Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-09
GRANTS
100000 To AID
FLOOD SUFFERERS

WASHINGTON, June An ap-
preparation of $1,000,000 for relief
of Colorado flood victims was au-
thorized late today by the senate in
adopting a joint resolution offered
by Senator Phipps, of Colorado.
Known dead from Fridays flood in
Pueblo totalled fifty-five today when
| three additional bodies were recover
ed. Early today forty-two bodies were
at the morgues and ten had been
| recovered on the ST. Charles Mesa.
No burials will be held for several
days, it was said. because of the i'm
passable condition of the roads to
the cemeteries.
A committee of real estate men to-
day estimated the property damage
| in Pueblo from the floo6 at between
SIS, 100000 and s20.O00,0O0. This
damage was an appraisal of the
buildings and contents.
With plans laid for complete
census of destitute families in
the flood district, for the es-
| Enlistment of a refugee camp and
for the installation. of a complete
! field hospital, the equipment for
which was expected to arrive at any
hour, decentralization and centrali-
cation of relief work in this district
| began in earnest today.
These various projects were def
initely mapped out at a reorganiza-
ton meeting of the Red Cross last
night at which the heads of the va
rious departments and a number of
out-of-town Red Cross workers were
present. According to DR.. ]. F.
Pierce, local medical director of the
Red Cross, the field hospital will be
able to accommodate $50 patients
the "tent colony will handle home
less flood sufferers in a scientific and
sanitary manner, DR.. Pierce said.
The relief workers will search out
families in need of help, so that ev-
cry one in actual want will be sue
cored, and Implications will be
avoided.
Families Marooned
One hundred and fifty families are
|
northeast of the Arkansas river, &C
cording to a. statement by Miss
Laura T. Taylor, chairman of out
side relief for the local chapter OF
the American Red Cross.
"These people, who are mostly
Italians, fled to the hills when they
saw their homes menaced by the
flood, ~ Miss Taylor said. Nov their
homes are devastated and they have
no place else to go. There are at
least ten houses to each of which
fifteen families, or about forty per-
sons, are crowded.
1.-The greatest problem with these
families is that of impending dis
ease, rather than the supplying OF
food"
Robert S. Cast, chairman of the
city relief committee, gave the fol-
lowing summary of the present con-
ditions in Pueblo:
The gas plant is entirely out OF
commission
No ice factories are in operation:
The two water systems are only
partially functioning.
The lighting system is out OF OPP
Grafton, nth the exception of few
street lights.
Broken Levee
A broken levee let's the water into
the city whenever there is any rise.
Mr.. Cast said that present condl-
tions would indicate that there is a
property damage of approximately
| SIS, OOO. 900 and that the estimate OF
! five hundred killed twas as good as
any,"
Four bodies were recovered and
total of twenty-five declared known
VineIand and Boone, and the district
between Pueblo and Boone, twenty
miles down the river, according to
report received today from Ranger
e. l.. Trounstine. He reported nine
Of a family of ten persisted at Avon
dale. 4ho
onIv survivor He got to the roof
of the house and was rescued after
floating several miles with the cur
rent.
are here from Fort Sllls, Okla.' ana
will be used for scouting purposes, 1t
wa sannounced by Major F. Bradley
of the air service, in charge.
80 PERSONS RESCUED
FROM OVERTURNED TRAIN
DENVER, June 7.-Fifty-1ve per-
sons have been rescued from the
Dem Denver lrNt and Rio Grande railroad
train which turned over in the rail-
road yards at Pueblo, saturday
morning, according to statement
issued by A. r. Baldwin, receiver
of the raod. Thirteen persons are
still unaccounted for.
The first victim of the flood in the
low section of D enver was Joseph
Richter, tifty years old, crippled
ash hauler. Richter was attempting
to return to his home 70 save some
personal effects. FIFTY persons
watched him wading across TWlefth
street in water up 10 his hips.
Suddenly he shouted for help. then
tumbled into the water. His BODY
wa c not recovered.