Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1937 — Page 5

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

TERROR-FILLED | He Was T here in ‘84 and ’13, But This - Is Wrz |

DAYS DESCRIBED | BY SUFFERERS

Some Come to Homes of.

Relatives; Others at Fair Grounds.

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water eddying up the street toward their residence.

“It’s probably entirely covered by water now. No insurance. But we've

a home here at 519 E. 58th St., Mr. Bradford said.

The Bradfords lived at -823 Jackson St., Evansville. A daughter, Mary Agnes, 9, and a son, Patrick, 6 months old, accompanied them.

Waits for Husband In the Union Station’s waiting room, rocking back and forth with

her baby girl, Barbara, 3, in her"

- arms, was Mrs. Albert Huntsinger, Jeffersonville, waiting for her husband. “I came in last night on the first train. He said he'd come as soon as he could. He wanted me and the babies to get out first. That's just like a lot of the other men. They wanted the women to go. “Jeflersonville is no longer a city —just water,” she said. “I'm hoping my husband comes on the next train.” Jack Antrim, Jeffersonville plumber, described the city of Jeffersonville near the river-bank as “floating houses, floating cows, dogs and chickens.” “Some. were trying to cling to anything. they could—barns, fence‘rails and outbuildings. It was awful,” he said.

Resembled Ellis Island

The Union Station resembled an immigration office at Ellis Island, New York, as the refugees unloaded

from the trains. Personal belon in bandana kerchiefs spreads. -The ticket office warned all persons attempting to go to the flood area that it was useless for them to attempt the trip. One man insisted: “I've got a wife and baby in Jeffersonville, I've got to get there.” “Mister, you can go but I'm telling you Jeffersonville is under water. You probably couldn't find your folk if you went. They may be on the next train coming out of there,” the . icket agent said. fy “I'll fiy if 1 can,” as he hurried away. Red Cross nurses boarding the ~Tawrenceburg relief train were dressed in heavy coals and overshoes and cheerily prepared for the worst. r Mrs. Josephine E. Lynch, city school nurse and World War veteran, said: some of the younger girls, but I've seen those things in the war. 1 know what that suffering means. Mr. and Mrs. Walter McGee said that their home in Howard Park, near Jeflersonville, overlooked the Ohio River. : It was so high, they said, that they did not consider abandoning it until late last night. Last evening, Mrs. McGee said, she stood on her porch and watched debris going down the Ohio. “I counted 12 houses pass in 15 minutes,” she said as she detrained in the Union Station. “Then we saw a brilliant flash, and the air -cross the river filled

gings were wrapped and bed

added the man

with smoke and we supposed that a |

hydro-electric dam blew up.” Arrive in Box Car

It took the worst flood in Indiana history to give a Jeffersonville schoolteacher and her boy friend a train ride. Forced to leave their homes as refugees this couple landed here at 4:20 a. m. today in a box car. “We have looked forward all our lives to riding in style on a train. Crowded into a cold, dirty box car with 88 other péople scarcely was our dream,” they said. Mrs. Charles Willis, Jeffersonville, was one of 90 persons who arrived ‘this morning. “Some of us slept on the floor during the trip up here,” she said. “Many of the women on the train were frantic. All are near exhaustion. “This terrible shock, the hours of waiting for rescuers, the fear of disease and death, has left its mark on all of us. Three women were taken from the train at Seymour and rushed to the hospital when they collapsed and became temporarily demented.” Frank White, Jeffersonville, told the following story: “We were riding around in a boat searching for marooned persons. We saw a woman standing in a second story window, holding a bundle in her arms. I yelled at her. She stared at us blankly and didn’t answer. When we. pulled up close, she threw the bundle. I caught it. Luckily, too,

for when I opened the ‘bundle’ 1]

found a baby. Then we rescued the | mother, who was near exhaustion.”

