The morning news., 1894-06-02
PUEBLO'S FLOOD FALLING.
Seventeen Of The 81 Persons Missing
Known TO Be Dead.

in Front of the Board of Trade Build
ing-None of the Bodies Likely to Be
Recovered Until the Sink Holes Are
Pumped out-The Water Falls Id
Feet.
Pueblo, Colo, June 1.-The food has
partly subsided, the water having fallen
fifteen feet. A few streets are passable
for teams. The lower ground is still un-
der water and it will be over week be-
fore the water can be pumped out. The
E1ountaine river has fallen two feet since7
O'Clock this morning, but as the ap-
proaches to the bridge are washed away
IL Is impossible to reach the east side
AT 1870 o'clock the coroner went to
point three miles below, where two bodies
are. The list of missing reported, so far,
numbers thirty-two, seventeen of which
have been accounted for. There are three
bodies in the morgue, and the coroner has
been notified of four more.
THE DROWNED oHIHAMAN.
: The body Of the Chinaman, Hop Kee,
has not yet been recovered from the
cellar of his laundry.
Mary johnson ana one child, (colored),
are reported drowned In the back of q
hotel on Morris avenue.
A man and boy were caught by the flood
near the Board of Trade building and
washed beyond the sidewalk. Two men
on horseback who were passing at the
time succeeded in saving the life Of the
boy, by throwing "a lasso around him, but
the man went down in 10 feet Of water.
The boy Is deaf and dumb and therefore
the names Of himself and his companion
could not be learned.
Ihpmaa (luuog N italian fQ V.apnwfad
lost.
THE FIRST WOMAN MISSING.
Mrs. Williams, the first woman re-
ported missing, has not yet been found
A man was seen clinging to piece Of
wood floating down the river last night.
This struck and the man was drowned.
His body has not yet been recovered.
Vandeer and Burch. already reported
missing, have not yet been found.
Judge Burns reports his son, Henry,
missing since z O'Clock Wednesday
night
1t is believed that no bodies can be re-
covered until the sink holes have been
pumped out and that the current Of the
river carried several bodies far down
the stream.
The citizens committee are gathering
up clothes to help those ia distress.
There are nearly 10000 people in this
city who have not slept more than three
hours in the last seventy-two hours.
THE FLOOD AT DENVER
Denver, Colo, June The Platte
river went out OF its banks at II o'clock
last night, aud continued to rise until
after day light Shantytown suffered
the worst, over 500 poor people being
made homeless. 1t is in this particular
the most distressing food in the history
of the city. From midnight until morning.
men, women and children waded through
the slowly rising tide leaving their
humble homes behind to the raVages of
the angry, bad-smelling waters, while
they sought n place Of refuge Some
sought to save their scanty belongings by
piling them in heaps upon knolls, sheds,
or upon the tops of their little box houses,
but the gradually swelling tide engulfed
the stores and carried them down stream.
Men with teams went TO the rescue, and
the horses houndered up to their
brides . trying ton reach and rescue
the shiyerinR poor. About fifty
people were caught in the school
house, where they had TO remain until
this afternoon before they could be res-
cued. This morning, people more for
tunate, sent food TO the families tempo
rarily housed in vacant machine shops,
empty stores, upon higher ground and
other dry spots, while the county COM
missioners aided in the relief work The
people were engaged during the day In
getting what salvage they could, upon the
principle that finding is keeping.
ONLY ONE LIFE LOST
But one life is reported lost, boy
named Eddie Wickman, who was watch-
ing from a levee when he slipped into the
food.
The river is now stationary and as the
rain has ceased the trouble is probably
over.
This morning the railroads set to work
in earnest TO repair their extensive dam
ages from the fifty hour rainfall that
was general over the entire state.
The Denver and Rio Grande
track, between Colorado Springs and
Pueblo follows the Fountaine and this
stream changed its channel In two
places TO the great damage Of the rail-
road. In places only the rails were left
swinging across great gaps, and near
Eden the double track has entirely dis
| appeared for a long stretch. Trains will
not run over the Sante te line between
Pueblo and Colorado Springs for several
days. Between Manitou and the springs
both roads suffered considerably. Be-
tween Pueblo and Canon City, the
Arkansas river was higher than has ever
been known since the railroads were
built, aud the trouble is very serious. 1t
will require another day to get the tracks
there IN passable condition. The Flor
ence and Cripple Creek road was badly
washed out over it's entire distance, and
late to-day a telegram from Gov. Waite
announced that he was between two
washouts.
ROUGH ON THE RAILROADS.
The railroad branches west OF Denver
10 the numerous towns are completely at
sea. The wires are all down and infor-
nation is difficult TO obtain. The Silver
Plume excursionists of Memorial day are
still stranded at Idaho Springs and will
have 10 remain there several days.
Port Collins has had no mail or railway
communication with the outside world
since Wednesday. About mile Of track
Is washed out near there
The Sunset" branch of the uUnion
Pacific, operating from Boulder to the
mines up the canon, some fourteen miles,
is said TO be entirely gone. The company
has not even the right of way left, as the
narrow ledges of land on which the tracks
were built have been hewn away by the
relentless flood.
At Boulder, all the bridges for miles
around were carried of by the flood that
swept out of the canon above. The loss
to property will exceed S50O,000.
1he little log built towns OF Sunset.
Copper Rock. Crisman, Sugar Loaf and
Salina are uninhabited, and the buildings
generally burned in the debris. Other
camps we're badly damaged.