The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-06-06
PUEBLO SUFFERS
TWICE AGAIN
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who failed 20 heed the warning siren
were seen 20 vanish in the raging
waters.
% foreigners living IN the bottoms
The railroad yards are a sight hegEar-
Ing description. Freight cars and rail
equipment % an descriptions are piled
IN a hideous. f0ul.aneiilnK mass. River
debris covers the wrsekaEe. The turbid
waters swirl and race through the rails
and ties. The flooded section Of Pueblo
are carpeted with q thick Eiimy layer o.
mud and debris. Water rose % fhe level
% the street lights IN many places.
Merchants face serious embarrassment
because ~ the tremendous ioaA. ore bic
department store facing loss alone %
fe5o. 900.
The NuckoHu raclxlnw company Lost
virtually everything. rs total exceeding
q million dollars.
Cast said the property damage would
total move than tie.eoo eco. while others
on his committee said ne was FAR TOO
conservative But despite the terrible
disaster. Pueblo is fiKhtinE % regain itf
feet. A spirit ~ optimism prevails and
with the arrival here today % outside
assistance, a greater degree q condolences
Is felt
Trees and masses ~ debris were com
Ing down from the country above Pueblo
on the crest u the new floods Troops
Z quickly cleared 0M# NAN&NNMM anu MNAtAF
sale districts Cltizens were prevented
coming within q block o. the waters
while every effort vas made 90 prevent
loss 81 life from the rev danger.
Governor oliver II. Shoup and Colonel
Patrick Hamrock. commander ~ the
state cnnstahulary. arrived today 90 take
personal charge Of the situation. I'm
msdateiy upon their arrival Il was de-
clded that Colonel Hauarock's troops con-
siNting ~ Colorado national guard units
and state rangers. all assume AT re-
sponsibllity for law and order during the
emergency.
Governor shoup and Colonel TEamrock
left Colorado Springs at > O'Clock this
morning n q motor truck mounted on
flanged wheels which travelled &C. Pueblo
over the SsntR re and y. r. q.
tracks. Due 20 delays caused by washed
cut road beds. the tao officials abondun
"a this conveyance At Butte. however,
proceeding % this city ~ automobile.
Along the "a lroad tracks from Colo
RADIO Springs % Pueblo are scenes -
desolatlon and disaster. fences down.
great trees uprooted. deep guilies torn
iu the fields ~ the rushing torrents.
Upon the arrival ~ Governor Shoup
and Colonel Hammock. the belief VAS ex-
pressed 81 members ~ the party that
the reports of the death ton had been
exaEEeratcd. The property damage. q
- conceded however. win Be 40 least
SO. coo. 600.
Pueblo really experienced two floods
today. breaking 81 = dam on the Foun-
tain river near Colorado Springs early
today sent the flood waters % the Ar
kansas river up again. Al a. m. the
waters had again reached Third street.
By o'clock the new food was rcceding
and Il Is believed al danger from u was
ended Then skagWay reservoir broke
"a 49, al.
The city was under military control
today. with Lieutenant Colonel Paul r..
Newton % the Colorado national guard.
IN charge.
The city has been without lights. gas
and water since the food came Friday
night. Candles and kerosene lamps are
az a premium.
An fires are out tonight. Those which
lighted the city last night did no great
damage.
Every railroad line into the city was
out ~ commission with many miles ~
roadbed washed out. Within the city
practically all ~ the roadbed and rails
ia the yards have been destroyed
Newspaper men and military officials
have been the only persons permitted 20
enter Pueblo from the outside world
since the floods.
one artesian well flowing ntha water
was the only source - supply for drink
ing water In North Pueblo today. The
city water supply 4 polluted and in-
structions have been issued % Use only
boiled water
Lights were supplied tonight in the
flooded district with power from the
Colorado Fuel ana Iron company plant.
Five hundred persons are in temporary
hospitals as q direct result ~ the food,
according 20 . r. Morehead. secretary
% the EovernoT. There are cases Of
chicken pox. typhoid pneumonia. diph-
iberia and one or two cases ~ Insanity.
The entire city IL under martial law
and i5e troops are patrollinE the city
with orders that al persons are 90 he
kept out % the restricted area and %
shoot " necessary
Troops have received orders % prevent
all visitors from entering tho city. No
persons not members ~ the national
guard or coming here 90 enlist in the
guard win he admitted.
The Red Cross today cooked = carload
( ~ meat % keep Il from Hpoiling and
this viii De distributed 20 the needy.
Governor Shoup returned this after
noon by automobile to Colorado SPRINGS
from which place he expected 90 answer
the messages from President Harding
and senator Nicholson ~ Washington IN
regard 90 the measures needed 90 help
the situation
Colonel Pat mnmrock. adiutant gen.
erni, commanding state troops here said
tonight u would he possible to ascertain
something definite On the disaster
n O. impossible to obtain any accurate
Information - the number - dad 81
the number ~ bodies recovered. AZ MILL
tary headquarters - without communal
cation with the east and south sections
~ the city.
nr p a. Heller - the Red Cross. said
tonight that reports 70 him bad inai-
Gated - bodies recovered early today
A number % bodies were known 90 have
teen recovered previously and "a j. on
this figure that the estimate ~ 100 re-
covered Is made.
The number "a those drowned n the
Missouri Pacific ard Denver and Nio
Grande trains cannot he learned. nor can
the identity n most - the bodies rec0E
cred be- established.
when the first report - the new nood