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<br /> <br />Estes Park Trail- Gazette: July21. 2006 -Page 4c <br />Circulation: 5.161 <br /> <br />'V'\.t7d <br /> <br />Patrol. They remained in the building, <br />watching the w~ter rise. Suddenly. a debris- <br />filled tidal wave picked up the entire struc- <br />ture and folded it into its dark, churning <br />interior. No one survived. <br />A 25-foot high wall.oC water was created <br />when the hydroelectric supply dam burst <br />above Cedar Cove. As the Rood progressed <br />down the canyon, its intensity was increased <br />by man-made structures. The large volume of <br />debris-filled water backed up against bridges <br />until theY collapsed, amplifying the effect of <br />the RoOd. Complicating matters were the <br />many propane tanks dislodged by the Rood. <br />They hissed from the release of gas and acted <br />as battering rams, adding to the destructive <br />Coree, <br />Witnesses reported vehicles Roating by <br />with their headlights on and families inside <br />Crantically waving for help. Their occupants <br />were later counted among the dead. <br />When dawn came on Aug. 1, thousands of <br />trees that once lined the banks and the splin- <br />tered remains of homes and businesses were <br />left in the wake of the Rood. Hundreds of <br />twisted pieces of metal that were once vehi- <br />cles lined the canyon. Worst oC all were the <br />bodies buried under debris or impaled on tree <br />branches. <br />Tales Crom survivors began to pour out of <br />the canyon Saturday night, but it wasn't <br />until the next day when most of them were <br />rescued or managed to leave on their own, <br />that the magnitude of the story began to <br />unfold. <br />"The water came roaring down and kept <br />moving back and forth," said Mrs. Jack Rob. <br />bins, Trail. Gazette , Aug. 4 1976. Robbins <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br />$ <br /> <br />-4 <br /> <br />