Judsonia weekly advance., 1921-06-09


 closed in flames. There was no water to combat the blaze. So it swept on. It ate through the Florman Paint Company, the gas plant, the ice plant, moved down two big garages in its path, and then attacked the yards of the King Investment and Lumber Company. All were laid in waste.
 Residents Are Dazed.
 In the grip of disaster all Pueblo seemed stunned. Refugees. dazed and seemingly not knowing what to do, struggled about the undiscovered streets. Mothers with babies in their arms, mothers whose arms were empty, old men and women and peo- pie of every description wandered about until gathered up and taken to a headquarters established by the Red Cross. There they were fed and al- lowed to rest
 With everything swept away but the clothes on their backs and the few things they carried in little bundles, many moaned and cried, while others tried to find relatives and friends. The courthouse was thrown open, and served as a canteen and hospital.
 After the flood motor cars moved up Main street carrying bodies on the lenders, each body covered with mud.
 Just when Pueblo was beginning to recover from the terrible disaster of Friday night, the Skaway reservoir between Florence and Victor sudden ly gave way and within an hour the swollen torrent of the Arkansas river again had inundated the outlying sec tions of the city.
 Waters rose to a point only few inches below the high water mark of Friday nights floods.
 The new flood did not develop ser iously, although the river rose several feet in a short time.
 State Troops on Duty.
 Trees and masses of debris were coming down from the country above Pueblo on the crest of the new floods. Troops quickly cleared the business and wholesale districts. Citizens were prevented from coming within a block of the waters, while every effort was made to prevent loss of life from the new dangeT.
 Gov. Oliver H. Shoup and Col. Pat rick Hamrock commander of the state constabulary, arrived early to take personal charge of the situation. Im- mediately upon their arrival it was decided that Colonel Hamrock's troops, consisting of Colorado Ma tional Guard units and state rangers, will assume all responsibility for law and order during the emergency.
 Governor Shoup and Colonel Ham, rock left Colorado Springs in a motor truck mounted on f1ange wheels, which travelled to Pueblo over the Santa Fe and D. & R. G. tracks. Due to delays caused by washed out roadbeds the officials abandoned their conveyance at Buttes, however, proceeding to this city by automobile.
 Along the railroad tracks from Col orado Springs to Pueblo are scenes of desolation and disaster, fences down, great trees uprooted, deep gullies torn in the fields by the rushing torrents. Upon the arrival of Governor Shoup
 
 expressed by members of the party that the reports of the death toll had been exaggerated. The property dam- age, it is conceded, however, will be at least $10,000,O00.
 Pueblo recently experienced two new floods. Breaking of a dam on the Fountain river near Colorado | SnrinOC baC hn the Arkansas river up. The waters again reached Third street. Then Skagway reservoir broke, and brought the third flood.
 The city was put under military con- trol under charge of Lieut. Col Paul Il. Newton of the Colorado National Guard. Thousands of persons were cared for at night in churches and courthouses, hotels and private homes.
 Water from the Arkansas river crept back into Main street in the morning, seriously handicapping res cue workers. The water, which had receded at night, rose again in the morning. but by noon once more had started to recede.
 Botn tood and water are being re- toned and are very scarce, but the most serious problem facing the c,ry. according to Robert Cast, chief of the Sanitation Commission of the Red Cross, is that of sanitation. Disinfect. ants are needed urgently. MT. Cast said. In an appeal sent to the St. Louis chapter of the Red Cross the local chapter stressed the need for $25,000 for immediate use in reclama- tion work.
 In Pueblo's courthouse hundreds of homeless were housed.