Unknown County CO Archives News.....Drowned In Canyon August 5, 1904
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Morning Oregonian August 5, 1904
Campers Are Caught By A Great Rush Of Water
Woman And Girl Perish
Great Wave From Cloudburst Far Up In The Mountains Gave No Warning Of Its 
Death Dealing Approach
Boulder,Colo., Aug 4- Mrs.Lina Chambers, of New York,Nebras., and Mary Renkes, 
the 12 year old daughter of Charles Renkes, of this coty, were drowned in 
Boulder Creek today. They were part of a party camping in Bummer Gulch, six 
miles form here.
Without any warning a wall of water, caused by a cloudburst, came rushing down 
the gulch, carrying the tent and the inmates into the creek. Some of the 
campers were thrown upon the rocks or to the opposite shore of the creek.
Mrs. Chambers and Mary Renkes were carried into the stream by the torrent of 
water and drowned. Their bodies, badly bruised, were found some distance down 
the stream tonight.
The storm which caused the cloudburst did considerable damage in the mining 
camps of Sugar Loaf Mountain and in the neighborhood of Ward. At the latter 
place, the ground was covered with hail to a depth of six inches.

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