The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-20
Highways ARE
REDRIFT TED BY
fierce WINDS
Snow Blockade Cuts Off
Rural DWeIIerS From
Food Supplies.
MONTICELLO ISOLATED
Death Toll Stands at Six;
Banks Up to Is Feet
Reported in North.
MONTICELLO ISOLATED

Having dug itself out of noun
famous snowdrifts that followed the
worst blizzard in more than dec
ade, Thursday and Thursday night,
northern Indiana again was snow
bound today as fierce winds whipped
across the prairies, redrifting almost
all highways.
Southern Indian roads we're
blockaded by floods, and made dan
gerous by ice. Steam and electric
rail transportation was impaired Sc
riously by snow and ice. Telephone
communication suffered little.
Relief from the cold wave which
hit Indiana and the midwest on
Wednesday is believed due here
Saturday night, J. H. Arlington,
United States weather bureau me-
teorologist, said today. Tempera-
lures tonight we're expected to rise
slightly to between 10 and Is de-
grees.
Food Runs Low
A new hardship of the blizzard
was reported today by northern IN
diana farmers, whose food supplies
are becoming dangerously low
Drifts held them away from all
sources Of supply.
It may be several days before
those living on side roads can reach
any towns, and transportation can
not approach normal before Christ
mas, it was believed. All rural and
many city schools were closed until
after the holidays.
With reports Of suffering from
famine came others of sick persons
silnaplessto reoeive medical attention..
Fred Hei1ney, living near Kendall
vile, went for almost day with a
fractured arm before it could be set.
Physicians are using telephones to
prescribe for rural patients.
The state highway maintenance
departments force of three thou
sand nll was enlarged to five thou
sand, A. H. Hinkle, superintendent,
said today. All men available are
being hired to operate plows and
scoop shoyels.
Monticello Cut Off
Monticello is isolated by drifts.
A state snoWplow is stranded three
miles east of Monticello, and an
other plow was sent this morning
from Delphi to delieve it.
John j. Brown, state highway
commission director, issued warn
ings to motorist against attempting
trips into the northern part of the
state. Travel is impossible, he said,
and stalled automobiles only hinder
work of the snowplow crews in
clearing the highways.
The sixth death in the state re-
sultant from the blizzard occurred
near Ia Porte Thursday night, when
Michael Engel, 10, walked in front
of an automobile during binding
snowstornl.
Skull Fractured
In indianapolis, Francis E. Gates,
40, suffered a skull fracture when
struck by an auto driven by Russell
Fitch, Danville, in the 1900 block
Rockville road Thursday night. c.
F. Hattendorf, 50, of 213 Leota
street and Southeastern avenue.
Twenty inches of water covered
state Road so at Medora, and traffic
was expected to be suspended there
today. Eight inches of water on
state Road 81, north of Seymour
forced state trucks to the scene to
pull cars through.
Almost all highways north Of IN
dianapolis were blocked at some
points by huge drifts. In the La
Porte region, state highway en-
ployes reported drifts as high as
fifteen feet.
Air mail and r. A. r. routes were
operating for the second day after
weeks vacation because of dense