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<br />'. Greeley Tribune Online <br /> <br /> <br />I!IeWt <br />tlIItIle <br />p./l!m4t <br />I4llI'UIll <br /> <br />Page 2 of 4 <br /> <br />building. The newspaper's press was found several <br />days later, a short distance downstream and mired <br />in mud. <br /> <br />1904, The "big flood" started with the mountain <br />rainstorms on May 21. The torrent of water crashed <br />.Golden Web . down through Poudre Canyon and as the river <br />opened onto the plains, hit a German settlement <br />northwest of Fort Collins, sweeping away 150 <br />homes. Newspapers of the day said it was a miracle <br />only two people died. As the flood water spilled over <br />the banks of the Cache la Poudre River toward <br />Greeley, several more homes were lost. Melvin <br />Kyger, who lived eight miles west of Greeley, <br />"Paul F. Moloney · reported 11 houses floated past his farm in a little <br />more than an hour. John Owen, an old trapper who <br />lived in a dugout along the river, was in his home <br />when the water hit but was never found. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Look into a moment <br />of the lives of the <br />famous and not-so- <br />famous, Paul <br />Moloney's Friends <br />and Celebrities. <br /> <br />Order your copy <br />online now, <br /> <br />Although the waters were subsiding as the river <br />swells reached Greeley, it still carried enough power <br />to wash away the bridge across 8th Street, washed <br />out the railroad tracks in Greeley and caused <br />extensive crop damage. Later, the estimated loss <br />from the flood of 1904 was set at $1 to $3 million. At <br />the time, houses were selling for $1 ,000, and $15 a <br />week was considered good pay. <br /> <br />1932 ' A flood on the Big and Little Thompson <br />Rivers unearthed one of the most startling <br />archeological finds in Weld County and Colorado <br />history. At a beet dump called "Dent," located about <br />two miles southeast of Milliken, bones of woolly <br />mammoths were uncovered when flood waters <br />rushed down a hill. The mammoths, a males and <br />several females and young - were dated at 9,200 <br />BC. The startling aspect of the find was a Clovis <br />point arrowhead embedded in the bones. The first <br />time man had been connected to the era which <br />spawned the mammoths. <br /> <br />1965 - During the early days of June, each day had <br />heavy rains, saturating the soil. The final straw came <br />with a thunderstorm which poured rain on a wide <br />area of Colorado, along the eastern plains from <br />Julesburg to La Junta. Several rivers flooded, and <br />dams were pushed over flood stage. Some of the <br />worst flooding was on the South Platte River and <br />Cherry Creek, which caused millions of dollars in <br />damage to Denver. It hit Weld County, flooding <br /> <br />http://www.greeleytrib.comlartic1e.php?sid=2441 <br /> <br />01/03/2002 <br />