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THE LYONS RECORDER LYONS, BOULDER COUNTY, COLORADO Saturday, August 9, 1919 A THIRD DOWNPOUR Lyons visitd with Three FloOds within Five Days that were Similar in Destruction The third flood came down the two st. Vrain rivers Sunday evening last, this one being heavier on the South Fork on the start but swung across the North canon and in a short time both rivers were overflowing their banks, and for the third time in five days swept the bridges in the city limits out on the North Fork. The first flood took every bridge on that stream within five miles. The county put men at work immediately constructing a temporary bridge across the North Fork down in the east end of MeadOW Park in order to open up travel on the South st. vrain,. this was ready for travel in 24 hours. In about thirty minutes after this bridge was finished along came the second flood and down stream went the bridge also a foot bridge or so that had been hastily put in by some of our citizens. This happened Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock. The county bridge force were again on the job early Friday morning and at 2:30 had another passable temporary structure completed and travel opened up through to Estes Park via the south canon. Sunday evening about 5 o'clock heavy clouds gathered up the South Fork and soon it was apparent that a cloud burst had taken place about three miles up that stream. A man who was caught in it said it came down as a curtain of water dropping from the heavens and four inches of water fell just where he was in as many minutes. This put the South stream higher than it had been during the first two floods, but fortunately no bridges were carried out over it and not much damage done to the road. The storm soon passed across to the North canon and that stream was for the third time in five days given the appearance of the early Cherry creek floods in Denver. This carried down stream about half of the temporary bridge also a foot bridge that had been put in the'second time. The county force soon repaired the temporary traffic bridge early Monday morning and travel commenced again to and from AlIens and Estes Park. The county forces salvaged one of the railroad company's foot bridges that went down the first day and put it back in place in Meadow Park, also put in a temporary vehicle bridge across the North stream in order that the settlers might get into Lyons from up that canon. Mayor Kincaid and County Commissioner Harry Miller inspected the North Fork road Wednesday. The county has begun temporary repairs to bridges and highway, later the State and Federal govern- ments will rebuild the highway.