New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-16
DAMAGE At DENVER
MAY REACH $5,OOO,OOO
Two Dead and 600 Made
Homeless Following
CIoudburSt.
MANY DARING RESCUES
Hundreds Being Fed and Cared
For in Auditorium-City
Recovering Rapidly
Few Missing.

Few Missing.
Denver July 1.-Two dead. FIVE In
jured. one missing and a property dam
age Of at least s2.OcO.Oco and possibly
100000 and six hundred made home
less were the facts known tonight in
connection with last nights flood. Frank
Hill and Mrs. Lydia Bickford. eighty-fve
years old, are dead, and Albert Clay Is
missing.
Accurate figures on property damage
still are incomplete but estimates run as
high az $4,000 Practically the entire
wholesale and factory districts We're
flooded.
A pathetic incident became known to-
day in connection with the death Of Mrs.
Bickford. The aged woman lived alone in
little shack. Last night Joseph Bick-
ford. son, visited his mothers home
after the storm broke. Rapping loudly
and receiving no response, he turned to
! rescuing other unfortunates. thinking his
mother had been rescued by neighbors.
Early to-day Bickford. having found no
trace of his mother. returned 10 the little
home The aged woman had been
/ drowned
The body of Frank Hill was found
/ buried in sand in the Denver & Rio
Grande yards, having been washed sew
eral blocks by the torrent.
At daylight hundreds OF men. women
| and children had been gathered into The
| city auditorium 10 he fed and cared for.
/ Twenty-Five chilren whose parents arc
/ missing are in charge of police matr0n.
Hundreds Of homes are In ruins. Mayor
/ Arnold with volunteer relief parties. had
directed the rescue work throughout the
/ night When telegraph communication
from points up the creek was renewed
many tales OF thrilling rescues and great
suffering were received. The smaller
! dwelling houses along the creek collapsed
/ like paper under the first rush Of water
that swept down Cherry Creek and
through the city into South Platte River
Mayor Arnold was early on the scene
with most of the fire and police depart
ments and thousands Of citizens. Ever
available wagon was pressed into service
Rescued by Volunteers.
Dazed families were huddied in yards
! and marooned on roofs. Hundreds Of
spectators cut off from retreat by The
food before they realized their danger
were rescued by volunteers. Wagon aftcl
wagon was driven into the flooded dis
trict 10 return with women ana children
in drenched night clothes. Those who in
sisted on saving their effects WEE
dragged from their homes.
John A. Quigley, his wife. mother en'
baby were the first rescued. His mother
sixty years old. stumbling sack into The
current. had to be rescued n second time
Fred Olse eight years old. stood alon
on the bank crying for his mother an
baby sister. lie had saved himself b.
swimming.
Wen get them" said Mayor Arnold.
A wagon plunged through the food t.
the Olsen home. where three rescuers re
turned with the mother and baby. !
squad Of patrolmen rescued score from
housetops in Market street. and hurried
them in a hay wagon 10 the auditorium.
Practically the entire residential distric
from Broadway east to the city limit
for blocks on each side and from Broad
way TO the Platte River between 1871
street and Seventh avenue. are two fee
deep in water this morning.
Tonight Denver was fast assumin
normal conditions.
About fifteen thousand men are repair
ing the damage done by the food al
army Of city employees and individual
are clearing away the wreckage Of build
ings and bridges; rescuers are still search
ing the banks OF Cherry Creek for furthe
possible victims and the city fire depart
ment is aiding in the pumping out q
flooded Easements in the downtown whole
sale districts Throughout the day Il
railroads entering Denver brought add
tional laborers from this state and Kan
sas. Hundreds Of unemployed in Denve
have received work on private proper
ties which were demolished or badly dam
aged.
Break of Dam Reported.
The reported break in Castlewoo
dam, emanating from an unknow
source about noon to-day, caused con
1 SteIUdIlON III Tie ClAgs anu pei SDiip ANU
the lowlands were warned. Scores O
families moved before authentic infoI
nation came that there was no DANCE
of the dam bursting.
Had ii not been for a note Of warnin
sounded over the telephone from an IN
known source to the City Hall just be
fore the crest OF the flood reached tn
city many could not have escaped dealt
Many fled in their night clothes, an
that many more were caught In tn
flood while sleeping is the general be
lief
The crest Of the cloudburst was pre-
coded by storm with wind velocity o
forty-eight miles an hour at o'cloc
Yesterday afternoon. In two hours har
rain the streets and sewers were flooded
the tramway lines were out OF commits
sion. hundreds were marooned In III
parks around the city and fifty miles {
city roadway was destroyed. Then cam
lull Of four hours. during which IN
car lines were returning to schedule.
Water Many Feet High.
At about $3.50 last night the cry o
warning Of the coming food reached III
City Hall and Mayor Arnold. within
ut II