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Show A DRIVE FOR LIFE. 71 earth been turned upside down, wrong side out, or harve I lost my wits?" A gentleman living on the North Side advertised: " LOST-On the night of the 19th four first-class building lots. They are probably Stateward bound. Anyone who will overtake and return them will be liberally rewarded by the owner." Another requested the removal of other people's lots from his real estate. A negro woman and five children took a deck passage on their cabin roof for a couple of miles, and were safely anchored on the limbs of a cottonwood tree. Of course there were many theories and speculations about water spouts, cloud bursts, and so on. When the facts were developed it was found to be the result of a storm on the Divide, of rain and hail alternately, which raged almost continuously for several days. One good effect of the flood was the washing away of all hostile or sectional feelings between the east and west divisions of the city. The turning of the bed of Cherry creek was then energetically discussed, and became an intermittent disease with which Denver is still to some extent afflicted. CHAPTER XVII. A DRIVE FOR LIFE. In the spring of 1864 the Indians started on the warpath. Stages and wagon trains were waylaid and passengers massacred. For a time communication between Colorado and civilization was almost stopped; the road was literally paved with the bones of the dead and sprinkled with the blood of the wounded and slain. |
