Mid-June in Pueblo is always hot, as any resident knows.
So rain was a welcome change for residents during 1921. All day on June 3, 1921, residents watched a torrent of rain pelt the region.
Normally dry riverbeds were flooded to their banks, and the Arkansas River which at that time ran through the center of downtown Pueblo was also pressing its borders with angry rain water.
By nightfall, the community was watching with baited breath to see if the levee would hold this time around, and also watching smaller tributaries fill further.
The river flooded that night, resulting in the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of Southern Colorado residents as the raging floodwaters swept away individuals, families, homes, livestock and even toppled trains from their tracks.
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