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. . 9 PREVIOUS Fl<bODS. 39 I , to 2 feet. This Is a worse flood than any that has occurred since the town became II city. The water flows witha strong current through the streets, and eyerythll)g is confusion. The fluoo covers the city from Union Avenue 011 the sOllth'slde to Fourth Avenue on the, north side, an area of three-quarters of II mile. The issue of the ~ews on June 1 stated that on Second Street be- tween Santa Fe Avenue and Main Street the water was 4 feet deep over the floors of the bJlildings. Five lives were lost in Pueblo and damage amounting to nearly $2,000,000 was done to property. At its highest stage the. water was 3 feet deep in the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad freight yard and kept that stage from 2 to 8.30 a. m. May 31. , It receded slowly and by 6 a. m. June 1 had fallen only 41 feet. The highest stage was about 7 feet less than that of the flood of 1921. Subsequent to the flood the city engineer, Mr. E. W. Hathaway, measured the slope of the river and its flood cross section just west of the city. He found the maximum discharge of the flood to be 39,100 second-feet, of which 24,200 second-feet had been carried by the river channel and the remainder flowed through the city on both sides of the river. Subsequently the river channel in Pueblo was widened and the levees raised so that the improved channel would, carry 40,000 second-feet. In the Arkansas Valley above Pueblo the flood of 1894 reached a higher stage than that of 1921, the high-water mark on the old Denver & Rio Grande Railroad pump house at Florence being 2 feet higheJ;. than that of June 3, 1921. The crest of the flood reached Rocky Ford some time during May 31. Lamar rep.oried the flood crest at noon June 2. The upper limit of the flood area was about Hardscrabble Creek, which carried an unusual flood flow. Coal and Chandler creeks were also very high.. Heavy rains on June 5, 1894, extending from Canon City to Pueblo, again raised the Arkansas until it reached a stage at Pueblo' about 8 inches lower than that of May 31., The rainfall on June 5 was 1.82 inches at Canon City and 0.64 inch 'at Pueblo. _, The lower Arkansas Valley was visited by very severe floods dur- ing 1904; but they did not reach the upper valley. Between Wichita and Arkansas City the flood of July 9, 1904, was the severest known. For ten days before that date the maximum discharge at Pueblo was 1,520 second-feet. On September 30, 1904, the severest flood known occurred on Purgatoire Riyer. This flood caiuled a great amount of damage on Arkansas River below the mouth of the Purgatoire," but it did not affect the Arkansas Valley above the Purgatoire. The maximum discharge at Pueblo for the week preceding September 30 was 1,100 second-feet. ., , " u. Meeker, n. J.. U. S. Ceo!. Survey 'Water-Supply Paper 147, pp. i65-168. 1905.