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Show PUEBLO, COLORADO NOW UNDER WATER PUEBLO INUNDATED; LOSE8 E8. TIMATED AT $4,000,000, OTHER COMMUNITIES IN DANGER Rains Rapidly Swelling Arkansas River Causing Worst Flood In History of County Communication Cut Off: toss of Uvea Not Heavy Denver, Colo. Four persons dead, two missing; property dumago mounting mount-ing Into the hundreds of thousands; Pueblo partially Inundated and cut ofT from telephone communication 6lnce 0:30 o'clock Friday ; Marshall Inkc dam threatening to break and wipe out tho town of Marshall; several towns in the northeastern part of the state flooded and without lights nnd power this was the situation ns tho result of cloud, bursts In eastern nnd central Colorado. A rainfall varying from 4 Inch In Denver to 3 and 4 Inches in tho northern north-ern part of the state and in tho mountains, moun-tains, before night had turned nioua-tnln nioua-tnln streams Into torrents, filled Irrigation Irri-gation reservoirs to tho danger mark, driven scores of people from their homes and caused an enormous loss In livestock nnd crops. At midnight the rain was still falling in torrents. Pueblo was under water early Friday Fri-day in tho most disastrous flood In the. city's history according to a special dUpatch to tho Ilork Mountain News. Tho damage according to tho dispatch, will reach $4,000,000. Every basement from the Arkansas river to tho Thatcher Thatch-er building is full of water, and boats wero used to rescue marooned persons from tho federal building. Pueblo Is under water in the worst flood in Its history. The last word from this city on the Arkansas river came shortly after midnight. A dispatch dis-patch to tho Itocky Mountain News was Interrupted with this note from tho Western Union operateor: "I am beating It now. The water Is under my feet." Tho river was normal at 4 o'clock; at S It was out of Its banks, and at 10 every basement in a large part of tho business district was full. Postmaster Bcllesficld estimated tho damage to the potoffico at $100,000. Very little rain fell in Pueblo, but at Swallows, fifteen miles west of here, a cloudburst sent a wall of water down tho river. Fire added to tho horror of the situation, sit-uation, tho lumber yard of tho Newton Investment company bursting Into flames which lighted tho Inundated areas for miles. The crew of Denver nnd Itlo Grando train No. 2, which arrived hero at 0 o'clock last night, said that when they pulled Into Pueblo the water touched tho car steps. All night trains of the Denver Itlo Grando and Atchison, Topekn and Santa San-ta Fo roads to Pueblo wero annulled. At the union station It was said no trains would leavo for Pueblo bofore 8' oclock In the morning at the earliest. Efforts woro mado to get In touch with tho telephone operator at- Marshall, Mar-shall, Colo., where an Irrigation dam threatened to break, engulfing the town. The operator had promised to stick to her post and send word If possible pos-sible If tho dam should break. Tho last report, at 11 p. m. last night, said tho dam might go out at any tlma, A heavy ruin was falling. Tho lake, a private Irrigation project, pro-ject, covers 800 acres of land and is slxty-three feet deep. The 200 residents resi-dents of tho mining towp, about twen. ty-flvo miles from Denver, ore spending the night fully dressedTeady to flee Breaking of the dam would wipe out th town. |