TRAGIC CLOUDBURSTS
TWENTY PEOPLE DROWNED DAMAGE IN COLORADO NEW YORK, July 9 Twenty people wero drowned and damage amounting to 1,000 000 dollars ivas done by cloudbursts, which devastated the towns of idledalo and Morrison, Colorado. . . A 20ft. wall of water rushed into tho Bear Creek canyon and swept seven motor-cars loaded with holiday-makers over the banks. Half of Morrison was destroyed and not a singlo house was left in the village of Starbuck. A similar flood in 1896 cost 28 lives.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21540, 11 July 1933, Page 9
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