Semi-weekly herald., 1909-09-09

in some fifteen or twenty places be
tween Monero and Ignacio. a distance
OF some sixty-two miles Bridge 419
near Allison IS ont From twenty to
twenty-five feet of the approaches to
the Pine river bridge Is washed out.
AS the crsw is working this way and
has not been over the entire track
yet. il is impossible to say how great
the damage is
About noon today the crew were
called for the train stalled al Trim
BILE and went to the Springs in car,
riage. They took mp wreoking out
fit and went to work TO fix up the
wreck this afternoon.
The switch engine employed on the
smelter work has been laid off.
The track on the Siiverton railroad
between the Bovee ranch and the Fire
baugh place is badly washed out. The
rails are loose for most of the dis
tance, and in some places they have
been moved out for distance oi
twenty feet.
Arrangements have been made fol-
an overland service between Durango
and Silverton, while the railroad is ou
of commission The Dowd brothers
will run livery rigs from Silverton IL
lockwood and j. w Jarvis VIII make
| the trip from Durango to Rockwood
This scheme will be OF great advan
tage to travellers, and will keep Tho
| two towns In communication.
A force of men repairing track ant
| bridge up Lightner creek expect t.
be able to run The stalled locomotive
down in a couple of days, but 1t viii
| probably be week before trains ar,
running to Mancos.
SILVERTON, Sept. Rain, raii
and then rain This gives the situa
lion in and around Silverton. So ia
as actual damage by high water yer.
little has been done. The Animas Il
nigh, but no bridges have been wash
ed out, the only bridge going out be
ing across Mineral creek leading Il
the Little Dora mine.
The railroad situation Is distressing
| Report Is to effect that one railroa,
bridge is out below Silverton, that
slide CT rock and dirt covers the tract
thirty feet deep for some distance an,
that the new track at the old slide ha
been washed out.
The report that Ouray was floode,
and greatly damaged by the storm o
Sunday is unfounded. News from ther
is that the high water did not caus
any damage.
DENN l.R, Sept. 6.-The town of Pla
cerville in the center of San Migue
county, which was flooded by th
breaking of Trout lake dam last night
has not been heard from for owe
eighteen hours and 1t is feared ha
been destroyed.
Half million dollars damage ha
been done in this section The seconi
flood occurred this morning An IN
known man, believed to be from Der
yer, was drowned in Dry creek, Boul
der county.
Rain is general in all parts of tn
state. Crops are washed out and dc
stroyed by the heavy downpour Raj
road traffic is crippled. many mile
of track being carried away. Wagon
and railroad bridges are destroyed.
The foregoing is, in brief the resul
of the unprecedented storm that ha
ragged in Colorado during the last fol
ty-eight hours. 1t will be severa
days before the full extent of the dan
age will be known.
TELLURIDE, Sept 6.-With tn
towns of Placerville and Newmire /
the center of the flooded district. eI
tlrely cut off from communication
grave fears are entertained here fo
the safety of the residents of thes
camps. 1t Is believed that the town
have been destroyed. in which even
many lives may have been lost.
PUEBLO, Sept. 6.--All records fo
September rainfall in twenty-fou
hours was broken here when the 20,
ernment yesterday announced that 30
inches of rain fell for the twenty-fou
hours ending at II a. m.