Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-06
Suf fering Rife
in Colorado TOlUnS
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NpUtiuutu lrOfh WV
Governor Shoup took part. repair Of
the levees was decided upon as one of
the first problems to be met. 1t was
considered possible that aid OF the Fed.
eral Government would be sought
The South Side of the city which
was isolated from the remainder of the
city by food waters. early today was
taking stock of its losses mad anxiOuSly
awaiting restoration of communication
with the city proper that the full eX-
tent of the disaster Pueblo has suffered
may be realized.
There was no official estimate this
morning Of the number Of casualties or
the property loss in this part of town.
Among the bodies identified were those
Of Dorothy Metz. Pueblo; 7. Hall
pullman porter, Denver; Doris Seaber
Pueblo; Frank Erwin. Pueblo ---
Evans. Kansas City. Mo. John Fa
reros, f. G. Hames and Henry Miller.
all of Pueblo.
The problem of caring for refugees on
the South Side became serious yesterday
Homes, schools and churches were used
to house the refugees and a soup line
was established. while lunches were
served in the high school building.
Floods Of lesser magnitude were re.
ported early today by several towns in
Kansas. All arc along the course of
the Arkansas River. which overfowed
its banks here. Syracuse and Gardner,
Kansas, have reported sweeping foods
and all towns in the Arkansas Valley
have been warned of the rising river.
Las Animas Also Flooded
The Atchison, Topeka and Sar -
shops at La Junta are under + - -
of water. the railroad yards are wrecked
and two locomotives and 200 freight
cars were swept away. A score of lives
are believed to have been lost.
Two hundred residences in Las Ami
mas were under three feet Of water last
night. Inhabitants fed to pubIi-build-
ings and to the highlands fearing the
residence section would be swept away
-Four persons were drowned when the
American Beet Sugar Co.. Mexican
colony, Montezuma, on the river bank
was swept away. The cOmbany lost
5000 bags of sugar in warehouses here.
Rocky Ford tho American Beet Su.
gar Co. s farm and stock feeding Yards
was destroyed Pens continuing 2O0O
hogs and 300 cattle were lost.
All river bridges on the Santa F'o
Railway and lines Of track ia score
of places between the Kansas line al !
Pueblo were washed out. The los ses
will run into the millions.
Cave Hermit browns
Reports received from Lake Charles.
fifteen miles south. told of the probable
drowning Of n hermit who lived In a
cave near that place. lie had lived
for years in the cave. which was on the
high banks of the St Charles River. It
was near the same spot. Lake Charles
reports said, that woman and four
children were drowned.
After two nights and most " two dayS
marooned on a small island in the Ar.
kansas River, four miles below puohDo.
Ed Harrison, Of Denver. and i. y.
Spicer. OF Pueblo, managed to attract
attention and were rescued by Colorado
guardsmen.
and Rio Grandc train which was
wrecked by tho food in the railroad
yards early Friday night. lie managed
70 escape from coach and swan to Il
floating log TO which he clung until hc
was cast up on the island.
\ Early Friday morning Spicer's home
was torn from it's foundation and the
cottage, with Spir"r riding on its roof
was sent spinning down the torrent. It
lodged against the same small island
dpon which Harrison already had been
marOoned
y The Platte River broke us harks at
Denver shortly after midnight inun
dating several blocks of the west sida
residential section, from which people
fed their homes, taking refuge in tho
City Hall Red Cross stations cared
for the homeless. Last reports from
Denver early this morning said that
the river was within one foot Of the
bridge structures in the business sec.
ton and still rising,
Three times yesterday carrc II renewal
AZ the food here, At O'Clock in the
morning water rose several feet when
the crest of the food from the breaking