, 1921-06-09

the raging Arkansas below Pueblo. In
the vicinity OF Nineiand. Avondale.
Devine. Boone. Fowler and Manzanola
death holds supreme sway tonight
with only the torches Of thirty ghouls
TO light up the d~esolntion.
In company with Hanger Eddie Bell
n by OF motorcycle. automo
bile. saddle horses. cable. footwork
and swimming. we went through more
than thirty miles OF flooded terrain
clio Pueblo today. p~enetrating
father into the dismal swamp than
any human has come since the event
ful Friday OF last week. discovering
four bodies Of men. millions in prop
crty carried down from Pueblo. hun.
dreds OF dead horses and cattle. many
lodged in trees. The stencil and the
view are such as r given to few
men to experience. Starting out from
Pueblo in a anger side car and mo
torcycle early this morning, we
low swamps for mi.es and miles
marked here and there with bed
tanks. dead horses. t-blcs and trunks.
In wild confusion.
Crossing Salt creek in n sea OF
spray and taking the curse tina once
was the main pike to La Junta. we
Travelled by motorcycle to the ST.
Charles river. which Is roaring high,
swollen to an enormous volume. Here
n single cable hcross the rive Is the
only means OF crossing. with n re-
cruited squad Of farm hands to grunt
and tug on h pully we went across
FARM HANDS FIND
CORPSE OF GIRL
Eddie went first. l. next with our
mud-caked boots and slickers within
eight inches Of the torrents. Here
the farm hands had Just pulled out
the corpse of a scven-year-old girl.
which they had wrapped in paper and
laid revercntly on the river bank.
Hiring n car We went on Gown until
tho muck and the debris finally raised
an insurmnurtahle barter Leaving
the machine We took 10 horses and
tonight VIC are mired in the midst
OF the ruins OF Pueblo. % miles below
that town. Here there is no human
life but US. ~
About a mile up the river, which Is
approximately three-quarters Of n mile
at his point, torches are blinking In
tie night. Ghouls. mostly down val
ley Italians. who have found fortune
come to them on the swollen river.
arc at work. We passed scores OF
looting sparties today. all busyine
themselves In the w~asteiands along
the river. .Shcriffs and deputies have
warned them out. and We ordered
them out again. but ms soon MS we
passed they went back to digging in
the eternal slime. Rumors run
among those folks OF lucky finds. One
man turned UP n trunk belong to
John Bukowitch OF Pueblo. He is
said to have found s142 in 1t. two
watches and papers. He threw the
papers in the mud. Another ghoui got
$500, they say. and reports OF finding
cases Of liquor are frequent. Down
beyond Devine. along the right OF
way of the Missouri Pacific. the angry
river has heaped moot OF Pueblo.
CITY is MOVED
DOWNSTREAM BY WATER.
There are houses down there and
shops, and stocks of goods. and bar
rcls of oil. Great electric signs still
intact. stand propped against trees,
miles from the river bed tonight
Everything is in a tangled heap; some
stuff is. isolated or islands. much in
TERED in the mud that is waist deep
everywhere except in the quicksand
beds. Splashing. lodging. duckins
through these swamps OF the dead to-
day. Eddie and ! came to but one
e-onclusion-no man will ever know
how many died in the Pueblo flood.
or when they died. or how. or where
God and the river have buried them.
There are great mountains of
wrcckage dotting both sides of the
river bank. II some places the river
was particularly generous. leaving
tons OF stuff within the area OF an
acre.
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