Williams news., 1921-06-17
SCORES LOST IN
 PUEBLO FLOOD
ESTIMATED 1s,ooo HOMELEsS- NUMBER LOST IN DISASTER
 WILL NEVER BE KNOWN
LARGE PROPERTY LOSS
REPORTS SHOW HEAVY RAINS
 AND PROPERTY OVER STATE
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 Denver, June 6.-Friday, June 3, was a dark day in the history of Pueblo, Colorado's second city. Flood waters from the Arkansas and Fountain riv- CTS devastated the business and lower residence sections of the town, sweep ing away hundreds of houses and caus- ing great loss of life. Reports to date show property loss will run into mil lions, while constantly dead bodies are being found, until the death roll shows upwards of POO. Flood waters fill a large portion of the city, and Saturday and Sunday as they receded new horrors were revealed. In some places the water was reported seven teen feet deep.
 Publo's union depot was in the cen ter of the flooded area, which reached from the high cliffs on which the bet ter residence portion of the city is To- cated at Seventh street to west of the station. Practically all in that lower section is destroyed. From Friday night to Sunday the city was without light or water, street cars stopped. fires became frequent and with no chance to fight them, soon consumed many business and residence blocks
 The flood was augmented by a sec ond cloudburst Saturday which wrought greater havoc Sunday, with the breaking of Beaver dam, eight miles north of Florence, and terrific cloudburst about 3 p. m., the stricken city Is in a most pitiful condition. The Arkansas river rushed down again and the receding waters were given fresh impetus. It is impossible to tell the extent of this dire disaster.
 Pueblo is under, martial law, the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Rangers being in complete control of the city Looters have been arrested by the dozen and several shot. Armies of rescuers worked day and night to save persons caught in the flood and who could not reach safety before the great nine-foot wall of water struck the city.
 Denver 6 Rio Grande train No 3 and Missouri Pacific train No. 12 were caught in the flood and both turned turtle. As each carried numbers of passengers, it is not now known how many perished-
 Railroad and wagon bridges are out ] north, south and west of Pueblo, and 1t is difficult to get relief to the stricken city. Denver sent a special
  other necessary equipment Saturday night. Red Cross nurses and helpers accompanied this train with full SUD- ply of emergency material. The Sal vation Army, Fitzsimons Hospital. Fort Logan and many others put forth every effort to supply necessaries for the thousands of homeless.
 Forty-one undertakers from Denver took special train for Pueblo Sunday | morning to assist in caring for the | dead Trinidad sent a carload of pro- | visions, Victor, Colorado Springs and | other towns responded nobly to the call | of the distressed city
 Governor Shoup took up his resi- | dence at Colorado Springs in order to | be as near the scene of disaster as pos sfble. First hand reports to him by | Representative Iver Daley and State | Pure Food Inspector W. F. Cannon on | Sunday morning shows that the total | number of dead would never be known, that scores of bodies will never be | found, either because they are buried | under tons of sand or destroyed in | some of the fires that ragged, and | this statement to be issued by the governor:
 1.-The Pueblo flood is much worse than the disaster attending the earth quake and fire in San Francisco The exact number of dead may never be xnown. Scores of bodies may never De recovered
 Every possible assistance has been 'ushed to Pueblo in an effort to relieve he situation as much as possible.