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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-06-09

| IN the midst OF the ruins of Pu-
eblo, 32 miles below that town.
Here there is no human life but
us. a..t.
Torches Blink in the Night.
About a mile up the river. which
Is approximately three-quarters of
mile at this point, torches
are blinking in the night. Ghouls,
mostly down-valley Italians, who
| nave found fortune come to them
on the swollen river, are at work.
We passed scores of footing par
ties today all busying themselves
in the waste lands along the river.
Sheriifs and deputies have warned
them out, and we ordered them
out again, but as soon as we
passed they went back to digging
IN the eternal slime. Rumors run
among these folks of lucky finds.
one man turned up a trunk be-
longing to John Bukowitch, Of
Pueblo. He is said to have found
$l42 in it, two watches and pa
pers. He threw the papers in the
mud. Another ghoul got $500.
they say, and reports Of finding
cases OF liquor are frequent. Down
beyond Devine, along the right of
way of the Missouri Pacific. the
angry river has heapcd most Of
Pueblo
Mud Is Waist Deep.
There are houses down there
and shops, and stocks of goods and
barrels of oil Great electric signs
sui intact, stand propped against
trees. miles from the river bed to-
night. Everything is in tangled
heap; some stuff is isolated on
islands, much Inferred in the mud
that is waist deep everywhere eX-
cept IN the quicksand beds. Splash
ing, lodging, ducking through
these swamps of the dead today,
Eddie and | came to but one CON
clusion-no man will ever know
how many died in the Pueblo flood.
or when they died or how. or
where God and the river have
buried them.
There are great mountains of
lWreckaee dotting both sides of the
IriVer bank. In some places the
river was particularly generous,
leaving tons of stuff within the
Iarea of an acre.
SGuatters on HilItops.
Digging into these mountains is
Ike delving into the maws of
death Itself, for nothing moves,
nothing stirs but the swarming
flies and the crinkling mud. You
look in vain among the debris for
Ia sign of life. 1t is death itself
that grins back Mt you from the
slime and water Tonight every
thing is damp. The few squatters
in the section are up ON the hill
tops, where the whining of their
horses answers the challenge of
our tired animals through the
blackness. The Mexicans are
afraid that the river is coming
back in greater fury to carry away
the food treasures it has heaped
along the banks. No man need 10
hungry here.
Wade out into the swamp, find
an intact box and Kansas City can
ned beef, Colorado canned peas.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-06-09
HUGE DAMAGE IS
DONE To CROPS
IN FLOOD AREA
viii Be Almost a Total Loss
Over an Area of Approx
mateIy 296 Square Miles
in Pueblo Region.
Dy The Associated prcss)

Pueblo Colo, June (by the As
sociated Press. Crops were al,
most totally destroyed over an
area Of approximately 29G square
miles IN the neighborhood of Pu.
cblO by the recent floods, accord.
ing to o report made today to mill.
tary headquarters here by Capt
James G. Bennett, of the IScon,
n2issance group, The report fol
lowed observation flights yesterday
up and down the Arkansas and
Fountain rivers
Captain Bennett said that most
of the bridges were washed out OF
badly damaged for distance OF
thirty miles up and for the SAINT
distance down the rivers Build.
ings, fences and roads also were
badly damaged in many places, ac-
cording to the report. Much live
stock was killed also. 1t is i'm
possible to estimate in dollars the
extent of the floods destruction
at this time, it was said.
Observations to Continue.
Observations of conditions in the
surrounding country are to con-
tinue by airplane until the military
authorities are positive all danger
from floods is past.
Three airplanes of an auxiliary
observation group from Fort Sill,
Okla, are expected to arrive here
today from Colorado Springs.
When the planes arrive Maj. j. II.
Moorhead, secretary to Governor
Shoup, and Maj. j. 7. Harris of the
quartermasters corps, will fly to
Denver to deliver important mail
and messages.
Organization of the forces Of
restoration in Pueblo was virtually
complete today with Col. Z. j..
Hammock, adiutant general in
charge. Every agency OF the civil
government that can be used in
rehabilitating flooded Pueblo as
well as the military forces, will he
under his direction until the city
can, be turned back again to its
own peace officers. The entire
system is functioning with clock
like precision, Colonel Hammock
said, and he believes the situation
will be well in hand by next
week.
Food Is Beng Inspected.
Every ounce of food that enters
the city is being inspected before
it is allowed to go on sale, Colonel
Hammock said. Sanitary inspectors
are working In the hope Of getting
the city's water supply fit for use
in a week or two at the most.
Meanwhile an order has been is
sued to the populace TO boil all the
water before it is used. The state
dairy inspector arrived today to
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-06-09
DENVER TIMES CORRESPONDENT
TELLS GRAPHIC STORY OF THE
CONDITIONS SOUTH OF PUEBLO
Ten Million Dollars Worth of Goods and
Scores Of Bodies Lie Strewn in the Mire and
the Quicksands of Inundated Farm Lands;
Mountains of Wreckage Line River Bank.
CBY THE ASSOCIATED Press. }

