Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1929 — Page 2

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Doctors gave first aid treatment and ambulances carried the victims to hospitals. Dr. George W. Crile. noted surgeon and head of the Clinic, rushed from the operating room of the Clinic hospital, near by. and took charge of the medical aid. White-faced but calm, this wartime surgeon, decorated by many a:i'cd governments, directed the giv;rg of first aid and the pouring of oil on those burned. All through the day hr labored , and at night transferred his activi- j ties to the hospitals to which the in- , iurcd had been taken. As night fell, the morgue became j the principal seat of tragedy. The bodies taxed the limits of this drab, gray structure. Police kept back the curious and j permitted only relatives to view the dead. Shrieks rose when wives, mothers i and sisters identified kin. The I hoarse cries of husbands, fathers , and brother" broke in now and again. Dr Carl Welwig bent over a rot j at Mt. Sinai hospital to treat a vie- , tim of the explosion. The victim : was dead. It. was his wife, tcchni- 1 cian at the Clinic hospital. Mrs. W. L. Spellman of Forest. O . J sat in an automobile outside the j clinic waiting for her husband who j had entered to make an appointed for her a few minutes before the : first explosion. “I guess he is in there helping, he is so helpful.'' she said. Police did not tell her the truth, that Spellman was one of the dead. Mrs. Cory D. Bishop. 30, of St. Joseph. Mo., was found dead outside the building. She had been in j Dr. Charlr; Thompson’s office. Dr. | Thompson helped another patient to escape and then turned to find j Mrs. Bishop gone. She is believed j to have leaped from a window. Crile Outstanding Hero Out of the suffering and sorrow caused by the explosion, the figure of a tireless surgeon in a bloodsplashed apron rose toda 1 ' as thr outstanding hero in a disaster: where heroes were numerous. He is Dr Crile. founder of the Clinic hospital, who watched the institution that was to have been j his life monument torn by explo- : sion and flame while he brought all his skill to the task of saving lives. Haggard and gray. Crile was found on the seventh floor of the hospital an hour after the explosion. His eyes burned with the brightness of, exhaustion as patient after patient was wheeled by him. but his hand was steady and his voice un- I shaken. Without, taking time to look up from the injured women over whom he leaned, scalpel in hand. Crile! told the United Press correspondent: "There 1s nothing I can say now.; People are dying out there. The only thing a surgeon can do is to try ap save their lives.” Noted a,s Surgeon A short time before he had been in the adjoining clinic hospital, had heard the boom of exploding gas and had opened the door of his office to see a corridor already thick with bodies of the injured. Soon he was operating and at the same time directing the activities of a score of other surgeons. It was not the first time Crile had been tested by tragedy: during the World war his brilliant contributions to surgery won him an hon- j orary fellowship in the Royal Col- j lege of Surgeons. He is credited with having made I valuable discoveries on the reriuc- j tion of shock in ; urgery. Dr. Charles Mayo once said: ! “Some of the greatest strides in i modern medicine and surgery have I emanated from Crile and his coworkers at the Cleveland Clinic." “It was just a soft boor.” was ' FREE TO ASTHMA SUFFERERS Free Trial of a Method That Anyone j Can Use Without Discomfort or Loss of Time. JVe have a method for tlio control *>t j Asthma, and we want you to try it at j opr expense. No matter whether your ! ease is of lonn standing or recent do- j velopmeut, whether it is present as or- j e&Sionnl or chronic Asthma, you should j send for a free trial of our method. 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the way Dr. Henry J. John, diabetic specialist, today described the explosion. "I was sitting at my desk when the first explosion came,” John said. John at first was reported dead among the victims. "There was a sort of whiff sound around the radiator after the soft boom' and immediately smoke curled jp around the pipes. It was a yellowish brown smoke and smelled like a bromide. It had a horrible odor. “I hurried out into the hall.; Flames seemed to burst out in all' places all at once. I can't explain 1 such instantaneous combustion. "Others were running from the building as I dashed into the hallway. Even then the flames were such that it war, almost impossible to attempt any rescue work. I ran out t.hen. Within two minutes after the first concussion the whole building seemed to be wrapped in flames.'' Like War F’oison Gas Vivid pictures of the scenes of horror and tragedy within the gas filled rooms and corridors of the burning Clinic hospital building, ana the difficulties encountered in the rescue work were described by members of the three rescue squads and Batalioti Chief Michael J. Graham, who commanded them during the frightful first minutes of the disaster. Chief Graham, himself, pushed boldly at the head of the squads and other firemen rescuers into the ; chamber:; of death which had been the hospital interior, and .aided his men in the actual work of salvaging what life was left within. Chief Graham, an overseas war veteran, who served in the front; line trenches in France and encoun- , tered a number of gas attacks, de- i dared that the fume which smote j with death more than 100 occupants ! of the Clinic, were apparently as j dead and even more penetrating j than the poison gas used in the war. 'The fumes were just like the i deadly phosphene war gas I got during the war Chief Graham said. But I found that the mask would not keep them entirely out. Twice I strangled and became faint, and had to rush toward the air in order to continue work. Silent as a Tomb "I finally had to use one of the helmets with the oxygen tank, now used by the department,” Lieutenant John Bowers of Rescue Squad 2, the first of the squads to arrive, went home ill, and the rest of his squad dropped into a deep slumber when relieved of duty. None was in condition to be interviewed. j Experiences of the squads v/erej related by Lieutenants Robert Liv- i ingston and Edward P. Meyers. "I don't think I shall ever again witness such a spectacle of death as awaited us inside that • building,” Meyers said. "The air,on all floors was colored a ghastly greenish yellow. The halls and rooms were as silent as a tomb, for the fumes took first speech, then breath and then the life of those ■ who breathed them. "W did not realize the frightful- i ness of the disaster, for there was I

