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bridge crossing the creek shortly before a freight train arrived at the bridge. With the bridge gone, the freight train plunged int:o the saturated sand of the normally dry channel, never to be found or recovered. Widespread rains on June 2-7, 1921, cl3,used flooding from the South Platte River canyon above Denver to the Colorado-Nebraska state line. Cloudburst rains in the Kowa Creek and Beaver Creek basins on May 30 and 31, 1935, caused the second largest flood ever recorded on the South Platte River (Reference 2). Newspaper accounts of the 1935 flood reported that many bridges ane! railroad crossings were washed out and many communities were isolated from rail and road transportation. Flood warnings were issued in Brush as flood waters on Beaver Creek approached t:he bridges east of town; however, few residents expected high water or the possibility of even seeing flood waters rushing through the streets of downtown. The Brush News Tr.:Lbune, on June 6, 1935, reported that: "...the creek channel narrows noticeably at the point just east of Brush which result:ed in wat:er backing along the railroad bridge as far as t:he depot, where it swept over the tracks, reaching more than two-'foot depths in a short time. The south side of Brush was under three to four feet of water, almost before residents could leave their houses. One or two houses were pushed off the foundation and several foundations crumbled under the pressure of the water. On the north side of the track";, t,he wat:er reached an average depth of two feet. Some of the businesses were able to keep water off the ground floors, but all base.- ments were filled to the top doing extensive damage to store merchandise stocks." On the same date, the paper also report,ed that,: ". . . Beaver Creek has reached high wat,ers and flood levels frequently in the past inflicting heavy da.mage to farmers and stockmen, but this time the dest.ruct:ion was infinitely greater than on previous cocas ions and marked the first: time in the history of Brush that flood waters ever reached its streets. As one Brush man expressed it.. 'Maybe the Indians have seen a flood like this, but no whit:e man ever did. ,.. -8-.