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page 24 Advocate Effects Warnings Upon information given by Mr. Moore and by Pat Marsh, river commissioner, who with irrigation men and others observed the progress of the flood at Fort Morgan, The Advocate early today throught The Associated Press reserved radio stations KOA and KLZ at Denver to broadcast flood warnings, calling upon farmers and stockmen to take their families and such effects as possible out of the path of the flood. Everywhere, Mr. Moore said today, 1;here could be seen farm people with hayracks loaded with household effects, poultry and other belongings, some with cows or horses tied behind, cars or wagons, waiting on high hillsides to see the effect of the water when it struck their land and homes. BRUSH IS FLOODED At 2 o'clock this afternoon Beaver Creek had poured water into Brush which covered the business district and much of the residential area with water a foot a a half deep. Water at that time was four and a half feet deep on the first floor of the Great Western Sugar company factory. Rain which threatened cloudburst proport.ions was falling at Brush. The big flood which this morning moved down the South Platte river was principally from cloudburst conditions in the Colorado Springs region Thursday morning. The water was poured into the river by Kiowa and Bijou creeks, the latter for several days at flood stage. The great flow from Beaver creek, said to be the heaviest ever seen in that stream, had not reached the riyer at 1 o'clock this afternoon. It will swell the flood of the South Platte and, doubtless, sustain it for several days. Reports received this afternoon by Paul Young of the Fort Morgan Bean company from his father, who is general manager of the company at Fort Morgan, said that the river was rWllling bankfull at Fort Morgan, though it had dropped two feet, from the municipal power plant to the Union Pacific railroad tracks. Mr. Young had been at "eldona and reported that a second rise of five feet had occurred at tha.t point. A further rise of three feet at Fort Morgan vas feared. H. C. Giese, superintendent of the Fort Morgan:sugar factory was quoted by Mr. Young as saying that Bijolol.- cieek at Adean showed a second rise of ten feet this afte'f.noo;n, and was in alarming proportions. The water was said to be! r\mning deep in Goodrich, north of highway No.6. ' The opinion that the flood, at 1 0 I dock opposite the Prewitt reservoir near Merino, was three miles wide and moving at a speed of perhaps six miles an hour was expressed by both Mr. Smith and Mr. Young, who made the plane flight for The Advocate. The stream rolled along in turbulent manner, with high foam on its crest. Several buildings, portions of bridges and vast amounts of debris were carried by the flood, the pilots said.