The Bessemer indicator., June 02, 1894, Image 1

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The Bessemer Indicator.
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THE INDICATOR
P. BYRNEB, Editor and Proprietor.
Published Every Haturday at Pueblo. Colo.
Entered al the Postofflce at Pueblo, Colo., as
second class matter.
Price of hubscription.
One Year jl 00
Hlx Months 50
Owing to inconvenience! occasioned
bj the flood the Indicator is not able
to appear in its usual size this week
but the next issue will be in regular
form. It is impossible to have the
press work done, nor is the print paper
available. Therefore the indulgence of
its readers is begged.
The names of the streets in Pueblo
will at last be printed and posted at
the street corners. Without the as
sistance of struct names any well
traveled stranger can lose himself
twenty times a day in the city.
• Senator Teller is now looked upon
as a likely candidate for the presidential
nomination on the republican ticket. If
the senator Bhould be successful, and
Congressman Bland were to get the
nomination on the democratic ticket
what a glorious race it would be for the
great west, and what a sure thing silver
would have in either event. It is )>ke
building air castles to think about it.
That was a splendid editorial of the
Kocky Mountain News of last Sunday
on the situation in Cripple Creek and
the relation of the governor to the
opposing forces of deputies and miners.
It was one of T. M. Patterson'B supreme
efforts as a lawyer and editor, and
aside from being a remarkably clear,
concise and able article was timely, and
no doubt had much to do in determin
ing Governor Waite to recede from the
false position he bad taken in regard to
ordering the state militia to repair to
Cripple Creek with the object of inter
fearing with Sheriff Bowers m the dis
charge of his duties. Attorney General
Engley must have felt, too, that he had
blundered wben he read that editorial.
Pueblo, Colorado, Saturday, June 2, 1894.
PUEBLO IS FLOODED.
THE LONG LOOKED FOR HAS COME
AT LAST.
Two lives lost and $300,000 worth of
property destroyed—A terrible night
of water and suffering—Hundreds of
homeless people and many ruined
merchants.
1 Pueblo was visited by a terrible flood
| Wednesday night —the worst in its
history. It is almost a year ago since
a great rush of water inundated the
I northern part of the city and caused
great damage, hut it was nothing as
compared with the awful flood of this
week that swept over almost the entire
portion of the city on the river bottom
like a torrent, being from two to five
feet deep on the graded streets while
on vacant lots it was twice that depth.
The danger alarm was sounded at
8 o’clock 111 the evening and the report
was circulated that a cloud-burst iu the
mountains''had occurcd and the water
was rushing like an avalanche down
the river. People knew the danger and
were on the alert, which accounts for
the small loss of life, only two men so
far as learned haying been drowned,
one an Italian near the Denver and Ft.
Worth depot, and the other Barney
Rafferty who was found in the Bes
semer ditch near the Roadhouse about
three miles dflwn the river. However,
there were many narrow escapes, and
had it not beeu for the timely as-
sistance of hundreds of willing men
who risked their own safety in tho
rescue, the fatalities would undoubtedly
have been many.
The heaviest losses are in the heart
of the city where damage to merchan
dise will at least reach the enormous
sum $150,000 while the loss to build
ings, to real estate and city property,
together with the wreck and ruin of
hundreds of homes will reach the same
amount, making the total loss SBOO,OOO.
There are instances where small
frame business buildings were lifted
off their foundations and swept a block
away, while flagstone sidewalks were
carried into the middle of the street.
South Union avenue was the heaviest
sufferer this time, while in the old
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flooded district in the vicinity of the
Central block, water was four feet deep
the following day at 10 o'clock and men
were rowiug about in a boat.
Many merchants are seriously crip
pled, and a great many families are
rendered homeless, everything they had
.being washed away or ruined by the
j muddy water. Contributions are now
being received for them at the city ball
in clothing, bedding and money. Mayor
Straight bus requested all t<* lend a
helping hand.
The wash-out has alarmed mauy
! merchants who fear a repetition of the
flood and nre debuting the question
again of moving on the mesa, while
others on the north side take exception
to this move and to checkmate it arc
discussing the widening of the river.
For a long time there has been talk
of a general move of the south side
merchants and business men generally
up to high ground on the mesn. and
now the great flood has start* d up the
agitation with renewed vigor. If any
number of them will agree to nil move
at once something might come of it.
but it is nltogethei likely that the dis
asters of the high wuter will soon be
forgotten and nothing coma of the dis
cussion. To uvert such a calamity to
the north side, some of the interested
ones in that part of the city are clamor
ing for the widening of the river. This,
however, will never be done.
Ik a battle is fought on Bull Hill it
can have but one result—the defeat of
j the strikers and the demoralization of
the miner's union. This is plain to all
whose judgments are not blinded by
prejudice in favor of the miners. The
difficulty should have beeu arbitrated
by ail means, but the terms dictated
in advance by the strikers that none
but union miuers should be employed
broke off negotiation on that line, and
therein they made a great mistake.
They will be the losers if they fight it
out.
The ball which was to have been
given by the Bessemer Athletic and
Social club at the city hall Tuesday
evening haa been postponed until to
night A large crowd will be present
and a good time is anticipated.