Omaha daily bee., 1921-06-05
Death List In ~.
Pueblo Flood
Placed at 500
Many Thought to Have Per
ished Found to Be Safe as
z Waters Recede-l32
Bodies Recovered. 4

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few miles outside of Pueblo, accort
sing to a report to the railroad o
sficials here. The accident was cause
by the undermining of the railroa
by the food. The cars went owe
slowly and passengers are all bt
iicved to have escaped without Sc
we're injury.
Operator Tells of Flood.
The message from Larkspur read
."No wire communication from an
direction out of Pueblo since 10 !
m. Understand the water reache
high mark at Pueblo at 10 p. m. Min
feet six inches water in the Unio
station at that time, reaching u
second step of landing All light
and telephones out of service and n
word west of Pueblo of condition
since 10 p. m. Water at that tim
Two feet deep in the depot at Swal
low. No idea how far west extend
but at that time there was no troubl
west of the gorge. At 4 a. m. ther,
is. three feet, six inches water il
Union depot at Pueblo. water having
gone down about six feet since mid
hight.
Pueblo badly piled up with drift
wood, timbers, cars, ETC., and /!
covered two feet deep with mud
Think all of B. & B. yards have beer
washed away.
What passenger equipment there
was in the Union depot, including
No. ISIS train, was washed down
stream. Have no word from out
side of the Union station, Pueblo
since 8:45 p. IN. and do not know
extent of damage in city of Pueblo
Appears to have been considerable
loss of life and property. No. 116
is being held at Laveta and No. ld
at Salida. No. IS at Palmer Lake,
No. 609 and No. Is held at Denver.
Figure will take several days to
clean up and don't think possible to
get any trains into Pueblo from the
north. east or west today"
omall Towns Flooded.
AT Frederick, Colo, three feet of
water in the main street is reported; !;
at Greeley, Fort Collins and Love-
land all wires are down and the
towns are without electric power as
the result of the flooding of the
power plant at Loveland. Between
Denver and Boulder large area of
farm land is inundated and the dam
agc is estimated at 100000.
Houses were swept away at La
fayette and hundreds of head of live
stock were drowned when Coal
creek went over its banks. Trini-
dad is cut off from communication.
Only one train has arrived in Den
ver from Pueblo since yesterday
afternoon. 1t pulled into the Union
station here at 8 a. m. after an all
night trip, having left Pueblo at $50
last night just as the waters were
beginning to creep into the city's
streets.
In Denver d heavy rain, mixed
with bursts OF hail, turned the streets
into roaring torrents for time late
yesterday afternoon and all night the
rain continued. Damage in Denver,
however, was slight.
Continued heavy rains early today
extended little encouragement to
eastern and central Colorado, which
Yesterday were swept by the worst
floods in the states history.
Meager reports indicated a loss
running into the millions with the
heaviest loss at Pueblo where large
part of the business section and sew
fral residential districts we're inun-
dated by waters from the Arkansas
river.
The known loss of life still re-
manned at four, with possibilities of
an increase in the death toll when |
wire communication was restored.
The situation early today was:
Is Pueblo inundated and cut off from
wire communication for hours. Priv
ate news dispatches placed loss at |
Marshall, existence of the town of |
200 inhabitants threatened by a |
break in the Marshall lake dam, a |
private irrigation project.
Louisville inundated, several
houses. other buildings washed
away.
Power Plant Closed.
Loveland, dikes of lake broken
and parts of town and farms inun-
dated; floods put out of commits
sion electric power plant from which
Fort Collins, Greeley and other
Weld county towns get their light
and power.
"a cloudburst at Swallows, Isl
miles west of Pueblo, at 3 o'clock
yesterday, two hours later had sent
the Arkansas river on rampage, BY
8 o'clock it had overhowed into the
town, inundated the business section
and forced scores of families to flee
from their homes in the low lands.
Eighteen families were rescued in
boats and boats also were used to
rescue several persons from the fed
eral building. Damage to the post
office alone was officially estimated
at 100000.
Many Cattle Drowned.
At Lafayette, Coal creek swept
over its banks and inundated part of
The town, swept over acres OF farm
and and drowned several hundred
head of cattle. according to reports.
Town Gripped by Terror.
At Marshall, the entire town of
200 spent the night h their homes,
fully dressed, ready to flee, when a
signal bomb explosion gave word
that the dam had broken, releasing
500 acres of water 63 feet deep. The
dam began to weaken yesterday
afternoon and efforts to lessen the
strain on the structure by releasing
water were rendered futile by the
continual heavy flow from other
Streams and continued rain.
The chill water dam of the North