Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1894 — WESTERN FLOODS. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN FLOODS.

Great Destruction of Property at Pueblo Colo. Pueblo, Colo., was visited, Wednesday night, by the worst flood in its history. Several thousand people were rendered homeless and property was damaged to the amount probably of 1100,000, although it is impossible to estimate the exact loss. About 2 o’clock, Thursday, the water began slowly to recede and it is believed that all danger is passed, but at the present rate it will be some time before the streets are passable. Hundreds of people, men, women and children, congregated in the city hall and the armory to wait until the waters go down so that they can go to their, homes, which will be untenable for some days. Tho disastrous flood was caused by the rains in the Arkansas valley above Pueblo. Three lives are known to have been lost, and it is possible that others have perished. The weather bureau reports the rain fall in Denver as an inch, at Pueblo three inches, and it is still raining. The Platte river Is still rising. It has now reached the top of the banks at Globeville. suburb of Denver having 800 inhabitants, and the village is likely to be flooded at any moment. A dispatch from Portland, Ore., May 31, says: No trains have arrived from the east over the Union Pacific since last Saturday. The company has put on boats at Umatilla, but is experiencing great difficulty in making portages at the Dalles and Cascade. Telegraphic communication along the folumbla is cut off to Umatilla and tho only means of reaching eastern Oregon and Washington is by a circuitous route. Mlles of the Union Pacific track along the Columbia Is washed out and it will probably be more than a week before, any train reaches this city over that rente.