Denver. june S.---1'1e Denver
Times today received the follow
ing story of conditions In the Ar
kansas river valley below Pueblo
from staff correspondent. He Is
the first newspaper correspondent
10 penetrate into the district,
which received much Of the de-
brls from the Hood waters of
Pueblo:
Arkansas river, below Boone,
Colo. (via Pueblo, Colo), Tuesday
night, June 7 (by courtesy state
ranger controD Ten million dol
lars worth of Pueblo goods, scores
of bodies of Pueblo citizens and
God Knows what other things, lie
strewn in the mire and the quick
sands of inundated farm lands for
IS miles south on both sides of
the raging Arkansas below Pu-
eblo, In the vicinity of Vineland,
Avondale, Devine, Boone, Fowler
and Manzanola death holds SUI
preme sway tonight with only the
torches of 80 ghouls to light up
the desolation. g
Penetrate into Dismal Swamp.
In company with Ranger Eddie
Bell and by means of motorcycle,
auto, saddle horses, cable, foot
work and swinging, we went
through more than 80 miles of
flooded terrain below pueblo to-
day penetrating farther into the
dismal swamp than any human
has come since the eventful FRI
a ,,f e,f 4
bodies of men, millions in prop
erty carried down from Pueblo,
hundreds of dead horses and cat
tie, many lodged in trees. The
stencil and the view are such as
are given to few men to expert
ence. Starting out from Pueblo
in a ranger side car and motor
cycle early this morning, we
bucked lakes, rivers creeks and
yellow swamps for miles and miles
through a trackless waste of mud
marked here and there with bed
springs, wrecked automobiles, oil
tanks, dead horses, tables, trunks,
in wild confusion.
Cross Salt Creek.
Crossing Salt creek in a sea of
spray and taking the course that
once was the main pike to La
Junta, we Travelled by motorcycle
to the st. Charles river, which is
roaring high, swollen to an enor-
NOUS volume. Here a single cable
across the river was the only
means of crossing. With a re-
cruited squad of farm hands to
grunt and tug on the pulley, we
went across.
Eddie went first, I next, with
our mud-caked boots and slickers
within eight inches of the tor
rents. Here the farm hands had
just pulled out the corpse of a T.
year-old girl, which they had
wrapped in paper and laid rev.
erently on the river bank.
Hiring a car, we went on down
until the muck and debris finally
raised an insurmountahle barrier.
Leaving the machine, we took to
horses, and tonight we are infred
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-06-09

ketchup, near beer, cigarettes are
perhaps yours. Suits of clothes,
whole wardrobes of womens
clothes. framed pictures from
somebody's living room; lamps,
chairs, axes. cart wheels, tires,
bales of hay. all these are yours
for the taking here.
Flies Are Plentiful.
Tomorrow the sun may come
out and the rain may cease, Then
what is to become of this vast
burying ground of man and mans
property? Even today. in the driz-
zle, flies swarmed. Three or four
hot days and what will rise from
beneath this covering curtain of
slime?
Hell itself is liable to thrust
through and disease and death
must surely be bred here in these
dismal swamps where we camp to-
night strangers on Il strange land.
No man can estimate the tons
of lumber piled in these miles of
wastage What it has taken gener-
atoms of human labor to assemble
and construct in Pueblo all lier
twisted and wrecked by nature in
the wilderness of the valley tonight
"a valley as silent as death.
Rangers and military authori-
ties, and undoubtedly health au-
thOrities, will come in over our
tracks before many days, They
must come before the sun and the
looters finish the job. All this
wrcckage must be salyaged or mil
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-06-09
WOULD BE FOLLY FOR
u. S. TO DlSARM FIRST,
SAYS WAR SECRETARY

