The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-06-06
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1900 Dead Estimated.
BY International News Service.
PUEBLO, Colo, June 6.
Floods that have swept
Pueblo since Friday night
were receding this morning
and it is not believed the
city is in danger of further
inundation. Eighty eight
bodies are in the morgue
here, according to relief Of
ficials.
City officials, however,
estimate that the loss of life
will reach as high as 1000
or 1900.
ONLY FEW IDENTIFIED
Only few of the bodies
have been identified. In ad-
dition to the heavy loss Of life
lin Pueblo, officials of the city
cSfimate that the deluge left
many victims in its progress to
the south after engulfing Pueblo.
More than 1000 families are
homeless. Citizens are work
ing with the Red Cross and
other relief agencies at relief
work.
Early today water was standing
nine feet deep at the Union Station,
and this made the work of exploring
two submerged passenger trains diff
icult.
A new peril. that of disease, men
aeed the city today. Cases of
typhoid, pneumonia and diphtheria
appeared and health authorities are
taking every precsution against
serious epidemics.
Property loss today still was esti-
mated at approximately $4,000, 900.
A cloudburst and the collapse Of
two dams that impounded huge
reservoirs of water added to the
peril of the district yesterday and
last night.
THREE BODIES IN TRAIN.
| Rescuers started exploring the in
terror of the two submerged passen-
ger trains Sunday afternoon and had
taken out three bodies, when they
were forced to quit by the cloud =.
burst which descended on the city.
Both trains-one on the Denver and
Rio Grande and the other the Mis-
| souri, Pacihc-were said to have
been filled with passengers when they
were caught in the waters. Only
few persons are known to have es-
capped.
| Reports received from Swallow
Colo, early today said that a third
wall OF water, which was declared to
be rushing toward Pueblo, has re.
ceded. There is every evidence to in
dicate that the food has spent its
force and that the waters are reced-
ing over the entire State.
As the foods leave Colorado, how
ever, they are spreading out over
other States of the West and South
west. Heavy loss of life Is believed
to have occurred along the course OF
the Arkansas. between Pueblo and
La Junta.
BODIES AFLoAT IN STREAM.
| Persons entering Pueblo from the
south report having seen scores OF
bodies floating in the swollen streams,
battered and buffeted by drift wood
and debris. Horses, cattle, hogs, and
other animals by the hundreds also
were reported in the rushing waters.
From Las Animas, county seat OF
Dent county, near the New Mexican
line, came the report that two hum
dred residences are under three feet
of water as a result OF the flood that
reached that locality late Saturday
night.
The homes OF an entire colony OF
Mexican workers in the beet fields
have been washed away, with
known loss of four lives, reports said.
Chaos was reported reigping In the
town.
Relief work in stricken Pueblo Is
now well organized and the suffer
ing which Immediately followed the
Friday night deluge had been con
siderably lessened.
Martial law Is still the order, with
no person permitted on the streets
OF the city without a permit before
Ia a. m. or after p. m.
Looting, which characterized the
early stages OF the disaster. has bees
checked
Three OF the cIty's largest banks
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