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Show - s- THE'WIATHH. - Persistent readers of The Tribunes Want' 'columns are not overlooking Unsettled Saturday, eeslsr ivArthweet and warmer south; Sunday partly cloudy, Local Settlement Prices. ISilv er Domestic, 9!ri,c; forelgg.....S8te S load 00 ; many oppoilunities. ...Iljlni Copper tcathodee) SALT LAKE CITY, SATURDAYilORNING, JUNE 4, 1921. VOL. 103, NO. 51. 22 PAGES . FIVE CENTS lie GRAFT CHARGE IS MADE AGAINST SHIPPING BOARD Adrift at Sea, MARTIAL RULE IN Telling How One Obliging Autoist Paid the Penalty Wages Losing Fight for Life TULSA IS LIFTED; SHUT un Ions BOSTON, June fight for Ufa In an open dory at sea with little food or water 3 House x ' , Lower Chamber to Stand for Extension of Borah Resolution Wash, June 3. W.A. SPOKANE, who started from Port, was disclosed hero today when the fishing schooner Waltham brought In us body, picked up yesterday twenty-fiv- e miles oast of Highland light. Tho body was found In the bottom of a dory that was riding tho waves as right and tight as if under a fishermans hand. In the stem stood a bamboo polo with a pleceef rod attached to It, a marker of distress. Tho body was badly emaciated. Bjf Its aide ware tho bones of oevaral fishes pluckad clean. Captain Clifford Hopkins of tho Waltham said the extent of emaciafrom tion Indicated that suffering thirst and hunger muet have been great, and that It was days before death delivered the man from his . troubles. Tho fish that ha caught apparently were hla only food, and ha had no froth water. Tha man was well drastad and appeared to bo about 4S years of age. and Presi- ' dent Involved in Contest on Reduction Proposal. Senate, A to the Army. Governor Rescinds Bayonet American Engineers Com- Iowa Member Say Fat Sal Control of Tulsa City and mittee Reports Findings .n aries Are' Being Paid and to Hoover. Not Earned Secretary County;. Begins Inquiry. by Attaches. -- Riot Town Quiet, but Plight Fifty Per Cent of Annual Instances Cited in Proof of Losses Laid to Managers of Negro Victims of. Mob Assertion ; Government and 25 Per Cent to Labor Disorder Is Desperate. Heavy Loser, He Says. .end recently for Chicago In hi touring car, arrived here tody minus hla ear, camp equipment, 'provisions, money and a part of his clothing, a th result, ha told th police, of two encounter with men whom he Invited to rid with him. ' A man to whom he gave a lift shortly alter leaving Portland, Boyle said, held him up with a gun and took part of hla clothing, hla money, txtr tire, part of hie camping outfit and hla previsions. Whan he reached Waehtuena, Wash., ha plgkd up three ether men, he said, and when near Bpokana he allowed them to take hla car for a short side trip. They did return. not , Pueblo Inundated ; Losses $4,000,000; Other . Are Communities Imperiled. Four Known Dead, and Several Missing; Rains Swelling River Floods. 1 , By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. Trllmne-Ssl- t lake Tribune Leased Wire. WASHINGTON, June 3. The Question of the reduction of national armament for war developed today Into a contest. The senate wants the president to negotiate an agreement with Great Britain nnd Japan on the reduction of navy building. The Republican and the Democratic leadership In the house took a stand today for the extension of the proposal to the reduction of military as well as naval armament by all the great powers. Piesident Harding, while favoring the movement. Is opposed to any legislation on the subject at this time, preferring a free hand to handle the matter In the Arms manner most conducive to the. advantage Officers of the United States In settling certain t pending International controversies, with Japan. In deference to the wishes of the. presMotor Burned ident, the house excluded the disarmament amendment from the naval approwas priation bill. When the matter CORK, Ireland, June 3. District Inpressed In the senate, the president a police sergeant and yielded and the Borah amendment was spector Rtevepson, four constables were killed, and four offiIncluded. cers were seriously wounded when a police Mondell Stirs House. patrol was ambushed by 100 armed men When the bill came back to the house near Westport, County 'Mayo, last bight. today the .Democrats raised an outcry Arms and ammunition carried by the over the' position in which the house had police were taken, and three motor care Leader In which the officer were riding were been placed Acting