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


flooded roads along the route, but
little property damage.
There was little wind, he said.
B. f. Overtree, PA N. Jefferson
Ave, returned home with members |
Of his family after the storm and |
solicited the assistance of neighbors |
in finding his home. He found the |
roof of his home on the bed and |
the residence demolished.
Typical of the freaks performed by |
the storm was the fate of a Ford !
sedan at oxford and Vermont SITS. !
The wind picked the car up and de-
posted its rear across the sidewalk. |
Then the wind slapped several boards !
against the side of the car wrapped !
them securely with a mass Of tele-
phone wires, wound round and round |
the auto. For trimmings the gale
deposited a bread box on a fender
and then gracefully drapped a tree
across the whole.
A huge stone face woman used
TO decorate the top of the building
at 25 n. Illinois St. The woman
| looked down at the street. The
storm tore loose the half ton stone
and the lady crashed on her nose on
/ the sidewalk. The plattering debris
dented a Ford parked at the curb.
Miss Mable Presley, 1G. daughter
of Richard Presley, police emer-
gency driver, was on the front porch
of 40S n. Dearborn ST., with a party
of young folks. The freallish wind
picked up a photograph inside the
house, carried it through a window
and struck Miss Presley. Her
shoulder was injured.
Thousands of motorists rushed for |
the wrecked area III the east end. |
Dozens of volunteer traffic directors |
sprang into action and kept a sem
blanee of order. e. Washington st. |
for at least twenty blocks was inn
passable because Of wreckage and
splitting live wires.
Police got their first warning that |
a tornado had truck when the big |
tree in front of the county Jail was |
uprooted and hurled across Alabama |
St, toward police headquarters.
The wax figures in some Washing
| ton St department stores presented
sorry pictures after the storm had
done it's worst. Hundreds of dollars
worth of silBen finery was damaged.
One grand waXen dame was flat on
her face. Two others were hurled
together as if they had died in en-
| brace.
Two-thirds of the police depart
ment was on duty in the wrecked
area within two hours after the
storm struck. The entire traffic de-
partment was thrown into the Sec
ton as soon as police realized con-
ditions.
| From keystone Ave. east I'm
Thirty-eighth St, TO Pendleton Pike,
trees were strewn across the road
way. Efforts of persons living in the
vicinity to get TO their homes were
delayed until The debris was cleared
! from streets.
Persons herded in the Log Cabin
barbecue. Thirty eighth St, and Key
stone Ave, and prepared to run TO
safety in the cellar in a nearby gro /
Gerry store when the barbecue place |
seemed about to leave the ground.
Bus transportation in the north
part of the city was paralyzed when |
many of the motors were drowned !
out. One driver said the wind was
strong enough to push his seventeen |
bus more than a block, after the en- /
CINE ceased functioning.
Garland Lands, 1910 E. Washing |
ton ST., clerk at eke Neidhamer drug
store, 2t02 L. Washington St, and |
Ray Kunz, pharmacist, treated APP |
proximately thirty-five people suffer
ing from minor injuries. The ma
jority were cuts inflicted by glass.
Ernest Ley. %, of 232 s. Rural ST.,
was seated in an auto at Hamilton
Ave. and e. Washington ST., when
the odd Fellows building there col
lapsed.
To,,,o. II C,,rningtaD, "a Of AZ |
n. Dearborn ST., was in the Pan
handle Smoke House. poolroom in the
basement. There were about fifteen |
men in the poolrooh when the cy-
clone struck. None was injured.
A fifty-foot chimney blown down at |
the Holt Ice Company plant, North |
ST and the Canal, dragged down cleo
trio wires and blocked the street.
Miss Lula Johnson, 81. of 234 n.
Tacoma Ave, received cuts on an
arm and Emmett Sharp, 62, at the
same address, had his shoulder and
collar bone broken when the house
was blown down. DIR. e. NJ. Hurst,
louisville, was passing. He rushed
into the house and carried the in
jured to his car and tried to persuade
the mother of Miss Johnson to go to
the Methodist hospital with them.
The mother. slightly injured, refused
to go because her husband and other
children were at a movie show and
she feared they would be terrified
when they returned and found them
gone. SO the mother was carried to
a neighbours home and her wounds
attended to.
The Indianapolis Street Railway
Company threw what BUSES it had
available into service when blockaded
tracks stopped service upon the E.