Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-01

Charles w. Lippold, policeman at
| tached to the tenth precinct, one of the
| first Indianapolis flood survivors to reach
Washington. tells graphic story Of his ex-
periences and observations. He was just
one week trying to get out of Indianapo-
| lis for his trip to Washington, and while
| in that Indiana city took part in much of
| the rescue work.
| Mr.. Lppold confirms all the reports of
narrowing conditions during the floods in
Indiana, and told today Of some Of the
police work there. during which he as
sisted in arresting looters who, when
| searched, were found to have in their
pockets fingers Of dead persons which
were chopped off for the sake of the rings
on them.
| II was one of a number of acting
| United States deputy marshals," Mr.. Lip
pold said, who left here Friday, March
q. with a party of thirty-two prisoners,
derer, who were to be taken to the fed
eral prisons at Saltwater, Mimi, and
Fort Leavenworth.
Leaving our prisoners at their destina-
! tons. we started back, and our train ran
| into the parallel of the tornado at Hud-
son, Wis. Sunday night, the 23d. We saw
a tremendous funnel-shaped cloud, and
| heard violently Kissing, drumming noise.
This visible evidence of the tornado ran
along with us beside the train for two
hours. We saw it hit Omaha and Terre
Haute, and saw the buildings go crashing
down beneath it. We ran along with it
or near enough to be able to observe it,
clear into Chicago. s
Leave Train When Flood Comes.
| I'VE left Chicago Sunday evening by
the Chesapeake and Ohio for Washington
We got to about mile from Indianapolis
/ at $50 Monday morning. The porter got
us up out Of our berths and made us leave
the train in the food beating down on
that city. We ran for mile in water
up to our knees. I fell into culvert
and thought for time that it was all
| over with me- but l managed to pull out
| of 1T. and start on the run again for the
| Indianapolis railroad station ahead of u.s.
| The rain was coming down in great
| sheets. I never saw so much of it. We
finally made the station which is on
high ground, and stayed there, watch
ing conditions. for while We saw
eleven bridges washed away in the
| five days that We were in that city, and
I tell you it was a sight.
/ In the meanwhile, after we got our
breaths in the indianapolis depot, Rep
| resentative Stricken of Pennsylvania
and The happened to be travelling out
that way-began to urge the railroad
companies to feed the people who were
marooned in the station through no
| fault of their own. We got them to
| feed sixty-one women and children, and
| then to feed u.s. We could get out of
| the station, but dared not go away, be-
cause we were afraid to leave the high
ground. The stores nearby that were
not washed out, which had bread. were
charging 25 cents loaf for it. All the
| hotels were flooded out, and we couldn't
20 to them, and there was no water to
drink and no lights.
| I'VE stayed in Indianapolis five days
! and slept in the Pullmans In the depot.
with the water a couple of feet from
| the bottom of the cars. tell you we
slept with one eye open. The Big Four.
| the PENNSYLVANIA, the c. {. & st. L.,
the c. and O., the Moncn and all the
roads fed the people and had the porters
| make up berths for us. While We were
| in that depot we saw the big four-hun-
tdred-and-fifty- thousand-dol concrete
West washington bridge on the boule-
ward go out. Every one thought that
structure, strong as 1t was, would surely
stand. but it didn't. Then the flood car
ried down Kingan's bridge-the packing
firms bridge. and that took down the
Vandalia Railroad bridge, and so they all
went, one after another, eleven of them
| in all. :.
Offers Services to Police Chief.
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