Minority Garrett moved that the house conferees burned. ' , be instructed to accept the Borah amendWhen the police were attacked they rement, broadened to Include all powers on both naval and land disarmament. plied with rifles and machine gun fire. Republican Loader Mondell opposed any Tha fight lasted several hours, but In the instructions to the conferees, bot agreed that the Borah amendment Bhould beoex end the police lost all thsir arms, includtended to Include land disarmament, and ing their machine gun. One survivor, a was tmmedtatelv accused of trying to constable, arrived at Westport at midkill the whole scheme by making it impracticable, if not to bring about the night with the news of what had occurred, elimination of the amendment from the and medical assistance and reinforcements bill altogether, as the president desires of the woundof were then dispatched. Two Garner Replying o Representative ed men are not expected to recover. Texas, who thought the Borah amendment better than none at ail, Mr. MonThe constables were In motor cars and dell said: on bicycles when attacked by the civilians, "I do not think the gentleman from who were concealed in tha woods, the Texas himself is for passing upon the statement adds. questlrm of recommending action to the president on the question of disarmament Set Ablaze. In the narrow and restricted way that Factory DUBLIN, June 3. (By th Associated me Borah amendment does. If we are to act upon that matter, we should act Press.) The National Shell factory, which upon tt, not in concert with one or two was established during the war for the ammunition for the British nalions that may arrdgate te themselves manufacture setof on fire at 3u ocloik this supremacy in the world, but after dis- army, was in-l cussion with The nations of the world evening. Shortly afterwards the building creeled In those matters, and further- was biasing fiercely. more. wfien we consider the question of disarmament ws should consider the Extremists Are Defeated. ouestlon of disarmament on land as well June 3 Efforts on toe part as on sea. and when we consider the of LONDON. extremists In the Australian house of question of naval disarmament, we should representatives to introduce the report of consider the question of naval disarmaAmerican commission of Ireland Into ment or reduction of armament, and not the official record of that body were deas the the merely the reduction of programs, feated yesterday, says a Melbourne disBorah amendment provides." patch to the London Times. M. P. Consl-dtn- e read the conclusions of the American, -- Action committee, and while he was engaged Sir Representative Kelly of Michigan moved Robert W. Best of Victoria denounced to send the hill to conference without Inthem as vile and odious slanders upon structions, but Mr. Garrett objected, and the empire. action was postponed till Monday. Senator Borah said the broadening of Students Acquitted. amendment is exactly what tha opDUBLIN, June 3 The eighteen auxilponents of disarmament want. "tt seems to me if those who are sug- iary cadets charged with looting in Anon February 19, whose trial opened trim the disarmament that amendment gesting be broadened to Include land forces as here on Saturday last, were acquitted by well as naval forces will reflect upon tha the hearing the trial today. situation as it now exists in Europe, I Four of the men, however, are being they will readily conclude that to thus held on other charges broaden the amendment Is to kill the whole proposition, he said "It is Im- OCallaghan Must Leave. possible to make any headway at all In Lake Tribune Leased Wire, Chicago Trlbuae-Ssl- t The way of land disarmament at present WASHINGTON, June 3 Donal O'Calin Europe. At the meeting of the Geneva asBemblv. France stated plainly and canlaghan, the etowaway lord mayor of Cork, didly that ghe would not consider the Ireland, has only one more day to spend question of disarmament at this time; in the United States under the last exshe refused even to vote for the- prin- tension of the period authorized by, the She gave as her labor department following the refusal ciple of disarmament. reason that her situation was such that of Secretary of State Hughes to grant would she not, and could not, take such hla petition for asylum as a political action now. Six other nations followed refugee. Commissioner General Husband said To Include innii her 'armament, therefore. Is to kill the matter today that no