The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-16
HEAVY DAMAGE
BY CL0UDBURST
MILLION AND HALF DOLLARS
DAMAGE DONE TO PROPERTY
IN DENVER, COLO.
MANY DEATHS ARE REPORTED
Preceded by Wind and Rain, Terrific
DoWnpour Floods Cedar Creek at
Night, Sweeping All Before Its
Torrents.

DenVer, July 15.-SeVeral hundred
men, women and children are home
less, number of deaths are reported
and million and half dollars worth
of property is in ruins here today be-
cause of a cloudburst, which precipi-
tated the overf1owing of Cherry Creek
through Denver last night.
The big city auditorium today is
a refugee camp. At dawn 500 of the
homeless were gathered there, and
were being fed by the city. Twenty
Ave children from months to years
old, whose parents may have been
lost, are in the care of a poll ;e ma
tron.
After directing relief and rescue
work all night, Mayor Arnold organ
lied relief parties at dawn to begin
the search of the wrecked dwellings
and other debris heaped in the cur
rent Of the South Platte river.
The chamber of commerce opened a
relief subscription this morning. The
flood is without parallel in the his
tory of the city. Had it not been foir
warning sounded over the telephone
from an unknown source to the city
hall, just before the crest of the flood
reached the city, many could not have
escaped death. Many fled in their
night clothes and that many more
were caught in the flood while sleep
ing is the general belief.
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preceded by a storm, with wind
velocity of 4S miles an hour, at 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
After two hours hard rain the
streets and sewers were flooded, the
tram lines were out of commission,
hundreds were marooned in the parks
around the city, and fifty miles of
city roadway was destroyed. Then
came lull of four hours, during
which the car lines were returning to
schedule.
About $50 last night the cry of
warning of the coming flood reached
the city hall, and Mayor Arnold. With
in thirty minutes wall of water, many
feet high, descended on the city from
Cherry Creek, which flows through
the country club grounds, passing
within five blocks of the city hall,
the county hospital, the West Side
Court, out to the South Platte, five
miles distant.
1t ripped out concrete walls that
confined it for two miles, destroyed
bridges and hundreds of small dwell
ings, driving the occupants from their
homes or to roofs, from which they
were rescued by members of the po-
lice and fire departments.
Reaching the Union station the tor
rent rushed three feet deep through
the yards, putting locomotive fires
out, marooning several hundred pas
sengers, and closing the city to in
coming or outgoing traffic. In half an
hour miles of tramway lines were put
out of commission, while sewer, I'M
sdermined, broke and flooded Capitol
Hill, the aristocratic section of the
city.
A general call to physicians met
WIN speedy response. Inc celldrS VI
downtown stores and hotels were
flooded. .
This morning the flood was at a
receding point, and the parties or
ganized during the night by Mayor
Arnold were prepared to begin the
work of surveying the flood damage
and aiding its victims.
When telegraphic communication
from points up the creek was re-
newed, many tales of thrilling res
cue were received. Temporary suf-
fering among flood victims in gene
raj. The smaller dwellings along the
creek collapsed like paper sacks un-
der the first rush of water that swept
down the creek.
Dazed families were huddled m
wards and marooned on roofs. Hun
dreds of spectators, cut off from re-
treat by the food before they real
fzed their danger, were rescued by
volunteers.
Wagon after wagon was driven into