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imnot mediately get out will of be. their forced own out, accord say the authorities. Further Tragedy Guarded Against is anticiNo additional loss of life as warnings pated had cleared the threw a cordon from the and new danger troops flood, zone of every prehuman around being, the low-lying district to vent any one entering. rain turned the lathery into The sheets of of the first flood with the mud remnant that joined drove curb-high rivulets The rain incoming new flood. shelter, leaving the spectators to except for curious the streets deserted rangers and civilian of the guards, armed troops, who retreated in the face Florence, steadily -Concern rising Col., is felt which overflow here was for in the the fate path of of the new score flood of waters. prisoners in the were City All the the river bank, Police Hall, located to-day on by Chief of work. A Daly liberated and assigned to larceny some drove the charged with accused bootleggers in car, while aided routing youth and chief's other out known families criminals in the danger zone. The release from jail to followed above the the with rowboats. of rise second of story the flood of the waters City Hall and was the effected were witnesses trains The police of two passenger of pas- in are destruction the local vards believed Friday. to Scores have been in lie the swept sengers away and perished. The half-buried surrounded coaches by piles of poles, broken vards to-night, twisted houses, rails, of lumber, wreckage. upturned telephone box control cars and all flooded manner district is under volunteer of citizens and The uniformed regular militiamen, police, all carrying arms conspicuously. estimating Chief of Police 1,000 Daly said in there were of the total children dead in at the lowlands, have most 1,000 whom, difficulty he escaping believed, from would the flood had waters. in this section Friday night said. "I was the inhabitants," he The warning took the warnings lightly myself. I had difficulty for the waters that "They came down it is in so possible escaping suddenly then to I numerous don't see children how in this section have escaped." the W. Pressley, chairman of of what safety S. committee, in in charge searching for work is being done can be made ther. bodies, until the says waters no progress have gone down furLittle Insurance Carried of the property loss range Only Estimates to $20,000,000. insur$1,000,000 from $5,000,000 of this is covered learned. by The far as can be carried White-Davis ance, so Clothing Company Its loss was $50,000 flood The insurance. Crews-Beggs Drygoods store Company, $250,000. the largest $50,000 department flood insurin Pueblo, loss carried was $3,000,000. city. Fires ance. caused Its but minor losses to in open the Monday. Three banks First plan National, the Bank ColoThey are the and the Southern and of Minnequa The Pueblo Savings rado Bank. Company, which was completely First flooded, Trust will operate through the National. The records of the washed depositors away in the in savings bank and were in others damaged, Bank The some cases National Bank and the Western were flooded. officials say of There Pueblo is both plenty of bread in Pueblo now, E. B. Hornbecker Light of and the Power Arkansas Comelectric current pany, Valley announced Railroad, that he from had the arranged Cologet Fuel and Iron Company. rado American Legion at Walsenburg to aid in The to send 100 men The volunteered rehabilitation work in Pueblo. reached the declined. Seven men to-day. here offer by was auto from Walsenburg City Awakes to Grewsome Task a second night of take horror, up After awoke this morning to task of Pureblo terrible collecting victims, and of of identifying the her dead flood thousands to carry succor to establishing trying refugees and of to stranded communication over which outside lines send her of call for help from the world. Flood warnings were sounded again The morning at 3:30 o'clock. Main Arkansas this River rose rapidly to Court Second streets and Main and did not and streets, but the second big flood come Roads until between later. here and Colorado are reported impassable Springs farther than Walker. The Fountain the River has risen about six inches in last six hours. The searching of ruins for bodies in inundated district has been greatly It is hampered the by the rising water. ruins impossible to get into the city. in many of the lower sections of the Thirty Pueblo business structures flood. been destroyed by the have have of them lie in ruins. Others two been Many swept away. Altogether but are covered by flood insurance. Manitou reports that the waters At of Fountain Creek are rising rapidly. forced Buxton many persons have been of leave their homes and seek places to to safety. Men have been dispatched Manitou reservoir to guard against It the threatened bursting of the dyke. a has rained heavily all night and was still raining this morning. Streets Cleared by Troops PUEBLO, June 5 (By The Associated