report had been received outright. "With reference to naval disarmament, by the immigration bureau of the dethe situation is entirely different. The parture of the. lord mayor from the ' three nations which are now actually enUnited States. Although repeated extensions have been gaged In a naval race are the United states. Great Br.taln and Japan. The granted Mr O Callaghan, the terms of the French navy is a third-clas- s nary, so order require that he must he surrendered recognjged. and they are doing prac- on pr before June 5 by hla counsel to an tically nothing toward bringing it up immigration Inspector, who will accomto date. The Italian navy Is In like con- pany him on board ship and formally cer, time dition. tify to the Immigration bureau tha and place of departure and the name of Three Powers in Race. the vessel on which he sailed. If such has not been received by Monday, "But Japan and the United States and report June (, a warrant may he issued for his Great Britain are expending millions, .even billions, in building navies, and they arrest. are the only three powers which bid fair to enter Into competition for the next Spectator Is Slain. or fifty years twenty-fiv- e So far as DUBLIN, June 3. (By tha Associated land disarmament la concerned. it Press.) While a cricket match was In doesn't make any difference to the Unit- progress on tha Trinity college grounds ed States, as a matter of security, how this evening six pistol shots were fired many troops France has. The house has from Nassau street, which skirts the verv wisely limited our army to 150 000 grounds. ' Fiance has an- irmv of 800,000, hut It Wright, A'' spectator, Miss Kathr-in- e didn't make snv difference to the house was shot In the brehst and killed. In curtallingour grmy that Fra so had On-'Hj- three-corner- Stripped of and Ammunition ' and Three Cars ly - ' - h-- court-marti- - P TUIJ3A, Okla , June 3. Martial law In Tulsa and Tulsa county, invoked Wednesday morning to quell race rioting, was lifted In an order signed shortly after 5 o'clock this afternoon by Adjutant General Barrett, under authority of Governor J. B. A. Robertson. The plight of many negroes today still remained pitiful, Th T. M. C. A. building, where the Red Cross has established Its identification bureau, was the scene of mingled emotions as hope for lost loved ones remained unfilled or disbanded families were reunited. a no trace of race hatred. Many pitiful tales of the misery and suffering of the negr refugees are told. In a prominent hotel yesterday th day porter, along In the afternoon, being passed by the manager, summoned the courage to say: It "Boss, 1se gettin' kinds weak was found he had been ehot through the , of side at tha small the back and for hour had feared to reveal twenty-fou- r hla Injury lest he be taken for one of the .rioters and summarily executed. Thero-remaln- Will Rebuild Homes.' . Definite plans for building home for tho thousand of negroes rendered destitute by the burning of the negro quarter here in the race riot of Tuesday night and Wednesday were toeing worked out today bv a civilian committee of relief. of the ci$y were pledged to erect a many houses aa needed In the shortest time possible, and only the details remain to be worked out. Red Cross representatives distributed clothing from various churches. The number of known dead remained at thirty today. The list may be increased slightly by deaths of a few of the several hundred wounded. About 1(K0 negroes who had been released from guaid slept last night at the fair grounds. Hundreds of others wearPolice protection" ing radges marked ere seen on the streets. There was no indication of racial fueling. Radicals e. raihuil leaders among the negroes had caused- the riot begun to take tangible form with the statements of O. W, Gurley, one of Tulsa s wealthiest negroes? J. W. Adkmson, police commissioner and Barney Cleaver, wealthy negro peace officer. The combined statements of the three men indicated that for some time the for race negroes had been preparing trouble and that the first shot In front of the county building Tuesday night, when white men who sought to take from negro jail Dick Howland. bootblack, charged with attacking a white woman, clashed with armed negroes bent on protecting Rowland, was fired by a narcotic-craze- d negro. As the race war excitement flickered out, the fear which kept negro leader silent was dispelled and they told the negroes' side of the story. Barney