The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06
DISEASE SPECTRE
NOW THREATENS
STRICKEN PUEBLO
Flooded City Impregnated With
Germs, Is Fear.
Lack of Water Adds to Horror
of InsanitatiOn.
BODIES OF AZ DEAD FOUND
Hospitals Already Crowded to
the Limit.
Property Damage Now Esti-
mated at S5O,OOO,OOO.
Lack of Water Adds to Horror
of InsanitatiOn.
BODIES OF AZ DEAD FOUND
Hospitals Already Crowded to
the Limit.
Property Damage Now Esti-
mated at S5O,0OO,OOO.
(By the United Press.'


st. Louis, June '6.-Supplies of food.
clothing and bedding were being
rushed from headquarters of the
southwestern division of the Red Cross
here to the stricken city of Pueblo
today.
Oklahoma City, June 6.-Governor
]. B. A. Robertson today issued
proclamation calling upon Oklaho-
mans to give financial aid to the Col
orado flood sufferers.
Boone, Colo, June 6.-Two victims
of the Pueblo flood were recovered
here today. A number of other bodies
were reported found at Avondale.
Pueblo, Colo. June 6.-Thirty five
. are known to have been drowned in
tho Colorado deluge, according to a
survey of the flooded area made at
noon today. Thirty-one of these
bodies are at morgues- in Pueblo and
the other four are in surrounding
towns.
Hundreds are missing in the area
but many of them may have fled to
higher ground for safety. Property
loss in the flooded Colorado district
is now placed at $5O,OOO,oOo. 1t will
take days to completely check the
casualty list.
The spectef of a disease epidemic
hung over Pueblo today with all mod
ern sanitation facilities suspended.
Women. children and men could not
even wash their hands or faces. The
~, To- IL sar1e
from Colorado Springs or from surface
and artcsian wells.
Dig Death Toll Threatened.
The Arkansas river, rushing thru
+he city like an angry snake, carried
germs sufficient to take a death toll
much greater than the thirty or more
lives sacrificed in the Friday cloud
burst.
The danger of an epidemic was in
creased by a scarcity of lime and
other powerful disinfectants.
The Red Cross is on guard against
m outbreak of typhoid among the
hundreds of refugees at each of the
public institutions harboring the
homeless Milk for babies is used up
almost on arrival. there being no ice
to keep the liquid.
To escape the unhygiene dangers OF
crowded buildings in the business and
residential quarters, Col Patrick
a refugee colony. Tents are en- route
here from Fort Logan, Colo
Third Flood Today.
Sweeping down the rampaging Ar
kansas, a new. wall of water let loose
by the breaking of a dam above here
the>first warning of which came from
Trinidad struck the city another blow
early today.
Pueblos population, its nerves al
ready shattered from three days Of
fighting the flood. which took tol
of approximately thirty lives and mil
lions of dollars worth of property, wa:
ordered to stand by.
Troops, facing death, rushed in al
directions to warn the inhabitants o
the oncoming five foot wall of water
Women and children. obtaining thei
fl st rest since the flood broke Frida!
night, were aroused and ordered t,
higher ground
Engines raced up and down the val
ley as far as rails had been prepared
their sirens sounding the shrill motto
of the new danger. 1t was the fourth
wave of water to attack the city-tw,
striking Friday night, the first whel
the cloudburst deluged the city; tn
, second when the levee gave way ant
the third when the Beaver dam
thirty-five miles west of the city, CAV
way Sunday afternoon.
The flood today came before tn
waters had r1ceded from the Sunia
deluge. The roar of the mad water
could be heard in the First Baptis
church. half a mile from the river.
The water. after rising rapidly earl
today. reached its crest and started I
recede again about a. m. 1t did no
reach the mark set by Sunday night
rise.
No New Casualties.
Altho the new floods have nc
taken any lives as far as could b