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Show MILES OF TRACK WASHED OLT Cloudbunta Add to Devastation Flooda In Colorado, Wracking Ra.l-roadi Ra.l-roadi and Threatening Towna. j I In-nier A aecond cloudburat it Pour Mile creek, near Canou Cltj.i WediiPMlay night, made mora dtnw roua the flood In the Arkanaaa rlief. valley which a nce daybreak Wednn I .y thietitened adliilnliig towna. wailed wail-ed out railroad ttacka and tied up many tr.ina con'nltitug toitrlali. "I tie eloudliurai waa one of Ihe heavleatj In thai aeeitoit. and anon tho river.! iwolli'ti by mountain torrents, n.-ar Canon City, had rtaen elghl fort, Hi Inchca. tim.iaia of the Denver III" Dr. in. I., road here alate that forty II ic mllea of their ttack between here an. I S.il'.la. a dlalntire of 100 mllea. It waahed out mid that It will be at lean a week before trnffln can be re aumeil. Tho plctiireaiiue Itoyal (lorgr where the Arknnaaa river ruahei through a canyon l.imo f(.i deep, wii a ai-ene of wild fury. The water hot reached the level of the fainotia Hnat Ing Hrldge. allhough the bridge) Itwl la Inlart. Many of the nearby cl yona were waahed clear ol track. U. t VwewVo tho water waa pbniwInK orrij Ihe levee al the elate asylum grutida.' and wllh a ill Inch nil an the gnnnda of the aaviiim. aa well aa a large auction auc-tion or Hie realdence son Ion neirliy would have been under water. |