Cleaver, a veteran negro peace officer here and former deputy sheriff, named an alleged negro narcotic peddler as one of the principal leaders In the disturbances about lha'cdurthouse Tuesday which precipitated the shooting and burning. kun-e-sth- - - Gurley, probably the wealthiest negro the city, told the slorv of what happened fit the negro section and declared that the belligerent negroes established headquarters st the plant of a negro newspaper early Tuesday evening, where they assembled large quantities of gun and ammunition. Negro runners were sent out to rally reinforcements, Gurley said. Cleaver said he warned negroes early Tuesday evening that they would cause the negro section to be burned If they did not disperse and disarm. They only laughed at me and threatened to si oot me, Cleaver said: Cleaver, wealthy before the riots, now has only the clcthes he wear. He saw a rav of hope today, however, ae Charles Page, a wealthy, oil man, offered to erect a new home for him. Gurley said on the night of the riots he went to the newspaper orfice about 9 o'clock and found activities far adMen were coming In singly vanced Oans end and In little groups," he said ammanttlon were being collected from eve available source. Many of the men were making open threats and miking in a most turbulent manner " , In Failed in Efforts. He said he wa unsuccessful m persuading them to avoid trouble. Gurley said the publisher of thf,jWr waa present and when he saw !hnrh was counseling the negroes to keep cool and avoid trouble. He said the crowd became eo' threatening that he left and went to the courthouse, where he found armed negroe. There were not more than forty or fifty men in the crowd of armed negroes who marched upon the courthouse " GurThey were nearly all dope ley said. user or jhke drinker with police records. However, there were a few more Intelligent ones in th lead. Hurley named th leader of the gang, who, he said, was a tall negro, "who cams, back from France with exaggeratXOfl OftO. He said ed ideas concerning equalltv. Jail Delivery Balked. we are slnreretv going forward with 'If hn brother ran two or three stores In Associated-Press.v H the ) BELFAST, June y t the question of disarmament and sincere-l- v An attempted jail delivery was the negroonquarter desirous of curtailing expenditures and Intent restoring negro homes, th this. evening by the quick areducing the chances of war, we will start frustrated special committee of Tulsa civic dealers a body Of police from near-b- y of on just what form where we can start and make progress, rival has not yet decided Men disguised as officers that restoration ml that Is with the naval powers which barracks shall take. It has sev- drove teethe jail In taxicabs and demandCan tinned ea Fife Vine ed thA'keys to the section of the prison Oeatlased a Pate Poms where Sinn Felnars are under detention iOtisas TknwJl (Coluaut Oae.) - 1 -'J r A 'WASHINGTON, June 3 After hearing denunciation of the shipping board for Its mismanagement of the merchant marine bv Senator Kens on. Republican, Iowa, and others, the senate today approved a 175.000,000 deficiency appropriation for It, and a few hours later passed the deficiency appropriation bill carrying a total of 3156,000,(100, Inclusive of the shipping board Item. In approving the appropriation, the senate added an amendment offered by Senator Lenroot, Republican, Wlscohsin, directing the board to sell all wooden ships by October 1 next. The board, in Its management of the merchant marine, was deset Ibed by Senator Kenyon aa extravagant, wasteful and Other senators also "reeking with graft. denounced it, but Senator Jones, Republican, Washington, and others, while sayBoth Restrict Output. been extravagance and ing there had Both employer and employees restrict waste in the past, argued that the new output, it was said. Both capital and la- board soon to he appointed should not be bor are blamed for existing abuses, but penalised through lack of funds for misthe annual losses through asste by con- takes which were water oier the dam. flicts between them la much legs than popularly supposed. From four to five million wotkers were Salaries Made Target. idle during January and February ert this Salaries' pa id shtppttig hoard official ear. In 11121 half a billion dollars will be and einptojees were the particular target t in wages ,Jn The building trades, it waa said. against which Senator Kenyon shot his Nation-wid- e machinery