The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-06-10
PUEBLO, COLORADO
NOW UNDER WATER
PUEBLO INUNDATED; LOSES Es.
TlMATED At $4,000, 900, OTHER
COMMUNITIES IN DANGER
Rains Rapidly Swelling Arkansas River
Causing Worst Flood in History of
County Communication Cut Off:
Loss Of Lives Not Heavy

Denver, COlo.--Four persons dead
Two missing: property damage mount
fug into the hundreds of thousands:
Pueblo partially inundated and cut of
from telephone communication since
d 80 o'clock Friday; Marshall lake dam
threatening to break and wipe out the
town Of Marshall; several towns in the
northeastern part of the state flooded
and without lights and power-this was
the situation as the result of cloud
bursts In eastern and central Colorado.
a rainfall varying from 4 inch in
Denver to and inches in the north
ern part Of the state and in the noun
tains, before night had turned moGn-
tain streams into torrents, filled fri
CATION reservoirs 20 the danger mark.
driven scores of people from their
homes and caused an enormous loss
in livestock and crops. At midnight
the rain was still falling in torrents.
Pueblo was under water early FRI
day in the most disastrous flood in the
citys history according TO a special
dispatch to the Rock Mountain News.
The damage according to the dispatch.
win reach 100000. Every basement
from the Arkansas river to the Thatch-
er building is full Of water, and boats
were used to rescue marooned persons
from the federal building.
Pueblo is under water in the worst
flood in its history. The last word
from this city on the Arkansas river
came shortly after midnight. A dis
patch to the Rocky Mountain News
WAS interrupted with this note from
the Western Union operator:
Il am beating it now. The water is
under my feet"
ats it was out of its banks, and at Il
every basement in. large part of tht
business district was full. Postmaster
Bellesfield estimated the damage to the
potoffice at 100000.
Very little rain fell in Pueblo, but al
Swallows, fifteen miles west of here, {
cloudburst sent wall Of water dow
the river
Fire added TO the horror of the sit
uation, the lumber yard of the Newton
investment company bursting int
flames which lighted the inundatet
areas for miles.
The crew of Denver and Rio Grandt
train No. 2, which arrived here at
o'clock last night, said that when the.
pulled into Pueblo the water touches
the car steps.
All night trains of the Denver Ri,
Grande and Atchison, Topeka and San
"a Fe roads to Pueblo were annulled
AT the union station it was said n,
trains would leave for Pueblo befOr
o'clock in the morning at the earliest
Efforts We're made to get in toucl
with the telephone operator at Mar
snail, Colo, where an irrigation dan
threatened to break, engulfing tn
town. The operator had promised t
stick to her post and send word if pos
slble if the dam should break. TIL
iast report, at IL p. m. last night, SAT-
Inc dam might go out at any time
= heavy rain was falling.
The lake, a private irrigation pro
lect, covers 500 acres of land and i
s8tS-three feet deep. The 200 resi-
DENTS of the mining town, about TWEEN
V-nve miles from Denver, are spending
me night fully dressed, ready to tie
breaking of the dam would wipe gu
the town.