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not the panic and tumult usual among fire-trapped victims. ; "On the first landing at the stair- ' way's turn, between the first and i second floors, the sight that met our i eyes gave us the first proof of the ; actual facts. Recovers Thirty Bodies | "There, heaped in a frightful pile were fifteen dead, piled body upon body- It made me sick. The faces were horribly twisted, and discolored. yellow and blue—the gas! "We saw there was nothing we [ could do for them, and we cli j?d upward in search of any who m.g'u be alive. "On the next landing, just above the second floor, was a second mound of dead. I counted eleven. It semtd that patients had rushed lor the stairs, blinded and suffocating. thereto stumble and plunge headlong downward to the landings below. Lieutenant George Grimes was credited with recovering thirty bodies, working without interruption while the two blasts rocked the building. Firemen brought victims out so fast that workers in the street and front lawn could hardly treat them fast enough. Some of the patients protested that they were all right, firemen said. "Don't have to do a thing for me," one man said. “The gas didn t bother me. Bring out the other.” Five minutes later he collapsed. Laughs at Peril —Dead Paul Roquemora of East Dallas Tex., was able to get out without aid. He laughed when a fireman told him he had "better go to a hospital.” Roquemora worked for a few minutes longer and then walked over to Mt. Sinai hospital. Ten minutes later he was dead. ’ Mrs. Seth Nickens came out of the clinic without a mark on her. She had the presence of mind to follow the example of a man she saw crawling along the floor through the gas-filled halls toward a doorway. When the explosion came Mrs. Nickens was wrapped in one of the hospital's blue kimonos awaiting her turn for an X-ray treatment. She ran into the hallway crying for help. At that moment she saw through the thickening clouds of yellow smoke a large man in a white coat who was flat on his face, crawling with a swimming motion toward the light in the doorway. Mrs. Nickens did likewise, holding her breath as She crawled along. At the floor she was picked up by rescuers. Her husband, hearing of the explosions, arrived soon and took her home. Today she suffered only from nervous shock. MACHINERY TO BE*SOLD Ogden Given Ruling on State Prison Procedure. i Indiana state prison trustees may ! sell the prison's binder twine machinery at auction or by private sale, Attorney-General James M. Ogden advised Wardden Walter H. Daly today. The machinery will bfe replaced by auto license plate manufacturing machinery. The Indiana plates for 1931 will be the first made at the prison, in accordance with an act of the 1929 legislature permitting their manufacture.

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the quarterly report announced todav by County Clerk George O. Hv;tsell. Vagrancy charges topped the list of offenses with 1,453 of which 1.105 were dismissed More persons were sent to institutions and fined for intoxication than any other offense. The total was 433.