to obtain con- hottest Invectives, tinuous information concerning unemployEstimating that shipping board operament conditions throughout the country is declared necessary by the report. Means tions were resulting In a daily Ioea to the for regulating employment In the princigovernment of from 3506,006 to $1,000,000, pal Industries were urged and a nation- Senator Kenyon declared that "unless wide plan of cooperation between the govthe Ameriernment. the public, trade associations, these expenses can be stopped the Industries, iabor, bankers and engi- can people will not stand for this thing , much longer. neers was outlined. The Iowa senators charges aroused the senate so that in tne debate of two hours' Disease Loss Three Billion. duration that followed, half a dozen sen. This was the beginning of a movement utors were on their feet at the same time, the organized either to denounce the, board oi by country's engineers, about 200.0UO In Dumber, to bring ahqiit seeking to defend tl, and to p'ead for the approval industrial conditions better and more of tha $75 000,(M appropriation, a net inharmonious relations between capita) and crease of $j0.0(K),oo0 over the - amount labor. the board by the house. The arguAfter emphasizing the need of reform given ments of the latter finally prevailed, and and Improvement in plant management the senate not only accepted the increase and administrative policies, the report recommended by the appropriations com. mittee, but passed, the whole deficiency urged the cooperation of labor, Organized labor zhould develop a policy which repreeente an Increase of for increasing output, it was stated. bill, over the pleasure ts passed by The attitude of opposition or lndifler-enc- e the house. to proper standards for production should be changed to a frank and aggresQuotes Some Figures. sive Insistence on such standards. Reading a list of salaries paid official Declaring that the annual economic loss In the country through prevent able disemploved by th board. Senator Kenyon eases and death amounted to $3,000,000,-00- 0, said they make the salaries of cabinet the report urged a more general use members and senators look like thirty Th list, as read, showed salof safety methods already perfected It cents. was asserted that 75 per cent of the aries in the general comptrollers office deaths and serious aciidents in Industry amounting to $100,000. and In the divicould be thus prevented. sion of operations totaling $137,000 anIn regard to the n timber of days lost, nually. The senator said the auditor of 'the report said 42t 000,000 persona lost the shipping hoard waa paid $ 15.000 and k Coatiaeed aa P.f. Vlas (1 olums Oae ) Continued os Figs Vis (Column Four. 1 !) Gurleys Statement. . ' . FT. LOUJ3, Mo.. June 3. Responsibility for more than 50 per cent of the waste In Industrial processes, which la causing enormous annual losses to the nation, can be placed at the door of the management and Jess than 25 per cent at the door of labor, declared a report of the American Engineering council's committee on elimination of waste In Industry, made public today. The committee wa appointed by Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, w hen he waa head of the council. The report showed that th margin, of unemployment amounted to more than a million men; that billion of dollars werd tied up in Idle equipment; that high labor turnover was a rough index of one of the commonest wastes, and that waste of time and energy and money through duplications and estimates and bids In building trades ran into millions annually. j5alt fake (Tribune.: Announces for Publication in Tomorrow's Issue the Following BIG FEATURES Straight Party Vote in Porter Peace Substitute Is Ordered Reported Out By WASHINGTON. June 3. By a straight party vote, the house foreign affairs committee reported today th For tor peace resolution, providing for terming tlon of the state of war between Mh4 United States and Germany and Austria-- , Hungary. Democratic members of the committee opposed It and announced that their fight would be shifted to th floor of the house. Mondell 'of Wyoming, Representative Republican, informed the house that th resolution would be called up next TuesBacked by the full Republican day. slrengtji of the committee, leaders declared it would bo pasted. On th proposal to report the Porter measure In place of the Knox resolution repealing the declaration of War, which has already been passed by the