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<br />.' <br /> <br />.r <br /> <br />Water, water everywhere... <br /> <br />Page 3 of3 <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />The money can't come soon enough for Fort CoIlins residents. As many as 1,000 homes <br />and 150 businesses were damaged. Some 170 people were left homeless and seeking <br />refuge at temporary shelters. <br /> <br />At CSU, conditions were improving late Wednesday. Two more campus buildings were <br />reopen:ed -- a branch of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Spruce Hall, a center <br />for admissions and campus services. <br /> <br />Families started to make funeral arrangements. Public safety officials said three remaining <br />missing persons from Monday's disaster had been located alive. <br /> <br />Scores of damp and destitute victims lined up at shelters and relief agencies seeking <br />lodging and loans. <br /> <br />They complained of being confronted by confusing instructions and frustrating delays <br />lasting several hours just to get a week's motel voucher. <br /> <br />Some, like Mike and Carol Keever, were turned away so relief officials could help needier <br />people. <br /> <br />"It's a waiting game, and waiting is always hard," said Mike Keever, 34. <br /> <br />Others tried to breach a fluttering barrier of yellow police tape to retrieve their belongings <br />from their trailers -- if they had any left. But safety officials kept the site closed all day to <br />safeguard gas lines and remove debris. <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />An angry Scott Ruff, 35 said he heard damaged trailers were being crushed for scrap <br />before residents could retrieve their valuables. City officials denied that, saying that only a <br />few wrecks stuck beneath a bridge had been removed. <br /> <br />Thursday, July 31,1997 <br /> <br />Back to tOD <br /> <br />Subscribe to Denver's #1 Newspaper <br />I!;;) Rocky Mountain News <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />Thursday, July 31,1997 <br /> <br />8:32 AM <br />