Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 267, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1925 — Page 24

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■ ■ Farmer’s Faith Unshaken *\ Knew We Were Coming Out Alive/ Says Man in Cyclone.

(By Timp Staff Correspondent) PRINCETON, lnd., March 19.—“1 knew were going to come out alive.” Will Mobley, 56, farmer, four miles west of Owensville, lnd., mournfully surveyed the little pile of ruins thaf was once his home, and told of his experience when the cyclone struck southern Indiana Wednesday. ‘‘My wife and I had gone up the hill about 4 p. m. to meet our two children, Madison and Mary, as they came from school,” he said'. “It looked so threatening we stopped at Carl Johnson's house. He and his wife, their two children and a girl named Medrith Garrett, were there.” “Heard It Coming” “We heard it a coming.” “Everybody was scared half to death but me, and for some fool reason I just felt like we were coming out O. K. I made ’em all lie down in one room and just then she struck.” “Coudn’t see a thing, pitch black and the noise sounded like the end of the world. The air was full of of a pungent sulphur smoke like everything was on Are. Rut not a thing was burning. "It might have been the devil passing by and from the smell and tho general results I believe it may have been.” Not a person of the nine was killed, though some were injured. Mobley had a bad bruise on his cheek. Blew Girl Forty ards "When I come to, I had a hold of the two little boys, and the rest were nearly unconscious. I looked around for Mary, my 8-year-old daughter, and she was out In the field about forty yards. There wasn’t nothing except the floor left.” Mobley’s own house. In the little valley below the Johnson house, was a little pile of bricks and boards, with a big tree from the front yard roosting squarely in the middle. Some of his cows and horses were killed. "As for my dog, I guess It blew him clear out of the country, because I can’t And his body anywhere, and haven’t seen hide or hair of him since.” Woman Charges Bankruptcy Voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed lh Federal Court Thursday evening by Mrs. Mattie Newby, a farmer, of Lebanon, lnd. Her debts were listed at $6,650 and her assets SSO. ’

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THE MAIN BUILDING of the Heinz Canning Plant at Princeton wrecked by the tornado. This view was taken locking northwest toward the plant.

TORNADO GIAN! FLAILS FARMS (Continued From Page 1) one of the 100 farms that lay in the path of the mighty air twister had modern homes, supplied with running water and electricity surrounded by beautiful groves, stoplng fields and up-to-cL'te buildings. To an observer who traversed the death strip from end to end it appears that nothing else could have left the country in such a shape, but a mighty flood of water. It was the universal remark “why” It looks just like a flood had gone over here.” Rained Roofing The path of the tornado, one of the worst, if not the worst that every visited any part of the United States, is marked by cornstalks, and more cornstalks. Lodged

against fences, in tree tops, in loads, under eaves and every where they lie. Magniflclent roofing it seems to have raided. In every clump of broken splinters, stumps which last Wednesday were beautiful trees, be seen twisted galv&nied roofing carried from far off. Trees across the road barred all travel early Thursday morning around Owensville. Posses were quickly organized and soon chopped the roads clear. Hundreds of tree trunks had to be sawed and countless limbs dragged aside. Fences every where lay in the road, and many of them are still there. Beaten Flat In fact, the whole strip looks Just liljje a giant about two miles tall had strode through the country swinging a gigantic flail, because the country is beaten flat. In one place a horse shoe was hanging high In the shredded limbs of a tree between Owensville and Princeton. What became of the horse is a matter of conjecture. Dead cows, horses, tnules, hogs and chickens were strewn around the landscape promiscuously. Sections of buggies, autos and farm Implements could be seen in the middle of fields far from site of buildings. How the air flood that mashed a strip of Southern Indiana behaved can be illustrated by some specific examples. At the edge of Owensville, four persons were in the King farm hous when It struck. The house, Judging from the position of the wreckage, was picked up. torn board from board, and literally poured on the ground fifty yards away. Bodies of William King, his wife Elizabeth his son Walter and the latter’s wife, Lora, were found crushed to dertth beneath the wreckage. Four small children, at school at the time are survivors. The family flivver could be put In a wash tub. Rolled in a ball such as no interurban wreck ever caused, it lies with one wheel only attached In the public road 100 yards from the house. Four Sisters Die Four splnlster sister, the Jones family, living together three miles southwest of Qwensvllle were a(| home vhen the cyclone struck Eliza Jane, 68, Maria. 75, and Ellen, 76, were crushed to death. Miranda, the sou.-th, is expected to recover. Their old home, long a show place for the neatness of the lawn and the beautiful large shade trees, today looks Just like a cyclone had struck It. No other phrase will do.

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The house was evidently picked up bodily. It lit on one corner and there is a dent four feet deep at the spot. Then the wreckage was carried aw r ay as on an irreatible flood of water, and strewn across a slight valley. The mighty trees were splintered as If by dynamite. Tree Twisted in Two At the home of P. S. Armstrong, former State Senator and raiser of fancy hogs, the cyclone twisted a hickory tree four feet in diameter standing In his front yard in two at the thickest part of the trunk, and tossed It aside. Eight or ten other huge trees In the yard were splintered and uprooted In a manner wonderful to behold. The twister then Jumped over the house, taking off a few shingles, but Immediately descended to completely demolish a set of fine barns and slay stock. The Water woods, one of the finest pieces of forest timber In the pocket, was mowed as If by a giant scythe. Stark and stripped, the naked trunks, most of them about twenty feet high, stand as mute evidence of the great power that rushed the thirty miles from Griffin to Princeton In a moment or two. Both places reported the cyclone as striking at about 4:15, coming from the southwest.

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