senate, the Republican members of tn committee voted solidly In th affirmative. The 'Democrats merely voted, present. Representative Flood,' Virginia, ranking Democrat, was Instructed by minority members to file a minority report. Democratic leaders said there would be almost a full party vote against the reso- .... -- lution. Minister Is Heckled. - BERLIN, June 3. Dr. Walter Rathenau, the new minister of restoration, was severely heckled by members of the Nationalists, German People's and ultra radical parties yesterday when he took the floor In the reichstag. "The world, he declared, la not composed of chauvinists, nor is it made up of 1,566,060.000 foes, but It holds a large body of Individuals, whose eyes are turned toward Germany, and who are Inquiring. what will Germany do; will her life bfe devoted to the fulfillment of her debts V The work of rebuilding th devastated zone In France Is not a national but a world problem. It is a running sore on the continent of Europe! and, until It Is healed, world peace Is unthinkable. Anti-Re- nt Profiteering Ordinance Held Invalid Z Th Los STORY BY W. J. LOCKE an account of one of the joyous adventures The Kind Mr. Smith, of Aristide Pujol, by W. J. Locke, will be offered The Sunday Tribune ordinance limiting the rental profiteering to 11 per cent of the money Invested In the building and to 16 per cen of that inveeted In furnishings. Is Invalid, according to a decision handed down here today by Judge J. P. Wood of the Los Angeles county superior court. The decision Included the statement that had tha measure limited rentals to certain percentages of the value of the property end furnishings, instead of the money Invested In them, the situation would have been different LIFE ON GREAT SALT LAKE COTTON MILL WORKERS TO STRIKE. POLAND' THREATENS EUROPE Frank H. biinondj, who bas become famous because of his arcurate analyse of European political questions, will give in The Tribune tomorrow his reasons for contending that Poland constitutes grave menace to the peace of the world. readers. v An account of ibe keepers of the Midlake station bn the railroad trestle in the middle of Great Halt lake will be furnished for tomorrows Tribune by'J. Cecil Alter, popular writer on western life and attractions. WILL PAYNE ROMANCE Another of the famous $75,000 series of short atones, this tune by the entertaining romancer. Will Payne, will be available for Tribune patrons Sunday under the caption, The Judge's Pall. REPUBLICAN! CAMPAIGN .DEBT The troubles of ths Republican national committee in meeting the 1,200,000 deficit in the 1920 campaign fund will be discussed in The Tribune tomorrow by Mark Sullivan, political writer of national repute. BLUE RIBBON SERIAL Laramie Holds the Range, the great The seventh installment of love story of the west by Frank H. Spearman, will be another feature that will make The Sunday Tribune a thing one can ill afford to " go without. - - - NATURAL AGE OF MAN . Dr. I. L. Nasrher, specialist in the disease of oid age. will give sciem tific reasons in The Tribune Horaorrow why man should live to be 90 years of age. ORDER YOUR COPY AT ONCE Phone Wasatch 590, k , . g, LOd ANGELES. Cal , June Angeles municipal- - antirent V PUEBLO, Colo., June 4, 3 a. m. Associated Press.) National are patrolling guardsmen Puebla early today, permitting ne one to enter .the section of tho city flooded by water from th Arkansas river, while several fire, started by light-nlnraged unchecked in several parts ' of tho city. AM telegraph and telaphon communication waa lost at 2:10 o'clock, when tho flood filled many of tho business houses to a depth of six feet. Eighteen families were reported rescued from the lowlands end on woman reported her husband had been swept from her sight In th flood, water while attempting to oecapo. Several flrea broke out oarly In tho ovenlng. The Hamlin Feed company' building was gutted, th Big Four Auto Parts company and several email houses were destroyed; th labor hall was gutted; the King Lumber company suffered heavy fire lose, and another big fire broke eut about in tho central part of tha eity. No attempt at fighting tho flame could bo mad. ' Heavy !osa from tho floooe alto was reported from Florence, wher U toe will run clo to a million dollar, according to a conservative estimate. (By th MANCHESTER. England, une 8. (By the Associated Press ) Practically 0 operatives in ths spinning and weaving sections of th cotton mill will cease work tomorrow morning, due to the fact that It has been Impossible to reach an agreement with the Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers' association over a- proposed reduction of 30 per rent in wages. The employers stood for a 25 per cent cut, but the operatives declined to agree to a cut of more than 121$ per cent. 500.