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Show HEROIC WORK IN PUEBLO FLOOD Among tho many Instances of heroic wnice In rescue work during tho Fticblo Hood disasters, that of two boy scouts stands out conspicuously. On hearing thnt n mnn and his young son were trapped In n burning building, build-ing, surrounded by tho ever rising tides of onrushlng water, they hastily manned a lifeboat nnd pulled through the dangerous current to tho burning hulldlng. The owner of the place and his son were rescued with grent risk, not only because of the floods but because be-cause the burning building wns being sbnken by terrlllc .explosions nil the tlmo from the llmo stored therein. Having discovered that threo employees em-ployees wore nlso In the burning plnnt, the scouts returned n second tlmo. bnttllng desperately with the waters, and got tho oner victims nlso to safety. Hardly had they gotten Into the bont when another nioro violent explosion occurred nnd the hulldlng crumbled and fell Into tho wnter. |