New York. June S,-Declaring it
would be the height of folly for the
United States to disarm first, Sec
rotary OF War Weeks in an address
today to the graduating class of
New York university. said he
hoped TO see this nation prepared
to defend it's rights, its sovereignty
and it's citizens until the day comes
when all nations by mutual con
sent dismantle their Notifications
and scrap their navies. The uni
versity conferred upon Secretary
Weeks the honorary degree of
doctor of laws.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-06-09

Itching diseases can be controll-
ed and cause removed by applying
Billiards. Snow Liniment. The re-
lief is prompt and permanent.
Three sizes. 3Oc. soc and $l.20 per
bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-06-09

Fort so years Mrs Jennie G,
Bean has made an annual pilgrim
age to the cemetery at Winchester
Va, for the purpose of decorating
the graves of confederate soldiers
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-06-09
ChamberIain's Collie and Diarrhoea
Remedy.

Every family should keep this
preparation at hand during the hot
of the summer months. 1t is al
most sure to be needed. and when
that time comes. is worth many
times its cost. Buy it now.
The New York herald., 1921-02-17
GOVERNESS IN GERMAN
EMBASSY STORE THIEF
Paris Ambassador Pays Bill;
Ships Her Home.

Special Gable to THE NEw York HERALD.
Copyright, 1921, by THE New YORK HERALD.
The New York herald., 1921-02-17
OPPOSES BURIAL OF
UNKNOWN AMERICAN
Service Expects Almost All to
Be Identified.

PARIS, Feb. 16.-The American Graves
Registration Service expressed itself to-
day as opposed to the selection at pres
ent of the body of an unknown soldier
removal and burial with honors in the
United States, should Congress enact
legislation to this end The reason is
the constant reduction in the number
OF the unidentified Americans and the
hope of the eventual Identification of
almost all OF them through teeth charts
which are being sent to Washington and
compared with the records.
Hundreds of bodies already have thus
been identified. II was explained, and the
officers of the service here feel that the
time is not yet ripe for the selection OF
the unknown here to be honored.
The New York herald., 1921-02-17

Special Gable to THE NEw York HERALD.
Copyright, 1921, by THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Paris, Feb. 10.
The German Embassy here is in the
lmeliglit as the result of the arrest OF
the governess in Ambassador Wilhelm
Mayer Won Kaufbeuren's household on
the charge Of stealing finely embroidered
feminine garments from the Louvre
Stores. The woman is named Elsa
Haussman and is nearly so years old.
She came here from Berlin three months
ago and every day accompanied the
two young daughters of the German
Ambassador on trips to department.
stores, to the parks and to scenes OF
interest. A Louvre Stores detective saw
the woman secrete loot in a special
pocket in her dress, but it was only
after searching investigation that she
admitted her identity and asked the
German Ambassador to provide bail for
her.
DR.. Mayer Won Kaufbeuren, when he
heard Of the arrest of the woman, went
to the Louvre Stores in a rage and
after assuring the management of the
stores that he would reimburse them
for their loss and trouble, shipped the
governess on the first train leaving Paris
for Germany.
However. the incident Is being cited
by the Paris press to-day as evidence
that the German character has not
changed since the armistice, even Ger
man diplomatic households being thor
oughly impregnated by the example
given by the Crown Prince during the
war.
The New York herald., 1921-02-17
TAKEN FROM JAIL TO
BE SHOT, NOT FREED
Run1or Discredited in Dublin,
Repeated by Belfast.

DUBLIN, Feb. 16.--The story published
by the London Even;ng Neios reporting
that British soldiers had taken Frank
Telling from the Kilmainham jail and
shot him was discredited by army head
quarters here this afternoon. The re-
port was characterized as ridiculously
untrue.
LONDON, Feb. 16.--Frank feeling, who
escaped Monday from Kilmainham jail
while awaiting sentence for the murder
of an officer, may have been taken out
of Jail by unfriendly hands and done to
death. according to a despatch to the
Evening NetDs from Belfast
Referring to the story that feeling
and two men who escaped with him
had walked out of Jail in British SOL
diers' uniforms taken from soldiers kid
mapped by friends of the prisoners, the
uniforms then being smuggled into the
prison, the despatch says another ex-
planation of the incident coming from
Dublin Is even more extraordinary.
TT is said.' continues the message,
that the party which effected the re-
moval of the murderer was not COM
posed of Sim Feiners, but was squad
of British soldiers who. owing TO the
delay in bringing the man TO justice.
took the law into their own hands and
consequently shot him in secluded
spot among the Dublin mountains.
The New York herald., 1921-02-17
Great Britain Likely to Lead,
Italy to Follow and Then
Japan.
ENJOYS LEAVE MOSCOW
Krassine Returning to London
to Settle Agreement as 20
Asiatic Countries.
patch TO THE NEW YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
WaahinKton, ID. c.. Feb. l6.

