The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-01
HEAVY LOSS
IS CAUSED BY
Wind IN CITY
Plate Glass Windows Are
Shattered; Many Wires
Down.
POLICE GUARD STORES
Gale Reaches az Miles an
Hour Early in
Morning.
POLICE GUARD STORES

5hattering plate glass windows
clawing down electric wires,
Is and signboards, a raging
arch lion" Wind-storm overran
ianapolis Sunday night and this
ming. inflicting thousands of DOL
of damage before its April
4" pranks ended
thunder storm of midsummer
ensity, breaking over the city at
m. accompanied by a doWnpour
,ain, was followed by winds that
ched the fury of gale at mid
ut and reached the velocity of
y-two miles an hour from the
st at 4:30 a. m.
'wenty-eight calls were received
police headquarters between mid
at and G a. m. from stores where
sdoWS crashed or localities where
gled wires and fallen poles men,
traffic and pedestrians. Re-
crews from the Indiana Bell
phone Company and the In
apolis Power and Light Com
worked desperately from mid
t on clearing up the damages.
Guard Broken Window
7lice details guarded stores
e broken windows put mer-
disc at the mercy of lashing
5 and rain
wntown furniture stores we're
hardest. A large plate glass
ow at the Banner Furniture
)any's store, 81 South Meridian
B, was shattered and furniture
ged before it could be removed.
3 the street, a window of the
er & Rocker Furniture Co.,
way.
q. Ripped loose by the wind, a scaf-
fold suspended on the west wall of
the D. Sommers & Co., Inc, Capitol
avenue and Washington street,
swung into a large section of the
show window. Using ladders and
ropes, fremen finally secured the
sc1ffold.
Many Wires Down
Other firms reporting broken
show windows included the Burke
Cadillac Company, Meridian and
Eleventh streets. the Kresge 5 and
10-cent store, 1923 West Washing
ton street; the Commercial hotel,
215ls South Illinois street; a Haag
drug store, Illinois and Maryland
streets. and stores in the vicinity of
East and Washington streets and
West and Washington streets.
Wires were down in all parts of
the city, but lighting service was
not interrupted, Power and Light
company officials said. A large
signboard on low buildings on North
Illinois street, just south of Six
teenth street. was blown over. carry
ing with it a part of the roof.
Damage to downtown store vim
dows and merchandise will exceed
$500, proprietors estir ted, while
utilities were unable to estimate
their losses.
Telephone service over the state
was at standstill for a short time
as a result of poles and wires being
brought down by the storm, J. w.
Hannon, general plant superintend-
ent for the Indiana Bell Telephone
Company. said.
But through speedy work the ma
Jority of the circuit are in opera
ton.
Poles Torn Down
In indianapolis proper there was
little telephone damage. Harmon
said. Heaviest damage was caused
between Indianapolis and South
Bend. Indianapolis and Louisville,
and Terre Haute and Chicago.
Many poles were down around
aLogansport.
All the damage. it is expected
will be repaired by nightfall.
Service on the Beech Grave t-ac-
ton was stopped for a short time
by fallen poles.
Expect Frost Tonight
The home of Superior Judge Linn
d. Hay, 1920 Broadway, was struck
by lightning, the chimney being
damaged, part of the roof torn off
and several windows broken.
Wind tore off the roof Of the
dairy barn at the county infirmary.
The storm came on the heels OF
near-perfect Easter weather. From
a high temperature of 78 degrees
between 3 and p. m. Sunday, The
mercury tumbled rapidly. reaching
80 degrees at 9 a. m. today.
Fair and colder tonight with frost
or freezing temperatures. was the
promise today of j. H Armington,
weather bureau chief for Indiana.
Tuesday will be fair with slowly ris-
ing temperatures here. he predicted