Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-06
FEAR EPIDEMIC
OF DIPHTHERIA
AND TYPHOID
More Than 100 Bodies Re
covered From Shiny Mud
That Covers City.
MUCH WATER REMAINS


line of military and Red Cross work
ers today sought Pueblo's food dead
in a three-foot layer of Shiny yellow
mud.
The city, coated wit hoozing dregs
Of the food, was fighting against
pestilence with every available ia
cility. Still waterless, its greatest
peril came from threat of typhoid
and diphtheria epidemics.
The sun broke through during the
forenoon. 1t was taken as a good
omen by the beleaguered city.
More than one hundred bodies had
been recovered up to that hour They
were in temporary morgues with
workers making little or no attempt
at Identification. The bodies were
all coated with mud and unrecogniz-
able in their present state.
A great black scar marks its business
district with soldiers and volunteer ex-
service men beginning the work of re-
Mobilization. Tho food level is as high
as it was Saturday noon, but the Sun
day food has partially subsided. More
than one hundred blocks are still mum
dated with little hope of the waters sub
siding for at least forty-eisht hours.
5000 HOMELESS
BEING CARED FOR.
Approximately eight thousand homeless
persons are being cared for In Red Cross
stations and improvised barracks. There
is practically no suffering except among
ilnterate foreigners who lost everything
and are still too bewildered to avail them
selves OF relief measures.
The search for dead began at daybreak
whenever the waters permitted. 1t is
believed scores of bodies have hoated on
down the Arkansas and viii be found
buried in Kansas.
The principal work Of relief now is In
obtaining fresh water. Warnings ara
posted everywhere against drinking the
yellow ooze which comprises the Ar
kansas and Fountain Rivers.
Colonel Hammock issued a military or
der for all able-bodied men to report to
the numerous relief stations
81 have twenty thousand shove1s ans
every person who is able must get to
work Immediately and clear up this ter
ribls wreckage," Hammock said.
That such a food was possible was
greeted with laughs when the warning
was sounded in the blasts Of a siren
whistle that could be heard for miles.
Hundreds from the upper parts of the
city hurried to the bridges to see the fun.
The police had to use force to make
many families move from "Peppersauce
Bottoms" and 1.-THE Grove" In their
hurry, the officers did not always stop to
do more than yell to them to get out. It
savaral families
fused to leave their homes until supper
was over. The result in some cases was
tragic Other families scurried away
when they found their homes lifting un-
der them.
The crowds on the bridges dehed the
police and one bridge went out with
nearly two-score Mexicans standing, look
ing over the rails.
OTHERS GO QUIETLY
ABOUT USUAL AFFAIRS.
Many residents went quietly about
their usual evening tasks and pleasures
until the lights went out and then re-
tired early.
The calmness, the fidelity to accus-
toned ways was in reality the only way
the city could display the emotion that
stirred 1t. All night long many men and
women worked, but always quietly and
with a touch of ennui. They were not
affecting calmness; they were merely too
moved to trust themselves to give vent
to their feelings. Dimly they realized
that one of the most terrible floods in the
history of the West, and in many ways,
of the country, had suddenly selected
| their city as its scene.
They could not grasp It. 1t was un-
believable that in the torrents of water
from the skies and the sticky brown river
| x.
drink They could not believe what they
saw-great piles of lumber in a great
blaze floating down the stream and set
q, ting fire to the water soaked building
against which they lodged.
BEGIN TO RECOVER
FROM DAZED CONDITION.
1t simply could not be and so they
set about doing relief work or nothing
in a dazed condition. From this they
are beginning to recover There is more
| of stir among the workers than there
was at the height of the flood by those
who were caught in the trap of the waters
and who are now, the fortunate ones
refugees There is more of a semblance
of organization and with aid rushina
from all the surrounding cities and
| towns, the authorities are working fever
ishly to restore order and a normal tran.
j guilty.
The women, who have worked with
ceaseless energy through the entire tur.
mOil, are beginning to display an excite.
ment born of the realization of what h@A
happened The bankers and other bunt.
ness men are beginning to consider whas
is to be done and the swarms of volun-
teer and police patrols are now giving
! actual relief.
There is awakening some Of the nor
NAL energy and enthusiasm of the city.
ESTIMATES OF DEAD
FROM 100 to 1000.
The estimates of the number OF dead
| vary from less than 100 to more than
| 1000 and the evidences for one set Of
| figures is good as the other. The
rush of water carried everything before
it and any person who was caught was
swept down stream for many niles in
some cases and may never be seen again.
even as skeleton, unless in some distant
| era when Psychologists find heir bones.
1t is impossible to count the number
| Of persons who are relying on the Red
! Gross, the Elks Club, the Y. NJ c. A., the
Salvation Army, the knights Of Colum-
/ bus and like organizations for their food
| and shelter The schools, churches, the
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