Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-06-07
Crop Loss
From Canyon City to
Kansas Line on East
Pueblo Commercial
Club Estimates Loss,
Asks for $4,000, 900.

and May Prove Boon
to Ward Off Disease.
J. Pueblo, June 6.-(By The
Associated Press Late esti-
mates of the total damage and
crop loss as the result of Colo
RADIO floods, from Canyon City
to the Kansas line is placed at
$20,000,0O0 in a telegram from
the Pueblo Commercial club to
Governor Oliver H. Shoup.
Damage in Pueblo city and
county will reach six or eight
million dollars, the telegram
stated.
The governor is urged to aid in the
request that the federal government
appropriate $5.OOOOO0 of which So
100000 be made available Immediately
for improving the Arkansas and Foun-
tain rivers .levees and removing debris
from the damaged cities. Pueblo
needs S1,5O0,0OO for this work the
telegram states.
Rain again began falling In Pueblo
Monday afternoon and ]. e. Morehead,
personal representative Of the governor
made the paradoxical statement that
it was blessing to the stricken city.
Should the city dry up" too rapidly
before the debris and mud are removed
from the flooded districts the results
ably menace to the health of the popu-
lation
While the list Of known dead grows
slowly several reports to undertakers
indicate that other recoveries may be
made when the waters recede further.
w. B. McKim. of the McKim Undertak-
ing parlors. said that he had received
a report that 16 bodies had been
washed up at a place five miles east.
known as the Moroney farm His men
have located three bedies at Salt Greek,
south Of the city but cannot recover
them, he said. The bodies Of woman
and girl have beeh located near the
Colorado and Southern bridge but can
not be recovered and several In Grove
cannot be removed, he said.
Late Tuesday afternoon a report
came to officers of the Nuckolls Pack
ing company that 50 bodies had been
recovered at Boone. on the river about
firmed
Whatever figure the death list fin
ally reached, not half these bodies Of
the victims of the flood will be recov-
cred" r. b. Breckenridge. president
of the Pueblo Rotary club. said. He
based this statement on peculiarities
of the river channel and the drifting
of mud over the flooded areas.
Ten more bodies were identified
Tuesday at North Side morgues. The
list announced was as follows:
Lillian Clark, Pueblo, believed to
have been clerk at the crews.6esSs
store.
II. A. Allen, 100 North santa Fe
Ave.. Pueblo, carpenter.
William Korher, believed to be q
brother of Jake korber, wealthy Abs
quergue. N. ~, merchant, who was
killed recently In an accident.
Neil Kendall, 10, soa Of e. p. ksa-
dall. Of Oevine.
Mrs. Mature Gabhin, Mexican.
Mae Byrd and her daughter. Sarah
Byrd. of Denver, negroes.
c. c. Morrl (furthsr ldeatffloatiea
unknown).
Sylvia shattio, 50 west Third 81,
Pueblo. negro.
The body of an unidentified Mexi-
,an woman was also recovered today.
All of the recovered bodies ara be-
ing held in the morgues. Il win be
impossible, undertakers say. 10 bury
the bodies for several days, roads to
he cemeteries being impossible. One
BODY at an undectakers' since last
Wednesday has not yet been buried.
There is no danger of . food short
,ge. it is said, but the supply 10 be-
ng conserved. Charles w. Lac and
Judge Frank Alirack are ln charge OF
his department. Food cards aro still
icing issued for the purchase of gro
.eries All restrictions ON the pu4-
.hase of gasoline and oil have lssn
Lee has issued proclamation to an
'etail merchants ordering them to de-
iver no food supplies to anyone, ex-
'ept fresh meats, vegetables and fresh
ruit. unless the purchaser could show
written order signed by himself,
Lieutenant Colonel Newton ordered
nut the rifle companies at Brush,
Tort Morgan and Brighton to augment
he troops already doing guard and po-
Ice duty in Pueblo.
A work train over tho Denver 4
Rio Grande railroad from Colorado
springs approached TO within four
niles Of Pueblo On the north Monday
afternoon,
A relief train With supplies for the
lood sufferers left Fort Logan Mon
Inv afternoon. according to telegram
o Colonel Hamroek from Colonel Ca
lies at Fort Logan, IN command Of the
elief expedition, L ID expected 10 ar-
ivs here Tuesday morning Another ],
elief train t1ill lsave Fort Losa1
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