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LIVES LOST IN The FLOOD.
The Worst Of the Pueblo Story No
Known Yet.

The Work Of Rescue Just Begun When
a Recurrence Of the Flood Forced
Suspension of Operations Four
Corpses Already Discovered and
10 or 20 Persons Missing.
Pueblo, Col, MAY 3l.-The cloudbust
which last night sent q vast torrent Of
water down the valley and into this city
caused many deaths and rendered wide-
spread destruction. The work of rescue
had Just begun today when recurrence
of the food caused a suspension Of the
work and it is feared tonight that many
bodies were washed away under the
debris, and will never be recovered. The
list Of the dead and missing, as compiled
shortly before midnight, is as follows;
DEAD.
Dave Rafferty,, steel worker, So years,
single, body at morgue.
Joseph /. Coppen, smelter employe, 80
years, married, body at morgue.
One body is reported seventeen milea
above town and another two miles below,
but neither has been recovered yet.
Hop Lee, a Chinese laundryman, is said
to have been drowned in the cellar Of his
laundry, but a search did not reveal the
body.
MISSING.
J. Vandever, William Bush, Harry
Burch Mrs. Williamson, Josie Hart, an
infant, Five others reported by different
families.
a company of Coxeyltes numbering
sixty, who came from the west yesterday
and were camped on the river bank re-
port that five of their comrades are MISS
ing.
Grave fears are expressed for twelve
families Of squatters on an island down
the river. There is no means of reach
ing these people at present.
The catastrophe, which is similar.to the
Johnstown horror Of five years ago and
remarkable from having occurred on the
same day Of the week, has utterly pros
trated the citizens and paralyzed business.
The property loss will be about 5000, 900.
Tonight both the Arkansas and Foun-
tain rivers are rising rapidly and rain is
falling in torrents. But for light hero
and there, the city would be in darkness
and many fear a repetition Of last nights
horror.
MANY ARE DROWNED.
Denver, May 81 - A special from
Pueblo, received at noon to-day, says
several people have been drowned In the
flood. Two bodies are already recovered.
Tho water has now fallen eighteen inches.
The damage will exceed $500 600. Traffic
on the Pixies Peak railroad at Manitou
has been entirely suspended for the firsb
time in its history, by reason OF the great
damage done to the roadhed. The Rio
Grande and Santa Fe railroads are
seriously crippled at many points by
washouts, rockslides, and washed away
bridges. The damage throughout the
state will doubtless be very great.
THE WATER RISING AT DENVER.
Denver, Col. May 81, midnight.-The
whistle at the Denver paper mills south
of the city began TO blow shortly after IL
O'Clock tonight, TO warn the residents Of
the Platte river bottoms to seek higher
ground. The river has been steadily ris-
ing at the rate Of from four 10 six inches
an hour all day and at this hour is outside
its banks until the water is backed up to
the Rio Grand shops at Burnham. Tho
600 CoXeytes in River Front park have
been warned out. At jerome park the
residents sought refuge in a school house,
which IS now partially submerged. There
is much excitement in the flooded dis
tricts, but it is thought that all will be
rescued.
THE CITY ISOLATED.
This city was practically isolated from
the rest of the state for most of the day,
owing TO the damage done railway. tele-
graph and telephone lines by the heavy
and steady rain storm that has
prevailed for the past forty-eight
hours. The extent of the damage cam
not lie estimated further than TO say
that il is unprecedented. Until late in
n do "a no ,,fffgia1a did mi
know where the troubles upon their re-
spective lines were located and business
was at a stanustill IL will require an
other day to place the roads in such shape
that traffic may be resumed upon through
lines.
THE GOVERNOR TIED UP.
Gov Waite is said to be tied up In
Eight Mile Canon on the line Of the Flor
ence and Cripple Creek railroad with bad
washouts on both sides of him Some
effort will probably be made tonight to
get him to Colorado Springs or Florence
by wagon.
The Denver and Rio Grande railroad
was the worst sufferer, having washoutS
along the line from Canon City to Pueblo,
and toward Colorado Springs.
The company had but one wire working,
and reports received during the early
evening show that the breaksi in the track
are numerous. Work trains are in readi-
ness to 90 out as soon as the food in
Pueblo subsidies, which will be some time
tonight.
The Santa Ee route is badly washed be-
tween La Junta and Pueblo near Colo
RADIO City, on the Midland up Ute Pass.
The Gulf route lost all its wires aud
had TO send out a train to flag its way
southwark BY this means a north
bound passenger train was located beyond
a big washout twentysix miles south Of
Denver.
The mountain branches were all
blocked by mud slides and washOuts.
The WOodman holiday excursion on
the South Park line was held at Platte
Vile last night and brought in late to-
day.
The Denver and Rio Grande passenger
trains are all at division stations, late
report states