Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1921, Page 4

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C..‘IMONDAY, JUNE 6, 1921 Rescue Parties Search Pueblo Ruins for Dead as Flood Sweeps Down Arkansas Valley* Vewitnesses Picture Tragedies rLoo wn_nswa SCOUTED . . | PEOPLE 'STAY as Flood Claims Pueblo Lives CHRNENE HOWES ~ J LU. S. Army Sergeant Reports It ‘Was Impossible to Reach Per- sons Trapped by Waters. BLO, Col, Jufie €—Sergt. Wil- ioughby of the United States Army. here to train National Guard troops, said warning of the flood was given throughout® the district Friday night and that AREA OF COLCRADC MCST SEVERELY AFFECTED/ BY FLCCD. SCENES3 IN FLOOD-SWEPT PUEBLO, COLO. Houses, With Occupants Crying for Help, Sweep Down | Streets Past Victims Clinging to Roofs—Many Bodies Jammed Among Cars in Rail- road Yards—Heroic Rescues. many persons laughed at — ithe warning, refusing to leave. Late By the Associated Press. cet past us. many of them with in the night he aided in clearing back PUEBLO. Col. June 6.—A graphic neople inside crying for help. T don't | story of the flood was given to e ww aasy e Th e e SeaDod l Alsociated Press today by M. J. Valley | * “We were rescued by a boat erew of Denver, a Colorado and Southern|at 9 o'clock Suturday morning. railroad engineer. | Pounds Hole in Roof for A Valley was marooned by the flood In the Union garage one man was with four other men for twelve hours. | rescued Saturday. He had floated with At one time hix companions had to crowds from the vicinity of the riv. #8 the water swept into the bottom ries home of persons trapped their could be heard, but no o ssist them. He said men could n running ahead of the waters. breaking windows and looting. Many of the dead, he believed, represented lined to heed the flood ) who did not understand of the situation. the flood to the ceiling of the build- | | | | | E | body was found jammed between the | the later wer rescued. rub his limbs and body to keep his|iN& and had then pounded a hole R i iy e blood in circulation so that he could |thTough the roof big enough so that|men trapped in a store. They climbed {stand alone. he could stick his head through and| into the balcony and as the flood ' “I had been in a garage with a|Bet air. The water came within three| waters surrounded them th ound- | friend, to get his car.” Valley said, [Inches of the sccond floor. Another|ed their way through the second stors i From the New York Times “when the flood waters swept into[Tan with him might have saved hif|with a baseball bat. From there they | e e e “aierbed "imto the |!ife If he had kept his face up. Hix ! made their way 1o & roof from which i car, then on top of it. L L g ned s | they rr TI h P bl . e o o oL I ched us even | FAfters. His name was Schoeble. He | 'Gne body was taken out yester H 't X b | was the owner of a large shoe store. | after having been crushed betw flunt Throu weblo Ruins herer un s Shpmbia-inte the nee | 28 (PR oNeL o linge that, sore | ater miting e s B i ond floor of the building and When | ;. gwam into a building where he | mun was found beneath the fire s : that became flooded we smashed a | uw many tragedies. He saw three | cape of a building A woman's bod hole in the roof and stepped out on it. | byjldings on Union and Sante g o e et p Stand on Raft Three Hours. streets caved in by a string of cars which came floating down street. People apparently were in the upper floors, he =aid, as he heard] cries and saw lights there just befor the building gave away. He could not say whether any were saved. Kerns swam from his first place of refuge along the stream to a hotel] building. which was flooded almost to | the second floor. “I had to turn my head sideways | to et under the top of the doorway “The water crept on us there and | it looked as if the building might go, | 80 we stepped out on a pile of debris which had been stopped by telephone | wires. For three hours we stood | there in the rain and darkness which | was lighted up only by several fires. | “Within three hours the impro- vised raft gave way and we climbed | back onto the garage, finally cut-| ting a cable from the telephone wires | for Bodies of Flood Victims PRESIDENT WIRES OFFER OF AID TO COLORADO : 50 far he has been able to feed and clothe every person applying for aid. Hundreds of persons applied to the Red Cross yesterday and Saturday for food, clothing and medical relief. A canteen supplied the food. A car- load of beef was commandeered from the railroad yards and cooked to pre- vent its spoiling. Red Cross officials | ! | i . o (Continyed f-om First Page.) toduy i< from a lithiz spring on a hill at the ou skirts of the city. heavy downpour of rain con- tinued a!l through last night and the early morning