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disaster was not repeated here Tuesday night. The greater part of the water causing the flood came out of the creeks west of here; Sand Creek, Grape, Copper gulch and Currant creek each furnished their quota to swell the volume of the flood in the Arkansas River. All of these f1oodsconverged near the eastern portal of the Royal Gorge and swept over the banks of the river wlth irresistable force, converting all of the low lands adjacent to thern into lakes of varying depth and washing away the soil where there was a possibility of a cur- rent. Fields of corn, celery and other fannandgarden produce were either laid flat upon the ground, orcov- eredwithmud and silt. Untold acres of good soil was washed into the river and mingled with ltswaters, to be later precipitated and deposited along it course, miles to the eastward. its nOmlal flow. It came down in a ~eri table wall and its roar could be heard for a great distance. Hundreds of people left their homes and went to the river bank to wi tness the unusua 1 spectacl e. The ~ iaduct between Third and Fourth streets and other points of vantage were crowded with spectators, who had gathered thereto watch the flood. Water covered the yards of the Santa Fe Railroad company at the foot of Fourth street and surged around its station, which was an island in a great sea of swirling water. A part of the floor Of the Santa Fe station was under water and the platfonnsand track around it were submerged. It is dfffjcul t at thi s itme to e~en appro~imate the loss to the cQlmlunity frail the flood, but it i s bel1e~ed that $100,000 would be a conservative estimate. The Libby, MCNf"n ,\ Libby c(Jllpany's pickling plant and interests here were damage<1, ltw.'ls stated this morning, to the extent of perhaps $lS,OOO. Other finns and indi~idual s al so suffered heavily. Hardly a gardener in the Hot Springs addition escaped. Their losses run from a few hundreds efdollars into many times that amount. The loss fr(Jllcelery a1onewil1 probably go as high as $20,000. The loss te the gardeners from other crops, it 1sbelieved, will be as much more. It is reported that thf" loss of two individual gardeners from celery alone will reaCh $14,000; each of them sustaining about the same degree of dareage. The damage to furniture, ca..~ts and other property in pdvate hones will be large, but the..e is noway of computing theilll1eunt. Such a ..ainfall within the small space of time on the watershed of the Arkansas dver and its trioutariesas fell la~ Tuesday afternoon cannot be remembered by the oldest inhabitants. It amounted to hundreds of thous- ands of tons and swept eve..ything before it. Imlense quantltiesof sand and boulders were washed down from the mountains into the ..i~er, or were deposited in great banks alongs its course. The water rose 14 feetaoove A trip through the flood-swept districts in the Hot Springs addition, South Canon and In the ~jclnity of Vine street, below the Ninth st..eet bridge early this morning gave the writer an excellent tdea of the ravages of the high water of Tuesday. Everywhere a sorry spec- taCle was presented. Fences were either o~erturned, or bad been made a lodgement for drift and debris of all character. Lawns were either washed away, or were covered wtth sand and mud. newer gardens were either destroyedoflaidflatbythewate". Gardentruck,upon Which the rancher had been depending for a living, has been either swept away or seriously damaged. In all of these neighborhoods the f1 ood ~ictums were ei ther cleaning their oomes of the mud wIlich had been carried into them, or were cleaning their premises of the drift- wood and trash left upon them by receding waters. Household effects of all description were drying in the sunshine and people fo.. tbe most part were wading about in the mud of thei..dooryards to..estore the surround- ings to a condition of normalcy. Itwasabigtask,but was being bra~ely met. The Canon Crystal Ice company's plant, the Oiamond Fire 'Brick cClllpany's plant, the au~11l fary pumping plant of the waterworks near the foot of First street, in addi- tion to dozens of private homes along the river, were inundated. The engine roQ'!l of the pumping plant had eight feet of water in it this morning. All of the machlnery was submerged and was damaged to a consider. able e~tent. Fortunately, but 1 ittle mud was deposi ted in the bullding, which will pennlt the use of the machi- nery for pumping operations on short notice. . .. CANON CITY OAILY RECORD CANON CITY, FREMONT COUNTY, COLORADO THURSDAY,AUGUST3,1933 HUGE D~M~GE IS CAUSED HERE BY FLOOD IN RIVER Practically e~ery garden in the Hot Spdngs addition was flooded,andThu..sdayseveralinchesofmudcove..edmuch of the land. Owners repo..tthat they '00111 be able to save a pa..t of thet.. produce, but that much of it was destroyed. Se~eral 9lIall garrlens between Fourth and Ninth streets were inundated and owners reported 75 percent loss. 10 11