PUEBLO, Colo. (KKTV) - It’s been 104 years since one of southern Colorado’s most devastating natural disasters, the Great Flood of 1921.

Starting on June 2nd and lasting until June 5th, Executive Director of Pueblo County Historical Society and the Pueblo Heritage Museum, John Wendt, tells 11 News, “We had a number of microbursts, heavy rain and snow upriver on the Arkansas River.”

Wendt continues saying, “(It) raised the waters to the point where our 18-foot levees could not hold that water back and eventually (it) spilled over and washed quite a bit of Pueblo away.”

This disaster was devastating to Pueblo in many ways.

For example, Wendt says, “In terms of lives lost, our best estimate is 500 people killed, missing, washed down river.

“In terms of businesses, it was about $19 millio

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