Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-06
sIREETS OF PUEBLO AGAIN
 FLOODED SUNDAY MORNING

Pueblo, Colo, June 5-New flood wat ers from the Arkansas river crept back into Main street this morning, serousIy handicap9mg rescue workers. The wat CTS which has rCcded last night, rose again this morning, but by noon had once more started to rccede.
 A total of p men have been arrested Tor Icotiug. one Mexican was shot by guards.
 Al noon today eight-three bodies had been taken from the flooded area. The heaviest loss of life being in the foreign district where the inhabitants failed to teed the warning signals.
 Both food an- water are being ration cd and are very scarce, but the most serious problem facing the city accord ing to Robert Cast, chief of the santa tion commission of the Red Cross is that .l sanitation. Dlsinfectants are urgent Iy needed Mir. Cast declared.
 In an appeal sent 10 the St. Lotus chapter of the Red Cross last night the local chapter stressed the need tor $25,- uuaJ for immediate use in reclamation work
 1. is believed the death list will not run above 250 In Pueblo's c5urt house hundreds of hOmc.ess are housed. Inc schools. churches, public buildings and huudres of private homes are caring for coItIess others left destitute by the H-od of Friday night and Saturday. The home less are being fed at the rate ct 60o an hour by the nJd Cross, but despite the well organized efforts to take care of It's unfortunates the city must have outside aid at once.
 Stress is being laid on the necessity Df equipping local utilitis so that opera lions may be resumed. It was also poin-ed out that the stricken city vir- tuaiy is at the mercy of the elemtns. Rain continued to fall yesterday. The big levees which formerly protected the ciiy from the waters of the Arkansas river went out Friday night and any of tl- swelling of the rivers torrent by rain adds Co the flood hazards.
 R.1lrts are numerous of miraculous sscaD.s from the waters. Many promin- ant business men and women who waited tUI the last moment to flee, narrowly escaped with their lives. Others are re- ported missing. There has been no at tempt 10 compile lists of known dead. Scores of foreigners living in the bot toms who failed to heed the warning sirn were seen to vanish in tn raging waters.
 The railroad yards are sight beg parlng description. Freight cars and rail equipments of all descripts are piled ia a hideous. fouI-smeiling mass, river debris covers the wreckage. The tur- bid waters swirl and race through the I-,lls and ties.
 The flooded section of Pueblo is car nctgd with a thick, simy layer of mud and debris. Water rose to the level oi the street lights ill many places.
 Merchants face serious embarrassment because of the tremendous stock loss one big department store facing stocl loss alone f s2j0,000
 The Nuckolls Packing company los virtually everything its total runnins over a million dollars
 Cast said the total property damag will exceed $1O.O0OoO0 while others ol his committee said he was far too con saryative.
 But despite the terrible disaster Pu eblo is fighting to regain it's feet. spiri ct optimism prevails and with the arriva hre today of outside assistance, @ grat CT degree of confidence is felt
 The city has been without lights, ga and water since the flood came Frida night. Candles and kerosene lamps ar at a premium.
 All fires in the city are out tonigh Those which lighted the city last nigf did no great damage.
 Every railroad line into the city wa out of commission. with many miles roadbed washed out. One artesan we flowing lithia water was the only sourC of supply for drinking water in Mort Pueblo today. The city water supply polluted and instructions have been i sued to use only boiled water.
 Lights were to be supplied tonight the flooded business district with DOW, from the Colorado Fuel and Iron compar plant