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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1921
Page
6
Pueblo faces massive flood damage as Arkansas River swells destroying Amity La Junta Las Animas and Pueblo downtown. Rescue crews fight fires and search for hundreds missing while relief begins with federal state support and aid shipments to Colorado towns.
A flood swept away the residence of J Ament six miles from Loveland carrying the house a half mile. Ten people were inside including Ament his wife and eight children. One person was injured though all later seemed unharmed as the home lodged against a grove of trees.
Ernest Be Withers a leading Pueblo figure was killed by an unidentified guard on Grand Avenue near Eighth Street. Captain Arthur Talbott leads a search with American Legion members and National Guardsmen as Granville Withers reports they were driving when a guard shouted Halt and fired. The elder Withers was shot in the head and died at the wheel.
Enormous flood damage spreads from Pueblo toward the Kansas line sweeping houses fences machinery and livestock. Many farms and lowland areas are wrecked with uncertain death tolls and widespread property loss across nearly every town along the Arkansas river. A wrecker car reaches Pueblo replacing tracks and bridges and carries medical supplies clothing tents and Red Cross nurses toward La Junta to reopen traffic.
Denver and Rio Grande trackmen report no definite extent of storm damage. Officials say freight damage in Pueblo yards will exceed two million dollars across the Denver & Rio Grande and Colorado & Southern systems.
Allies protest at Leipzig for lenient sentences given to German officers. London and Paris discuss reopening the war crimes issue. Two Germans were tried and convicted. one received ten months for brutal mistreatment of British prisoners.
A Pueblo flood report describes a city shrouded in darkness with occasional building fires. Property losses are estimated between 10 and 15 million dollars with at least 500 casualties. The Red Cross reports 600 meals per hour for the destitute as sanitation and shelter strain relief efforts. External aid is urgently needed to support Pueblo’s 600 homeless in the courthouse complex and surrounding buildings.
Four Mexican sugar factory workers are reported drowned as the Arkansas River flood swamps Las Animas Colorado. Lower city sections are submerged under one to six feet of water with the lighting plant out and telephone lines gone.
Reports indicate a rising death toll from floods in northern eastern and southern Colorado. Totals list Pueblo 500 Swink 10 Avondale 20 Boon 20 St Charles Mesa 10 La Junta 7 Sterling 4 Longmont 1 Denver 1. Major General John W Buckman 63, commander of the North Atlantic coast artillery district, is dead after a career in Cuba the Philippines and the Texas border.
A Pueblo flood report recalls the May 1 1804 disaster when the Fountain River swelled into a torrent from heavy rain and cloudbursts along the eastern Continental Divide. The 1804 flood reached at least fifteen feet in depth and persisted for hours, mirroring the 1894 event reported June 2.
Santa Fe agent C S Railsback reports Pueblo devastation from fire and flood. He describes hundreds dead, millions in property loss, gutted business district, wiped out lowland residences, and fires amid torrents from Santa Fe yards to the river. He helped rescue women and children through the night.
A telegram to Governor Oliver H. Shoup from Pueblo leaders requests a federal appropriation of 5 million dollars for levee repair along the Arkansas and Fountain rivers. They note statewide damage from 15 to 20 million, with Pueblo city and county losses estimated at 6 to 8 million and warn of potential drownings during debris removal.
Bergen and Hartiman Lakes flood gates lifted to relieve Beaver jam waters forcing the Matte river over its banks near Denver. Police warned residents along low ground while bridges were closed. About 100 families in Jerome Park and Valverde sought higher ground as water filled homes two to four feet high.
A passenger train with 150 aboard derailed in Pueblo railroad yards. Passengers were taken to the Nuckolls Packing plant for emergency care as doctors were summoned. the Denver bound train carried mostly excursionists to the Pacific coast.
Red Cross Chief on grounds James L. Felser leads division rescue work. The National Red Cross wires that $50,000 is available for relief efforts at Pueblo.
Secretary of War Weeks announced Saturday night that the War Department will cooperate in every way possible in giving aid to the stricken Pueblo district.
Plans for a Fourth of July celebration unfold in Aztec and Silver City areas with wild west events and a highway opening. Los Lunas gains a filling station fund drive. Jerome miners face layoffs while local drought and road projects draw attention in New Mexico and Arizona.
Thomas E. Wilson of the Institute of American Meat Packers tells Congress that the meat and livestock industry faces collapse without change. He criticizes the Norris bill as unwise and urges a single agency approach to supervision. In a separate note, 11-year-old Walter Kuehne drowned as he tried to save his chum Rudolph Yaeger at a reservoir in Mandan, North Dakota.
Treasury officials are studying a plan to provide credit facilities for cattle raisers without new legislation. The proposal would serve as an alternative to the War Finance Corporation's push to authorize $50 million for loans to the industry, offering quicker relief and keeping WFCC out of the cattle sector unless Congress acts.
Springfield resident Gustave Astankewitz, 0, died from asphyxiation in an alleged gas-tapping scheme to steal fuel for an illicit still. Offiers found the body in a cellar ditch dug to a gas main after neighbors smelled escaping gas and called the coroner. A discarded gas mask lay nearby.
The two day taxicab feud in Chicago left several injured and numerous cabs wrecked. Police arrested two men and seized records as the climax of the rivalry between rival companies. Later twenty five drivers were taken into custody on a technical charge of operating without a cab stand license.
A memorial presented to the American Medical Association house of delegates endorses President Harding’s public welfare program. It supports health, social security, soldier rehabilitation, child protection and Americanization, and was submitted by Dr. Hubert Work of Pueblo Colorado, the association’s president elect, for committee report.
Mrs Carrie Williams of Overpeck Ohio testifies that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helped her after childbirth and helped with life displacement backaches and nervousness. The ad claims the product has restored health for over forty years and urges others to try it.
A girl named Helen notices flags on many homes and discovers her father’s birthday. She learns a planned surprise dinner awaits him, exclaiming with wide eyes that she now understands why the flags are out. The moment captures a simple family secret and festive symbol.
An old Bayer advertisement urges taking aspirin only as per genuine Bayer Tablets and notes the Bayer Cross on tablets. It claims physicians tested dosage over 21 years and worldwide safety, listing uses from colds to toothache. It mentions small tin bottles of twelve tablets and larger packages from druggists.
A witty artist tells a hesitant critic that choice of which painting to prefer does not matter. In another vignette a four year old warns that a dog smelled and tasted her but did not eat her, describing a close encounter in simple terms.
A light quip from the Boston Evening Transcript notes Miss Chatters is a lively talker capable of entertaining herself for hours. The remark highlights her storytelling and engaging presence in casual conversation.
A brief exchange notes that he writes poetry for a living and receives recognition. The Boston Transcript cheers the poet's ability to earn a living from verse, signaling approval of his craft.
A vivid line questions sincerity of a prohibitionist as a barber faces arrest after asking for bay rum. The exchange highlights tensions between enforcement and everyday requests in a Prohibition era context.
A humor caption asks why Jack married the typewriter typing wise. The punchline implies motive tied to economy and salary rise.
A landlady questions the appearance of soup while Besider laments missing his microscope left in a trunk, revealing a humorous domestic moment and a misplaced scientific tool.
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