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<br />~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />completely destroyed. 90 The damage was, however, enough to drive <br />R. A. Bigger, a Salina merchant, to a new location in Boulder. 91 <br /> <br />Crisman <br /> <br />At Crisman, William Hult, a County Commissioner, saw his general store <br />destroyed, and lost everything but his horses, which he drove uphill to <br />safety. He reported that the homes of T. R. Ayers and G. A. Ca rl son <br />were hanging over Fourmile Creek after flood waters had undercut the <br />banks.92 Many other structures were damaged including Baptiste <br />Ardourad's saloon, Dominick Orcini's house, and Charles Womack's <br />property.93 Most of the houses downstream from Crisman were <br />swallowed by the current. In addition, all the railroad track was <br />gone.94 <br /> <br />North and Middle Boulder Creek Damages <br /> <br />Nederland <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The story of damages along North and Middle Boulder Creeks was much <br />the same. Although no data were found for Hederland, the area <br />probably received extensive precipitation. Rainfall at simi lar elcvations <br />measu red between 3.30 and 8.54 inches from may 30 to June 1.95 <br /> <br />Eagle Rock <br /> <br />At Eagle Rock, just below the confluence of North and Middle Boulder <br />Creeks, a landsl ide swept away the property of a Mr. and Mrs. <br />Merryman. A witness, W.E. Calvert, stated that rocks weighing tons <br />crushed the house and barn, destroyed the I ivestock and fami Iy pets, <br />but spared the couple and their two children.96 <br /> <br />Sugar Loaf and Magnolia <br /> <br />Although neither of these townsites were directly on Boulder Creek or <br />its tributaries, they received damage from the heavy rains. Sugar Loaf <br />recei.ved 5. aD inches of rain in two days. 97 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />At least a half dozen homes ilJ\d the Hossier boarding house were <br />washed away because of those heavy rains and flash floods.98 The <br />Mehollin Mill was destroyed as were the homes of Seymour Adams and <br />Era Morell.99 Mel Mehollin reported that the Sugar Loaf mine was <br />destroyed, that five other houses were completely gone, and that all <br />roads and the railroad track were out. 100 Charles Cobb, the Salina <br />ore hauler, superintendcnt of roads [and later Boulder merchant), <br />stated t11at the water washed up to mrs. Collie's house [near Sugar <br />Loaf), which was considered to be safely above the reaches of North <br />Boulder Creek.101 <br />