The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-06-10
FG-r~.,,.J REMOVING
DEBRIS OF FLOOD
Overlooked Area Faces Ep-
idemics and SIS, 000,-
600 In Losses

Pueblo. Col. June 6-Systematic
and drastic action to ascertain the
number Of dead and to clean the city
of Pueblo, flood-stricken for three
DAYS. was begun this afternoon.
Acting under military authority,
I,jenL Col. Paul p Newton, ordered
every able-bodied man to apply him
self 10 the task of removing debris
from the streets as a measure to pre-
vent danger from fire and pestilence.
The order bars sightseers from the
city, and makes work compulsory
either for The stipulated pay or under
military guard without pay.
Late estimates of the total dam
age and crop loss from Canon City
TO The Kansas line is placed at $780,
OO0 .o00 in a telegram from the Pue-
bio Commercial Club to Governor
Shoup Damage in Pueblo city and
comfy will reach $6,OOO,OOO or S.
OO0 900 The telegram states
Whatever figure the death list fl
nally reaches, not half the bodies of
the rictims of the flood will be re-
cor cred, X. G. Breckenridge presi-
denr OF the Pueblo Rotary Club said
todaY He based this statement on
uecUHarities of the river channel and
the drifting of mud over the flooded
areas
Bodies Can't BE Buried.
Ay Of the recovered bodies are be-
Ing held in the morgue. 1t will be
impossible, undertakers say, to bury
the bodies for several days, roads to
the cemeteries being impossible.
Hain again began falling this after
noon and J Z. Moorhead, personal
representative of Gov. o. H. Shoup,
male the paradoxical statement that
1t Uas a blessing. Should the city
"Idry ZIP" TOO rapidly before the
debris and mud were removed, the
resuR would be disagreeable odors
and DDabable menace to health.
J. f. Moorhead, secretary to the
Governor, who is in Pueblo as the
Governors personal representative,
today sent an urgent message to Colo
RADIO Springs asking that supply OF
aniL1yphoid and anti-diphtheria Sc
z-uy. lime and disinfectants be rush
ed 10 Pueblo as soon as possible.
There is no unusual danger of an out
brea6 Of diphtheria or typhoid. Mr.
AIocyhead explained, but the authori-
ties are running low on those neces-
sites.
Death List Is Growing
While the list of known dead grows
slowly, reports to undertakers indi-
cafe that other bodies have been
found and will be recovered when the
waters abate.
Many bodies probably never will be
found, as they were carried down
stream by the terrific force of the
flooh. Search of the buildings is be-
ing conducted todays as workmen are
engaged in clearing them out. Some
At1'Dh tlg u uOulto mas bNNh hlNtSi
anu IN cases wher bodis are known to
have been found, it was impossible
10 learn where they had been taken.
M accurate estimate can be made
of the number of persons missing,
An aifort 10 do this was made by the
Purtlo Chieftain and this newspaper
had n list of approximately twenty
five persons. This had to be revised
freNu entity as persons were found.
Transportation east and north from
the city is just now declared to be
tia greatest need. Governor Shoup
telezTaphed to Senators Phipps and
Nicholson to make every effort to
ger An appropriation oE $40. 200
10 Colorado to repair tracks and re-
bujl1 bridges on the lines entering
fTuga these directions
The Senators replied that they did
mol feel they could consistently make
such 2 request for Federal assistance
until lacts and conditions have been
more definitely determined"
Stretching in an irregular, far
fiuug oval, thirty blocks long and of
a mDSiEjum width of twelve blocks,
ths damaged area. after the curtain
e u-tcr had been withdrawn, pre-
sented an aspect of desolation that
forced may observers to revise the
early estimate of 100000 to one
nearer SIS 100000.
Big Buildings Are Ruined.
a number o%hrge and important
business buildings on each side of the
aysE S-ere destroyed and many others
were seriously damaged
CoiGnel Newton late this after
1gUn Orlsred out the rifle companies
az Brush, Fort Morgan and Brighton
az rngment The troops already doing
EES1j and police duty in public