Arizona republican., 1921-06-06
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and property damage. but now. since have been over the devastated area ton is possible Colonel Pat Ham rock, adjutant general and command CT of the Colorado state troops on duty here, said tonight.
 'It is absolutely impossible to do more than venture a guess as to the number of people who must have been killed in the flood of Friday night" he continued. 'T don't care to begin guessing: I know that about hundred bodies have been found, but no man alive can tell how many more corpse are hidden in the piles of debris in the section stricken by the flood. It has been reported to me that there are between 300 and 500 dead horses down there. I don't know where they came from"
 At any rate,- added the colonel. | you may say that we have the situ- ation we'll in hand. that it is only a matter of hours until we can begin to get some definite line on just how big a disaster has visited Pueblo. Establish Refugee Camp Tomorrow at Mineral Palace park. | there will be established a refugee
 camp where the homeless of the city will be received We have now on the way from Denver an adequate supply of tenlts bedding, cooking utensils and other things, a supply sufficient for 1000 people, and we have enough here now for 200.
 eLsttest reports Indicate there is no danger of a water shortage, but it | will be at least a week before the
 water. system can be put into opera ton again. The problem now is not of supply but of proper distribution IT int fod rr1rniffaaS each
 committee with it's own particular duty and these committees are taking care of all the problems as they pre-
 sent themselves. Everything IS working smoothly. The Colorado sol diers are exerting themselves well
 There has been no footing or disvl deI
 to sreak of since we took charge" .l It is impossible to obtain any accu- rate information on the number ol cred, as military headquarters i.
 without communication with the eas and south sections of the city
 Bodies have been taken to half (
 dozen places in the north section o the city. Just what steps are beini taken, or how many bodies have beer recovered on the east and south side' is not definitely known. Dr. F. M
 Heller, of the Red Cross. said tonigh | lnAI ESpoIts lO nlIIl Ifdu liiuiS8Acu S'
 bodies recovered early today.
 number of bodies were known to hav'
 been recovered previously and it i on this figure that the estimate of 10l recovered is made.
 Fear Many Dead in Trains
 The number of those drowned fl the Missouri Pacific and Denver am
 Rio Ctrande trains cannot be learned
 nor can the identity of most of tn bodies recovered. Officials said tha l12o persons of the two trains had bee passs,ngers and the number on tn . other train is not known An effor |. was made to search the trains toda, ] but this was impossible The train wore entered, but only a cursor
 search was possible and this reveale , no bodies. Attempts to search fc : : bodies were handicapped by the fea ! of most volunteers that new foo was coming.
 When the first report of the ne 2 flood this afternoon came in, soldier ' in the river bottoms conducted hun !, ried search of buildings and in or ' they found woman standing water up to her armpits and holdir
 above her head a baby five hours ol
 The mother and baby were taken Y the Centennial high school hospit U and cared for by pr. Harry Woo, .. ward of Colorado Springs The do ss is tor said they could not live. ' Three United States army airplan Y arel on the way to Pueblo tonig
 from Dodge City, Kansas, accordiI s to Colonel Hamrock- The machin 1s will be used for observation al le scouting purposes. There are o msiny reports coming into this ci " that this dam or that reservoir h
 given way or that bridge has be ne wished out that the airplanes a s.- needed to verify them.
 n Colonel Hamrock said that since l CT { arrival here he had received WIG n that Buttes bridge, between here a IT Colorado Springs. which had been er piairfd, has gone out again. -ss After two nights and most of t 'e days marooned on a small island ne the Arkansas river, four miles bel m m Pueblo. Ed Harrison of Denver a ny F. D. Spicer of Pueblo managed ger attract attention today and were r cued by Colorado guardsmen in ne toat.
 -ne 1 Harrison was passenger on D. run R. G. train wrecked by the flood
 the railroad yards Friday night. ias escaped from a coach and swan t e 5 floating log to which he clung ul oi cast up on the island.
 Early Friday mornng Spicer's ho 'p- was torn from it's foundations { m the cottage with Spicer riding on ak roof was sent spinning down
 in torrent to be lodged against
 small island upon which Harri ocA was marooned.
 ess. The two men, suffering from ex the sure, will recover. 1t was said.