Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1912 — MOUNTAIN IS MELTING AWAY [ARTICLE]

MOUNTAIN IS MELTING AWAY

Colorado Peak 14,000 Feet High Loses Topknot Over Night—-Tumbles Into Canyon. Telluride, Colo. —With a crash like the discharge of a battleship's broadside, followed by a prolonged roar, the crest of Lizzard Peak, one of the highest mountains in Colorado, tumbled into the canyons at its base. The few residents of that locality did not discover what had happened until some one noticed a queer change in formation and an apparent lowering of the crest of Lizzard Peak, which was over 14,000 feet high. ' Advices from points surrounding the ‘peak, which is eighteen miles from here, indicate that- 1,000 feet from the crest had crumbled away. Lizzard Peak was one of the sharpest pointed of the many Blender tipped monarchs of toe San Juan range. It was difficult of ascension and the few who have tried to scale it have reported large caves and Assures near the summit