Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-06-10
SECOND FLOOD
SWEEPS OVER
PUEBLO VALLEY
Hundreds Drown as Wall of Wa
tiers Hits City.
300 BODIES NOW IN MORGUES
thousands Made Homeless by DeIuae
Caused by Cloudburst and Break
ing of Great Dams-Property
Loss Placed at $4,000, 900.

Loss Placed at $4,000 900.
Florence, Colo, June 6.-The big
Beaver dam in the mountains eight
miles north of Florence, has burst, re-
leasing 1O0,O00,0OO gallons of water.
Pueblo, Colo, June 6.-Pueblo's bus
mess district is a mass of wrecked
buildings. Its streets are deep in mud
from the Arkansas river, which over
nOwed its banks, bringing the worst
Hood in the history of the city.
The death list probably will mount
into the hundreds when toll is taken
or the wrecked residences and room
ing houses in the river bottoms The
full death list may never be known.
Reports say 800 killed is d conserva-
tive estimate. 1t may reach 1000.
Property loss is estimated at S10,-
100000.
Second Flood Hits City.
new flood hit the city Sunday, ex-
tending to Fourth and Main streets.
Heaviest loss was in Grove district
and the Peppersauce Greek buttons.
Foreigners were caught after they
refused to leave. At noon 81 bodies
had been recovered.
Flood warnings were sounded again
at 3 80 O'Clock, and the Arkansas
river rose rapidly to Main and Sec
ond streets and Main and Court
streets. With the water about two feet
deep In the streets the flood continued
to swell. Meanwhile the Fountain
river rose II inches in six hours.
A total of % men have been arrest
ed for footing. One Mexican was shot
by guards.
After second night of horror
Pueblo awOke TO take up the gruesome
task of collecting and identifying her
dead flood victims, of trying to carry
Succor to thousands of stranded
refugees and establishing lines of COM
munication over which to send her
call for help from outside.
Three hundred bodies lie stretched
out in the mOrgues. The toll is mount
ing hourly.
The searching of ruins for bodies
in the inundated district has been
greatly hampered by the rising water.
1t is impossible to get into the ruins
in many sections.
Chief of Police Joseph NJ DAILY es-
timated the total dead at 1000. In the
Grove section, in the southeastern
part of the city. which is in the Ar
kansas river bottoms, he says there
are 1000 children, most of whom, he
believes. would have difficulty in es-
Gaping from the flood waters.
Warnings Are Unheeded
''I was in this section warning the
Inhabitants" he said "They took the
warnings lightly. The waters came
down so suddenly then that / had
difficulty in escaping myself"
s. w. PRESLEY, chairman of the
safety committee. says no progress
can be made in search for bodies I'M
til the waters have gone down further.
Although Pueblo is under martial
law, regulations were relaxed some
what. 1t is now possible to traverse
the city. except to cross the deadline
at the waters edge, without military
pass.
Estimates of the property loss range
from S5,OOO.000 to S20,OOO.OOO.
1000 in Soup Lines.
One thousand destitute flood victims
are lined up at relief stations. They
are being fed soup, bacon. bread and
coffee.
One hundred persons are in the~re-
lief station established in the court
house. Every physician has been work
ing constantly since Friday night.
Scores of little children in the court
house station have suffered terribly
from exposure.
At the converted hospital in the
Congress hotel several cases of small
pox and scarlet fever have developed
among Mexican refugees.
Clothing. bedding and medicine are
heing furnished where needed. Mayor
Mike Studzinski said: What we need
most is motortrucks and gasoline, so
supplies may be distributed. We also
need aid from Denver undertakers.
We are making every effort TO clear
the road 10 0OioTduO cpiAuS>s as oaA
relief depends upon it,"
Candle Prices Go Up.
A few grocers placed an exorbitant
price on candles. City officials and
notice forbade them 10 charge more
than the ordinary price on pain OF
having their stocks seized and dis
tributed. The prices came down.
Red Cross headquarters and a hos
nital have been established in the Con-
cress hotel. One hundred and seventy
Eve women and children are being
cared for there. One woman. Mrs.
John Osborne. who was recued on
raft with her five babies. was dis
covered by her husband Sunday morn
ing. He had believed them all
drowned
1t may require week 70 get a tram
Mt of here over any road. The near
est from the East train can get 10
Pueblo on the Santa Fe line IS .