Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-06

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are filled with uncounted and uncharted
victims.
Several children have been born during
the fight Of the women from the waters
that have not been recorded.
Many families have become separated
and have found no means of learning OF
each others fate
Citizens have been reported to have
been seen floating with faces down In
the liquid mud and have been seen later
in active relief work.
SLOWLY BRINGING
ORDER FROM CHAOS.
All this muddle of facts and efforts is
being whipped into shape and within a
day or so there will be record on which
some rational information OF the number
Of dead and destitute will be reached.
Pueblo Is going at its work In a way
that VIII show results, surely, but not
till days and much hard work has been
put behind IL.
The property loss will be arrived at
IN short time for the evidence Of what
has been done in this way is at hand 10
any who explores the food area.
Miles of railroad track are out. Sew
eral department stores have been ruined
completely and others suffered a total
loss of all the goods In the basement and
first fcors. In many cases on Main
stree. the water swept In the rear or
front OF the stores and Quilted them.
Lumber yards all over the city were fired
by the quicklime. created by the down
pour that fell.
Houses were carried from the bottoms
into the business section. A freight shack
soaght refuge from foods FIVE blocks
from its foundation in the entrance of a
downtown garage. Humble dwellings
bumped into the plate glass windows OF
the largest department stores several
blocks away.
NO BUILDING IN
FLOOD AREA ESCAPES.
Banks were turned into a mass of
debris and the vaults toppled over. Every
public utility Is practically out Of com
mission Automobiles by the hundreds
went rolling gaily down the main street.
Freight cars were tossed about like frail
boxes. Water and FIRE destroyed the
greater part Of the goods in the stores
and warehouses. There is no building
that, In the entire food area, which covers
about I'VE square miles within the city
limits of Pueblo, that has not been Sc
riously damaged and the majority are a
total loss That the damages to prop
erty will amount to S10,0O0000 is the most
conservative estimate.
But the greatest question that con-
fronts the city today is what is to be
done about rebuilding. That many bust
ness men will be ruined is a certainty.
There were few that carried any flood
insurance.
This problem is seen on the faces OF the
city. It is Eeen in the nervous men or
affairs who are busting about attending
to everyone's Affairs, In the workmen
waiting patiently for passes to get into
the vicinity Of their jobs, and the women
at the relief headquarters and In the long
faces Of the women and men holding
their children and a pillow slip fun of
belongings on their laps.
They have begun to grasp the enormity
of the tragedy that has swept their city
and there is a feeling of suspense and
threats Of panic when the mention Is
made of possible further rampages of the
Arkansas and the Fountain and cloud
bursts.
RIVER GONE MAD
SPREADS TERROR.
A river gone mad holds the suffering
refugees In constant terror.
Sweeping down the rampaging Arkan-
breaking of a dam above here, the first
warning of which came near Trinidad,
struck the city another blow
Pueblo's population, its nerve already
shattered from three days of lighting the
food and fire caused by lightning, was
ordered to stand by.
Troops, racing with death, rushed in
all directions to warn the inhabitants Of
the oncoming five-foot wall of water
Women and children, obtaining their first
rest since the flood broke Friday night,
were aroused and ordered to higher
ground.
Engines raced up and down the valley
as far as rails had been repaired, their
sirens sounding the shrill notice of the
new danger. 1t was the fourth wave Of
water to attack the city-two striking
Friday night, when the first clondburst
deluged the city; the second when the
levee gave way and the third when the
Beaver dam thirty i've miles west of the
city, gave way Sunday afternoon. The
fourth food came before the waters had
receded from the Sunday deluge.
The water, after rising rapidly
reached its crest and started to recede
again about a. IN. 1t did not reach the
mark set by Sunday nights rise Re-
ports were spreading, however, that q
sudden rise had occurred in the FOun-
tain River, but the rumor could not be
verified and its authenticity was doubted
because Of conditions in the Arkansas
Both rivSrs run parallel through the city
SERIOUSLY HAMPER
RELIEF WORKERS.
Although the new foods have not taken
any lives as far as could be learned,
nor caused any great additional loss In