The Washington herald., 1921-06-06
LURID FIRE LIGHTS
SCENE OF HORROR
In RAGING TORRENT
Survivors of Pueblo Flood
Tell Graphic Story
OF Disaster.

COLORADO SPRINGS. June g.
Charles Bradman a refugee. just IN
from Pueblo. says that while the
property loss and the number %
dead may be overestimsted. hun
dreds have been lost who will never
be found. They are buried in deer
mud and wrecksge. or washed bs
the rapid stream far south.
Il was in a rooming house in the
flooded district" he said. we got
suficient warning but failed TO hec<
IT, A wall OF water several fee,
nigh struck the building, carrying
IL OF its foundation The wates
soon reached the second story. Sew.
ersl roomers were lost was res
cued from the roof in a row boat
saw several houses wrecked and
I am sure that fifty lives were los;
in my own observation. am glad
to escape with my life. for I los
about everything else"
Drive Automobiles Through.
Raymond Chapman and StanIe,
Robinson. Of Colorado Springs. ant
Ivor Daley. Of Denver, also reached
here. The drive was made over the
railroad tracks. over improvises
bridges and through plosghes
fields.
Chapman had the remarkable ex-
perience of coming down the AT.
kansas river on the advance OF the
hood. seeing il inundate Pueblo inn
mediately after his arrival thers.
81 fg
last night. He Travelled in an auto
mobile. He said:
Give Rooms 10 Women.
Coming down the Arkansas val.
icy, | reached Pueblo early Fridai
evening. when ! reach the city
the sirens were blowing. Tbs
water was on level with ths
bridges had with me a Neg
York travelling man, whom I har
picked up We went TO the Vaut
hotel where he wanted TO lodge
Il spent the whole of Friday nigh
watching the flood and FIRE. Suel
night I hope never to see again
The waters soon reached the second
mess district and people were beini'
TttNhtu III bfdAEs hOdAr W.T.
brought up from Mineral Park Lake
and all were in use. Many floos
victims were thus rescued.
Fires Light Up City.
The city was in darkness excepl
for candles in some of the building
that were not flooded and for Ian.
terms used by the rescuers.
The fires, terrible as they were
lighted up the city more or les
and made the work Of rescue easiei
than Il would have been otherwfse
81 saw a two-story frame houn
floating down the street at the cor
ner of Main and Third streets
BOX cars and houses were piie<
up in heaps and the Union depo
was surrounded with water ant
wreckRge until I could not see {
from the nearest point / could reacl
which was seven or eight block
away.
Efforts were made by the poiic,
to get people to leave their home,
in parts of the city where Il wa
seen they would soon be flooded
but they could not get them to &c
They were caught a few minute
later by the. food.
Roy Hero Loses Life.
"a boy in a boat had rescued tws
women and was trying TO get al
old man also into the boat when on
OF the women became hysterIcsl ana
the boat was upset. The boy heis
on to one of the women and trtes
TO get her to a place OF safety. bu
his strength was too feeble lsnd Al
were swept away in the rushinf
flood.
Eleven telephone girls were ma,
rooned in an upper story Of ths'
telephone building. where they re
mained until noon Saturday befor
rescued.
Martial law was declared carl.
last night. A Mexican was sho
while trying to get away with som
valuables. Among the rescued wen
two men who were clinging 20 a 10
comotive smokestsck"
liver Daley and Wilbur Z. Can
non. of Colorado Springs. comfort
ably located in a building sbove IN,
flooded district, spent ali Frida.
night In watching the food xns
FIRE do deadly work in Pueblo
Their statement Is that the Arlan
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