, 1885-07-28
COLORADO
A Cloud burst on the Divide Fills Foun
tain and Cherry too Much.

tain and Cherry too Much.
A dispatch from Denver last night
says;
The mayor of Colorado Springs esti-
mates the damage from S~undaynight $ food
Eaton s body is not yet found. 1t is now
at 81, 600, principally in the country. Mrs.
believe that the campers on Shook run
were notified of the coming food and
reached a place of safety. The damage
of last night floods in Cherry creek will
not exceed 10000.
The Tribune Republican of yesterday
morning has a page account of the flood
from which the following facts are Cleaned:
At $3.50 Sunday evening a man could
have walked across the dry, barren bed of
sand known as Cherry creek without wet
ting his feet.
At 5:3l a wave nearly two feet high
swept the sand desert above Colfax av-
enue, and struck the piers OF the bridge.
At j:i5 it reached the Platte. The first
wave was not two feet high. The vol
ume of water which followed it rolled six
feet-above the bottom of the creek.
The waves followed each other in a wild,
mad chase, and throwing muddy sprays
and drift high in the air as they dashed
down the creek, like pillows beating in a
furious storm against a rock-bound coast.
They swept everything in their track.
Cherry creek was on Il boom.
Old-timers who had seen the great
flood Of 1864 and knew something about
such things, and who had some idea Of
meteorological portents, had scanned tie
northern sky pretty carefully hours before,
and by 4 p. M. had agreed that a big
food was coming. Lightning had been
frequent in the heavy, black clouds to the
south all afternoon, which told OF cloud
bursts and hail, and every indication was
that a flood of water had fallen in that
direction.
The volume of water in the current was
fully equal to the amount that passed
through the creek in 1864, though with
not 80 great damage to property, because
of the heavy piling put up to keep the
current in bounds, and besides in 1864
many houses were built on the bed u
the creek, AT COG p. IN. three section,
Of the California street foot bridge gave
way with a crash, as the leaping water.
bounded and splashed over the structure.
and five minutes later the rest Of tn,
bridge followed suit, the timber
stringing down the current and carrying
the news below that the first bridge haC
gone,
The Rio Grande trestle on WynkooI
street was carried away and two othe.
bridges. The piling at the city hall wa
washed out, and the foundation, of thai
building were exposed; the bottoms wert
flooded and many small houses were inun
dated. A 3-year-old child and one mar
are known to have been drowned. The
city ditch furnishing the irrigation waite,
supply was damaged. Many horses, cat.
tie and hogs were lost. and several trains
Of excursionists who had been out of the
city for the Sabbath were DELAYED many
hours.
At Colorado Springs Mr.. b. A. p
Eaton's house was washed away and hi
wife drowned.
Mr. Goomes. who had a tent on tn,
bottom, is looking for his wife and chill
dren, three in number. Whether the
Were carried down in the turbulent water
or have been rescued is still a question.
Ga the slopes Of Shook run there wer,
a large number of campers. 1t is know
to a certainty that some Of these peopl,
lost their lives.
All bridges on the Rio Grande and
Denver x New Orleans, along the Foun
tain, are gone, and for the present pas
sengcr traffic is materially interfered with