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I'rom the "Creede Candle" J,me 8, \894 Excerpt from the article appearing in: "The Iloulder County Miner andl'armer" Great Damage The floods worked ruin in the V,clnlty of Boulde~ on F~iday. The heavy ralns of two days accel- erating the melting of Snow in the foothills sent a tremendous flood of water down the Canons that open j"st above Bo"lder. Not II railroad bridge, nor 1I wagon bridge is left in the canons of Boulder, Four Mile and Left ~and Creeks. NothaU a milc of the grade of the narrow gauge engine lies in the flood of Boulder Creek, several feet above where the creek tormerly ran ... BOulder's mountain system of water pipe line has been greatly damaged. At satina, eight miles from Boul- der, several houses were undermined and they stillh;;lnil in the air. At Sugar Loaf, not stood in the gully the large Hoosier being carried away. whiCh liven h"use a house iSlcft, boarding Nothin~ b"t debris marks the spot Th"rsday-June9,1921 Boulder Valley Storm . In The rain storms of last week and the latter part of the week before brought huge damage throughout the nortt,easternpartof tbestatearld at Pueblo a tremendous flood in the Arkansas and Fountain Rivers over- ran the business section and low- lands of the city aod drowned a large nu~ber of people. Latest re- pOTtS are 135 known dead and many more not accounted for. "here waS mining camp once the of Copper thrilling Rock. gold At Crisman, the citi~ens all to the schoolhouse on the side, while their houses went with the raging water. fled hill "O~ The bridges aCrOss Boulder Creek in the Towu of Boulder were carried away shuttin~ off access to the hill adjacent. In Ilo"lder County, tbetowns of Lafayette and Erie were flOOded. Houses washed from their foundation or filled "ith mud and water. Long. mont is almost co~pletely cut off from the outside by distruction of roads and bridges and within the city considerable damage was done by a flood of the St. Vrain ~ivcr and a tremendous local rain storm which turned the streets into rive~ s of rushing water. Garden City addition was submer- ged and 400 houses surrounded by the water. The beautiful gardc" tracts were well high ruined. Exccrpts from the article appearing in: "LongmontLedger" Friday-June 10,1921 No trains ran into the town from Denver fat three days. The Great The ~reatest damage wa~ done to Houlder and the valtey in the way of railroads, wagon toads, houses, bridgcs, gardens, etc. The total damagewill foot in the ncighbor- hood of $350,000. To tell the story of the great rain of Friday, June 3, "ndthe night following, one hardly know" whete to commence or stop. The heavy rain commenced about 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, and by the next morning 4.4 inChes had fallen and by Monday murnin~ 5.39, accor- ding to the sugar company's records the first section of rain was short but hard... By Tuesday morning, more fallen and the factory showed a fall of tIIOisture inches. rain had records of 5.87 ^ bridge over a dry creek on the main road south sunk, but Some reat tro"ble occ"rred at the main bridge over the St. Vrain. n Rain It has been said th~t if the dit_ ehes had not carried oH an inuncnse volume of water before they over- flowed Longmant ~ould have suffered a great deal more than it did. We have endeavored to obtain an idea as to losses to crops, if a"y, from e~cessive tains, and find that there may be Same wheat knocken down, SOme beet fields flOOded sa that the e~tent of damage may come out. We have heard tittlcorn" complaint. J.I1. Anderson of Long_ mont reports that he has twenty- five acre" of beets On Boulder Creek, that was undet water from twu to tlorce feet on Tuesday. Another short but hard rain fcll Wednesday lli~ht, makin;( the total fnlm Friday, the 3rd, until Thurs- day morning, 6.07 inches. Z4