Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1939 — Page 24

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INDIANAPOLIS—HOME EDITION—-WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1913.

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VOL. XXV. NO. 314.

Snow Storm Adds to Suffering omel

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JALIEF PLANNED I MEETING AT MAYOR'S OFFIGE

ppresentatives of Leading City Organizations Pledge Aid.

joing 88 thelr purpose the immediate

of suffering humanity in West Ir 4

gmnells and other parts of submer representatives of municipal, * ard woclal orgnnizations met sp offices today and organized pilef committee with three ¢ to handle food, finances ap a Newey will be received at

- seegection of Maror Shank, «lll be made headquarters of th of committee Foodstuffs will be ehipp.a ® We hall and from there distributed to @nson ball and West Morris street and ge rer. The keynote of the meeting * er. rT erepestion war made to district @ “ty Maver Sbank banged his fist on ade, mring whatever ia to be done

- ‘ oepmplmations and Insti’ at thie morning upc 8 mer shank nere T™ 8 Bara House associat’ moe board of tra hm tion society, Mere Bmetcturers’ assoc! me TW. CAH Be AM association gUrEY PRESIDES @EENERAL MER’ 9. J. Mooner p @pmittee meeting J wey appointed .« and held multe seriont __wcrent rooms. The fom committee is: F. M. Ayres, J. H. Miiky, 8 A Metcher, Louie Hollweg, él imo. The houring committee MN we Waaserne, 1. C. Atkthe, Joseph Mt Mee 132 V. Jonte. C. BE. Grout and rb Llemis. The committee on food fis: £0 mekisg, J. WW. Lilv, Rev. F. 8 C, Waa Redd! M. M. Fuerlicht, Frunk Say, A B. Gates and S. BE. Raub.

NEAL ISSUED TO TEFLR OF CITY. , Be being In session a few minutes Be Baas committee 1asued the following Brel ba the people of the cliy: “% Oe people of Indianapolis: The <iamity that has come upon ‘the city W ¢ thief In phe night Is the ~weatant @a it das ever met. It is O° widmpread distress. Thousan: | are homeless and

eral .& Yrere

to | ae the Domeless Is to be done “right 4

MW #0 regulre immediate ass | “Th emergency is upon us ©

ED GROSS A

Offers $100,000 for Relief of Sufferers—=Mayor Asks Help.

CHICAGO, March 28.—The Chicago Aseo. of Commence, through {its execu: "committee, this afternoon, wired an We of $100,000 for the rellef of flood suf WW to the national Red Cross soclety. Best P. Bicknell, director of the Amer. Bed Cross society, who was en route ® Ne acene of the Omaha disaster, turned when be reached Chicago today and t train en route to Dayton, O, Myer Harrison fssued a proclamation, ald for the stricken districts of A ted Indiana.

age estimated at $2,500,000. MARION, ELWOOD,

flooded cities.

Selote mmunities.

Mported dead and 400 homeless. LIMA—Flooded by Ottawa ZANESVILLE—Muekingum

SUMMARY OF HAVOC WROUGHT BY FLOOD

INDIANA.

PERU—Many reported dead; city cut off from all ald. INDIANAPOLIS—Ten thousand homes

FT. WAYNE—Flooded, all lights gone; water famine threatens. LAFAYETTE, nd NOBLESVILLE partly under water. RICHMOND—Twenty bridges torn down; many persons home-

KOKOMO—Flooded by Wild Cat creek, 1,500 homeless. SHELBYVILLE—City half flooded. LOGANSPORT —Clty isolated; scores of houses washed away. TERRE HAUTE-—Wabash flooding residence section; railroad trafic destroyed; 500 homes inundated.

OHIO. :

MIAMI! RIVER VALLEY—Flooded, Inundating Dayton, Plqua, Y, Sidney, Carrollton, Miamisburg, Hamilton and a dozen smaller

Estimated dead In Dayton, 100 to 300. No definite estimate from

MAD RIVER VALLEY—West Liberty river overflowed, Inundating part of Columbus and many emall

DELAWARE—On the Olentangy river, flooded, twenty-five

(tens; Sixth street bridge swept away.

ess Thousand

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ed in *lomes.Are

J og. of Food wd Water

Bulletin. A 'is believed to be a reliable source reached nis afternoon that Wolf's hall, Nordyke and & 200 refugees, collapsed and that more than

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801 ‘ , ler dhe from Charles Rink, 1145 Reisner street, who ae was ..ar the scene. : Only about 100 of the persons in the hall, he declared, could be rround after the collapse.

has just gone in way, , All that

ure has added to iana. ere seen in flooded .chentic fatailities ree f dollars damage done tt car service. ms, with the waters rom lack of food -

We 1 ier ow Remaining Where the Washington Street Brid

Only one pier of the West Washington street bridge over White river is left stan, ; : large stone and steal girders, weakened by. the terriffic pressure of the flood pouring against une ucvris pura wgainst wiem, wem uowi

PEOPLE LEAP IDEAL 0 0 esTH YU NE

FROM FLAMES ATEST WIRD

\ ATIC : as 1 ire Drives Vie- nL yds tims Into Flood Seek Shelter.

COLUMBUS, O., March 26.—Gov. Ct .

AO THE CHOICE. OF INDIANA FOR HALF A CENTURY

ave beer “s battled , row 10 only a A ock In if starved 3 ary 1 McKim na Jar, wry ker sald that eight other persons were held captives by the flood in an upstairs room, The workers in Silver avenue have their headquarters at Grover street,

anv Waser. or mo ly Man and Hilda : ute’ : at a Vprisoned : > cuers, who, y " dded greatly Sa tradd TER -— ,00L - eds nh NI

Rescue work is progressing slowly because of the swiftness of the watery, en fro a roawboat

The first estimate on which might be based a hint of the fatalities In the flood In West Indianapolis was given this noon by Gen. C. A. Garrard of the Indiana national guard, who stated he thought there were at least 10,000 5 : : set holding, li death away

“The Russell apartments on West Th and people are jumping into the water. "The rear end of the Steele High sc burned down. “About 200 people are dead in River “The loss of life is now growing and of supplies has arrived from Springfiel for those in Riverdale and by way of Ea Zanesville the 'Y’ bridge was dynamiteq

waters. “At Frazeysburg, on Black run, the

above the telegraph poles.”

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ed the

to the irilous ‘ed,

ter. 10 For more than half a century Wash. Berghoff has been a part of Indiana’s history, progressing continuously as the demand for Berg-

hoff's fine beer steadily increased.

When Indiana was young, and the Berghoff Brewing Corporation younger, the Hoosier's choice was Berghoff . . . today, Indiana's choice is still Berghoff with the same zest and flavor that since 1887 has been genuinely appreciated by Indiana’s lovers of finer beer.

ans in n fifty

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property e, and

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Kk FORT WAYNE, INDIANA MARION COUNTY BEVERAGE DIST., INC. RILEY 5395

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IR Te ’ AM MAN } F. nm

ON DRAFT... IN CANS IN BOTTLES UA flood's v after. The streets are raging torrents, The public square at Piqua {3 under nine feet of water. The water is still rising.

and Springfleld flooded.

river.

river flooding city; street, wan told that his wife was not nt | waters began to rise that they had nd

the hall and he turned wearily away toto save little or nothing, and were taken (Continued on» I'sge Six.)

2,000 already proved unanimously. It was signed be] mediately by Mayor Shank and the money

becomes avallnble at once.

‘look for ber at the Pentecost mission,