The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-13

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over sidewalks this morning while
sheets and canvas adorned the
windows of department stores.
Globes over street lights and
boulevard lamps were crushed. Five
large windows in the D. Sommers
Company furniture store. Washing
ton st. and Capitol Ave, were
broken.
Park Hit
At Riverside Park crowds huddled
into the dance hall and skating rink
while light standards and trees wer9
blown down. At Northern WOOD
beach, north of Broad Ripple, bath
ers were endangered by the light
ming and wind.
Twenty-Five window panes were
broken in the Marion County Jail
and a three-story drain spout was
torn from it's fastenings. Sheriff
Omer Hawkins received a call from
Bridgeport reporting the light wires
were down there.
Lightning struck a tree in the
yard of ST. Vincent's Hospital and
window panes were broken, the dam
age otherwise being slight. The
basement of the Methodist Hospital
was flooded but no damage done.
The storm brought joy to two
boys Wayne Unger -. of 2219 n.
Pennsylvania ST., and Bernard Heit-
man, IA, OF 2233 n. Pennsylvania
St, conscripted a rowboat belonging
to Ungers older brother Gene, and
embarked upon the turbulent waters
of the 1900 block on n. Pennsyl-
vania St.
Many spectators cheered the young
gondohers as they passed several
automobiles stalled in the water,
nearly two feet deep.
The dressing tent at Warfeigh
municipal bathing beach was ripped
down, despite efforts of guards to
hold it.
Autos Lose Tops
Tops were blown off two Ford
touring cars, parked in ront Of the
Federal Bldg, on Ohio ST.
A dog was electrocuted by a live
wire at 2126 Bloyd Ave.
A large tree, blown down over
the National Rd. west of Plainfield,
necessitated a detour. Limbs from
trees lined the concrete west Of the
city.
| Queer freaks were performed by
the wind. Near the Delaware St.
bridge over Fall Creek tree was
up-rooted, but flower boxes on the
bridge were untouched.
Signs were upside down or hang
ing by one end. A tent used by the
National Guard for recruiting, in
front of the Federal Bldg, was laid
| fiat.
At FIT. Harrison the citizens mill
tary training camp became a small
lake while rockies armed with
spades and shovels, dug bitches to
drain off the water.
Three large windows of the
Schwabs furnishing store, at 259 E.
Washington ST., were broken and
women's dresses were scattered. An
unidentified man driving a Ford
stopped in front of the store and
ran inside and stole two dresses, po-
| lice say.
Corn Damaged
Corn in a forty-fve-acre field
near Riverside Park, property Of
the park board, was RACED by the
tempest 1t was the best crop in
recent years, according to H. Hous-
| ton Tall, assistant superintendent
of parks.
The wind blew down a number of
trees in parks and destroyed light
globes along White River Blvd, at
Camp Sullivan and St. Clair Park.
Eight automobiles were damaged
when the roof was blown from a
residence at 4100 w. Sixteenth ST.,
owned by George Mates, Sunday
night.
The motorists had parked their
cars and taken shelter in an adj
joining grocery store, Mates said.
Buildings at the State Playground
were damaged to the extent of sew
eral thousand dollars. Half of the
roof was blown off the Purdue Bldg,
built last year at a cost of $4,000.
Roofs were also blown from several
horse sheds. The damage is covered
| by insurance.
State Suffers
Losses weer reported practically
over the central part of the State.
Growing crops were blown down and
farm buildings in many sections
were damaged.
Full fury of the storm was felt in
Hamilton County where hundreds Of
acres of corn were blown down and
shocks of wheat torn apart and
scattered.
| At Kokomo, a giant tree blew
over and crushed the home of G.. s..
Beck No one MIS- hurt. An auto
parked at the curb was crumpied
into junk by falling tree a moment
after the driver left it. Howard
county farmers were hard hit.
The storm area extended as far
north as FIT. Wayne, where trees
were uprooted and street flooded.
Boon County farmers also suf-
fered heavily. Lightning fired a
barn on A. I. Voris farm. Lightning
killed stock on the farms of james
Core and Asa Sutphin.