Evening star., 1935-05-31
a DIE, MANY LOST.
.|NCOLORADOFL0OD'
Hundreds Homeless and
Property Damage Mounts
Into Six Figures.
nv fhs Assnciafed Press

BY the Associated Press.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Nav 81
Two flood deaths were reported this
morning from Glendo, Wyo., as the
first body Of the estimated IA drowned
in this vicinity Yesterday was found
and a huge new threat of high water
developed in the extreme northeastern
section of Colorado.
A ranch woman, Mrs. Willis Strack-
len, and her young son were reported
swept away by torrent that followed
a cloudburst that deluged a wide area
last night in :he vicinity of Glendo.
The father and several other children
escaped
The body of Donald Cimino, 3S was
recovered near here. in Fountain
Creek a mile downstream from the
spot where he was swept yesterday
from his horse as he attempted to
rescue trucker caught in the swollen
stream.
Hundreds Homeless.
"Unprecedented,' was the oescrip-
ton of danger along the Platte given
by County Commissioner T. J. Moore
as he broadcast warnings to ranchers
to remove their families and live stock
from lowlands along the Platte from
Fort Morgan eastward.
Hundreds Of persons were homeless
and the porperty damage in Colorado
Springs. Pueblo and two small villages
north of here was estimated a. hun
dreds of thousands of dollars.
Emerging from a night of terror and
its most disastrous flood in Is years,
the harassed area took stock by day
light and saw that this eastern slope
city was the focal point of the waters
attack. Homes were swept away,
highway and railway bridges gone,
and communication, power and trans
portation paralyzed.
Denver Threatened.
Pueblo, scene of the 1920 flood dis
aster. escaped with some property
damage but no deaths. Denver feared
that turbulent Cherry Creek would
rampage, but the crest of black tor
rent roared into the South Platte
River without flooding the city.
Greatest concern today was centered
on the still isolated community of
Kiowa and its neighbor, Ebert, from
which little news had emerged, but
which suffered the brunt of two huge
torrents originating in a cloudburst
on the crest of a watershed, which
sent part OF the deluge down each side
of the drainage
Efforts were being made today to
reach Kiowa by airplane, by horse
back and or foot. Bridges on all roads
approaching the village we're wrecked
Communication lines were down.
Twelve persons, 10 of them unidenti-
fed, we're on the death list here. The
known dead are Mrs. Emma B. Clark,
So, and Lee Cimino, 35, of Ivywood, a
suburb.
Six Reported Missing.
Five other deaths were charged to
floods which swept Northeastern Colo
rado earlier in the week.
Six persons were reported missing
here. They were Mr. and Mrs. Her
man M. West and their two daugh-
ters, Esther Towsley and Mrs. Oscar
White. 30.
of two automobiles reported over
turned in washouts near Glendo, Wyo.,
were dispelled this morning. J. A.
Gerl, telegraph operator at Orin juno
ton, said the machines were enveloped
in the food but the occupants found
refuge.
The last word from Kiowa. Colo.
indicated about half of the town was
under water
At Ebert. a score of buildings
business establishments and residences
were reported washed away.
Crest Hits Pueblo.
An accurate estimate of the toll
of life taken here yesterday may
never be possible, officers said. be-
cause of the unlikelihood that some,
if any. of the bodies would be re-
covered.
1 ne crest Oh tne HOOO pdSStu Oh
last night and struck Pueblo, Colo.
where a large ward building at the
State Hospital was torn apart.
The city. victim of the disastrous
flood of June 3, 1920, in which 81
persons lost their lives. was prepared
for the emergency. Fifty-four pa
tients in the ward building had been
taken to safety just an hour before
the food struck. Three residences