In addition to these debris flows, flash floods carrying extremely high sediment loads were very dangerous.

In 1894, a flood carried away the bridge at the north fork of the river at Winthrop.

But the rising flood carried her away.

The flood carried everything before it in a great tumbling mass of wreckage.

For a moment her heart was numbed within her, and then a flood of sisterly love carried all before it.

The flood carried with it 185 million tons of silt.

The floods, however, also carry along the waste and detritus of a large population.

Both boats were drifting very fast up Sumner Strait, the flood current carrying them with it.

There were fears that the flood on Nias had carried many bodies out to sea and that the death toll could rise far higher.

The dark flood kept coming over their own fallen, carried the doorway, and suddenly gave way, retreating desperately.