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the usual hour this morning in their
own quarters. other financial insti-
buttons, whose buildings were wreck
ed, are arranging to conduct bust
ness in temporary quarters.
Reports that gained wide circuia-
tion throughout the city late last
night that a great wall of water was
rushing down upon the city from
Swallow Creek, is miles west. proved
TO be untrue, as the swollen streams
have gradually receded since mid
night ~
North Main and Union streets are
a mass of debris. and 1t is impossible
for rescue workers, to make their
way through this section, but South
Main and Santa Fe streets, in the
business section, are passable.
The military forces are in complete
eentrol, and searching parties are
being formed to recover the scores
Of bodies that are scattered in weird
fashion over the devastated area
UNAUTHoRIzED ARE BARRED.
The guardsmen and state rangers
are under strict orders to permit no
unauthorized persons on the streets
and very few aside from active res
cue workers are abroad.
rain has fallen since late last night
and optimism prevails that before
nightfall some approximate estimate
of the toll in lives taken by the UNI
precedented floods may be made.
Thirty-five have been identified;
eighty eight bodies are in three
morgues, and vague estimates OF the
number of dead range from 100 to
600 and more
The greatest loss of life occurred in
the "pepper sauce bottoms" and "the
grove" low -lying residential districts
In the southeastern part of the city,
inhabited mostly by Mexicans and
negroes.
WHOLE FAMILIES WIPED OUT.
J Whole families were wiped out here,
and Chief OF Police Daley said it was
almost Ger tain that hundreds of small
children in this district have been
victims of the roaring waters that
covered Pueblo to a maximum of nine
teen feet.
There are small supplies of food
On hand, but no gasolene, and much OF
the city is inaccessible because OF
the piled up debris, transportation
and distribution OF rations being next
to impossible.
Soup kitchens have been opened,
and bacon. coffee. and bread are be-
ing served to several thousand ref
ugees.
Disease is said to have broken out
on a large scale in some quarters. The
city water works was entirely wiped
out, leaving the sewage system clog
Red and glutted with filth and refuse.
Many Red Cross nurses and doc
tors have arrived here from Denver
and are making heroic efforts to
-. tVxl.s n Axta nd
epidemics that threaten the populace.
GRIM CALM GRIPS CITY.
The grim calm of today was in
striking contrast to the wild excite
ment that prevailed throughout the
city all day Sunday and Sunday night.
A committee of leading citizens, in
GLIDING the president of the city
council, at a meeting late last night,
wired Governor Shoup, asking him to
apply Immediately to the Federal
Government for s5,000.0O0 for imme-
date work in repairing roads and re-
facilitating the city of Pueblo.
The committee declared It was GER
tain hundreds of lives were lost, the
accurate number of which could only
be ascertained after the removal of
the debris which is piled high in the
streets.
At $50 o'clock this morning reports
we're spreading that while the Arkan-
eas river had receded to within its
banks. a sudden rise had occurred in
the Fountain river. but the rumor
could not be verified, and it's anthem
ticity was doubted because of condi-
tons I'm the Arkansas. Both rivers
run parallel through the city.
DEsoLATIoN Is APPALLING.
When dawn spread over the beleag-
rered city Sunday, the scene OF desc
lation was appalling. The muddy,
riurky waters of the two rivers fell
early in the day, and the overtaxed
city officials and military forces were
hopeful that the day would bring fur
Their recessions. Heavy rains that ap-
peared to the high strung citizens
like new cloudbursts swelled the
waters again later in the forenoon
and esr-splitting sirens were sounded
throughout the city warning every
body that new floods were coming.
while rain fell intermittentfy
throughout the day and evening, the
waters fluctnated up and down, at
one time in the afternoon reaching a
height of nearly nineteen feet in the
vicinity of the Union Depot where
the maximum flood was recorded late
Friday.
When the Skagway and Beaver
dams. west of the city. gave way
about o'clock in the afternoon, the
entire city became temporarily panic
stricken, and IL was frequently neces-
sary for the military forces to shoot