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<br />page 36 <br /> <br />However, wheat has not been seriously affected. <br />"Wheat east and west of Peetz is the best I 'ye eYer <br />seen, t1 Williams said. <br />Another Peetz fanner, Lester Hiett, reported water from <br />a creek south of his farm is running oyer the top of fence <br />posts. <br />Creeks near Williams started to flood Sunday following <br />a two-inch rain in the area of the Henry Vallier fann. <br />The town of Peetz got 3':2 inches of rain in Monday night's <br />rain. <br />Highway 113 south of Peetz was closed when " bridge was <br />knocked out. <br />Water was flooding fields from Peetz to Julesburg. <br />Highway 138 is flooded in the Sedgwick-Ovid area. West- <br />bound traffic is being routed from Julesburg to Holyoke. <br />Farm homes near Ovid were evacuated this morning. Fire- <br />men aroused one family whose home was threatened. <br />John Saiser, who lives five miles northwest of Ovide, <br />said railroad ties were washing thru his yard this morning. <br />Bud Bonestell, a clerk at Great Western Sugar company's <br />factory at Ovid, said: "The situation doesn't look good." <br />A warning blast was heard on the Ovid fire department's <br />siren this morning. Water had moved into town and was still <br />rising. <br />Bonesteel said there was a "mass of water north and <br />west of Ovid." <br />Walt McKinstry Jr., publisher of the Julesburg Grit- <br />Advocate, said water reached the northeast edge of Julesburg <br />this morning and was still moving. <br />He said most of the Julesburg-Sedgwick farm area is <br />under water. <br />Lewis Harrach of Crook reports heavy water in that area, <br />particularly east near Cottonwood. <br />Bus schedules have been interrupted, according to Tom <br />Ballard. One bus h~s been stranded in Sidney, Nebraska. <br />Public Service i Company reported a pole was dmm in the <br />Lewis Creek area, but no lines are in the water. <br />Lightning apparently knocked out a transfonner near. Sunset <br />Memorial Gardens. <br />William Baldwin, Sterling manager. of Mountain States <br />Telephone Company, said all trunk lines are still open out <br />of the Sterling office and there has been no flood damage to <br />lines. <br />However, high winds Monday caused scattered damage to <br />rural lines. <br />Great Western Sugar Company said Sterling got only a <br />trace of moisture last night, but .4 to .8 inch was <br />measured in the Iliff-Proctor area. <br />Lester Garner, GW manager here, said there has been no <br />damage to sugar beets. <br />