Volume 16 , Issue 24

1914, July Telluride Flood

In the same front page headlines from The Calumet News, 28 July 1914, we found this article, Much Damage Done By Flood In Telluride. Fifty families made homeless and two drowned by Rush of 10-ft. wall of water. Buildings were wrecked. Fifteen business blocks and many houses swept away pt badly damaged.

Telluride, Colo., July 28 (1914) -- Two persons were drowned, fifty families made homeless and fifteen business blocks, comprising one hundred buildings, partially wrecked late July 27, 1914, when a ten foot wall of water, originating from a cloudburst, descended through the canyon, broke the dam and flooded the town. The damage was estimated at three hundred thousand.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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