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<br />~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Twelfth Street (present day Broadway), and another downstream, in <br />the Culver Flats area, suffered heavy losses. Wedged in between (from <br />Twelfth to Seventeenth Streets) were additional houses and a few <br />businesses. As mentioned, the flooding of Gregory Creek affected <br />many of the upstream homes; the failure of the Beasley Ditch Channel <br />affected the areas east of Twelfth Street. 72 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Teams of men spent the day saving people and possessions in the' <br />flood-covered city in both upstream and downstream neighborhoods. <br />University of Colorado Student Henry P. Gamble rode horseback and <br />saved some victims in the Culver Flats area.73 Merrill Brown, Jim <br />Fullerton, and eight others took women and children out of flooded <br />homes, and remarked that the current in the houses they entered was <br />so swift they could hardly stand. They added that almost everything <br />in the first stories of the homes was destroyed. 74 Officer Knapp <br />rescued, among others, a Madame Marietta Kingsley. Although her <br />residence was near Water and Tenth Streets, her brothel (as the <br />Boulder Daily Camera stated, "her bagnio") was located in Culver <br />Flats.75 Others who lost property in that area included Thomas <br />Danford, a r.1iner, whose residence at Nineteenth and Goss was washed <br />away, and David A. Williams, a teacher, who lost property in the same <br />neighborhood.76 Marinus Smith, who lived on his farm at Smith's <br />Grove, lost his home as well as a number of outbuildings. Eventually <br />the shock of the flood caused him to be placed in the Colorado State <br />Hospital at Pueblo.77 He appears to have been the only citizen to <br />suffer adverse psychological damage, although many citizens lost their <br />world Iy possessions. <br /> <br />Many homes and lots in the upper residential area and the <br />residential-business area west of Culver Flats were washed away by the <br />flood waters. The Jacob Faus house on Twelfth between Water and <br />Arapahoe was torn frOM its foundation and washed some two hundred <br />feet downstream. Debris pummelled the house and slashed huge holes <br />in the modest home. The rush of floodwaters reduced it to "kindling" <br />and washed it away. 78 Other losses in the mid and upstream areas <br />included the half-completed Seventh Day Baptist Church at Sixteenth <br />and Spruce, inventor J.F. Maliinckrodt's factory at Ninth and <br />Arapahoe, blacksmith Ed Perren's barn at Twelfth and Walnut, attorney <br />Thomas C. Johnson's house at Water and Sixteenth, Boulder Brewing <br />Company president Frank Weisehorn's barn on Arapahoe between Ninth <br />and Tenth Streets, miner Henry Jackson's house near Water and Ninth, <br />John. Mulford's lab at Twelfth between Arapahoe and Marine. Artist and <br />photographer Joe Sturtevant lost part of a barn near Ninth and Marine, <br />and Union Pacific repairman Norman Cable lost a workshop at Ninth and <br />Water.79 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Many lost land as well. Dr. A. VI. Allen's lot at Sixteenth and Water <br />was inundated with four feet of water, A. Wilson had a 20 foot lot <br />remaining from what was originally a 140 foot lot, Davis and Rachofsky <br />lost land near Twelfth and Water, Ed Perren lost 185 feet of his lot <br />near Twelfth -and Arapahoe. Farmer A.G. Burke lost $1,200 worth of <br />property in Section 3, Lieutenant Governor David H. Nichols lost <br />property on East Pearl Street, and Judge S.S. Downer put his east <br />Boulder farm property losses at over $4,000. The total valued loss for <br />