today. Military patrcls were handicapped | Expresses Sorrow at Disaster and Praises Way State Has Met Great Emergency. A ! by the impazgable st itch dark- | expected the meat to materially aid | And, with b‘“';fm:‘: of this got onto [ staved there all night. ! VALLEY FORGE. Pa. June & inoss—the cily's sctric service | the food situation. “From here, and with the aid of Find Bodies Among Cars. | President Harding, epending the werk sistion having been out of commis. | Denver, Kansas City. St Louis and |, FEoM, RO0€ SO0 Wb, N0 HIC 001 Out in the railroad yards. near the | end at the country home here of Sens ision since early Friday evening—and | other large cities closest to the flood- 1 (18 35 P€ SCECREC Iires MO VIR | state hospital, the ~ correspondent | tor P. C. resterday wired the uprelenting downpour. cd area have offered m terial aid im- | Were W : Y |found a freight conductor who had| Shoup of expressing sor- i All persong have been kept from | mediately, but are unable to get their Houses were being aweptido the |Slept in a caboose throughout the row and offering the aid of the fed- ! ihe streets since Saturday evening. | offerings to the community because of . flood. eral government to the flood suffer.r= 1 Looting has been held to a minumum. | the demoralized transportation con- |~ “I @idn’t know there had been a|of that state. The telegram said i No one is permitted to enter the city | ditions. Colorado Springs. Fifteen embalmers | fiooq until I woke up Saturday mor: “I am greatly distressed 1o read { except the military. Red Cross work- | All Basements Flooded. arrived from Denver and sixteen from | ing and found the floor of the caboosc | the great misfortune which has ers and state and other officials. i Colorado Springs. jcovered with mud.” he said. “I had! with its toll of death and destruc The basement of every building in nday, the suf- | the downtown section is filled with arned of relief | water and mud. Windows of base- ken by cities | ments were crushed in by the flood. jand military officials say that bodies Officizls attribute much of the flood to the blocking of the high waters by a railroad right of way in one section built entirely of slag. With the ex- ception of a small hole under the With the resto { communication carly fering community i measures undert | throughout the middie west. heard the rain once or twice during the night as it beat on the roof. but, I rolied over and went back to sleep. | “in the morning 1 got up and went out into the vards. People were tak- to the citizenship of Pueblo and t valley of the Arkansas river. It most reassuring to know how nobiy your state has met the great emer- gency. If the federal government can tion aphic of tel A Supply of cots. blankets. lan- | may be found here weeks later. when | tracks. the slag withstood the on- | ing hodies out from under the freight | be of aid to you, pray do not hesitate terns, candles and sweaters arrived |it has been possible to pump out ihe | rush of the flood and the waters back- I don’t know how many there| to advise me, for all the people of the yesterduy from (he Red Cross in| basements and shovel out the mud.!ed up to the city. washing out levees ey were jammed in between| United States are touched by th Colorado Springs. Col. K J. Pierce, in | Fourteen doctors and twenty-five |and leaving the lower part of Pueblo | the trucks and cars so tight that we|sorrow and distress which have con ycharge of the Red Cross, sald that nurses arrived here last night from !at the mercy of the waters. | could hardly get them out.” to the people of Colorado.” | ‘ o Y ] [ = == g "‘ = = Ll ) > LA I | i | ‘ Tues ay and THE G 1 orrers a 0ig li Il ‘ UPPER: WAIN STRE RAILROAD YARDS. i ! Flood waters from the Arkansas river xwept through the basiness section of Pucblo, where fires, started by . il lightning, added to the timac-d at $13,000,60 B i T ards were bit expeciuliy hard. A passenger train was overturned there by the rush of waters; i a The Arkonxas In roported to be flowing through the ralirond yards today {it ax the rexult of a chanzing chrmmel dur to the fiond. i = ‘ , | - ‘LOATING BODIES SEEN 'FASSEN ER I i 1 4 e i | - H.Um] |NVA[“N‘J ON TRIP ALONG RIVER PRA i i SN S i it quot . B. Newton. manager of a large Pueblo canning facttory, as reporting upon his arrival there that there had been loss of life from floods in the Arkansas Las Animas and ton reached Pueblo from Las Animas Survivor Describes Horrifying Scenes When Flood Topples Arkansas River Water. Add- ed to Dam Collapse, Threat- | by automobile: ‘He was accompanied . ; i ens Life and Proparty. o faciory oo o Over Trains umonos apper Dresses ‘ 4 > roperty. “We saw many bodies floating down & f crepe and challie, in An Added A 7 O Big Doll D In a large variety of