The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-06

Roads to the city were impossible fol
miles around.
Efforts were being made to trans
| port food from surrounding towns by
airp ane. Several machines have al
ready been sent out with blankets and
medical supplies. A virtual embargo
on all shipments to Pueblo has been
affected by most all railroads enter
ing, the city.
The only drinking water available
today is from a lithia spring on hill
at the outskirts of the city,
Military patrols were handicapped
by the impossible streets. pitch dark
ress-the city's electric service sta
tion having been out of commission
since early Friday evening and the
unrelenting downpour. All persons
have been kept from the streets since
Saturday evening. Looting has been
held to a minimum. No one is per-
mitted to enter the city except the
military. Red Cross workers and state
and other officials
Learn of Relief Plans
With restoration Of telegraphic
communication early Sunday the suf-
fering community learned OF relief
measures icing taken by cities
throughout the middle west. A supply
Of cots, lanterns, candles and sweat
ers arrived yesterday from the Red
Cross in Colorado Springs.
Hundreds OF person applied at the
Red Cross yesterday and Saturday
for food, clothing and medical atten
ton. All were fed and clothed. A
carload of beef was Communicated
from the railroad yards and cooked 70
prevent its spelling
Offers Of Aid
Denver, Kansas City, st. Louis and
the other large cities closest the
flooded area have offered material aid
Immediately but are unable to get
their offerings to the community be-
cause of the demoralized traRsporta-
tion conditions.
The Basement of every building in
the downtown section is filled with
water and mud Windows of the
easements are crushed in by the
flood and military officials say that
bodies may be found here weeks later
when it has been possible to pump
cut the easements and shovel out the
mud
Doctors and Nurses Arrive
Fourteen doctors and % nurses ar
rived here last night from Colorado
Springs Fifteen embalmers arrived
from Denver and sixteen from Colo
RADIO Springs.
Officials attribute much of the flood
TO the blocking Of the high waters by
the railroad right-of-way in one sec
ton built entirely of Stag. With the
exception of a small hole built under
the tracks the Stag withstood the on
rush of the flood and the waters
backed up to the city, washing out
the levees and leaving the lower part
eff Pueblo at the mercy of the waters.
All the levees were washed out in
the flood and restoration of the river
to its natural bed presents an engi-
neering problem of magnitude.
In the vicinity of the state hospital.
the nearest the correspondent could
approach to the natural bed of the
river, it was approximately half a
mile outside it bank.
Parts of the railroad yards have
been washed away and the river had
established new channel virtually
covering that section of the bottom
known as the Grove.
Reaches Kansas
Topeka, Kan, June 6.-The first
wave of the Arkansas food today was
sweeping down from eastern Colorado
onto Kansas At Syracuse the river
was bank full last night and rising
rapidly Farmers and ranchmen liv-
ing in the bottoms early Sunday
moved their stock to the highlands.
Men on horseback are patrolling the
river west Of Syracuse, warning the
people to fee The Amity dam five
miles west of Syracuse is reported to
have given way. The telephone op-
orator reports the town of Amity
completely washed away with pos.
sible loss of life.
-Four persons who were detailed to
keep drift wood away from the piers
of a wagon bridge are reported to
have gone down with the bridge into
the main current of the river. The
Santa Fe Railroad Company notified
the communities along its lines in
the Arkansas valley in Kansas that
the rush of the Colorado flood waters
had crossed the state line and local
crossed the state line and local rep
representatives of the company had
representative of the company were
instructed to be prepared for any
emergency that might arise.
"The warning has been ample and
there need be no loss of life in Kan
sas." said F.. E.. Fox, general man
ager of the road.
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