Washington. ID. c., Feb. 16.
The allied Powers are once more pre-
pairing to renew trade relations with
Russia. according to diplomatic advices
received to-day by the State Department
Great Britain is expected to be the first
to show the way, while Italy is relied
upon to follow suit. Recent cable ad-
vices from Japan were to the effect that
that country would act in consonance
with the course taken by the European
Powers.
The probability that differences in the
way of reopening trade relations would
be smoothed out was indicated by the IN
formation received to-day that Leonid
Krassine, the Bolshevist envoy. who ne
gotiated the preliminary trade agreement
between Britain and Russia. had left
Moscow for London to resume negotia-
tions. while another Soviet mission was
leaving Moscow to discuss the same
question with Italy.
International problems dealing with
the Near and the Far East are in
volved in the negotiations which Kras-
sine will conduct The trade agree
ment which he is anxious to make
would secure what amounts to de jure
recognition of the Soviet Government,
and, if accepted. would bind the Soviet
Government to stop its propaganda
work in the East.
The New York herald., 1921-02-17
DE VALERA CHARGES
BRITISH WITH CRIME
Says Troops Torture Prison
ers, Murder Women and
Children, Outrage Girls.
FLOGGING AND BURNING
Accuses Parliament of RespOn-
sibility for Horrors Com
mitted by Troops.

DUBLIN, Feb. l5.-Eamonn de Valera
has forwarded letter to all members
of the British Parliament in which, in
behalf of the elected representatives of
Ireland" he charges the British troops
with waging war on the Irish people
contrary to all the rules of civilized
warfare"
The communication, 1t is explained,
was sent Test under plea OF ignorance
you should disclaim responsibility for
what is being done here in your name"
The troops. he declared. we're guilty of
"torturing prisoners. assassinating men
and boys in the streets and prisons.
numbering women. children and clergy
men and outraging Irish women and
girls. fiogging and the maltreatment of
groups OF civilians taken from villages
and the countryside, issuing ana enforc-
ing Crawling and suchlille humiliating
and degrading orders, taking men from
their work and forcing rnem 10 do mill
tary duty or work at military labor as
slave gangs, burning and looting fac
tories, creaineries, shops and dwelling
houses the destruction of farmsteads
and farm produce and the killing and
manning of live stock.
Although you have put your troops
on active service In Ireland" says Mr..
de Valera, although you have sought
to justify many vile deeds committed
as acts Of war and although you are
armed with the deadliest modern ma
chinery OF war and protected by every
means known to technical skill. you now
seek to purchase immunity from de-
fensive action by our party by taking
possession OF all firearms, an offence for
which an Irishman may be arrested and
shot and for which one has been shot,
and by carrying Irish citizens in your
military expeditions against our people.
THE orders to your troops are to
shoot these hostages. should the unit
with which they are travelling be at
tackled. Already. under the specfous
pretence that they were trying to escape,
many Irish prisoners have been brutally
murdered by your troops Now repre-
sentative Irish citizens are to be mur-
dered similarly on the ground, pretended
or true, that the party with which they
are moving is attacked.
These things are done because II is
your will that they should be done; II
you willed otherwise, they would cease
1t is you. not your troops, who are pri'
marily responsible"
The New York herald., 1921-02-17
By the Associated Press.

