Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1921-06-11
HAVOC BY FLOODS
Large Area of Colorado Hard Hit by Cloud
bursts and Sweeping Flood Waters.
Many Lives Lost

Denver indicate the following conditions
at outlying towns.
AT LaFayette-Eutire town under two
feet Of water; many residences and bust,
ness buildings ruined; damage heavy
communication cut off.
At Longmont-Three feet of water in
Main street; communication cut off;
breaking Of irrigation bitches principal
cause.
At Berthoud-Crop damage and bust
ness section inundated.
AT Lovelaud- Two reservoirs, the
south side and the Ryan gulch, brok {
saturday morning. The Hllsboro dam,
1--WE miles east, also broke, the concrete
head gates being washed entirely away.
Fen thousand acres Of farm land near
Johnston are inundated Damage will
run into hundreds of thousands Of dol
lars. Colorado and Southern railroad
| tracks washed away.
At Marshall-M Marshall dam still hold.
ing, but residents in the valley have
been ordered to seek places Of safety.
At Snperior-Colorado and Southern
tracks washed out; citizens fed to safety
by means of row boats.
Al Greeley-All eastbound trains on
Chicago, Burlington u Quincy railroad
ietoured on account of floods
At Fredrick-Town under three feet
Of water
At Decona-Railroad bridge washed
out
AT Boulder-Iuterurban car service to
Denver paraized. Impossible run cars
for Eve or six days, according to c. W
Richards, general agent for the Inter
urban system at Denver.
From all over the stricken area which
embraces all that part of the state lying
east of the Rocky mountains, come re.
ports Of homes washed away, people by
the hundreds fleeing to higher lands,
thousands of head Of livestock drowned
and millions Of dollars damage done to
crops and property. Old residents of
Pueblo say the food is the worst ever
known in that section. Early estimates
Of the damage in Pueblo alone fixes the
hgure at more than $4,000,00O. A dis
patch to the Denver and Rio Grande
railEead officers from its operator
at LaTkspur, gave the operators opinion
that there had been considerable loss
Of life and property" at Pueblo. At
tredrick, Colo, three feet of water in
the main street is reported; at Greeley,
Fort Collins and Loveand all wires are
down and the towns are without power.
Between Denver and Boulder a large
area of farm land is inundated and the
damage is estimated at 100000. Houses
were swept away at Lafayette and hun.
dreds of head Of livestock were drowned
when Coal creek went over its banks.
At Marshall all night long the residents
remained up and prepared to flee, with
bomb signals, in fear that the great dam
of the Farmers Reservoir and Irriga-
ton company, three miles above the
town and which was reported in a
weakened condition, would break.
Water in the union station at Pueblo,
flooded by waters from the Arkansas
river, is receeding, according to a brief
telegram received at the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad company from it's
operator at Pueblo, who fed the mess
age from Larkspur, Colo, sixty miles
south of Denver. All wire communica-
ton out of Pueblo has been cut oil since
last night. The message said the water
reached its high mark at Pueblo at ten
o'clock Friday night, when there was
nine feet six inches in the union depot
All lights and telephones were out of
service. Parts Of Pueblo are badly piled
up with driftwood and derailed railroad
equipment, according to the message.
The message said the downtown section
of Pueblo was covered with two feet of
mud.