pretty I T lthe stream.” Mr. Newton was quoted | Ry th Asociated Press. ! T2y PE . n e ttraction to Our Big Dollar Day arg y of pretty TOPEKA. Kan. June 6—The first %3 W0E hundreds of eat-| COLORADO SPRINGS, Col. June 6.! many plain colors or pretty colors—in excellent quality wave of the Arkansas river flood to-|le. hogs. horscs avd buildings in the | —Frank Dueray, sherff of Mesa [l figured designs. Only 100 : ° gingham. Thert are some day was sweeping down from eastern |water. At one place. we saw a boy | county, whose home s at Grand ' [l in the lot—be early..... plaids in this lot. 12 to lorads " mvont e ans 1e river | Perehcd upon the top of a concrete o as 4 it B 5 Colorado upon Kan e e B Peeof s faay f:onuin: was one of the survivors of | 16. Very special, at....... at Syracuse was bank t night-1of five. all of the others navineibeen|[ ) pasengers (on Denver and Big Uil » fall last night and ri rapidly. |drowned. At Nepesta. four bodies had | Grande train > . which arrived in !l R Farmers and ranehmen 1oing in the |Deeh recoverei” Three. hodles were | Bucblo on Fridey int at 3 ceinci | |l Tots’ Rompers Chillren’s'Dres e i = heir | LAKER from the river at Boone. Onetjus as the train pulled up to the = 300 of th d £ 1 r: ,I f I k Ses bottoms early Sunday moved theif{wax that of an axed man. Another|bridge over the Arkansas river lewds ||| Gl (B B 2aean <ight from our regular stoc In sizes 2 to 4 years. Just co; stock to the highlands. |was that of an elderly woman. while | ing ‘into the Union® station. 1t was lent quality gingham in In sizes 2 to 4 years. Just come Men on hoseback are patrolling the | Uhe thitd was thai of & voung girl {stopped. he said it o T % in, and you'll see for your- river west of Syracuse, warning the | None of the dead was identified and| "“\We were left there," AR on I an assortment of pretty T I . eople to flee. : it was thought they had been drown- the next track was a Missouri Pacifi color patterns. Sizes 2 ta seliiithat Sthese Sare igood PP he Amity dam. five miles west of |{¢d in Pueblo and floated down theltrain We had been there only a Short P iolE o values. Well made of the city. is reported to have given |¥lream. time when we heard the roar of wates 6. Very special at ..... ° Specially Z vi The telephone oberator reports| “At ome point the river was twoland'the flood lapped at the coach stens For Tomorrow minzham—2 for .......... of Amity completely washed | Miles wide. It was running like a|gan4 began rising rapidly. It was soon Priced il jmill race and carrying scores of farm ki ers and their families in its wake.” with a possible loss of Ife. Four Eelieved to Have Drowned. main current of the riv The Sante Fe Railway Company notified the communities on its line in the Arkansas valley of Kansas that the rush of Co’orado flood water had crossed the state line. and local representatives of the company were instructed to be prepared for any emergency that might arise. “The warning has been ample and BY HERDIC EFFORTS: {Newspaper Men Use Air, Au-! need be mo loss of life in . sald F. C. Fox. general man- | % ager of the Santa F “The Santa FETWI nomerate “witn the ‘com. | 108, One Telegraph Wire munities along its iine to keep th : A roperty loss down to the minimum. | P he Santa Fe last night is<ued an | and Signals to Obtain Facts embargo against the fiooded diStrict. | p g o i applicable to live stock wnd per- | e AT owated e ! A cight. Heavy rains were| DENVER, Col, June 6.—Information lin regard to conditions in flood-strick. | en and isolated Pueblo was obtained reported west of Dodge Cit Loss of Life in Las Animas. LAS ANIMAS. Col. june 6.—Four jand forwarded to the outside world persons. all of them Mexicans and | under conditions that were as trying three of them children. are known and in some instances as hazardous as those which the suffering people of that city themselves underwent. The first news of the disaster came to be dead. and many others are be- lieved to have perished by the over- flowing of the Arkansus river flood- ing this city. Warning ~was received from La z Junta to take to the hills, but the | to' Denver over the Associated Press city was virtually surrounded with ! leased wire and a Western Union water before the warning could be | Telegraph Company wire almost si- passed zround. Many houses were | multaneously. A few mirutes after washed into the streets and some ) the Associated Press wire lost Pueblo down the river. the last Western Union operator to The flood in the Arkansas river | brave the rush of waters wired to the Denver office: “I am going to beat it, the water is around my feet.” That was Friday night. Go to Sceme by Alirplane. After that it was hours before com- munication between Pueblo and the rest of the country was restored, over