LONDON. Feb. 16.-One Of the leading
features of to-day's sitting of the House
was the severe heckling of Sir Hamar
Greenwood, Chief Secretary for ireland.
by T.. p. O'Connor and other Irish Ma
tionalists for the refusal of Sir Hanar
to publish Gen. Strickland's report on
the Cork burnings. Sir Hamar stood
by his guns and refused to add anything
to the former statement Of the Prime
Minister.
The remainder of the sitting was oc-
cupied by discussion of John r. Clyne's
amendment to the address from the
throne, regretting the Governments fail
ure to deal adequately with unemploy-
ment. Mr. Clyne argued that the prob
lem was too big for mere insurance
schemes, and that the Ministers had
failed totally to redeem their solemn
promises. II they realized their inability
to cope with the task. Mr.. Clyne de-
clared, they ought to resign Il to others.
Mr.. Clyne urged the reopening Of trade
with Russia and Europe generally, and
promised the full cooperation of the
Labor party to this end.
Minister OF Labor Mcnamara, defend
ing the Government. said there were
nearly 1000. 900 OF unemployed In the
United States. He recited the remedies
the Government already had adopted to
meet the unemployment situation, and
added that there were no new facts to
make known.
He explained the terms OF the new
bill amending unemployment insurance
announced In the Kings throne speech.
He said that the period IN which the un-
employment benefit would be paid in
any one year had been extended from
fifteen TO twenty-six weeks. and the
benefit heretofore OF fifteen shiilings
would be raised 70 eighteen shIllings
for men. fifteen for women. nine for
boys and seven shiliings sixpence for
girls. while the contribution had been
raised from ten pence TO thirteen pence
three farthings
Eligibility. added the Minister. would
depend on twenty weeks employment In
1920 for civilians and ten weeks for ex-
service men.
Some plquancy was lent the debate
through two Labor members, George
Nicoll Barnes and George II. Roberts.
severely lecturing the Labor party for
its failure to make practical remedial
suggestions. They both contended that
IL was hopeless TO look to Russia for
relief from present Industrial difficulties.
Mr.. Roberts declared II was little less
than a crime to deludc workers with the
idea that there wero surplus stores of
food in Russia.
The New York herald., 1921-02-17

Special Cable TO THE NEW York HERALD
Copyright. 1921, by THE NEW YoRK HrRALp:
New York Herald Bureau,
London, Feb. 16.
The House of Commons staged
savage attack on the Governments
Irish policy to-day. including the
Mallow station shooting. brought up
by Labor, and the refusal to publish
Gen. Strickland's report on the loot
ing of Cork. Yet Downing Street is
optimistic tonight that the next few
weeks will see the beginning Of an era
Of peace in Ireland. The Crown be-
lieves it has got the situation well in
hand and thinks that the South Ire
land Parliament can be formed next
April, which it maintains would mean
an end of bloodshed on the island.
Officials in close touch with affairs
said that Sir Hamar Greenwood. Chief
Secretary for Ireland. was back in Lon
don with every assurance that the Irish
want peace under home rule. The Gov
ernment is determined that they shall
have 1t. Sir Hamar conferred in Ireland
with many important men who wished
success for the policy. He received a
vast number Of communications. 1t was
said. urging the establishment Of Par
lament in south Ireland. 1t was ok
plained that when he tried to get. these
men to openly aid the Government they
refused, saying the did not dare do so.
1t was added. however. that many OF
these men told Sir Hamar that II the
Government would break up the murder
ring" they would boldly stand out for
peace and try to make the home rule act
work.
1t is known that Sir Hamar thinks 1t
possible to hold the election next April.
and it is even thought in some Gov
ernment quarters that possibly some
crown candidates might win at the
polls. Sim Fein candidates who win
will be allowed to take their seats IL
they take the oath Of loyalty. At any
rate, 1t Is held here that the election
will surely be step forward. for it will
at least determine where the Govern
ment stands better than can be deter
mined at present
The Mallow incident. in which a num-
Der of railroad men were killed during
firing between soldiers and armed civil
ians, was brought UP in the House, with
labor demanding an open inquiry. The
National Union of Railroadmen has de-
Ciutu 10 ueieT stTlke action until lnere
are further developments in the House
Labor made it plain 1t was not salts
fed with the Premier's statement regard
ing the Mallow killings and did not
want a military inquiry. However. strike
talk is muffied and the union has not
even considered the advisability OF call
ing delegates to a conference.
The Irish Office says an investigation
of the Mallow incident Is going on. bu
that 1t Is meeting with the usual trouble
In getting witnesses who dare to testify
because Of the fear of consequences. II
connection with this outrage. like al
others in Ireland. 1t is practically impos
sible to get at the truth of the matter
/ Officials here say It is idle talk when
certain factions demand an investiga
tion where an investigation is impos
sible