-00- LUKE M'LUKE't DIES. CINCINNATI, Ohio, June. 3. James S. Hastings (Luke McLuke), widely known as a newspaper man and humorist, died at midnight tonight at a Cincinnati hospital following an operation for appendicitis. He waa S3 year old. Mr. Hastings had been on the staff of the Cincinnati Enquirer for twenty years. He is survived by a widow and four children. - STUDENT IS JAILED. DAVENPORT, Iowa, June 3 U E. Grimm, a student in a chiropractic school here, la being held In jail for return to Los Angeles on charges of violation ef the California corporation securities act. Grimm sifid he had severed connection with a Los Angeles land development company and that the charges were only technical. mid-nig- ht -- DENVER, Colo , June 4. Four persons , two-mlfutns; - property damage mounting Into the hundreds of thousands; Pueblo am) cut off from telephone comuiunkatlon since 9.80 o'clock; Marshall lake to break and wipe out tha town of Marshall; several towns In .the northeastern part of the state flooded and without lights and power this w as the situation as the result of cloudburst in eastern and central Colorado. A rainfall varying from .4 Inch In Denver to 2 and 4 Inches In the northern part of the state and In the mountains, before night had turned mountain streams into torrents, filled Irrigation reservoirs to the danger mark, driven scores of people from their homes and caused an enormous loss In livestock anij crops. At midnight tho ' rain was still falling In torrents. Pueblo is under water early today tn the most disastrous flood in the city's history, according to a special dispatch to the Rocky Mountain Newa. The damage, according to the dispatch, will reach 14,001',-00Every basement from the Arkansas river to the Thatcher building te full of water, and boats were used to rescue marooned persons from The federal build- , dead, partially--Inundate- 0. inf- - '7 , , Worst in History, Pueblo today is under water In the worst The last word from this city on the Arkansas river came shortly after midnight. A dispatch to the Rocky Mountain News wes Interrupted with this not from the Western Union operator; 1 am beating It now. Th water la under my feet." Tha river was normal at 4 o'clock; at t it was over Its banka, and at 10 oV'l-- k every basement In a large part of the business district was full. Postmaster Bellesfield the damage tq Vie postoffice at $100,006. Vary little rain fell In Pueblo, but at Swallows, fifteen miles west of here, a cloudburst sent a wall of water down the river. Fire added to the horror of the situation, the lumber yard of th Newton Investment company bursting into flamss which lighted the Inundated areas for. flood In Its history. a esti-nate- d miles. The crew of Denver and Rio Grande train No. 2, which arrived here at 9 o'clock last night, Said that when they pulled Into Pueblo the water touched the car steps. Lake Threatens Towiu All night trains 4 of the Denver and Rio Grande and Atchison. Topeka and banta Fe roads to Pueblo were annulled. At th union station it was eaid no trains would leave for Pueblo before 3 o Clock In the morning at the earliest. Efforts were made to get In touch with the telephone operator at Marshall, Colo., where an Irrigation dam threatened to break, engulfing the town. The operator had promised to stick to her poet and send word if possible If the dam should break. The last report, at 11 p. m. last go out at any night, said the dam might time. A heavy rain was falling. Th lake. private Irrigation project, covers 300 acres of land and is feet deep. The 204 residents of the miles mining team, about twenty-flv- s the night from Denver, are spending fully dressed, ready to flee. Breaking of the dam would wipe out the town. ixt-thr- Threatening at Lafayette. 'I Coal 'LAFAYETTE. Colo.. June creek, southwest of this city, ha overflown its banks and late today swept several houses from their foundations st the Standard mine of the Rocky Aloumain of acres of Fuel company. Hundred farm land are flooded and several head of livestock are reported drowned. Charles Dllllnger. a farmer living near Oeetinnd ea Ptse Tsat tCelaaxs Tferce.) , |