Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-06-07
STORM AND FLOOD.
ecvoes Break aud IA Hundred Dwellings
Co Down at Pueblo, Colorado,

STORM AND FLOOD.
scvces Break aud Hundred Dwellings
Co Down at Pueblo, Colorado.
For two days tho storm had been
raging, when the fire whistles In the
city of Pueblo, at the meeting of the
waters of the Arkansas and Fountain
rivers, called the fire and police de.
partments and volunteers to aid in
rescueing the people from the bottoms.
High wagons and boats brought the
unfortunates to high ground. Two
hours after the first alarm, second
was sounded. The levees above the
city had broken like ropes of sand
before the surging torrent. The water
quickly rose to the depth of six feet
in the residence portion of the city
and rushed along the streets at eighteen
miles an hour. The first alarm had
sounded at 8 p, m,; at 1880 100
dwellings had gone down in the swirl
ing waters. At midnight cloud burst
added its terrible discharge to the vast
volume of the flood; at 1:10 four
bridged had beeu swept away, and
for three miles UP and down and one
mile across, the water was from four
to eight feet deep.
The list of the drowned, as far as
ascertained, numbers five and ten
missing. In addition to the above, a
company of Coxeyites, encamped on
the bank of the river, report five miss
ing. There are twelve families of
squatters on all island down the river,
whom there is no means of reaching.
The property loss, up to the latest
report, is estimated to be 100000.
DLNvER
was practically isolated from the rest
of the state during most of Thursday
OH account of the damage TO railroads,
telegraph and telephone lines by the
rain-storms prevailing that day and
the day before. The damage is UNI
precedented. The Platte river rose
from to inches an hour all day,
aud shortly before II p. m. a steam
whistle began to blow to warn the
denizens of the river bottom to seek
higher grounds. AT jerome Park
school house, in which the residents
had sought refuge, was partly sub.
merged. There was great excitement
in the flooded district, but it was
thought that all would be rescued.
AT COLORADO SPRINGS.
From Colorado Springs comes the
news that Chicago and Clear creeks,
during the storm of last Friday, be.
came raging torrents. Telegraph
poles and trees are going down before
the flood, and thousands of dollars
worth of property has been destroyed.
Many mines have been flooded and
tunnels have caved in. Freight and
passenger trains are many hours late.
IN MEXICO.
A special from Durango, Mex,
says: A cloudburst occurred in the
Sierra Madre mountains, about seven.
ty miles south of here, and camp of
charcoal burners was washed away by
the flood, Which came rushing down
the mountain gulch. Ten charcoal
burners in the camp were all drowned.
THE HOMELESS.
From later accounts of the disaster
at Pueblo we collect the following:
About 800 houses were torn from
their foundations and many foated
away. Only few of the occupants
were able to save any of their effects.
Some 175 babies and their mothers
are gathered in the hall of the Grand
Opera house. The arinory of the
second regiment. which has been fur
nished with all the cots aud beds that
could be gathered, is temporary domi-
ell Of 800 girls and women. Forty
families occupy the top floor of the
city hall, where they cook the provis-
ions subscribed by the citizens for all
the sufferers. One hundred and fifty
families are cared for by the neighbors
at Bessemer. All houses out of dan
ger are opened to the homeless and
he women are cooking for them. 700 |
are quartered in the small halls in the |
vicinity of the city hall. The Fountain
riveris rising rapidly, in consequence
OF a cloudburst, hitherto unframed
by the flood are in great peril. The
police are doing great work in rescur-
ing the imperiled. No effort is made
to save property.