Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-06-10
HUNDREDS DIE
AS FLOODS HIT
PUEBLO VALLEY
Wall of Waters Sweeps Through
Colorado City Following
Heavy Rains.
THOUSANDS MADE HOMELESS
Three Hundred Bodies Lie in Morgucs
as the Toll Mounts Hourly-Twenty-
five Looters Arrested-one
Mexican Shot by Guards.

Pueblo, Colo. June o.-Pueblo's bus
mess district is I1ass of wrecked
buildings. It's streets are deep in mud
from the Arkansas liver, which over
Ilowed its banks, bringing the worst
food in the history Of the city.
The death list probably will merlt
into the hundreds when toll is taken
of the wrecked residences and room
Ing houses IN the liver bottoms. The
full death list may never be known.
Reports say 500 killed is a conserva-
tive estimate 1t may reach 1000.
Property loss is estimated at $10,-
100000.
Second Flood Hits City.
A new flood hit the city Sunday, ex-
tending to Fourth and Main streets.
Heaviest loss was in Grove district
and the Peppersauce Greek bottoms.
Foreigners were caught after they
refused to leave. AT noon SO bodies
had been recovered.
Flood warnings were sounded again
at $3.50 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 Il inches in six hours.
A total of % men have been arrest
ed for looting. One Mexican was shot
by guards.
After a second night of horror
Pueblo awoke to take up the gruesome
task of collecting and identifying her
dead flood victims, or 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.
II 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 LOCO children, most of whom, he
believes, would have difficulty in es-
Gaping from the flood waters.
Warnings Are Unheeded.
4pa~ In thfc eontfat, AZ
inhabltaais," he said. "They took the
warnings lightly The waters came
down so suddenly then that l 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 $5,000,000 to $20,000,000.
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
being 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 TO Colorado Springs. as our
relief depends upon il"
Candle Prices Go Up.
A few grocers placed an exorbitant
price on candles. City officials and
police forbade them to charge more
than the ordinary price OF pain of
having their stocks seized and dis
tributed. The prices came down
1t may require a week TO get a train
out OF here over any road. The near
est from the East a train can get TO
Pueblo ON the Santa Fe line is p