The morning call., 1894-06-02

tlnued to rise until A. NJ. to-day, and a
raging torrent is rushing through the city.
In Jerome Park, Colfax and the river bot
toms In the city $50 families were COM
PEELED to flee to higher ground. One boy
was drowned. The embankment and rail-
road tracks were washed away at several
places. The damage is not heavy, but the
inconvenience is great. 1t will be several
days before trains can run on schedule
time. There are serious washouts on the
Rio Grande and Santa Fe roads. Thirty
miles of the South Park road in the
Platte Canyon are inundated. The loss to
railroads is the heaviest experienced in this
State.
Five hundred families are made home
less by the flood in and around Denver.
Over 100 persons have applied to the
County Commissioners for aid. Forty
families are imprisoned in schoolhouse
at Jerome. but it is not thought they are
in danger.
BOULDER, Colo, June 1.-The pipe fac
tory. five houses, the railroad tracks, all
the city and railroad bridges. have been
washed away by the flood In Boulder
Creek, and Poverty flats are submerged.
The Sunset branch of the Gulf railroad
and the mountain road are entirely gone.
Crisman and Salina, mining camps in
Boulder Canyon, are wiped out of exist
ence. They had population Of about 200.
No lives were lost. Many placer mines
are ruined.
The losses in and around Boulder are
estimated at $5O0,00O Boulder had no
communication with any outside point
since Wednesday until to-day, as the tele-
graph wires were down and the roads i'm
passable.
Fifty bridges between here and the
mountains have been carried away. The
towns of Copper Rock and Sugar Loaf are
gone. the Prussian and Corning mills
flooded and six of their outbuildings swept
down the canyon. Springdale and James
town suffered greatly. but no particulars
can be had except that the Springdale
Hotel is in ruins. Several other small
towns along the canyon have been partly
destroyed, but nothing definite regardn g
losses is to be had until communication
with these districts has been re-estab-
lished
PUEBLO. Colo, June 1.-The rain ceased
about midnight. The river is now going
down rapidly. A large force was put to
work by the city cutting through the levee
to drain off the water. Only two bodies
have been recovered. Five persons are
known to have been drowned. The loss to
business firms is estimated at 500, 600.
The loss to the railroad in tracks and
bridges is very heavy.
LONGMoNT. Colo, June 1.-All the crops
in st. Vrain Valley. one of the richest
grain regions in the State. have been de-
strnyed. The loss is very heavy.
IDAHO SPRINGS. Colo, June 1.-The
damage by the flood in this county is es-
tmated at 100000. The storm was the
longest and most disastrous in the men,
ory of the oldest inhabitant. On the
mountain tops, inStead of rain. eighteen
inches of snow fell. Almost all the bridges
over Clear Creek and its branches have
gone; some houses were washed way and
mines are flooded. There have been nc
! trafus in or out for two days, and there
probably will be none for several days
yet.
BRIGHTON, Colo. June 1.-The river al
this point (ffteen miles below Denver) is
gradually rising and is now from one to
six feet deep over thousands OF acres of
grain, which will be entirely DESTROYED.
The high water has stopped all control of
irrigating bitches. and they are bursting
out and flooding the higher lands.