Arrives in Wheel Chair Mrs. James Brennan, Jeffersonville, mother-in-law - of Dowd, assistant superintendent of

the State Reformatory, arrived in a | wheelchair on one of the early |

refugee trains. She was met here by Mr. Dowd and taken to Pendleton in a City Hospital ambulance. She suffered a stroke on Christmas Day. = Rescuers took her from her home in a skiff, transferred her «to a bakery truck, and then into another boat in taking her to the train. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Chasteen, of South Beech Grove, pushed

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in several days. telling Mrs. Jessie Keller, Hilton U.

: This Jeffersonville trio wasted no time in ‘“hitting the hay” after their arrival on a refugee train

Fear and anxiety etched in his features, Charles Spencer of Jeffersonville retires at the State Fair Grounds here for his first real rest “It's the worst flood in Jeffersonville’s history,” he's

Brown Auxiliary, American Legion.

“And I should know, because I lived through the 1884 and 1913 floods.”

here.

Weary but happy to be far away from the flood waters, Jefferson-

ville refugees pour down the Union Station steps here.

men and women of all ages were dogs, large and small. the steps.

There and children. There were babies. Here you see one boy leading his pet

were There down

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PHOTOS DEVELOPED RESULT IN RESCUES

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ing water when th turned back on for period. The drain on the ing that period was city officials said they: lieve the supply wo three days. It origi lieved a 10-day supp

reservoirs.

Further curtailmen now on a four-hour-probable. The entire water su suburban cities was «it off when storage tanks ran dry;! The affected suburbs vere: Mount Auburn, Indian Hill, Yount Washington, Pleasant Ridgi and Kennedy Heights. i

Beer Is Subs

Guests in downtowr rooms found themselyss one glass of water. : Waitresses told gues: all the water we could, is the limit. I suggest | instead.” Daniel Willard, pres Baltimore & Ohio R phoned officials of his ¢ fering to transport wi city in tank cars. ' Rapidly rising witel the removal of 159 won from the city workhous crest School for Girls. ers may be moved late, | Two destructive fir¢s flooded Cincinnati wa

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Assistant Firé Chief Edward Shearwood estimated caused $2,000,000 damage, still was burning early today. Its destructiveness was .almost at an end, however, and firement thought it soon would be extinguished. “If we can keep the gasoline tanks from bulging or bursting, we can put the fire out,” Chief Shearwood said. 200 Rescued from Homes

During the latter stages of the fire that burned a half dozen major plants, including part of the Crosley Radio Corp. warehouse and the Standard Oil Co. plant, 200 students of Brashears St. were rescued from their homes when thick smoke began to choke them.

The first fire started yesterday morning, apparently when a high tension wire fell into the gasolinecovered water near several refining company tanks. Almost all of the city fire-fighting equipment was put to work until the blaze was under control. The second and less destructive fire started late last night when | gasoline, which leaked from a storage tank of the Gulf Refining Co., caught fire. The flames consumed | five houses. forced to flee.

Eight persons were |

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CINCINNATI, O. Jan. 25.—Five men who were rescued from roofs of buildings at Lunken Airport here owed their lives today to photographic aerial pictures of the flood area that were developed 40 miles away from the marooned men. Army fliers from Wright Field at Dayton circled over the Airport yesterday to take pictures of the district. When they arrived back in Dayton they developed the photographs and saw in them the flood victims perched on the buildings. The fliers notified Cincinnati police. Marshal Harry McNey of the Fire Department was called and led a party to rescue the men.

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through the crowds at the Union Station in search of their twin sons, age 8. The boys spent Christmas with their grandmother, Mrs. Ida Chasteen in Jeffersonville and no word has been received from them, the parents said. They met all trains yesterday, and were at the station again early today to look for the boys. Describes Rescue of 26.

Rescue of 26 persons from her home in Jeffersonville, was described by Mrs. Frank White. She said the

neighbors had gathered in her home Sunday afternoon when the flood waters began to rise. “We were taken out in boats, then loaded into a bread truck, and again into boats to get to the train,” she said. “Water was rushing through our front yard like a river and the lower rooms in the house were

{ flooded,” she said.

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