Show THE COLORADO FLOODS several and business in some cases suspended Dinv tir july 25 the heavy downpour of lust night in a few minutes caused such waa houts on several railroad lines that even with the number of men and the amount of material at band traffic cannot cannot be resumed until bome timo next week on the denver rio grande railway between salt cr iak and san carlos below for a distance of 14 miles the track haa been undermined in many places and abere will abot be lovinc until monday on creek it will require a weeke time to repair alie damage conn sing of rock elides and was bouts on the new high line dynamite must be used to break some of the bau which rolled down the sides cripple creek people will do their trave linc by stage for the ensuing week the union pacific denver gulf in the vicinity of golden hae several days work to do before trains can be run the damage was confined to the vicinity of golden no importance occur ring alone tle route either to georgetown or to central city the cloudburst evidently was mot severe on the mountains bouth of golden and between that city and the resort village ol 01 rison another heavy downpour occurred this afternoon in ten minutes 70 aco of an inch of water fell in denver and estreet car traffic was Bce fora hall hour while the flood mixed with hail poured dawn quite filling the paved streets from curb to curb the was heavy also at golden and adlung the mountains west but no rain fell elsewhere in the state the total rainfall today was about one and one halt inches but the effect of the flood is due to the speed of its downpour where confined in canons as at morri the water rushed down in one mighty wave sweeping everything in ita way aud subsiding almost as quickly as it fell A SECOND FLOOD it results in completely paralyzing merrl morrl son and people are worn out morrison col july 25 A second flood this afternoon resulted in completely paralyzing al efforts to recover the bodies ot those lost in the debris of last floods the people are worn out with the excitement and labor of amidst the rubbish brought down the canon by the great wall of water which last night juat at dark sor the camps of the families along the road at dark tonight ten bodied bad been recovered and identified the others are either buried from eight in the sand or have been carried further down the stream and probably into the platte river reports from up the canon bring the cheering anwa that none of the people there camping were lost the list of dead from last nights flood ie as follows mrs miller and three children of Morr child of J longnecker of Morri aon thomas mcgough aged 21 of dayton anio mrs A S years of proctor president of the denvel tent awning co robert james proctor 5 years grace proctor 7 scars edith proctor 2 years mrs casey 38 years denver camei eddie casey 10 mamie cabey 7 years anna clara casey 3 years mrs anthony 31 beare denver eugene herrie 7 years mabel II erris 2 years josephine herrie 6 years carroll herrie 4 vests annie hanson 20 years servant of mrs proctor mies delia iworner II orner miss mar horner mes josephine mrs horace M warren mr and mrs H N warren jr who are well known in brooklyn society where their and friends reside up from denver on the train to spend saturday and sunday at he horner up mt vernon canon they were met at the elation of the lakewood railroad at golden by the misses horner and ala mla hoarne aleo of dearer and started for the ranche the flood overtook them and the four indies were drowned their bodies being found this morning burie dunder brush and band about feet from the place where the water baruck the carriage mr warren was swept away and hie body lodged in the branches of a tree where he waa afterward found terribly bruised but alive the bodice 0 the tour women were recovered today and cent to denver with the injured survivor miss hoime ie a daughter ot the manader of the denver water co and the misses iworner were daughters of judae J W horner also of deliver seventeen persona in cabins and tents in bear creek canyon above town constituted one party one of the proctor children was rescued by the heroic efforts of two youn men who braved the flood when agite highest points to baye 1 he child she baya the water camo while they were all in the ahouee and were all swept aay the harris family become extinct the father and husband baying died a few aw the family were also in this party the hansen girl waa a cervant eer vant mrs miller lived here her husband being engaged in mining and was not at home at the time the longnecker family were upstairs in their home when the flood came ha saved all but one member of his family a little boy called jake golden also has a second flood golden col july 25 Three bodies that are known to have been lost in last nights flood in this city have been the dead are A A johnon mr A A johndon Joh neon mrs J F edward all of golden another flood came out 0 the canyon this afternoon bot no lives were lost people came in from idaho springe this evening having left the train at beaver brook and walking in from that point they report that the track and roadbed ia about all gone between golden and beaver brook about 7 last night the clouds came over the hill from tho direction of morrison it had been cloudy and foggy all day and the clouds gathered together in preen ominous looking masses etain fell in torrents from alie ecart followed by hal then a wall of water from twenty five to thircy feet in height came rushing down clear creek carrying everything bet re it the flood lasted about half an hour ard was followed by a heavy rain abich a tinned until about 10 at that hour a body of water greater in volume alian the first flood came down tucker ellch emptying empt into the city it was abie second flood that carried away the bouse of johnson and his wife and which drowned mrs edwards the body 0 mrs J F edwards was found face downward in tucker gulch she leaves a husband and two children she had cone on to look for abr cattle last night and was not heard from after that the body of mrs johnson was found feet arom the site of lier bouse among some trees her husbands body was found in a tree near cows brewery they had been while in their little cottage the scene about the bed of he creek is terrible water came down ford street from gulch carrying many houses with it on washington avenue and other parabell para ell streets the acene is same two bridges have ahten washed out and three piers of the denver lake wood and golden bridge were knocked out bv aby iron work af the ford street bridge the losi is estimated to be between forty and city thousand dollare |