The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-23
VICTIMS FALL
IN Street AS
FUMES SPREAD
Police and Troops, Masked,
EvaCuate Residents in
(. New York st. Area.
CHILDREN OVERCOME
Lads Playing in Rear of
Warehouse When Tank
ExpIodeS.

more IMAM a score OF per-
sons were overcome by chlor-
inc gas from an explosion
shortly after noon today at
the. Trip warehouse, 1000
East New York street.
Police, national guardsmen. and
Fit. Harrison troops equipped with
gas masks, threw a Gordon several
blocks wide about the section and
were attempting to evacuate all
residents.
City hospital physicians said APP
parently none of the first twenty
five persons brought in, including a
number of children, was gassed
seriously.
Rushed to Hospital
First victims rushed to the hos
pital, as a general alarm brought
all available ambulances and police
cars to the stricken section, in
Guided:
Mrs. Sarah White, 1914 East Ohio
street; Mrs. Nora Lynch, 1923 East
New York street; Marshall Lynch,
same address; William and Jack
Miller, 10 and 5, of 1922 East Ohio
street; Herbert White, 4. 1910 East
New York street.
The Miller boys anG young White
al ~
Of the warehouse when the chlorine
tank exploded. The two younger
boys were overcome Immediately.
DragS Lads Away
William Miller started dragging
his two mates to place of safety
and he, too, was stricken. Police
found them huddled together.
Paul Mounts, IA, of 1907 East
Ohio street, was sitting on the
porch of his home when he caught
Whit of the spreading fumes ard
collapsed Kenneth Ross, 8, of
1922 East Ohio street, was another
victim stricken on the street.
Sees Boys Fall
Fred Winkler, attendant at the
filling station at 1909 East New
York street, was an eyewitness of
the blast, but was not affected by
The fumes.
Winkler said he was standing at
the station watching a man load
large can into a truck when the
can dropped. The man seemed
III
saw several boys topple over"
Almost every police patrol was or
dered to the stricken area by Capt.
Otto Petit and he asked Fl Harri-
son for troops equipped with gas
masks.
Militia on Duty
National guardsmen and state
police we're ordered to the area for
patrol duty.
Several fire units also were rushed
to the scene and eleven firemen
were so affected by the gas that it
was necessary for them to receive
treatment at city hospital.
The list of injured grew every few
minutes, city hospital reporting
shortly before l p. m. that approx
mately thirty-six persons had been
brought in for treatment.
The blast came when the cap
was blown off 1907 pound tank of
the gas as two men attempted to
load it on truck. The men, both
Frustrated, we're George WeddeI,
go East McCarty street, and
Lawrence Downing, 564 Highland
avenue
Police were told a leak developed
in the tank Thursday. and TODAY it
was decided to take it to Fall creek
and sink it as precautionary meas
ure.
Flight Is Futile
City health board sanction had
been obtained for the removed, ac-
cording to information given police.
Alva Weeks, 564 Highland ave-
nue., operator of lunch wagon. ran
when he first smelled gas, but did
not succeed in getting far before be-
coming affected.
Sergeant Frank Owen of the 20
lice accident prevention bureau or
dered all food in Weeks wagon de-
asserting it had become
permenated with gas and was pois-
onous.
Sam Claypool, operator of
lunch wagon at 1902 North Cornell
avenue, 100 feet away from the blast
scene, said the explosion rocked his
wagon.
One Policeman Overcome
Police ordered all food in the
wagon destroyed.
Patrolman Owen Tevlin, of Ser
geant Clifford Richter's squad. vas
the only police casualty. Richters
squad was the first to reach the
scene and Tevlin inhaled some of
the fumes.
Sergeant Frank Owen OF the
police accident prevention squad,
equipped himself with a gas mask
and moved the tank on 10 a truck
for removal to the city dump at
Tenth street and Indiana avenue,
where 1t will be inspected by the city
health board
Later, it will be tErown into Fall ?
creek.