Arizona republican., 1921-06-06
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, MONDAY MORNING. JUNE G.
Flood Victims Cry
 For Help As Homes
 Float Through City
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car bodies so tight that we could hardly dig them out"
 The commander of the national guard troops. said warning was given throughout the district Friday night and that many persons laughed at the warning, refusing to leave. Later in the night he aided in clearing back crowds from the vicinity of the river as the water swept into tiSe bottoms Cries of persons trapped in their homes could be heard, he said, but no men could be seen running ahead of the waters, breaking windows ard footing. A large part of the dead. he believed. represented persons who de- clined to heed the flood warnings or who did not understand the gravity of the situation.
 Witnesses told of having seen five men trapped in store. They climbed into a balcony anu as the flood waters surrounded them they pounded their way through the second story with a baseball bat From there they made their way to a roof from which they | later were rescued. One body wal | taken out today after having beer crushed between telephone poles. An | other body of a man was found be- heath the fire escape of a building woman's body was found in tho garage of the Pueblo Automobils company.
 Among others eye witnesses re. counted the death of W. R. Allen Hi body was found in his shoe shop or Santa Fe street He had refused |, heed the flood warming. it was said- Residents along the Fountain river
 which carried a flood down iron
 Stratton dam, near Colorado Spring
 into Pueblo at o'clock this morning
 sat fully dressed in the homes al
 night.
 A flood whistle was sounded an
 persons were warned at their home
 Some one visited the Congress hots
 whese the correspondent is quartere
 and gave a warning knock on tn doors Of all rooms. Several shot
 were fired as other warnings. but tn
 water did not reach the houses alon
 the river in the Upper North side.
 The Fountain river is fin an ugl
 mood all day. The water rushe
 down past Mineral Palace park lik . the mountain torrent and poured it
 muddy waters into the Arkansas
 Military officials said tonight th
 Fountain was up slightly but ther
 was no danger.
 A man in overaiis came into th First Baptist church this afternoo i. and carried out a bundle of rsgge 2 quilts.
 This is all saved out of the flood D he said But it has made a goo bed for two nights-"
 He was taking his bed out 10 max l room for an emergency telephor T station. Hundreds of other persor ' were in the same fix.
 |, On a trip through the flooded dii ], trict in a military automobile an IT !. dian chief was seen coming out ' one of the worst flooded sections 2 wore a red sweater. black ca ' trousers that had been torn off e the knee showing his bare legs abo' his socks A few clothes were gatl
 cred under an arm. The patr 7 guided him to shelter
 Hundreds besieged military hea V quarters all day seeking to get a pa '. to enter the devastated district whe ], their property lay.
 |. The correspondent ran across fo . mer bunIde of his company in | A army. He was pr. Samuel Goidms
 a Pueblo dentist. who had lost ever
 thing in his office.
 'Tt was nothing compared wi to these other fellows." he said. a. pr. Goldman was offering his SC ig vices to the military authorities