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<br />.Facsimile articles from,the Greeley Tribune of June 4, 1921. <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />Northern Colorado Floods Break Reservoirs <br />and Ditches,. ~ash Away. Bridge~ and Railway <br />Tracks, and" Damage Heavily Roads and Crops <br /> <br />. . . At Erie -- Thirty houses washed away. citizens <br />were given warning of impending rush of water but <br />declined to leave. Bridges approaching town washed out <br />and railroad tracks in vicinity destroyed. . . . <br /> <br />WATER IN ERIE BUSINESS HOUSES <br /> <br />Lafayette, June 4 -- There is from eight inches to a <br />foot of water in Erie business houses according to word <br />brought here by persons on horseback from that town. <br />Several houses on Coal Creek between Erie and Lafayette <br />have been swept away. Four houses. at the Standard mine <br />one mile east of here were destroyed by flood water. <br /> <br />There is no telephone communication or passable highway <br />between Erie and this town at present. . . . <br /> <br />-9- <br />