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<br />MISSING LONGMONT <br />WALLET FOUND NEAR <br /> <br />MAN'S <br />CABIN <br /> <br /> <br />LONGHONT TIMES - CALL <br />Longmont, Colorado <br /> <br />l10nday June 23,. 1941 <br /> <br />BOY SCOUTS AND CC( YOUTHS <br />JOIN CHECI( OF ST. "vRAIN <br /> <br />North and South st. Vrain Canons nard Hit by Cloudbursts Early <br />Sunciay - Three flames Swept Away - Houses at Lyons Flooded - farm <br />Land Inundated - \'larninCl spread Here But R.iver Controlled - St. <br />Vrain Reaches B, gO/) Second F'eet Flow - r~ountain Roads Damaged by <br />Washouts - Bridges Destroyed. <br /> <br />Flood debris late Monday had failed to yield the body of <br />Keith Houx. 36, proprietor of a Lon~ont auto paint shop <br />who ~as swept to his death near his cabin in the South St. <br />Vrain canon by a cloudburst early. Sunday. <br /> <br />Roaring out of darkness split by almost continuous 1~qntn1ng <br />and thunder, thousands o! tons ot water swe~t down the North and <br />South St. Vrain canons early sunday ~orning causing the flood <br />which also took three hones away, da~aged roads, flooded a <br />half dozen houses in Lyons, wrecked bridges and inundated farm <br />lands. <br /> <br />Monday some 30 eCC.enrollees, directed by Sheriff George <br />Richart, and Long~lont Boy Scouts supervised by Chief of Police <br />Orval Borr, combed the St. Vrain river from Longmant to the <br />Raux cabin four miles up the South St. Vrain, for the man who <br />died that his family might live. <br />Sometime after midnight Saturday and 2:00 a. m. Sunday, a <br />wall of water engulfed t~e Houx cabin near the stream which had <br />turned into a ranging torrent. Haux jumped out of bed and carried <br />his three children Anna ~Iac, 7, Kenneth, 12, and Harold, 10, to <br />higher ground and sagety. He then returned for his wife, Lois, <br />and after getting her out of the cabin was swept away by the <br />current.. . <br /> <br />Homes Flooded <br /> <br />In Lyons a half dozen homes had first floors flooded, <br />and the swinginq bridge in town was destroyed. At ~eadow <br />Park a number of picnic tables and other moveable objects <br />were carried away. <br /> <br />Washouts occurred on the North St. Vrain highway <br />fro~ Roosevelt forest to Lyons. In the South St. Vrain <br />canon the storm area extended from the Big Narrows to <br />Lyons. A wooden bridqe 11 miles above Lyons was destroyed <br />The raod was badly washed and will not be open for traffic for <br />several days... <br /> <br />Hallet Found <br /> <br />During the search for the body of Keith Roux, three <br />Lyons men, Art Cunningham, Merle Keoan, and Walt Ha~ington <br />found a wallet owned by Haux containinq $60. The vallet <br />was found about a mile below the Hocx cabin site. The <br />cabin, however, was completely destroyed... <br /> <br />River 8,900 Second Feet <br /> <br />L. T. Burgess, chief hydrographer from the state <br />f!'n']lTd:oer's office, and J.E. r."hitter, division engineer for <br />th~ rlatte area, took sl0re measurc~ents and found that at the <br />pCclk of lhe flood the depth was 8.07 f~et compared with a <br />norn';ll of ].26. ^t 2:15 a.m. SundClyand for two hours the <br />St. Vr~in was mc~surcd at 8,900 second fect. Today it <br />m('cl~"1r('r] 595 sccant] feet average. The averaqe for Sunday <br />w~~ 2,000 second feet. The river rose to 8,900 second feet <br />in ]0 minutes. The high~st ever r(!gi.stered pC'eviously was 9,600 <br />6cc(jf;d feet, CcltT1JI1i:..sinn<::r ~~(]ier said. The date of this <br />record rise was not ilvililable. <br /> <br />Durinq the ft('r)tl tr}n!i of silt, Rilnd and rocks were <br />c(\rrl~'d tlo'rm both th<:: tJorth and South St. Vrain8 as \oIell <br />an polci!, lumber ,:Jlnd trees. <br /> <br />i,lthrJuqh cll'bri~i W.l:J bcin'1 rcmov~d by the URC of hOrIJC5 <br />tod.v,', 'i('.II"chcrfl hdd nnt rr:nmd <:In(! thinq to indicate tho <br />Wh',I"l!.,!;')uts of Keith llr)UJ('S body. <br />