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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Mud flood: 'like a freight train' l~dn.edrl"HlP"&.lJ with toM of .ilt, forcinc the dty &0 bypau ittl treatment ",eem .nd dump 111'" NW'se into the Roiarin&: Fork river until pealing crewI of ,hoY.len and buck.t bripdM COI.IkI dean the hqe tank and g.t It working again late Mond.y. AU in .U, City M.n. ager John We.t ..U:n:L.t- ed, the .torm Cliused .boull2 million i.a dam- age in GleDwood . Sprinp. But d.mag. did Dot .top in Gt.nllfood. de-. .pile leaN' amount. of rainfall in .urrouDding areu. At Mid-ConLinent Coal &r. Colle', Red.tone mine, mud and boulden ImUhed through .true- turu, au.iDe .xleDtlive damace. . Mid-COI1tinent vice pruideat Robert O.In- 111 Mid the COtDpaD,', b.lhhou.. &lid dietrid . office buildin&: WI" de- Iltr'oy4ld bJ boulden roll. iDe Dear the coolJu.oce , of Dutcb Creek and Coal Creek. The Oooding .lac ....bed out pan. of the road li.rWIlc the mine f.ciliUee with Hi&'h...., 18S. . , -, . Delanoy Hid, probab'iy would bti "in uce.. of 1.00,000. Other mud and rock .Iid.. were reported 011 McClure P... .,;IUtb of Redstone, iD GJ.nwood CanyOll, and on smaller county and priVlt.e fGllds through the are.. But the ereat.eat damage came in men- wood Spring_. where many residents, police. men and other cit,. em- ployees worked through_ out the night Sunda,. and ..rly Monday, acrapiDg up !.he tons of debri.. Tn. mott seyere dam.ge was caused ie the block between 21st and 2200 oe Bennett AYe. to homel owned by Jerry Fiegel, Clark Milli- ~, JuliUI Voight, Col- linaon, and Schick; at 211t Ind Bla.ke to the home oweed by Bill Si,- .OD, and at 26th aDd Blake to the home OWDed by M.ssaro. "It lOUnded like a b100minr freight &raiD comlDj: do,rtD the hill," Fiegel laid MOoday. When be heard it, he Mid, be looled out the 'wiDdow to He a wall of mud, pu.hing rod. ahead of it. He. and hi, .me had time only to get their cart. out of the I.rden-leyel rarage be. fOl"e the now hit their bo..o , It. piled up three and four feet deep at the front door, broke bate- meDt window., aDd de- pc>>ited about four feet in the bllemant. By Mon_ day aften:loon, FieKel -. GLENWOOD POLICE CHIEF Bob Halbert points out flood damage Monday after. noon 10 Gov, Richard Lamm. llad counted lOO wheel- barrow loadl from his basement alone. The force of the mud waa so intense that huge boulders, .ome as large as four feet in diameter, ""ere pushed along like marbles, until they came to rest against some- thing more substantial. Tbe preasure of the tons of mud built up against the had of Scbiclr.'s houN at first led to fears that the foundation of the 170,000 noulle had been cracked. After cre....s be- gaD acrapieg the mud from the ruined haw- ment !lwei, howeyer, it appeared that the foun- datiOD had rema.iDed in place. The basement, how- eyer, was fh'e feet deep in rocks and mud. Books floated in the ome. New furniture WII crushed under rOCKS. Behind Fiegel's house, one block down the hill on Blake Street, Sisson was up moat o( the night trying to build makeshift dillea at the rear of IUs house - which he moved into three weeli.s ago - to .top the mud. He could do nothing about protecting bis yard. What once wils an eight-foot sunlen patio was turned into an even- layer of mud, with a floating planter filled . with un~ched pansiea sticking up abOYe the alime. . As" the individual homeowners battled into the night to protect their homes, yard. and pos. senions, city crewli be- pn cleaning Itreett., 1i0000e of which were &eY' er.l feet deep in mud and rockl. In one of the worat rock slide arell, boul. ders bigger than (our (eet in diameter blocked the intera.ectioDS of Palmer aDd Blake 011 26th St., not far frOJn Massaro's hOUle, which Ilso received a balemeDt full of mud, along with other damage to vehicle. and appliances. Seyeral house. on Blake AYe., DOI"th of Mlllsaro's houle - o~ car was up to ita door. handles in a mud.fiIled garage - luffered mod- erate damage from the water Ind mud, Ind the Glen VaUsy Nursing Home at 23rd aDd Blake was left with big depos- ita of mud in yard areu. The mud did Dot Hr- ioualy damage the nUll. ing home interior, bow- eyer. ODe of the nurain<< home's employees, Kelly Applegate, laid off-duty personnel were called in Sunday nigbt and spent much of the eyening bloduna doors with blanketa and mop- ping up the .maD amounta of mud that managed. to eet in. As the cleanup COD- tinued, sever.1 residents were trying to determine y,,' hen there had been a worse flood. Lawrence "Bugo" Zancanella, one of t.he city'a seDior residenta., remembered one mud slide in 1938 that "had this one bell aU to hell." He recalled that it flowed mainly_down 11th St., but coyered 10 area. be. tween 7tb St.. and 13th St., from the top of the bill to the Roaring Fork Riyer. City officiala, mean. ""hile, ....ere waitiDg for word frOJn .tate and fed- eral gOYemmenla to de- tennine ""bether an)' of tbe damage-would 9ual- i.fy (01" relief under dlaU- ter programs. - Goy. Dick amm, who was in Glenwood Monday for the ironic purpose of speakiDB .boul problems railed by the drGught, toured the damaged areu with Police Chief Bob Halbert ud Public Works Difec. tor Dick Cole. Lamm Kid he wouLd assign an ..sis~nt to check into the possibility or ,ettin, assistance from the Federal Diau. ter Assistance Admin- istration. Lamm, howeYer, wa. Dot optimiat.ic Ibout the chance., ..yill&" that the federal claniflC8tion of disa.ter usullly ('ames only with large.SC:llle dis. asLen in\'olying death and mOle utensive de- .truction. TWN", J.l., n, I"~" ..IIf)