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<br />page II <br /> <br />Betwee:l Brighton and Orchard, the wooden bridges were impassable; two <br /> <br />were destroyed and the approaches to the others were destroyed for a <br /> <br />distance of seyeral hundred yards. At Fort Morgan the water surface <br /> <br />crest was comparable to that of the flood of 1894. The discharge of this <br /> <br />flood at Kersey and at Balzac was the largest ever recorded at those <br /> <br />locations except for the flood of May 1973 and the flood of June 1965, <br /> <br />respectiyely. The flooded area at Sterling was reported as being 4 <br /> <br />miles wide. <br /> <br />Local newspaper published the following about the June 1921 flood: <br /> <br />Excerpts from the article appearing in THE ti'rERLING ADVOCATE on Friday, <br /> <br />June 3, 1921.... <br /> <br /> <br />lA~,:{ilEIUl.l)]>>Jlf~~S . <br />~f'~llt:$!ll~\~.:~ . <br /> <br /> <br />~".. .U",!~....",_".~ "'",~..''' .N.,., .w~, ''''''''l'~......",..,..""._r.;\t}1 <br /> <br /> <br />Mother and Children In Dugout Near Weld County Line Swept <br />Away By Rushing Waters of Cloudburst; Hundreds of Acres <br />of Beets Covered and Homes Damaged; Hailroad Track at <br />Atwood Inundated; Lives Lost In Other Parts of State. <br />, <br /> <br />At least four persons are known to have been drowned in <br />a flood which swept through the Pawnee creek valley this morning, <br />following a cloudburst in "Weld county. The body of Mrs. Carl <br />Davis was found on the James Cozad place about 10 o'clock this <br />morning and soon after that time was identified. Telephone <br />connections were interrupted this afternoon but it is reported <br />here that two small girls, daughters of Mrs. Davis also were <br />found. The baby of Mrs. Davis also is missing. It is said <br />that the family lived in a dugout near Pawnee creek, a short <br />distance east of the Weld county line and that when the creek <br />was suddenly swelled by the cloudburst they were swept away <br />without warning. Mr. Davis, it is reported, was away from home. <br />Back water from the flooded area this afternoon had <br />reached the Sterling irrigation ditch number one, about a <br />mile south of Sterling, and with the water receding in other <br />parts of the flooded district, it was thought no damage would <br />result in Sterling, the large ditch carrying away the water. <br />