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.- . and Louisville to trade enough goods for their needs.117 Mineral transports, which had been hauled from Jamestown at the rate of four thousand dollars worth of ore per day, were impossible, even after the water was pumped from the mines and work there started again. COi!l from the plains towns of Louisville, Lafayette and Erie was sorely needed in Boulder and the mining camps. Pumps stopped and electric lights were extinguished as the supply dwindled. Although men and women began rebuilding and repairing the road as soon as the floodwaters receded, it was nearly six weeks before travel and shipments of any quantity and regularity could be resumed. 118 Railroad damage added to the problem of moving people, products, supplies and food from place to place. Flood damaged railroad lines prevented the movement of coal, crops, livestock, mail and citizens from city to town to camp. Coal, mined from the United Coal Company mines at Louisville and Lafayette, had no way to reach markets because trains could not unload at those towns.119 The narrow gauge railroad maintained by the Union Pacific Denver and Gulf System suffered severe losses. Most of its track in Boulder and Fourmile Canyons was destroyed or damaged by the flood.120 The Union Pacific, like the farmers of Niwot, Longmont, Va\mont and Hygiene, asked for an adjustment in its taxable property because the losses were so extensive.121 . REGIONAL FLOODI~JG The storm that caused Boulder County's flood wreaked havoc in Loveland on the Big Thompson River where the Home Supply Dam was washed out.l22 In Idaho Springs and Golden, Clear Creek washed away homes and bridges.123 At Morrison, Bear Creek destroyed bridges, homes, railroad track and roads.124 In Denver, Cherry Creek and the South Platte left five hundred people homeless, and every bridge between Valverde and Larir.1er was swept away by water flowing at thirteen thousand cubic feet per second. 125 And in Northeastern Colorado, near Brighton, Bruch and Fort Morgan, the South Platte reportedly. rose eight feet. 126 At Julesburg, men who were off to join Coxey's Army attempted to float their escape from Denver. Jennie Jones, a pioneer of Haxtun, Colorado, wrote that the South Platte, which was usually one inch deep and a mile wide near Julesburg, was high enough to cover the beds of wagons on June 1, 1894.127 She saw Coxey's Army float down the river in boats that day.128 Ms. Jones who lived in the northeastern Colorado area for over eighty years remarked it was the only tir.1e she had seen boats on the South Platte.129 At Manitou Springs, Fountain Creek was swelled by heavy rains and melting snolV.130 At Florence, subsequent landslides from heavy rains (four inches in twenty-four hours) damaged the Denver, Rio Grande and Western Railroad.131 The Arkansas River caused the loss of six lives and $200,000 worth of property in and around Salida, Canon City and Pueblo before flooding land at Las Animas and Lamar.132 . Although the 1894 flood does not currently stand as the flood of record for all creek basins and towns in Boulder County, it may be the