The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-06-11

lightning, a crash, ana In the Henl VI
the next flash a building was DIS
closed in flames. There was no water
to combat the blaze. So 1t swept on.
It ate through the F1orman PANT
Company. the gas plant. the ice plant
moved down two big garages IN us
path, and then attacked the yards OF
the King Investment and LUMBER
Company. All were laid in waste.
Residents Are Oazed.
In the grip of disaster all Pueblo
seemed stunned. Refugees, dazed
and seemingly not knowing what 10
do, struggled about the mud-covered
streets. Mothers with babies in their
arms, mothers whose arms were
empty, old men and women and peo-
nile of every description wandered
about until gathered up and taken 10
Headquarters established by the Red
Cross. There they were fed and al
lowed to rest.
With everything swept away bat the
clothes on their backs and the rev
things they carried in little bundles,
many moaned and cried, while others
tried to find relatives and friends.
The courthouse was thrown open, and
served as a canteen and hospital.
After the food motor cars moved
ND Main street carrying bodies on
the tenders, each body covered Win
mud.
Just when Pueblo was beginning TO
recover from the terrible disaster OF
Friday night, the Skaway reservoir
between Florence and Victor sudden
Ily gave way, and within an hour the
swollen torrent of the Arkansas river
again had inundated the outlying sec
tions of the city.
J Waters rose to point only lie"
inches below the high water marx OF
Friday nights floods.
l The new flood did not develop ser
iously, although the river rose severa
2 feet in a short time.
State Troops on Duty.
r Trees and masses OF DEBRIS wer'
+ coming down from the country abov'
& Pueblo on the crest of the new hoods
t Troops quickly cleared the bushes
and wholesale districts. Citizens wer
e prevented from coming within pioci
l. of the waters, while every effort wa
z made TO prevent loss of life from tn
new danger.
n Gov. Oliver H. Shoup and Col. Pa
It rick Hammock, commander OF the stat
Ie constabulary, arrived early to tax
n. nersonal charge of the situation. In
Is mediately upon their arrival 1t wa
decided that Colonel Hammock
p troops, consisting of Colorado Nj
Is tional Guard units and state ranger
m will assume all responsibility for la
O. and order during the emergency.
ir Governor Shoup and Colonel Han
n rock left Colorado Springs in a mote
Is truck mounted on fiange wheels, whic
travelled to Pueblo over the Santa I
and d & r. G. tracks. Due to della!
re caused by washed out roadbeds II
oh officials abandoned their conveyan'
at Buttes, however, proceeding to tn
by city by automobile.
ed Along the railroad tracks from Ct
ok Dorado Springs to Pueblo are scenes
desolation and disaster, fences dow
* great trees uprooted, deep gullies to-
he in the fields by the rushing torrent
of Upon the arrival of Governor Sho'
and Colonel Hammock the belief W
,u- expressed by members of the par
od that the reports of the death toll h
an been exaggerated. The property da
ap. age, 1t is conceded, however, will
led at least $10,000,000.
ma Pueblo recently experienced t
be. new floods. Breaking Of a dam
ills the Fountain river near Colora
,ed Springs has sent the flood waters
aid the Arkansas river up. The watt
again reached Third street. tn
.ity Skagway reservoir broke, and broui
and the third food.
the The city was put under military c
ken troll under charge Of Lieut.. Col. p
vas H. Newton of the Colorado Natio
ngs Guard Thousands of persons W,
Sec cared for at night in churches 9
arr courthouses, hotels and private hon
Water from the Arkansas ri
tne crept back into Main street in
tne morning. seriously handicapping !
was cue workers. The water, which
oi. receded at night, rose again In
=, morning, but by noon once more
started to recede.
Both food and water are being
"a toned and are very scarce, but
-, most serious problem facing the c
col. according to Robert Cast, chief Of
Sanitation Commission Of the
~ Cross, is that of sanitation. Disinf
'e,v ants are needed urgently, Mr.. c
and said. In an appeal sent to the
a 70 Louis chapteSsQf the Red Cross
per- local chapteI tssed: the need
ives $4,000 for Late use in recla
,ese Il work. &X
,lun. m Pueblo courthouse hundred
homeless were housed.