The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-19

automobile after the storm. He had
left it in his garage and when the
stor mdemolished it, the auto could
not be found in the darkness.
HAS anybody seen my roof" V.
V. .Stoner, 2S7 N. Tacoma Ave-.
apologeticaly asked Of Sheriff omer
Hawkins, a squad of deputies and
police, when they were touring the
stricken area after the storm.
Just pick out anyone that will
fit" Coroner Paul F. Robinson, re-
Lplied, pointing to the wreckage that
strewed the street.
In the middle of the intersection
of Randolph and Ohio SITS. a house
on rollers, in process of being moved,
was untouched.
Two Pinned In Wreck
Two youths who abandoned their
car and who sought safety in the
entrance of the Arthur Furniture
Company, 2215 E. Washington St,
narrowly escaped death when the
tornado ripped the building to pieces.
They were Earl Wolverton, II, of
406 S. Harlan ST., and Roger Frey,
Is, 201S Southeastern Ave.
Wolverton and Frey were pinned
under the debris when. the building
collapsed under the force of the wind.
They beat a steady tattoo on the
boards which pinned them down
until Motor Policeman Claude Kind
er, 6 N. Keystone Ave-, heard them
and called Pennsylvania shop em-
ployes to rescue them. BY using
Jacks the rescue crew raised the
wreckage and pulled out the youths.
Wolverton and Frey were sent to
city hospital in car Communicated
by Kinder. Wolverton is suffering
from possible internal injuries and a
broken shoulder. The wind leveled
the building, the second story of
which housed Englewood Masonic
lodge.
Thought Time Had Come
Andrew McClelland, 1925 E. Wash
ington ST.. restaurant owner, who
lived on the second floor of his
restaurant directly north of the
furniture store, and Frank Morgan,
night man, 124 f. New York ST., both
escaped injuries.
McClelland said glass blew in the
windows and ut sounded as if every
thing was falling"
II certainly thought our time had
come. 1 started down stairs but
thought / never would make it as
the entire building was rocking"
said McClelland.
Roof Transplanted
One of the queerest pranks of the
wind storm occurred in the 500 block
on w. Washington St, when the
third story of one building was lifted
from it's foundations and catapulted
through the roof of another building
at $50 w. Washington st.
The corner building, 554-5S w.
Washington ST., was few feet taller
than the adjacent structure. The
wind lifted the third story of the
taller building and hurled it east
onto the roof of the other building.
So great was the weight of the
debris that it crashed through the
roof and three floors of the building
to the basement.
Five persons were in a billiard hall
of the smaller building when the
material catapulted through. but
narrowly escaped death.
A hole approximately twenty feet
in diameter was made through the
smaller building.
Mrs. Julia Lyons, 2O3 N. Jefferson
! Ave, who was critically injured in
ternally by flying debris, was taken
to st. Vincent Hospital. She was
asleep on a cot in a front room
awaiting the return of her son, Paul,
is, drug clerk at State and Wash
! ington st.
Lyon declared that his mother
was alone and awaiting his return
at midnight, which was her custom.
The father, Don Lyons, a retired
engineer. was away at work.
Several persons were bruised ar
slightly cut when the wind blast
ripped the Pilgrim Holiness Church,
Buchanan and Leonard SITS, gospel
tent into shrods, sending the wor-
shippers into a near-panic as they
scampered for shelter. The congre-
cation had just fled the tent when
it was flooded by the torrential rain.
Mrs. Marie Harris, wife of the
pastor, the Rev. Arthur Harris, was
cut over ,rhe eye and Mrs. Minerva
Simpson, 904 Buchanan ST., was in
iured when struck by a flying light
socket.