"Last year a series of cloudbursts and downpours in the Fountain Valley crippled railroad traffic and tied the D&RG railroad up for 24 hours between here and Pueblo. At 4 o’clock in the morning the train was crossing the Fountain River at Little Buttes, when the trestle gave way and sent the locomotive into the water.  For 15 minutes the engineer and fireman battled for life in the waters of the flood, and finally by clinging to pieces of wreckage reached dry land and safety. This washout was caused in a manner similar to that of last Sunday night, but only the engine went under and there was no loss of life.  This same night a three-span bridge at Hardscrabble on the same road washed out. The Santa Fe reported water to a depth of five feet in many places along the tracks".