COLORADO FLOODS
A SCENE OF DEVASTATION. NEW YORK, June 7. The floods are subsiding at Pueblo, revealing great devastation in the affected area. There is a covering of several feet of mud, wherein motors, street cars, furniture, parts of buildings, and probably many bodies are buried. The town of Baxter reports that a score of people were drowned there. The Piatte River is falling, thus relieving the menace to Denver. Fifty-two bodies were found at Pueblo. Three thousand persons are accounted for. No inquest will be held, the flood being an act of God.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3509, 14 June 1921, Page 19
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94COLORADO FLOODS Otago Witness, Issue 3509, 14 June 1921, Page 19
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