“Along Cherry Creek from the [Denver] city limits to a point about a mile above its mouth the flooded area covered a block and a half on the north bank and a half a block on the south bank… In all, 86 blocks in the residential district and 19 blocks in the business district were inundated…

From statements of residents throughout the basin it appears that the heaviest precipitation occurred in the lower half of the basin, extending from Franktown to a point about 5 miles north of Denver, and that the rain was particularly heavy below Parker. In this section the rain was so intermingled with hail and came down so fast that it was said to be difficult to see a hundred yards. The precipitation above Franktown was slight and, according to J. E. Field, did not extend to Castlewood Dam… The rain caused every dry gulch to run bank full, and as the storm apparently traveled down-stream at about the same rate as the water in Cherry Creek, the cumulative effect was nearly the maximum for a storm of that intensity.”

--Follansbee, Robert and Leon R. Sawyer. "Floods in Colorado." USGS. 1948.

The rain and hail storm which swept this part of the country on Sunday afternoon, was the worst that has visited this section for many years, and a great amount of damage was done to crops in many localitites…
The big rush of water that came down the creeks and gulches, did a great amount of damages to roads and bridges. Over a dozen bridges in the county have been either washed out entirely or badly damaged…
Probably the worst part of the storm visited the northeasten part of the county, where it left ruin and devastation in it path… The [Colorado & Southern railroad] track [near Parker] was moved in places two and three hundred feet from the right of way, according to reports. The bridge at Parker was washed out and it went down the creek and took off the banisters of the big state cement bridge. Much property in that part of the county was damaged. It is said that there were only two houses in Parker, the Hood and Hoskins property, that were not damaged.
--"Worst Storm in Years Visits Country." Record Journal of Douglas County. July 19, 1912.

--"Christopher Jensen Drowns in Flood." Record Journal of Douglas County. July 19, 1912.