The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-06-07
City Health Officer Has Estab-
Iished Three Isolation
Hospitals.
DEBRIS II CAREFULLY
SEARCHED FOR BODIES
Progress Is Slow Owing TO the
Slowly Reeeding
Waters.

PUEBLO. Cello. June e.-systematle
aad drastic action 70 ascertain the NUM-
bar - dead ard % clean she city e
pasbsa. fiooa- stricken for three days. was
begun this afternoon Acting under mill
tarz authority. Lieut.. Col. Paul ~. New
ton ordered every abie-h hodlea man 90 an~
ply himself te t1ie task Of removing dsisris
fran tho streets. IS measure 20 prevent
aanNnr from fire and peatilsuee. The or
der bars 8iRhsHaaFa from tha city. AMI
makes wofa eanpuisoFy. either for the
stipulated pay 81 under military guard
wIthoet pay.
Tha city has been divided into eight
wards for 4 sanitary survey and 10 eaca
ward has been assigned twe doctors and
four nurses. The people are being IN
atrueted hnw e. prevent and combat dis
eaa& Ana Infection Three isolation he's
pgfaia hRve kesn established. and Dr.
Iahm g. cormeal 81 the unltad States
pnhllc haaifh service a. nenver. who Is
assisting f1r. VI. p. Buck. city health
aff4ear declarnl the situation a well IA
hand. lie said there vas no epidemic 81
contagious diseases and tllat snig five
raaes 81 ehickea pox had been report 81
to fme hnfhorissna since the fioods Noinu-
sear doctors from Colorado Springs and
slxtsen from the public health service. -
Denver erS aiding the Pueblo doctors.
F4sEs4t*efH
Is. aeafchars being impedsa - the slow
IS reca8lnG waters and hy the great coat
ING ~ msaa ever every eeiiseiAon q
aehrss
i earefui cheek ~ enc Associated Press
showed ~ boases II Euorguss here today.
TO THE Est were edded ten more known
dad whsn Reporter Ter the Pushio
xshieftsan made his way from St. Charles
Mesa. six msaea duwn stream, 20 report
the nnmhsr af bodies recovered there.
Many bodies probably never win be
found a. they we're carried down stream
below Pueblo ~ the terrific force of the
fiood.
search of TIE buildings was conducted
tokag a. worknnem were engaged IN clean
sng them out. Some recovery of bodice
has been rnaae. ana IN eazes where
boslles are hnossm to have been found. e
vas inspossible % learn where they had
been taken.
No estimate can be made accurately
~ fhe nnmher 81 persons missing An
afforf 90 do this was made ~ the Pueblo
gAtafSain and fhla newspaper had q lisf
81 Approximately twenty-five persons.
Thls had e. he revised frequently as per-
sons were fouaa
with the recession % TIE waters f1ssnn
tha inundated district puelsla eltixena
we're able fe make some estimates ~ the
aauaaee wrought ~ the angry waters e
4HN AEMAHeAH 3AtH EAAAk4sH kAAEfH-
Stretching fn an Irregular. far-fiuns
owaI thirty hloeks long and 81 a maxi
rsass width of twelve biockH. compFfs-
Anw about three hundred and fifty city
htoeha. the damaged area, after the
curtain of water had been withdrawn.
presented an aspeet ~ 0esaiation that
faxcsd many observers e revise the
early estimate of f0.o0o. zee 80 one near
x1s 90. .ee0 a number of large and Ins-
purfanE business buildings "a each a4de
~ the area Wese destroyed and many
eshsrn wsra seriously damaged.
n a proclamation. issued At Colorado
Epxiaga Governor Shoup said
The havoc wrouEhi hg the recent
gTaads A. Ca3orado r. appalling. Many
PARTS 81 TIRE state have been affected
hue TIRE greatest damage apparently has
been done in the Arkansas valley. The
feed probably neaped les largest harvest
uf human lives and destruction % prep
srty in and ahuuf the eity of Fusbln. II
- 1napn2Mihia IT ghag time accurately ta
estimate either TIRE loss of life or ~
property. bat the tool viii he very heava
: Knowing that the response would BE
rrempt and generous, I. chief executive
&C THE state. cal upon people ~ Cefo-
raao to cuntrihate % the relief Of the
ffnpd sufferers The eltv stress In ereaf
ana thalr needs most pressing. II wiH
require not DAYS. but weeks. and per-
tceusinuea en- Pass Tsso.l