the Western Unfon wire. The first outside newspaper men to reach the flooded city were two Denver corre- spondents. "One of them was an Asso- ciated Press staff man and the other a staff correspondent of the Denver Times. They went together early Saturday morning in an airplane from { this eity. Later two more Associated Press correspondents and an Auolchted‘ v 2 i Press operator went to Colorado LA rise of tweive feet here. which fs | STOSD OBSTRlon WERL % train and ported to be the crest of the flood | waters. in Colorado. would inundate j from Colorado Springs to Pueblo by much of the business district of |automobile and on foot. Trains could Dougze (“ity and would put the electric |not get within miles of the business lights and power plant out of com- |scction of the city. and automoblles from Pueblo to the Kansas state line is_the greatest in fartv-four vears. La Junta is flooded to a depth of three feet, and the city is without drinking er or lights. Dodge City Preparing for Flood. DODDG TY. Kan.. June 6.—Flood waters of the Arkansas river are ex- pected to reach Dodge City before noon today. according to ipfazmation received from the west. The river 1s rising rapidly at Morse, Col., thir- ty-five’ miles west of Syracuse, Kan., according to the information. Regidents In the lowlands up and down the Aykansas valley are moving their ‘effects to higher ground as rap- idly as possible, in preparation for expected floods. mission. » |that managed to get around washouts i on the roads hud to stop at the city limits. ‘olorado prings newspaper # - HELD IN MURDER CASE. men also succeeded in reaching Pu- ¢ NEW YORK. June 6—Mrs. Evajc¢blo laje Saturday. Catharine Kaber. widow of Daniel Military Passes Required. .Kaber of Cleveland. Ohio..a publ'sher.| Ncws of the conditions in Pueblo who was murdered xbout two vears|was obtained only under the greatest -ago, ‘was held without bail.yester-|.r gifiiculiies. Local newspapers, the day to await extradition on a charge |, lice, the fire department,. the mili- of complicity in her husband's death. i3,y and the Red Cross were the first Mre. Kaber was arrested in the home | yoyrces of information, as the high f M=z Verona Smith. She was in-)yater and the strict vigilance of mil- slicted In Cleveland several days ago. | tary guards made it impossible to get. . |frst-tand information until the ne asary military passes had been o 1 a2 srovielons made for got- ung arvand through the mud, water — Four persons wio were detailed to: keep driftwood from the picrs of a wagon bridge are reported have | i gone down with the bridge into the‘ 1j:st before the water flooded in on us. rushing through the car. Some of us went up and down in the cars quieting the passengers, many of whom were screaming and moaning and praying. “A young girl was sitting in her seat crying. 1 stopped to reassure and com- fort her. She said she was from Chi- and sobbingly called out “Duddy, y! I told her we would look after her, and it cheered her. But--well, I saw her swept away as the water rushed into the coaches and carried us out through windows and doors. Meets Denth Smiling. “An old lady sat in her seat, smiling, st declared that if it was her time to 20 she was prepared, and kept on smil- ing. 1 reckon she died in her seat. I Saw @ young man sitting in an upper Lerth with hix mother, consoling her. She was praying. In the water we clung to the coaches oi the train, which were swaying back and forth with the waves and striking the coaches of the Missouri Pacific train. “Screams and cries of anguish rose. 1 saw some people go to their deaths crushed between the two trains. A great pile of lumber came rushing down upon us, sweeping over us, strik- ing some of those clutéhing there with precarious hold on the cars. They were torn loose and went floating down to death. I saw a man break his way through the top of a coach only to be washed down the flood.” “On either side of us, houses and barns and other buildings were swirl: ing down. Many people were clinging to them. 1 saw two women en the top of a house. The structure struck the bridge and crumbled like an egg shell. 1 saw their white hands a moment on the water. Estl es Far Over 100 Lost. “Morning came. The waters had been receding. Those of us who were left—about sixty—were able to reach the ground and walk around in water above our knees. “Some of the unconscious women and children were left in the dark. It was a scene of devastation and death. It was awful. “I cannot say what the loss might be. I know it must be far over & hun- dred lives, for at least that many, I am sure, were lost off our train and the Missouri Pacific train, though more from'’ the last-named train were found alive. 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