Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-07-30


every body unprcpared.
GOLDEN, Col, July ga cloudburst
Friday night did an immense amount
of damage. Three lives are known to
hc lost and thousands of dollars worth
of property lost. The dead are Mrs.
j. L. Edwards, A. A. johnson and Mrs.
A. A. johnson.
James bishop, so years old, was car
ricd half mile down stream and final
ly caught tree, from which he was
rescued some hours later. Ills terrible
experience has unsettled his reason.
The loss of property can not be esti-
mated at this time The Union Pacific,
Denver & Gulf railway loses a bridge
and other property. The light and
water plants of the city are disabled.
At : p. m. Creenish-colorcd cloud
was noticed hanging above Mt. Look
out. Inside of ten minutes the worst
storm which has ever happened in this
section began. The storm continued
with undated fury for about half an
hour. As soon as it was safe to
venture out citizens, with the
fear that all was flooded near
the creek, ran toward the stream
and saw the turbulent waters carry
ing on its surface all kinds of debris,
including barns, cabins, tents, bridges,
etc. Many narrow escapes are report
ed. The Denver, Lakewood & Golden
railroad tracks were washed out below
the town. A large number of men were
living i'm cabins above and below the
town, engaged in placer mining, and it
is feared that the sudden rise has swept
some of them away.
No trains will be able to get up the
canyon for some days. This will cut
off the towns of Central city, George
tawn, Idaho Springs and other mining
camps from communication with the
outside world.
The water came down in perfect
wall, sweeping everything before it.
1t is reported that there were several
people on the Ford-strcet bridge at the
time it was torn from its piling and
swept down the stream. During the
time it raincd, it seemed as though the
place would be delugcd.
Golden lies at the end of n canyon,
where it dcbouchcS into the plains.
The water caught by half dozen
mountains came into the streets and
courscd through them, taking every
thing of a movable character with it.
There are reports of bodies seen in the
creek.
Powders three feet in diameter were
rolled down on the Gulf road. Sand
covers the track to a depth OF three
feet in the city. The new bridge built
two years ago by the Lakewood rail-
road was completely washed out, as
were all the bridges across the creek.
Reports are out that the whole coun
try east of here was flooded and the
crops cut to pieces by hail which fell
during the storm.
DENVER, Col, July 25.-Satu rday
morning terrible state of affairs was
revealed at Morrison. Golden, Contra
City and other points in Colorado wher,
Friday nights storm ragged the fierccst
Dead bodies, horribly mangled, were
diScoyercd, and at o o'clock 80 dead ha,
been recovered, of which Il are il
Morrison alone. Trans left Denver
tdTIN NdlCItuN AtlhtnR WIN Cpihu'
for the stricken district.
MORRISON. Col, July 27.-A secont
flood Saturday afternoon resulted il
completely Taralyzing all efforts to re
cover the bodies of those lost in the de
bris of Friday nights flood. The pcopl,
are worn ont with the excitement ant
labor of struggling amidst the rubbish
4.
wall u, water which Friday nigh
just at dark surprised the camp
ing families along the road allow
town. At dark Saturday night >
bodies had been recovered an'
identified. The others are either buric,
from sight in the SIND or have beer
carried further down the sire m, an'
possibly into the Platte river. Report
from up the canyon bring the cheering
news that none of the people thcr'
camping were lost.
The list of dead follows: Mrs Moses
Miller and three children, of Morrison
child of j. c. Longeneckcr, of Morri
son; Thomas McGough, aged 81, q
Dayton, O.; Mrs. a. :. Proctor, 50 years
old; Robert James Proctor. ) years
Grace Proctor, Z years; Edith Proctor
> years; Mrs. Il. +. Casey, IS years
James Casey. Il years; Eddie Casey, II
years; Mamie Casey, years; AIMS
Casey, years; Clara Casey, years
Mrs Anthony HERES, 81 years; Eugen,
HERES, years; Mabel HERES. -.
years; Josephine HERES, O years; Car
rol HERES, years. Annie Hansen, q
years; Miss Della Horner, Miss Mary
liorner, Miss Josephine Holme. Mrs
Horace VI. Warren. all OF Denver
Mr.. and Mrs. II. NJ. Warren, jr, who
are well known in brooklyn society
where their relatives and friends re
side, came up from Denver Friday OF
the afternoon train to spend SATURDAY.
and Sunday at the Horncr ranch, NJ
Mount Vernon canyon. They wer,
met Mt the station of the Lakewood
rail- oad at Golden by the Misses Horn
er and Miss Josephine IIolme, also o.
Denver, and started for the ranch
The flood overlook them and the foul
ladies were drowned. Their bodie,
were found Sunday morning buried
under brush and sand about 200 fee
from the place where the water STRUCK
the carriage. MIR. Warren wa.
swept away and his body was lodged
in the branches of a tree, where h,
was afterward found, terribly bruised
but alive
Miss Holme was the daughter of the
manager of the Denver Water Co., and
the Misses Homer were daughters Of
Judge j. w. Horner, also of Denver.
Seventeen persons in cabins and
tents in Bear Creek canyon, few mile:
above town, constituted one party.
One of the Proctor children was res
cued by the heroic efforts of two young
men who braved the flood when at It's
highest point to save the child. She
says the water came while they were
all in the house and were all swept
away.
The HERES family become extinct,
the father and husband having died a
few months ago. The Casey family
were alsT in this party. Mrs. Miller