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Show flats in ' COLORADO Torrents of Water lush Through the Canyons and Valleys Denver. July 30. Hundreds of eastern loursts camping tho mountain moun-tain caDyons around Denver, Colorado Colo-rado Springs, boulder and other places, had narrow escapes roni death vestorday rrom tho torrents of wv ter that followed cloudbursts In the hills. Mountain passes were tloodcd almost al-most without warning, and no many washouts occurred that railroad traf-llr traf-llr on tho Denver & Rio Grande and Santo Fj was tied up until noon today. to-day. Torrential rains are reported all the way Irom Gallup, hi northwestern Now Mexico. weR Infn Wyoming. Throe persons were drowned at Callup by a cloudburst which tore-through tore-through tho town and did considerable consider-able da map-'. While descending Flagstaff mountain, moun-tain, near Boulder, Colorado, Miss Beth Stone of Davenport., Iowa, and MiSi Vol I Keller I'rl.Kt, r.i r?..,.1- 1 j. bind, Illinois, were stunned and burned by a stroke of lichtning. Miss Stoni? was rendered unconscious for Several hours. Pike's Peak avenue, one of the show streets of Colorado Springs, vas turned Into a river for a time Thousands of dollars damage was ('one at Buffalo Park by a cloudburst which tore away a lride, washed out rr.llroad tracks, telephone, and tele graph 'polos and deluged the entire ristrlct. The Colorado & Southern tracks will bo blocked for several lours. In Denver, much damage was done nloUjC tho bottoms. Cherry Cr?e)c, usually a dry runway in summer, became be-came bankfull In a few minutes, the r suit of a cloudburst at Sullivan. Twenty families In Olobevllle vver driven from their homes by th? flood which enrne upon them almost without with-out warning. Women and children were carried to safety on rafts, there being ten fret of water along Li pan street, between be-tween West 23rd and 21th street... On South Broa I way, the water reached the height of horses' knees At Pueblo, the Fountain river roo ten feet and the Arkansas river seven sev-en feet, but uo damage as done. |