A devastating flood hit Pueblo in 1921. This shot shows a multitude of box cars in a tangled mess.
Headlines..
"HUNDREDS DEAD AND THOUSANDS SUFFERING FROM FLOOD AND FIRE IN PUEBLO; RELIEF WORK BEGINS."
Pueblo June 1st 1921.
Pueblo's business district tonight is a mass of wrecked buildings. Its streets are deep in mud of the Arkansas River which yesterday overflowed its banks, bringing the worst flood in the history of the city.
The death list probably will mount into the hundreds when toll is taken of the wrecked residence and living houses in the river bottom. The full death list may never be known. Property loss is estimated at $10,000,000.
A trip over the city by airplane revealed to the Associated Press staff correspondent a scene of disaster. Residences had been tossled over railroad passenger coaches and freight cars had been swept in every direction or smashed into kindling.
Blackened ruins showed the location of fire started last night by burning lumber from a lumber yard floating thru the streets in the flood tide. It looked as if a third of the city had been in the flood district..... etc...