Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-06-09
LIFE Loss HEAVY
N PUEBLO FLOOD
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suited tAroagA luDlioatioa u lists.
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A peetica q . great stssl bridge
blocks IL eatfAnoe 70 Uaioa aveaus.
Wreckags b plle1 - test high against
walls that AZ ~ give way with The
1ood.
The Drove sssGloa. where thousands
q for4agnen-1lGs1oans and Italians--
lived hAs bssa literally wiped out. The
Aousso we're carrie1 away By the Aood.
many a them With their occupants
clinging 70 the roads.
The railroad yards are nllsd with
wrecked carr and sngines. Five rail.
roaA men sought safety q top oe .
locoaotive They remained there un-
III daylight when they SWAN TO safety.
The breaking u the Skagway and
ShAfsr dana WIN add approximately
81. oo0. 900 to the loss. which had previ.
0ualy been estimated Ut so .0o0, go
Mers tewsss owspt Away.
The Skagway dam furnished power
TO the Arkansas Valley Light and
Power company. Big industrial plants
OF the city dspended upon Il. The
Shafer dam supplied water 10 N irri.
cation project
| That the ioes Of life Vas not great
when these dams burnt vas due "a
warning that had been given. For 81
hours they we're known to have bsen
In prscarious conditioo and warningG
were sent down The valley for families
living n the lowlAnds 70 move q
higher ground. Fifteen houses woro
swept away vbsn the Skater dan wsu(
out, but there was no loss a life.
Governor Shoup returned b. asto
mobile to Colorado Springs. from
which place he exDeetsd % aasweu
messages from President Harding ~
Senator Nicholson 1t Washingtoa h
regard to the measures nesded 70 heir
the situation.
| No Gxssssestis~ Possible.
II va expected that the Oovsrnorl
answer would say that large sum q
money was needed ct once.
when I arrived here, issued ,
warning 70 Newspaper correspondent
against sxagxsrsting statements tn n
gard TO the loss OF life and propsrt,
damage. but now, since I have besI
over the devastated AREA u Pueblo
know that no exsggeration Ii possible,
Col Pat Hammock, adtutant genera
and commander Of the Colorado stat.
troops on duty here, said.
1T 10 absolutely impossible to d.
more than venture q guess a. to tn
number Of people who must have bee,
! killed In the food Of Friday night,
, he continued Il don't care to begil
guessing
Many unaeeourted For.
. Il know that about q hundred bodie
: have been found but no man alive cal
= tell how many more corpses are hid
! den in the piles OF debris In the sec
, tions stricken by the flood Il has bees
!. reported TO me that there are between
D 800 and 500 dead horses down there.
r don't know where they came from"
: The Pueblo chapter OF the Red Cros
received word that 500. 900 had besl
Appropriated for the relief Of Puebl'
from the national fund. Robert Gas
Of the local Red Cross chapter ssi'
fair progress was being made In dis
trihuting relief. Homes we're throw
2 open to the destitute The COURTEOUS.
4 WAS housing more than 100 women an
: children and scores were being care,
> for at the Congress hotel An smef
: gency hospital has been established .
the latter place.