Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-06-15
WRITES BROTHER
ABOUT DISASTER
Dr.. Pryor Receives interesting
Letter From Colorado Tell
ing of Pueblo Disaster

! DR.. VIII Pryor, we'll known
local veterinarian, has received>a
very interesting account from his
brother, Charles Pryor, insurance
agent at Trinidad, Colorado, of
the terrible floods at Pueblo, near
there. He writes a vivid descrip-
ton of the disaster and. after
events, which will be read with
interest. His letter to his bro
thef follows:
Early Sunday morning hun
dreds of people with automobile
loads of clothing and provisions
drove up to the c. & S. depot in
Trinidad and dropped their offer
Iings for the suffering on the plat
| form, to be loaded into a special
car bound for Pueblo. The Cham
! Der Of Commerce. the American
Legion, the Boy Scouts, all the
. bankers and prominent business
men, together with all classes and
conditions Of cjtizens-men. wo-
! men, boys and girls-helped in
! tieing up the bundles and loading
! them into the car, and the Trim
idad special relief train started at
about $50.
! Representatives of the Cham
Der of Commerce went through
the train begging people to stay
! in Trinidad because there were
no Accommodations for anybody in
Pueblo or anywhere between,
and a few got eff to find accomo-
dations here. The train had come
/ from points in Texas an CON
tanned about II coaches. The
train crew separated the train.
leaving all of the s1eepers and the
dining car in Trinidad and pro-
ceeded with two passenger cars
and the relief coaches attached.
At Wa!Senbur@ We found a box
car packed to ;he roof with sup
plies which had been gathered in
three hours time and this was
hooked on to the Trinidad train.
\ few people who had come TIP to
Pueblo the night before in cars
and had ben unable to get across
'IIe 81 C'larIe' river on account
ol IiSll WaterS' mao started Dack
10 Ir'ilidad ana sot as Jar as
W aI'eilDur@' aoandoned thelr
cars lhere ana boarded our tram
10 resume tnelf lourne 10 PueDlo.
rs we Geaclled u. CharieS river
ABOUT 10 illiIe' OUT Oh fueDlo we
saw d mousse UPSIDE down III the
IlFeI ooI'ol,' ana ttle Dodles OF a
lllotIieT ana Aer lhree chlidren
Il"u DeeH dragged III early III the
morning ana the husband VINO
was l" d Gritical conditlon was
OeIli% cared ior az a farmhouse.
Furlller on toward Pueblo we
came upon ABOUT a dozen auto
llIoDiles III the 'iilddIe OF the rali-
ROAD rl$ht-ol-"ay where there
were three or tour tracks. Cur
Tram 3ad TO take sldetrack to
Keep from striking these ma
cllheS WRlch proceeded slowly
down the rI8ht-ot-Way until
reaching Southern Junction and
ilnaliy managed to get INTO Pueb-
TO- ! he Tellei tram reached
9outiieln ulcIlon at Z o CLOCK
anu waited there until the rail-
Ioa9 Wlllch naI Deeh washed out
Totlld De reDtlllt INTO Nnlnequa
uhctlon' about two miles tur-
,Iler; = pom arrival there large
trucks from FueDlo business
houses were used to convey these
SuPPlleS TO the Central High
ochooi and olfier emergency sta
tloilS, 10 be distributed among
the NEEDY: On Our tram were
young IadleS looking tor their
parents and o9her members of
their famllleS-some OF them
scantlly clad and wearing French
heelS and CARVING baggage down
the rallroad l@ht-ot-Way' which