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<br />page 27 <br /> <br />out of Colorado today, leaving much damage to raIlroads and <br />highways, and interruption of electrical service and communication <br />-- but with cause, on the whole, for grattitude that consequences <br />were no worse. <br />Sterling went through the flood without actual suffering <br />or great inconyenience. No deaths were repo1:ted in Logan county <br />as the result of the flood. Livestock losses were considerable, <br />but by no means what had been feared. <br />Sterling has a sufficient supply of water for necessary <br />purposes. Heavy chlorination is believed to make it "safe", <br />but boiling of drinking water is recommended. <br />Highway travel northeast, east and southeast on principal <br />highways may be restored tonight. There has been no interruption <br />of travel between Sterling and Sidne, and from that place through <br />Cheyenne to Denver. Some travelers negotiated the road, through <br />Willard, Buckingham, Orchard, and Deerfield, to Greeley, Sunday. <br />Union Pacific railroad service was restored to normal Sunday <br />night. Burlington mainline trains are detoured today through <br />Sterling on Union Pacific tracks from Denver, and are running <br />through Sterling to Alliance and thence to Lincoln" Neb. A <br />washout of track between Sterling and the river br:ldge and <br />minor damage at the river bridge prevent operation of trains <br />on the Sterling-Holdrege line of the Burlington. <br />The flood waters this afternoon were pounding upon North <br />Platte, Nebraska. <br />The river at Sterling today was wit.hin its banks, with <br />islands of the channel showing. The crest of the flood long <br />since had passed. Everywhere, reports said, the w€~er was <br />falling rapidly. <br />The peak of the flood passed Sterli.ng Friday night with <br />a volume of water estimated between 40,000 and 50,000 second <br />feet. It moved into the Crook region Sa.turday aftE,rnoon, with <br />water flowing through breaks in the fill of the Union Pacific <br />railroad, and sweeping across highway No. 138 to form a lake <br />a half mile wide in fields north of the highway. <br />Pawnee Runs Again <br />Pawnee creek, which had subsided Friday after running at <br />flood stage, with estimated 10,000 second feet of .'ater as late <br />as Wednesday, was again pouring water over the pavement of <br />highway No. 6 at the crossing between Sterling and Atwood <br />at noon Saturday. The crest of the run at that time had passed <br />the Pawnee Valley crossing of highway No. 14, west of Sterling, <br />and had flowed under the Sterger bridge north of Atwood. This <br />fourth flood of Pawnee creek had drained off today. <br />A survey completed this morning showed no river bridges <br />in Logan county have been lost because of the flood, though <br />almost innumerable county bridges were swept out ea.rly in the <br />week by floods of Pawnee creek, and many other were made <br />dangerous by washing of fills. <br />Only the Beta river bridge was passable today, however. <br />Fills of several bridges were badly washed. <br />Three Boys Marooned <br />At the Beta highway bridge, just east of the railroad <br />overpass, shoulders of the highway were badly washed out and <br />at points the water had bored in two or three feet under the <br />edges of the pavement. All of this pavement, from the west <br />end of the overhead crossing to well beyond the highway bridge, <br />