The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-04
FIREMEN RACE THROUGH
FLOODED STREETS, FIGHT
LIGHTNING-BOLT BLAZES
Priest Suffers Hip Burns
Battling Flames Brought
by Storm Bolt.
MERCURY DROPS TO 70
Rainfall in Last "a Hours Is
Recorded Officially at
Tsp Inches.
thunderstorm

A thunderstorm ragged
over Indianapolis early to-
day, hurled lightning bolts
that set several fires and
poured gallons of rain into
the streets.
The storm broke little more than
u hours after a smaller storm
spent its fury during two hours yes
terday afternoon.
The Rev. Morris Schoentrup, as
sistant pastor of the Roman Cath
Ole Church of the Little Flower.
suffered burns on his hip fighting
lightning fire in the church rectory.
1910 Wallace-st.
Lightning struck a tree outside
the building, jumped in the bed
room in which Father Schoentrup
was sleeping. through lamp ex-
tension and fired the bed mattress.
Keeps Blaze From Spreading
SEEING some clothing from the
closet. Father Schoentrup smoth-
cred the blaze sufficiently to keep it
from spreading until fire apparatus
arrived
A Riverside Park tool shed, 1900
w. Riverside DIR, was burned to the
ground when lightning struck it
during the height Of the storm.
Tools were destroyed.
Electrical wires overcharged by
lightning caused fires at the home
of Walter S. Phillips, 2041 Cornell
av; John Bowman, 1905 Ralston-av,
and Amos Jones, 1903 Hudson-st.
During yesterday afternoons
storm, Jasper N. Clark, 53-year-old
invalid. 1863 Livingston suffered
nervous shock when lightning
leaped into his bedroom by an aerial
wire attached to a tree.
1.52 Inches of Rain Falls
The storm broke shortly after 1
a. m. and until a torrential
cloudburst drenched the city. The
rain deficiency for the year was re-
duced to Al of an inch by the 1.52
inches Of rain that fell within the
last "a hours The temperature
dropped to as low as 10 degrees at
6 this morning.
The force of the water was so
great that it backed up in a sewer
at oriental and st. Clair-sts, pushed
the iron manhole cover up and
showed it to one side.
The wind blew large tree across
the street in the 22O0 block of N.
Talbot-st.
Lightning set off a series of
burglary alarms within a half hour
in widely scattered parts of the city
at 4 this morning. Police drove their
squad cars through streets flooded
with storm water only to discover
the alarms were false.
Streets Are Flooded
At Goth and McPherson-sts, 18th
and Pennsylvania-sts, 18th and 18th
and Delaware sts and at 41st-st and
Illinois water covered the street
from curb to curb.
During the progress Of the storms
yesterday and early today 10 fire
alarms were turned in. Pranksters
pulled three alarms early today in
the vicinity of Laurel-st and Eng
lish-aV
Police and power company repair
men were rushed to Indiana-av and
Fall Greek and to 54th-st and Col
lege-av early today because the
storm had blown down live wires at
those places.
Because the storms washed out
bridge at 56th-st early today the
best route to Fort Benjamin Har-
rison for those attending the cere-
monies there today is to motor out
Millersville-rd to the Range-rd and
into the camp.
Of the $50 tents pitched for Cit
liens Military Training Corps Sold
iers, only one blew down in the
storm. 1t was the recreation tent
and was not damaged.
The forecast for today is for part
~ cloudy weather. No more thunder
storms are expected until tomorrow.