The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-08
RED CROSS PUTS
DEATH TOLL IN
PUEBLO AT 500
Many Bodies in QuicksandS
Below City, Is Report.
Sun Helps Searchers for Re-
mains of Victims.
RELIEF TRAINS REACH CITY
Will Take Months to Wipe Out
Flood Traces.
Red Cross and Salvation Army
Care for Refugees. .-.
Red Cross and Salvation Army
Care for Refugees. -.

Pueblo, June S.-A bright sunshine
today played over flood stricken
Pueblo and made the more impress
sive the work of removing dead bodies
of animals and clearing of debris as
a precautionary measure against dis
ease.
All night gasoline pumps worked
on flooded cellars thru the business
district pouring thousands of gallons
of water into the streets and again
converting them into quagmires. The
correspondent rode thru the district
shortly before midnight with the Colo
RADIO rangers More. streets were
passable to automobiles than at any
other time. The main street viaduct
was open to traffic after one side had
been removed by work zen.
Completion of the refugee camp
near Mineral Palace park was ex-
pected today and arrangements are
being made to bring refugees into it
Immediately. Another camp is to be
constructed on the south side. A con-
Voy of trucks left early. today to
bring back food and supplies from
Colorado Springs. Railroads an
nounced yesterday that refugees
would be transported from Pueblo
free of charge upon recommendation
of the Red Cross. Arrangements fer
relief of Mexicans here was made by
who has $4,000, appropriated by the
Mexican government for this purpose.
Red Cross relief for the entire Coll
orado disaster was placed in the hands
of a. w Jones of st. Louis by. James
/. F'iezer manager of the southwest
ern division of the organization, who
is on the ground. Great piles of debris
are in the downtown streets ready to
be carted away. 1t is expected that
the cleanup work will reveal more
definitely the loss of life, which Red
Cross estimates place at 500.
Solve Water Problem. ....
Pueblo, swept by floods last week,
today began getting back to peace
basis IN earnest. -sa -
Keller work was rapidly being sys-
tematized, local workers being assisted
by eastern Red Cross officials. The
lighting system was being steadily im-
proved and with the expected install
solution of another vexing problem
bade fair to be solved.
The first train to leave the city since
Friday arrived in Denver early today
with 975 refugees. A refugee camp
was ready to receive the homeless to-
day.
More than 200 tents were set up
yesterday and in addition complete
field hospital was available for such
refugees as might require medical
treatment The camp will contain 300
tents when completed, each with a ca
pacity of six single cots. '-
Col. Patrick J. Hamrock, announced
that refugees would begin moving
from the court house, high school and
other public buildings to the refugees
camp today.
Led by Salvation Army.
Twenty-Five Salvation Army workers
are here from Denver, Colo, Colorado
Springs and Trinidad and the mess
Tor the refugee camp has been turned
over to them. They brought two car
loads of provisions from Denver and
will be supplied with all food needed
for the refugees by the citizens COM
mittee.
Colonel Hamrock estimates that
there are more than 1000 homeless
in the city. Many of them are Mexi-
cans and they are virtually helpless,
he said.
Work of cleaning up Pueblo will
take months. it was said. Railroads
have started filling in breaches in the
levees which will serve to protect the
new tracks being laid.
ReIief Trains Arrive
Two relief trains arrived from Den
yer today and one left for the stricken
cities of the north. Five hundred
Puebloans cheered the first train to
reach the station.
Two motor lorries and fifty wagons
were to entrain today from Fort Sam
Houston, Texas, for Pueblo to helI
restore order and dig the city out.
More than hundred horses
drowned in the flood were burned ir
great pyres on the outskirts of the
city
The comforts of civilization. wiped
out for several days, are quite gen.
orally restored today with electric
light water and telephone service an6
a minimum amount of domestic ga:
available.
Congress Hurries Relief.
Washington. June S.-Final actor
on Colorado flood relief was taken il
congress today when the senate
adopted the resolution passed late yes
terday by the house. 1t is virtually
the same resolution as the senate
Itself adopted late yesterday. Il
authorizes and directs the secretary
of war to provide temporary relief fol
flood sufferers in the form of foot
and tents for shelter.
Bodies Arc In Quicksand.
Denver, June S.-Ten million dol
lars worth of Pueblo goods and score.
of bodies are strewn in the mire anC
the quicksand for thirty-five mile
south of Pueblo. says a dispatch Il
the Denver Times from staff man.