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<br />page 13 <br /> <br />car to determine the progress of the water and WaD forced to <br />desert the machine when the water rose around it. <br />Watel'll Gradually Recede <br />The water was receding in the Pawnee valley at 10 o'clock <br />this morning, and an end to its ravages was seen. <br />Deputy Coroner Jack Stone went to t.he Cozad place this <br />morning to care for the body of Mrs. Davis. He had not <br />returned to Sterling at 3 o'clock this afternoon. It is <br />possible that other deaths occurred. Vehicles, implements, <br />and bits of wood were seen in the water, indicating that <br />farm lots and probably many houses had been reached.. <br />Hail which feel before the flood came, was packed in <br />great ridges of ice against the spillway embankment. <br /> <br />Excerpts from the article appearing ill THE STERLING ADVOCATE on Saturday, <br /> <br />June 4, 1921.... <br /> <br />PAWNEE CREEK I <br />!AGAIN WITHIN j <br />I BANKS; DAMAGE 1 <br />! DONE'IS GREAT: <br />I ',. , <br /> <br />Four Bodies Reco,,-ered; Long ValleY of Winding Stream Drains <br />Rapidly; Danger Passes. <br /> <br />The known list of dead in the Pawnee Creek flood of <br />Friday remained at four today: Mrs. Carl Davis and her <br />three children. <br />Throughout the course of Pawnee creek the water this <br />morning was'within the basin of the stream. Train service <br />was ):'esumed shortly before noon, Union Pacific passenger <br />train No. 13 passing over t.he Pawnee creek bridge at. At.wood <br />about 11:30 o'clock. Approximat.ely a mile of the Union <br />Pa~ific t.rack, also used by the Burlington, was inundated <br />and considerable repair work will be required to put the <br />tracks in permanent condition. <br />No accurate estimate of the damage done in the flood, <br />"hich co,,-ered a territory ranging from a half mile to a mile <br />in width and a distance of from thirty to forty miles, can <br />be made until the damage to beet fields and other crops can <br />be checked. It is roughly estimated that 1,000 acres of other <br />crops were covered with water. Farm home~; were damaged, <br />implements and machinery "ere carried away, and the .rater <br />"as filled with carcasses of stock. Six or seven highway <br />