Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-06-10

the city are InCSe Oh the western
Union.
The. flooded area extended to the
south through the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad yards; to the north
to Fifth and Main streets, inundating
Is blocks on Main street, 20 blocks on
Santa Fe avenue and 40 blocks in the
Grove, the poorer section of the city.
All railroad yards were flooded,
equivalent to 40 blocks. The water
also extended west to the state insane
asylum lowlands, total of 125 blocks
under water.
Tales of Witnesses.
Colorado Springs, June Cray
mond p. Chapman of this city returned
from Pueblo with vivid story of the
flood. He raced the flood waters
through the Arkansas valley in an au-
tomobiIe, arriving in Pueblo just as
the water in the river had reached the
bridges.
After passing the night in the city
he got ten gallons of gasoline and
made his way to Colorado Springs,
travelling through fields, over railroad
srestles and, with several other motor
lists who followed in his wake, con-
structed temporary bridges.
Chapman said when he reached
Pueblo the sirens were shrieking warn
ings to the people and the waters in
the business section of town had
reached the level of second stories.
He saw a twO-story house floating
down the street at Third and Main
streets.
Sees Thrilling Rescues.
Chapman said many thrilling res
cues were effected by means of boats
brought from the park and that in
one instance which came to his no
tice a boy had rescued three women.
He tried TO pick up an old man also
when one of the women, becoming
hysterical, clasped the boy. The boy
even then tried to save the life of one
of the women by swimming, but lost
his hold on her and all the occupants
of the boat but the boy were washed
away in the stream.
The deep water raced through the
streets with the fierceness of noun
tain stream. He said that, terrible
as were the fires, the rescuerS were
greatly aided by the flames, which IL
lumber, said Chapman, flowed down
the river, setting fire to things they
passed.
Men Gave Up Shelter
81 had a room in the Congress ho-
tel. but gave it up, as did all the other
men, TO women and children said
Chapman "All night l was on the
streets, and it was a great relief when
daylight came.
with the dawn many persons were
found clinging to the tops of trees, to
telephone poles, and perched on roofs
Of houses. They were taken off in.
boats. Three men held fast all night
to a locomotive smOkestack to keep
from being washed away. The street
cars were washed out of the streets
and piled up in heaps with houses and
railroad box cars.
"There is scarcely any drinking wa
ter to be had. The flood water is mud
dy and not fit to swallow, although
people must keep on boiling and using
it. A man from a big wholesale gro
Gerry store told me that out of all their
great stock of supplies nothing re-
NAMED fit to eat but a few packages
of oatmeal 1t was impossible for Il
bakeries to make bread because they
could get no water to mix the dough"
Two Other Gyewitnesses.
Building bridges as they came, ford
ing rushing torrents, jumping space
caused by culyerts washed away, two
survivors of the flood reached Colo
RADIO Springs in a racing motorcar
with a graphic story.
The men, Ivor Daley, representa-
tive of Huerfano county, and Wilbur
f. Cannon, pure food inspector for
Colorado. were on their way to a fish
fry at Laveta, Colo, when the Ar
kansas river, breaking loose from Its
banks. took up new course through
the main business section of Pueblo.
From a floor in building far above
the seething muddy mass below, Daley
and Cannon all through the night
watched the gruesome sight, never TO
be forgotten.
Cars Float in Town.
When the river broke loose Friday
night motorists, caught in the torrent,
deserted their machines to seek shell
ter. The cars floated about the busi-
ness section all night, crashing into
plate glass windows, turning over and
over again, and at last dashing them
selves TO pieces against buildings.
1--WE saw one woman in the second
story of a house floating down Main
street" said Daley. THE house struck
building while the water swirled
around it, sucking it down and taking
it around in a dizzy whirl. Finally it
stopped and a woman, evidently hav-
ing lost her mind. leaped into the wa
fer and was drowned.
1--WE saw another woman earlier in
the evening standing in the doorway
of a building while her son, we later
learned. tried to reach her on an i'm
provised raft of few logs wired to-
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