The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-13
LEvEE PERILED,
BRIDGES SWEPT
OFF BY FLOOD
White River Hammers Holes
in WarfIeigh Dixie and
MenaCeS Homes.
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were wrecked, trees and wires blown
down.
Tornado swept Centerpoint, I'M
roofing barns, wrecking chicken
houses and chimneys and bringing
down electric and telephone wires.
Rainfall ranged from IL to two
inches. Greencastle had 2.20 inches
and Farmland 228.
The Wabash river at Terre Haute
is rising and is expected to reach
a stage of % or % feet. Flood
mark is Is.
Flood Warnings Posted
Flood warnings have been sent
by the bureau to all points on the
lower stretches of the White ano
Wabash rivers.
twenty-five poles of the Indian
apolis Power and Light Company
we're leveled and live wires were
down in streets at many points.
Considerable damage was caused
at city hospital shortly before noon
today, when the smokestack of the
old city hospital building toppled
causing a portion of the roof to col
lapse. Police We're detailed to clear
away debris.
Parts of roofs of some buildings
of the abandoned Pennsylvania rail-
road shops, East washington street
and Beville avenue, were carried
away during the storm.
Lightning Hits House
Home of w. R. Mattingly, 1895
North Mount street, was struck by
lightning, but little damage re-
suited.
At Summit street and Spann ave-
nue., a tree torn from it's roots took
limbs from another tree and the
debris, hurled against the porch OF
home, moved it several yards.
Police received nearly a dozen re-
ports of wires being down, and aid
was asked by residents of several
sections as water from flooded sew
ers or overlooking streams menaced
their homes.
Little damage was suffered by
lines of the Indiana Bell Telephone
Company, and service on the Indi-
ana railroad was practically nor
NAL.
indianapolis Railways encount-
cred trouble at Michigan street and
White river, where sections of as
phalt paving were washed on the
blocked street car traffic for a short
time at Fourteenth street and Co.
lumbia avenue.
Those injured in the local storm
were:
Oren D. Oldaker. go, severe cT.'
on forehead and right ear, incurred
when window was blown in while
he slept in his home at 2509 South
eastern avenue.
Hurt in Nightmare
Walter Eicholtz 80, of 918 North
Alabama street, cash on right arm
which he pushed through window
while in a nightmare.
Vern Shewman, 81, of 1345 Olive
avenue, dazed when automobile il
which he was riding. was struck b!
lightning in the 21O0 block Carson
avenue. SheWnan's brother, James
and Clarence May, Fit. Harrison
riding with him escaped injury.
They could not find Vern afte,
the bolt struck. He wandered int
the home of G. H. S. Colbert, R. R
l, Box 81, and broke window.
Three men we're injured slightly
when taxicab in which they were
riding was damaged by a falling
tree. Those hurt we're the driver
James Williams, "a, of 2515 Shrivel
avenue; Robert Benson, %, of 1913!
Highland avenue, and Charlie,
Fuqua, %, of 405 West Thirteenth
street. All suffered cuts from bro.
ken glass.
Irwin Jacobs, 30, of 342 South
Temple avenue, escaped injury
when his automobile struck tele.
phone pole in the 5000 block East
Michigan street, while the storm
was raging. He was arrested on 6
charge of drunken driving.
Part of the Coffin golf course i!
under water and the South Grove
course is menaced. The Riverside
course also is threatened, as watel
covers the road which bounds it OF
the east and north.