The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26
In Several Instances Whole
Families Perish in the
Swirling Waters.
sICKENING SCENES IN DEBRIS
AT MORRISON.
Traffic Blocked in Many Localities
and Huge Bowlders Cover Rail-
road Tracks.


downpour of last night in a few minutes
caused such washouts on several railroad
lines that even with the number of men
and the amount of material at hand traffic
cannot be resumed until some time next
week.
On the Denver and Rio Grande Railway,
between Salt Creek and San Carlos, below
Pueblo, for distance of fourteen miles
the track has been undermined in many
places and traffic there will not be moving
until Monday.
On the Florence and Cripple Greek it
will require a weeks time to repair the
damages, consisting of washouts and rock
slides on the new high line. Dynamite
must be used to break some of the bowl
ders which rolled down the mountain
sides upon the high line. Cripple Creek
people will do their travelling by stage for
the ensuing week.
The Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf, in
the vicinity of Golden, has several days
work to do before trains can be run. The
damage was confined to the vicinity of
Golden, no trouble of Importance occur
ring along the route either TO Georgetown
or to Central City. The cloudburst evil
IDENTIFY was most severe on the mountains
south of Golden and between that city and
the resort village of Morrison.
Another heavy downpour occurred this
afternoon. In ten minutes 10 of an inch
of water fell in Denver, and streetcar traf-
fic was suspended for half hour, while
the food, mixed with hail, poured down,
quite filing the paved streets from curb TO
curb. The storm was also heavy at Golden
and along the mountain west, but no rain
fell elsewhere in the State. The total rain
fall to-day was 1.50 inches, but the effect
of the food is due to the speed of it's
downpour. Where confined in canyons,
as at Morrison, the water rnshes down in
one mighty wave, sweeping everything
before it, and subsiding almost as quickl y
as it fell.
MORRISON, CoLo., July 25.-A second
food this afternoon resulted in completely
paralyzing all efforts to recover the bodies
of those lost in the debris of last nights
floods. The people are worn out with the
excitement and labor of struggling amid
the rubbish brought down the canyon by
the great wall of water which last night
Just at dark surprised the camping iami-
lies along the road above town. at dark
tonight ten bodies had been recovered
and identified. The others are either
buried from sight in the sand or have
been carried further down the stream,
and probably into the Platte Rivel. Re-
ports from up the canyon bring the cheer
ing news that none of the people there
camping were lost.
The list of the dead from last nights
food is as follows:
Mrs. Moses Miller and three children of
Morrison.
Child OF J. G. Longnecker of Morrison.
Thomas McGough, aged q, OF Dayton,
Ohio.
Mrs. A. S. Proctor, 80 years old, wife of
A. S. Proctor of Denver.
Robert James Proctor, years.
Grace Proctor. years.
Edith Proctor, years
Mrs. T. F. Casey, 3S years, Denver.
James Casey, II years.
Eddie Casey, 10 years.
Mamie Casey, years.
Anna Casey, years.
Clara Casey, years.
Mrs. Anthony HERES, 81 years, Denver.
Eugene HERES, years.
Mabel HERES, years.
Josephine HERES. years.
Carroll HERES, years.
Annie Hansen, 20 years, servant of Mrs.
Proctor.
Miss Della Horner.
Miss Mary Horner.
Miss Josephine Holme.
Mrs. Horace NJ. Warren.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. NJ. Warren Jr.. who are
well known in Brooklyn society. where
their relatives and friends reside, came UT
from Denver yesterday on the afternoon
train to spend Saturday and Sunday at the
Horner ranch, up Mount Vernon canyon
They were met at the station of the Lake
wood Railroad at Golden by the Misse:
Horner and Miss Josephine Holme, also O.
Denver, and started for the ranch. The
food overlook them and the four ladie.
were drowned, their bodies being found
this morning buried under brush anc
sand, about 200 feet from the place wher.
the water struck the carriage. Mr.. War
rem was swept away and his body wa.
lodged in the branches os a tree, where h.
was afterward found terribly bruised bu
alive.
The bodies of the four women were re
covered to-day and sent to Denver with
the injured survivor. Miss Holme is
daughter of the manager of the Denve
Water Company, and the Misses Horne
daughters of Judge J. W. Horner, also o
Denver. Seventeen persons in cabins ant
tents in Bear Creek canyon above towI
constituted one party. One of the Procto
children was rescued by the heroic effort
of two young men. who braved the foot
when at its highest point to save the child
She says the water came while they wer
all in the house and all were swept away
The HERES family has become extinct
the father and husband having died few
months ago.
The Casey family were also in this party
The Hansen girl was servant Mrs
Miller lived here, her husband being en-
gagged in mining about and was not
home at the time. The Longnecker famil,