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<br />.. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />virtually wiped off the map. Although many were rebuilt, the damage <br />was extensive. <br /> <br />Transportation was devastated, therefore, news from the mountain <br />towns was slow to arrive at first. Downed telegraph and telephone <br />lines, the lack of train service, and the total impassability of the roads <br />isolated that part of the County. News began to trickle in as the rains <br />ceased and folks were able to walk down to Boulder and Longmont from <br />their mountain homes--or from what was left of them.33 <br /> <br />Lefthand Canyon <br /> <br />Lefthand Canyon areas sustained heavy damages. All bridges were <br />washed out and roads obliterated. Sheriff Dyer stated that Lefthand <br />Creek was over a half r.1ile wide in places and that the farms along that <br />creek were piled kneehigh with debris and sand.34 <br /> <br />Talcott <br /> <br />Talcott, Colonel <br />damaged severely. <br /> <br />Wesley Brainerd's camp on Lefthand <br />The road was cOMplete Iv washed out. 35 <br /> <br />Creek, <br /> <br />was <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Ward <br /> <br />Harry Dix, who surveyed many of the mountain camps after the flood, <br />stated that the Gale and Corning Mill boarding houses were washed <br />away at Ward because of the extremely heavy rains. reported as some <br />8.54 inches from May 30 through June 1.36 The greatest damage <br />there, however, was to the mines, which ceased operation as they were <br />filled with water. During the storm the water level in the Humbolt <br />shaft rose sixty-five feet in three hours.37 Mining superintendent <br />Langridge stated that just below Ward near the Boston Mill, Lefthand <br />Creek was a howling river.38 The Prussian mine was completely <br />destroyed, flumes were damaged, and, as in nearly every other camp, <br />the roads were gone. 39 <br /> <br />Rowena [Rocl<vi lie) <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Rowena [also known as Rockville) was all but washed out as well by <br />Lefthand Creek. Reports stated that the steady, sixty-hour rain and <br />east wind caused the stream to swell appreciably.40 Banks were cut <br />at the rate of three to four feet per minute; some cuts reached fifteen <br />feet in depth.41 Swollen with trees, bridges and boulders, tho croek <br />tore down some cabins. Tho collapsing banks caused other residences, <br />including two reportedly sturdy structures owned by Frank Reardon, to <br />cave into the waters.42 Mr. Cimmiati's residence some seventy-five <br />feet upstream. from the camp was undermined and fell into the creek as <br />well.43 The ground where it stood was destroyed by the rush of <br />floodwaters. The creek near Rowena reached widths of 50 to 250 feet <br />at the height of the flood and washed away businesses including the <br />