The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-06-10
COLORADO
now UNDER WATER
PUEBLO INUNDATED; LOSES Es.
TiMATED AT $4,000, 900, OTHER
COMMUNITIES IN DANGER
Rains Rapidly Swelling Arkansas River
Causing Worst Flood in History Of
County Communication Cut Off:
Loss Of Lives Not Heavy

Denver, COlO.-Four persons dead,
two missing; property damage mount
ing into the hundreds of thousands I;
Pueblo partially inundated and cut off
from telephone communication since
y 30 O'Clock Friday; Marshall lake dam
threatening to break and wipe out the
town of Marshall; several towns in the
northeastern part of the state flooded
and without lights and power-this was
the situation as the result of cloud
bursts in eastern and central Colorado.
A rainfall varying from 4 inch in
Denver to and inches in the north
ern part Of the state and in the noun
tains, before night had turned noun
tain streams into torrents, filled irri.
CATION reservoirs to the danger mark,
driven scores Of people from their
homes and caused an enormous loss
IN livestock and crops. At midnight
the rain was still falling in torrents.
Pueblo was under water early Fri
day in the most disastrous flood in the
clty's history according to a special
dispatch to the Rock Mountain News
The damage according to the dispatch,
will reach 100000. Every basement
from the Arkansas river to the Thatch-
er building is full of water, and boats
We're used to rescue marooned persons
from the federal building.
Pueblo is under water in the worst
flood in it's history. The last word
from this city on the Arkansas river
came shortly after midnight. A dis
patch to the Rocky Mountain News
was interrupted with this note from
the Western Union OPERATOR:
Il am beating it now. The water is
under my feet"
The river was normal at 4 o'clock
at it was out Of its banks, and at 10
every basement in a large part of the
business district was full. Postmaster
Bellesfeld estimated the damage to the
potofrice at 100000.
Very little rain fell in Pueblo, but at
Swallows, fifteen miles west of here, q
cleudburst sent wall of water down
the river.
Fire added to the horror of the sit.
uation, the lumber yard of the Newton
investment company bursting into
flames which lighted the inundated
areas for miles.
The crew Of Denver and Rio Grande
train No. 2, which arrived here at 6
o'clock last night, said that when they
pulled into Pueblo the water touched
the car steps.
All night trains of the Denver Ric
Grande and Atchison, Topeka and San.
ia Fe roads to Pueblo were annulled
At the union station it was said nc
trains would leave for Pueblo before
8 o'clock in the morning at the earliest
Efforts We're made to get in touch
with the telephone operator at Mar
shall, Colo, where an irrigation dan
threatened to break, engulfing thu
town. The operator had promised h
stick to her post and send word il pos
sible If the dam should break. Thu
last report, at II p. m. last night, said
the dam might 60 out at any time
A heavy rain was falling.
The lake, private irrigation pro
ject, covers 800 acres Of land and II
sixty-three feet deep. The 200 resi-
dents Of the mining town, about TWEEN
ty-fve miles from Denver, are spending
the night fully dressed, ready to fie,
Breaking Of the dam would wipe GU
| the town.