The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-06-10
DARK BLUE TINT TALE
Stories Told BY Foreigners
To A. p. Reporter
DIGGING IN THE RUINS
Tour of "Peppersauce Bottom"
Where Many Victims Lived;
Lost Everything
lAssocia,ed Press DISPATCH. !

lAssociated Press Dispatch.l
Pueblo, Colo, June S.-Wading knee
deep through mud and water Ill some
places, correspondent Oh The Asso-
ciated Press touay plowed through
one of Puerlo's most pitiable thor
oughtares of devastatiun-the region
extending from North Main street
along West Fourth street, across the
Atkinson, Topeka and Santa Fe
tracks, and onward to the West
Fourth street bridge across the
Arkansas river.
The greater part of this region is
Familiarity called "Peppersauce bot
Mexican and Italians. 1t is now
practically wiped away. Today many
of its former residents were digging
among the ruins of their homes in
the hope of recovering table,
stove, & bundle of bedding, or perhaps
a sewing machine. And as some OF
them dug their Shovels struck human
bodies instead of furniture.
Relate Tales In Four Languages.
In four languages, these homeless
ones told the correspondent their
tales OF almost unbelievable mistor-
tune.
Lost Eleven Dwellings.
Il am frying TO find my houses"
saiu reliX bdyle, VINO lost eleven
Qm eIllnss, yaiued at about $2v,UUJ,
when tue region was Hooded. There
a many others worse OH than am,
he SAID. AT least | nave a nice little
nome OF my own that escaped dls-
aster. lost muen. some people lost
everything" E-
On the threshold of the Bottoms
there drove UP IN a wagon Franco Di
Marian and Ca.logero Iii Grado. The
wagon was piled up with mud coated
furniture What's happened" the
correspondent asked by way OF start
ing up a conversation, - ......... ( !
.WnysyIo hood, replied Cailog eroil
quantity mixing the Italian article
with the Englin common. But both
men were thankful tecause they had
saved their families ii not most OF
their other possessios.
Saw Store Swept Away.
Further along, a small statured
Mexican of about fifty could be seen
digging in the mud. My name is
hulIaIdo Saiazar, at your service" he
said. Il used TO have little business
here. The number of my 'comercito'
was Cpl West Fourth. l saw it swept
away before me on the night Of the
food, when l had taken refuge in
neighbours house. / had good mare
and buggy and a wagon. They are
gone TOO"
Don Rumaldo pointed to the spot
where he, had exhumed a body about
wife may be there. l shall keep on
digging" Nearby could be seen
white iron bed ,protruding from the
mire.
Jos. Inez Teronex, barber, came up
with Artio Garcia. Both lost their
homes in the food. Both Teronex
and Garcia told the story of Mrs.
Cath NH of
and Elizabeth streets, cripple.
Walking along the Santa Fe tracks,
came R. ]. Ritter a postman, Il am
looking for my route" he said. Il
can't find it,"
Getting Back To Normal.
Pueblo, Colo, June 8.-Pueblo
swept by floods late last week, today
began getting back to Peace basis"
in earnest.
Relief work was rapidly being sys-
tematized, local workers being as
sisted by eastern red cross officials.
The lighting sytem was being stead
lily improved and with the expected
installation today of water purifier,
the solution OF another vexing pro-
blem babe fair to be solved.
A refugee camp was ready to re-
ceive the homeless today. More than
two hundred tents were set up yes
terday and in addition a comple
field hospital was available for such
treatment. he camp will contain 300
tents when completed, each with
capacity of six single cots.
Will Move To Camp.
Colonel Patrick j. Hammock an
nounced that refugees would begin
moving from the court house, high
school and other public buildings to
the refugee camp today.
Twenty five Salvation Army work
ers are here from Denver, Colorado
Springs and Trinidad, and the mess
for the refugee camp has turned over
to them. They brought two carloads
of provisions from Denver and will
be supplied with all food needed for
the refugees by the citizens com
mittee.
Colonel Hammock estimates that
there are more than two thousand
homeless in the city. Many of them
are Mexicans and they are virtually
helpless, he said.
Refugees Reach Denver.
Denver, Colo, June 8.-The first
train to leave Pueblo since the foods
Of last week arrived in Denver early
today bringing 375 refugees and
tourists who were marooned there.
The train which came in over the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe tracks
left Pueblo late yesterday and ar
rived here at 2 a. IN.
Arkansas River Below Boone, Colo,
Tuesday Night, June TEN million
dollars worth of Pueblo goods, scores
of bodies of Pueblo citizens and God
knows what other things, lie strewn
in the mire and the quick sands of
inundated farm lands for thirty five
miles south on both sides of the
raging Arkansas, below Pueblo" ac-
cording to a staff correspondent of The
Denver Times who was the first
newspaper man to penetrate the dis
trict.