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<br />Fulton Candy Co.... .~........_., Santa FE! Avenue betweell Third and Fourth streets.....
<br />Electric...............,........... Union Avenue and North Main Street... ........ .........
<br />McClll'tl" Block.........o.......... Union Avenue and C Stre.t....... ....... .......... .......
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<br />Post Office.. ._..~.. ._..'. .__... _.. Ma1nand' Filth streets....... ........................ .....
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<br />and Plate V, A; shows the 18--inch deposit of silt left by thefloodat
<br />the Union Depot.
<br />The first warning of the approaching Hood reached the city about
<br />6 p. m. on the 3d, stating that a wall Of water was rushing down the
<br />river. Messengers were sent out at once to warn the people living in
<br />the lowlands called Peppersauce Flats. Hundreds of people rushed to
<br />the levees to witness the approach or the great wall of ",ater, not
<br />thinking that the City could be inundated, as the levees. werepelieved
<br />high enough to protect it. ' The sudden breaking of the levees cutoff
<br />the people from the higher land, and in endeavoring to escape many
<br />were drowned, as were many others in the houses in the lowlands who
<br />had refused to heed the flood warning. Fires broke out almost simul-
<br />taneously in differ\lnt parts of the city, terribly illuminating the dark-
<br />ness caused by the' failur~of the lighting system., Burning piles of
<br />timber from a blazing lumbel'Yllrddrifte.dl:through the streets of the
<br />city, lodging momentarily. aga,inst,.frame ,buildings and setting them
<br />on fire. It was almost impossible, to, fight; ,the fires, as the buildings
<br />were surrounded by water, which prevented the fire department from
<br />reaching them. Even if the buildings could have been reached, how-
<br />ever, the breaking of the city water system would have made it im-
<br />, possibleto put out the flames. The fires finally burned themselves out.
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<br />ARRIVAL OF TRIIlUTARY FLOOD CRESTS.
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<br />A study of the'trIbutary Bo(ia crests'in their r:elation to the maxi-
<br />mum discharge of the 'Arkansas at Pueblo requires the determination
<br />of the time of their arrival at that point.;: This can not be determined
<br />absolutely but can be estimated with a'fair degree of accuracy. ' The
<br />time required for the flood from the Schaeffer reservoir to travel the
<br />25 miles from the mouth of.Beaver Creek to Pueblo imJune 5 is
<br />known to be about 3t hours, a rate ,of 7.1 ,miles an hour. (See p. 18.)
<br />At that time the stage of the river ,:was much lower than when the
<br />bulk ofth~ .water, from the tributary streams formed the flood .of the
<br />3d. , Corisequently the retardation due ,tp c,hannel storage was prob-
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