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.~ PREVIOUS FliboDS. 39 , i' i' lo 2 feet. This is a worse flood than any that has occurred since the town became a city. The water flows with a strong current through the streets, and everythil}g is confusion. The flood covers the city from Union A Venue Oil the ~ollth' side to Fourth A venue on the north s'ide. an area of three.quarters of a mlIe, The issue of the News on June I stated that on Second Street b€:- tween Santa Fe Avenue and Main Street the water was 4 feet deep over the floors of the buildings. 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. VV. 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 n~mainder 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 lL higher stage than that of 1921, the high-water mark on the old Denver & Rio Grande Railroad pump house at Florence being 2 feet highm;, than that of June 3, 1921. The crest of the flood reached Rocky Ford some time during May 31. Lamar reported the flood crest at noon June 2. The upper limit of the flood area was lLbout Hardscrubble 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 Arlmnsas until it reached a stage at Pueblo abouj; 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 wa:3 1,520 second-feet. On September 30, 1904, the severest flood !mown occurred on Purgatoire River. This flood cai1~ed 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, R. I., U. S. G~o1. Survey Water. Supply Paper 147. pp. i65-168. H)o5.