erf ine over-Bite over-Bite mountain river, la now over a mile wide, and the Russian settlement, consisting of SOU fumllles. is Inundated. Inun-dated. 1 |