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<br />_.a.-____..;. -."- <br /> <br />"The biggest loss. no doubt. was the extensive damage to the highway <br />in Golden Gate canyon...." <br /> <br />Flood of June 7. 1948 - Rocky Mountain News..June B, 1948 <br /> <br />HEADLINE: "Gol den Fl ash Flood Damage Near $500.000" <br /> <br />"A cloudburst in the mountains northwest of Golden sent a 25 foot <br />"wall of water flashing down normally dry Tuckers Gulch through the <br /> <br />northern section of Golden early yesterday causing damage estimated <br /> <br />at between a quarter and a half million dollars." <br /> <br />"Although no one was reported killed or injured seriously, three <br /> <br />.small houses and two railway and three automobile bridges were <br /> <br />. washed away, basements flooded and lawns and streets covered with <br />tons of silt and debris." <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br /> <br />"The stream in the canon (sic). normally only a trickle, soon was out of <br />its banks and washed out state highway 58 in several places. <br /> <br />Another wall of water poured down Crawford's Gulch into Golden Gate Canon <br />(sic) and then on to the outskirts of Golden where a third normally dry <br />gulch, Christman (s1c) Gulch, poured additional water into the stream. <br /> <br />The water from the three streams poured into Tucker's Gulch and backed <br />up behind a bridge carrying the railway spur to the Golden Fire Brick <br />Co. plant, north of town. <br /> <br />When the bridge was washed out, the wall of water swept on down, carry- <br />ing out the second railway bridge, the three automobile bridges and the <br />main gas line of the Colorado Wyoming Gas Co...." <br /> <br />"Old timers in Golden were in disagreement as to whether yesterday's <br />flood was worse than the one in 1896." <br /> <br />_ Jefferson County Republican, June 9, 1948 <br /> <br />". ..Although two houses were swept from their foundations and dissolved <br />in the roaring torrent and many thousands.of dollars damage was done <br />