Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-16
z DEAD, ) HURT
AS RESULT OF
DENVER FLOOD
Cloudburst Sweeps Down
Shallow Branch Of Cher
ry Creek Flooding Four
Mile Area; Loss$1, 100000
ENTIRE BUSINESS
DISTRICT FLOODED

Area Under Water A Miles
Square and Includes the
Heart of Wholesale and
Warehouse Section.
Denver, Colo, July 15.-Two DEAD
nve injured, two missing and properly
damage of at least $2,0O0,0o0 were the
revised facts known at noon today IN
connection with last nights food.
The dead:
FRANK HILL.
MRS. LYDIA BICKFORD, aged 90
years.
The missing:
Zoe Wallace. ~ ~
Albert Clay.
The injured:
Mrs. j. G. Stafford, Lulu Turner and
Mary Higgins cut and bruised.
Fred Emerson, dislocated shoulder.
Rudolph Rian, police officer, nearly
drowned while trying to rescue
woman.
While the foregoing list Of casuall-
ties is believed to be practically COM
plete, accurate figures on property
damage are still incomplete and may
run considerably higher Individual
L estimates vary greatly ard run az }Eign
as IS 900, 900. Practically the entire
wholesale and warehouse districts
were flooded
The cloud burst swept down the
shallow bed OF Cherry Creek and
through the city into the South Platt
river last night. At daylight hundreds
of men, women and children had been
gathered into the city auditorium to
be fed and cared for by the city. Hun
dreds OF homes we're in ruins. Mayor
Arnold with volunteer relief parties
had directed the rescue work through
out the night AS telegraph COM
munications from points up the creek
was renewed many reports of thrilling
rescues and great suffering were re-
ceived.
Cherry creek extends along the
northwest, west and south boundaries
OF Denver, and approximately four
square miles is under water.
The principal streets are under from
one to two feet of water. The union
depot is under almost three feet Of
water, and more than two hundred
~ hA ct 1op
the torrent began, were taken out on
trucks.
The water rose in the railroad yards,
north Of the depot to depth of sew
eral feet, extinguishing the fires in
several locomotives, Not train has
been sent out of Denver since the
into the yards.
The smaller dwellings along the
creek collapsed like paper sacks, un-
der the first onslaught Of the wall Of
water that swept down the creek.
Mayor Arnold was early on the scene
with most Of the fire and police de-
partments and thousands of volunteer
Ing citizens. Every available wagon
was pressed into service. Dazed fam.
lilies huddled in yards, marooned on
roofs, mingled appeals with the voices
OF their rescuers.
Heroic Rescue Work Done.
Hundreds of spectators cut off from
retreat by the focd before they real
lied their danger we're next rescued by
volunteers who drove into the food
and carried them ashore Wagon after
wagon was driven into the food to re.
turn again and again with women and
children in drenched night dresses.
Those who insisted on saving effects
were dragged from their homes.
John A Quigly, his wife, mother and
baby were the first rescued.
His mother, 60 years old stumbling
back into the current, had to be
rescued again. Fred Oleson, 8 years
old, stood alone on the bank, crying
for his mother and baby sister. He
had saved himself by swimming.
.'We'll get them said Mayor
Arnold
A wagon plunged through the food
to the Olson home, where three rescu-
ers entered and returned with the
mother and baby. A squad Of patrol
men rescued d score from house tops
on Market street and hurried them in
a hay wagon to the auditorium.
Practically the entire residence dis
trict from Broadway east to the city
limits for blocks on each side and from
Broadway to the Platt river between
Thirteenth street and Seventh ave-
nue. are TIC feet deep in water this
morning, TIE area is about four
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