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<br />the floods that will come next year or later." The Central City <br />Weekly Register Call headed a July 19, 1910 article "A Disastrous <br />Flood." On August 5, 1910, "Flood Number Two" - The Most Destructive <br />One So Far This Season" and "Black Hawk Made To Suffer to a Greater <br />Extent Than For Many Years" were used. The front page of the <br />Friday, August 5, 1910, issue states the following: <br /> <br />Just a week ago yesterday this section suffered from <br />the heaviest rain storm of the season, and yesterday <br />we had a repetition, but on a much larger scale. <br /> <br />At the flume between the Quiller and Gabardi properties, <br />the water came down "forty miles a minute" and with <br />force enough to batter down a stone wall. The stream <br />when it came out of the flume looked to be ten feet <br />high, and washed out the street to a depth of several <br />feet. <br /> <br />Postmaster Holbrook was compelled to hand letters and <br />papers to his patrons by using a fish line and pole. <br /> <br />Chase Gulch washed in and out its whole length and <br />rocks almost as large as a house are scattered everywhere. <br /> <br />John Stroehle was putting down a plank in front of <br />the (Stroehle Building) to turn the water when a wave <br />some ten feet high came d0wn the street. He saw it <br />just in time and escaped by breaking out a window sash <br />and climbing into the building, escaping by a back <br />door. The entire floor of the building is covered <br />with sand and mud to a depth of several feet, his office <br />wrecked and many important papers lost and destroyed. <br /> <br />On February 27, 1942, an article in the Central City Weekly Register <br />Call sums up the trouble that these annual deluges caused to <br />the conununity. <br /> <br />Floods were a common occurrence before the current <br />flume was constructed. They cost the city thousands <br />of dollars, besides the lives of several persons on <br />different occassions. After one of these disasters <br />it would be days before teams and wagons could get <br />through the streets. Hugh rocks and debris of all <br />kinds filled the road; sidewalks had to be replaced <br />and windowlights put in. <br /> <br />During a period of less than 3 weeks in July 1975, three rainstorms <br />in a row caused considerable damage in Black Hawk. <br /> <br />9 <br />