The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-06-06
PUEBLO, STUNNED
BY TRAGEDY, CAFES
ON MASSOF RUINS

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have worked with ceaseless energy
through the entire turmoil are now
beginning to display an excitement
born of the realization OF what has
happened. The bankers and other
business men are beginning to con-
slider what IL TO be done, and the
swarms of volunteers and police
patrols are now giving actual relief.
There is awakening some of the
normal energy and enthusiasm of the
city. The estimates of the number
of dead varies from less than a hum
dred to more than a thousand and
the evidences for one set of figures
is as good as the other. The rush
of water carried everything before
IL and any person that was caught
was swept down stream for many
miles in some cases and may never
be seen again even as a skeleton,
unless in some distant era when
psychologists ind their bones.
THOUSANDS RELY ON RELIEF.
II n impossible to count the num-
Der OF persons that are relying on
the Red Cross, the Elks Club. the
Y. NJ. C. A.. the Salvation Army, the
knights of Columbus and like organi-
zations for their food and shelter.
The schools, churches. the court house
and other public buildings are filled
with uncounted and uncharted vic
Tins
Several children have been born
during the flight of the women from
the waters that have not been re-
corded.
Many families have become sep
arated and have found no means Of
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Citizens have been reported to
have been seen floating with faces
down In the liquid mud and have
been seen later in active relief work.
All this muddle of facts and efforts
is being whipped into shape and
within a day or so there will be a
record on which some rational infor-
nation of the number of dead and
destitute will be reached. Pueblo is
going at it's work in'a way that will
show results, surely. but not till days
and much hard work have been put
behind IL.
The property loss will be arrived
at in a short time. for the evidence
of what has been done in this way
is at hand to any who explore the
flood area
TRACKS WASHED OUT.
OF TdliTOdu are Out
Several department stores have been
ruined completely and others suffer-
ed total loss of all the goods in the
Easements and first floors. In many
cases on Main street. the water swept
in the rear or front of the stores and
Quilted them. Lumber yards all over
the city were fired by the quick lime,
created by the downpour that fell.
Houses were carried from the bot
toms into the business section. A
freight shack sought refuge from the
flood five blocks from its foundation
in the entrance OF down town ga
rage. Humble dwellings bumped into
the plate glass windows of the
largest department store several
blocks away.
Banks were turned into n mass of
debris and the vaults toppled over.
Every public utility is practically out
of commission. Automobiles by the
hundreds went rolling gaily down the
main street. Freight cars were toss
ed about like frail boxes Water and
FIRE destroyed the greater part of the
goods in the stores and warehouses.
There is no building that. in the en-
tire food area, which covers about
five square miles within the city linn
It's of Pueblo, that has not been Sc
riously damaged and the majority are
a total loss. That the DANCE TO prop
erty will mount 10 ten millions of
dollars is the most conservative esti-