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<br />FORT COLlIXS - High water
<br />marks rc:;lch no::;ln\' lO thcroof~.of
<br />some (railer bomcs Ih3f 'lietwhlcd ..
<br />and 10m inthc mild. thro"ft (>f'I top of
<br />eachcthcdike childrcn.lilO)'S-.
<br />Hou~ earlin. lum$lr<. a Ide...i.
<br />~OI1 and even a t~let bowl,floatcd
<br />out of t.....o neighboring tr:li~rads.
<br />carried 'by the fOfCe of rmhil1i! wa.
<br />1m.
<br />Wocn the Wafers rcce4:d. :ltlca..<.l:
<br />fi\'e pcopleweTc dead. The ,lO(:Olrch
<br />continued today fOf one ~t-il1 mi..~ng.
<br />Other signs of de,.:t~r;!lton
<br />emerged for Ihe dOlen~. of \'iclilffl
<br />left homcles~ aooflCfCav-e-d; blue
<br />jeans hung from a bush; wwt.u$Cd to
<br />be wmeone's front porch rel-{cd
<br />againq a lCec a dr.lwer 'Alth clothes
<br />. still in-it lay in a pariinglol.
<br />A 3-foot<:::u-p lay dead in (he J'OOiJ
<br />jU~1 yari1s from lhc:,mobile COfflm:mtJ
<br />pO~t (rollocal aurhorilie$ had ~I tip
<br />Tuesday morning.
<br />A (ype....ritcr_ clothing, books and
<br />.....ater.logged fUmllUreliueTeJ' tnc
<br />banks of ,the bloatl.'d Spring Creek,
<br />.....hile dozens of toys jutted from mUd
<br />along the roW. Somc:one bad takCil a
<br />few of Ihe to)'S and placed (hem on
<br />the railing along the ~idewalk o~'er
<br />the erec-k"s p;l~~ge under Ihe road.
<br />While to......lrucks.puHedow: (he
<br />"chidestheycouldTuesday,'wurkers
<br />endured Slinking air and muck to
<br />se3ll:h aboul90 mobi1ehome1i.
<br />R-e-~idefl(s w'ho fled high walers
<br />were not aUowed baek.imo their
<br />homes T-ue"oday. Manysaid they ha"e
<br />no hope of finding atl)'(hing to save
<br />anyway.
<br />Warren JOJICs. Poudre Fire Au-
<br />thorily battalion chief. said lhe first
<br />order ofbu~i~stoday wa~ to a~sess
<br />the damage al the mobile borne parks.
<br />Then people would be a1lowcdto re.
<br />lum to5CeWhou they can find.
<br />"VIe want to g~ them in a... l>()Qrf
<br />as we can." he said.
<br />Heavy machinery rumbled
<br />. through the night as cleanup crews
<br />concentraled on the traikrJXlrks and
<br />the Colorado Slate Uni\'er~ity .cam-
<br />. pus. which also was-hea\'ily damaged
<br />" in the flooding. The forc:ca~1 called
<br />for rain but 001 the hea\)' downpour
<br />of mort: than 8 inches (hat fell Mon.
<br />day.
<br />At CSU,f100d walers soaked ~
<br />million library books, de5iroyed tb.:
<br />campus book.<.torc: and heavily dam.
<br />.4..a~!'I:~~~i5ion ~udio.
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<br />ftmled deaths. aH women, in
<br />tl'le Fort.Con;ns flood Monday:
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<br />Gov. Roy Romer finds a
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<br />after touring the Johnson Cen-
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<br />J million library
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<br />DENVER - Colorado SUte Ufli\-ersity was
<br />,drying 001 from :t river of flood water thai
<br />swept ~hrough Ihe campus. soaking j,millioo
<br />library books, de~troying the eampusbooh4on:
<br />and h<'a\'ily damaging a televisiOJ\ ~udio.
<br />Damage wa... ellpecled to top S40 million.
<br />CSU is in the hean ofFon Collins. where on
<br />Monday llighl a ~uddcn ra:jnstooncrea((:dil20-
<br />fOOl wall of water that S...-epl a.....ay pwpie.C3f'l;.
<br />mobile homes and other s(ruclures.
<br />AtJea~1 five people were dead. while the
<br />search continued for othe~ reported rni!O.~ing.
