The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1921-06-17
WATERS FALL
IN PUEBLO
Clearing Up of Debris to Guard
Against Fire and Disease Be-
gun Under Military Orders.
RED CROSS IN CONTROL
Recedinu Waters Reveal Widespread
Wreckage Which Probably Hides
More Dead-Some Stores
Reopened.

Pueblo, -Conscripted by mill
tary authority, all the able:bodled men
in the city went to work with what
tools were available to dig Pueblo out
of it's plaster of mud and debris.
The task began in earnest when sew
eral thousand men, attired in clothing
and boots of all kinds, went INTO the
urea from which the flood waters had
receded. Military authorities directed
the operations from the housetops.
Slime and mud are two and three
feet deep in the lower business sec
tions for four and five blocks on eftlief
side of the Arkansas river, when Is
still raging through the city, aithoueh
now nearing its normal marx "llilih
the weakened banks.
All day trucks, carts, wagons, auto
mobiles of every model move IN long
professions through the downtown
Streets transporting sludge and DRIFT
wood back to the river bank whence IL
came.
Meanwhile clouds still hung low
over the wretched city, and the danger
of a fifth cloudburst, following the
four which sent down deluges OF Wal
ter, was ever present.
Fear of q powsr over when tlley
had no coEtiUl seeS1ad to be gripping
the Eopulace. All faces were grim ana
determined and eyes were lighted with
e courage to fight it through.
The official list of the dead, counting
only bodies recovered, now stands MT
eighty-three, according to DIR. Haller,
CITY health commissioner. The Pueblo
Chieftain, which has been trying 10
ascertain the number of missing, hsted
twenty-five.
Many more dead, it is believed, Will
be exhumed as the cOnscript band or
workers clear away the flood mud ana
debris.
Only a few of the dead have been
identified. They are chiefly foreigners
of the Pepper-Sauce Bottoms area and
members of train crews. An army OF
embalmers and undertakers, who came
from Denver Sunday, were caring for
the bodies in the city morgue.
In the meantime no definite facts
we're developed as to the loss of life
I'm the Denver & Rio Grande tram
and Missouri Pacific train, which were
overwhelmed by the flood as they stood
on the tracks near the river. 1t mas
been variously declared that loo TO
200 persons perished there, although
it is known that many reached nearby
buildings. Evidently 1t will require
actual excavation on the spot to de-
termine how many were lost in this
one phase of the disaster.
While the work Of clearing away the
flood wreckage is started, with every
man expected to do his bit, whatever
his position in civic life, at 43 cents
an hour, or face the penalty OF work.
ing without pay under military guaru.
all sightseers have been warned 10
quit the city at once.
Moreover. no one is allowed to enter
Pueblo from the outside world unless
If can be shown he has business here.
A military outpost guard has been sta
toned at the Buttes Bridge, thirty
miles north of the city on the roau 10
Denver, and another to the east toward
La Junta. Strict orders have been
given to turn back all coming on idle
errandS.
Colone, Patrick J. Hammock OF the
State Rangers, who has charge OF the
military here, has ordered Il mobiliza'
tion of all the state troops in PueDl1
TO handle the emergency work which
has arisen.
"Twenty thousand shovels are ready
and waiting in Pueblo" says Colonel
Hammock, who adds:
A spring i'll the side of the mesa back
of the Congress Hotel has been drained,
but it is trickling orty u few cupfulls
an hour. Other sources of water sup
ply have been cut off since the first
day. An American Legion detachment
of eighty men which arrived Sunday
are exerting every effort to restore tho
water system.