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County road maintainer caught in trees above Homestake Creek on the Gold Park Road. Dempsey Perkins (county man in Red Cliff who plowed snow) and Buster Beck were plowing the Gold Park Road for the second day in the Winter of 1952. Something went wrong with the maintainer and it went off the road and over the hill with both men in it. The maintainer hung up on a tree and didn't drop into Homestake Creek. Both men made it out with minor injuries....
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County road maintainer caught in trees above Homestake Creek on the Gold Park Road. Dempsey Perkins (county man in Red Cliff who plowed snow) and Buster Beck were plowing the Gold Park Road for the second day in the Winter of 1952. Something went wrong with the maintainer and it went off the road and over the hill with both men in it. The maintainer hung up on a tree and didn't drop into Homestake Creek. Both men made it out with minor injuries....
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The Tobias and Marie Montoya house on Water St., Red Cliff, Colorado, in February 2008...a good snow year. Mr. Montoya worked for New Jersey Zinc Co. as a miner. Their son, Ramon, is the current mayor of Red Cliff [2010].
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Snow on the garage roof at 407 Water St., January 5, 2011, next to the Beck's residence.
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December 1951 snow at the Beck's house on Water Street in Red Cliff.
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Men removing snow from houses in the path of a snowslide in Red Cliff, Colorado.
Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 30, 1969 p.1: "Residents of Red Cliff were digging out today from beneath a snowslide which roared down a steep mountainside, burying one house and covering three others to roof level. ...
The mass of snow, about 50 feet wide and 8 feet deep, slid down the side of Silverhorn Mountain Wednesday night, leaving 10 feet of snow piled on the roof...