<br />'j'o.;one of the 7,000 students on c:tmpus for
<br />:o;ummer cla,>scs was injured, aeling CSU Pres-
<br />iJem Jud Uarp..'1' said Tuesday. .',
<br />But allcarnpus operations ....'Cre callCded
<br />. Tue50day as offu;ials began tallying the damage
<br />and .....orking de~pcralely to save whatlhey
<br />could. Summer c1al'SCs were expecled to .re-
<br />loumcThuNlay.
<br />Also ~afe w-ere 3.600 teenagers from !wo
<br />youth organizations who .....ere on campus for
<br />....r.~';;,;.
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<br />conferences. Harper said~ TheCotorado" S(U,
<br />den<< COUfl:cil le'adersh.(p 'C6nfei"elKle and the
<br />Internatlonal Youto Conference' were canlinu.
<br />ing with lheir programs Tuesday night. said
<br />CSU spokeswoman Carrie Schafer.
<br />The news was 1101 so good for some of the
<br />university"spr-openy.
<br />"The elllent of the damage is significanl:.
<br />said Harpe!, who led Gov. Roy Romer on a
<br />, lour of the saturated campus late Tuesday OIf-
<br />(emoon.
<br />.Romer (old CSU officials he wants a spec-if-,__
<br />it; damage ..::slimate before deciding what kind.
<br />of rd~f aclion to take. He said thai if be calls
<br />a !>pec-ial Session Oethe legislature. one.of the "
<br />topics under discussiOfl could be aid for CSU."
<br />In all, the flood damaged about 25 of the' ,
<br />campus~ 92,buildings, Harpcrsaid. At the 5(u-:"
<br />dent Center, in (he middle of the 4A6(}.acre
<br />campus, damage was estimated -..t $30 million ;
<br />alone,Harpc:rsaid.
<br />The campllS bookstore. in lhe basement of
<br />the~Student Center, was a total loss.. Harper
<br />said...
<br />He e~[i~aletl damage there at S 10 million.
<br />New textbooks floated in the Slreaffi still
<br />flowing from the store's front door Tuesday.
<br />Harpl:rsaid the bookslore was slock-e-d wilh
<br />tcllfs ordered for the upcoming fall semester.
<br />Also-hard hit was the newly renovaled Mor.
<br />gan Library. .....here I million books were salU-
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<br />.,,~iill freeze-dry the books and remove moisrure.
<br />. Workers ha~e abouI72 hours before mold be-
<br />gins ,00 eat away at the boOks. induding some
<br />out.or-print editiol\5. ~
<br />Officials did not know how Dlany boo.ks
<br />COIlJd be -salvaged. /
<br />In addiliollto the bookstore. the Stude!'t
<br />Union's basement housed --!he studenl newspa-
<br />per and yearbOOk offices. newspaper phol:o lab
<br />and the campus television stat'ion. All received
<br />'extensive damage. Harper,said.
<br />"We loslevetything. We IOSI:-all of our c.am-
<br />puters. all of ou( archives. Basically. ifs all
<br />gone:. said Josh Hoppe. CSU senior and edi.
<br />.. tor.in..chief of the Rocky Mountain Collegian.
<br /><".Newspapers daling back to 1891 were gone, he
<br />said.
<br />Hoppe:. 22. tried ,to reach campus 13S1 night
<br />. from hisoff..campusapartment 10 salvage what
<br />he could. but the currents .....ere too 5tl'Oflg and
<br />almost swepl his car away. He arrived on earn.
<br />pus around 8 a.m_
<br />'.11 took a lillle while fortheshock to set in.
<br />Fortunately no one on campus W3S hurt:: he
<br />said. "'I was the cruiest Ihing rve e~er<e-en
<br />-Ihe way il s....'epl inlO !Own wilhout warning."
<br />People had little or no t-i~ 10 prepare."
<br />Harper said the: faU semt:ster will begin as
<br />scheduled on Aug. 25.
<br />Last year, t9,616 full time S(udenlsattel'\d.
<br />edCSU. ,,-- ,- ,
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<br />rated and al1 of the library's boundjouma.ls and
<br />ncwsp.lpers, some more than 100 years old..
<br />were destroyed. The five'slol)' building was in
<br />the last S1ages of a $20 million ~novalion pro-
<br />j<:cllha<< included measures designed to pn:l(ect
<br />it from I()().)'ear nooding. Hmpersaid.
<br />"This must have been a 1,()()O..year flood;..
<br />he said..;,,,,
<br />The univcrsity broughl in ~pecialllUCksthaJ
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