Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1943 — Page 2
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MANY TRAPPED
~ BY THE WABASH
“West Terre Haute Under Five Feet of Water; River Rising. (Continued from Page One)
today with in swollen
waters reached five "additional drownings Streams and rivers. Lafayette was cut off from three gides by water that reached three miles wide in some places.
An estimated 15,000 cubic feet of
. water per second poured through
the Monticello dam and volunteers were trying to reinforce it with sandbags.
River Bed Blasted
The river bed of the Wabash at New armony was dynamited this morning to keep the river from changing its course into the city. The blast periled a $1,000,000 bridge Just west of the city. The weather bureau raised estimates on possible crests all along the Wabash valley.
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Yesterday, the crest Haute was expected to reach
““ feet by tonight, but it was revised |
up to 30 feet, only one foot below! the 1913 all-time record. i Predictions of additional rain! might send the river over the 1913
_ disaster levels.
~ Wayne area
More than 300 families were res-| gued irom their home in the Ft. where the Maumee! river has been on a rampage since early vesterday and was still rising today. Civilian defense and police volun-
= teers were maintaining constant pa-|
- trols along the Maumee, St. Joe and! Bt. Marys in Allen county where jevees were reported weakening. War Plants Closed War plants in half a dozen cities glong the Wabash were reporied elosed down “until further notice.”
Conditions at Marion and KokocMo were reported eased somewhat today on the smaller streams which yesterday drove thousands from their homes in both cities. Conditions at Peru became worse
beware of fires because there will be no
The Indianapolis Gas Company warned all its patrons to turn off all burners as soon as the gas goes off. The water is expected to
reach the compressors at any minute an White river, Fall creek, Big and run and Pogue's run have broken out
dating the adjacent lowlands, driving people from their
causing immense property losses.
CAR SERVICE HALTED THROUGHOUT THE CITY
Fear on the part of thi officials of the street car company that the pewer house would be inundated became a reality at 11:30 a. m. today whea all ower wat killed and the cars throughout the city were stepped. J. J. Mahoney, superintendent of the car company, said he could Find eut Tittle concerning the situation, but the company was at the mercy of the elements. aot estimate as to how long service would be discontinued. The company has had its entire Torce working throughout the might en deavoring to get its different lines inte shape, but the battie was hopeless in many cases. The water swept through the streets, finally reaching the meters of the cars and thea calls for rescuing crews began to. pour inte the offices
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of the company.
WATER CREEPS OVER CAR BARNS' FLOOR The tar barns in West Washington street sent out the hel) signal early ne morning. Fear wat expressed that the water weuld cover the feors e house. At about § a. m. the water crept in from the merth.
A rescuing crew hurried to get the cars as Yast te
ev ous to the time when the entire pi s were running only to the river the vet’ the Northwestern line to Fall creek srndoned entirely 2s had alse the Ri the cars were operating.
\ hich were out of service throughout the night had been re- |
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during the night and soldiers from] Ft. Harrison and naval cadets from the Bunker Hill naval air station gwarmed through the area aiding refugees. | At Logansport where the Eel river empties into the Wabash, water had, risen two feet during the night} deluging areas several miles wide including large areas of city streets. | There was four feet of water in| the railroad station near the center of Logansport this morning and) most of the Pennsylvania tracks were inundated.
Three More Drown
In addition to two and Monday, three more were reported dead today. Betty Cole, 13-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs: |
Harry Cole, of Clinton, drowned in
VOL. XXV. NO. 318.
ARS DEAD: GAS PLANT FLOODED; SCHOOLS CLOSE
ack of Water Pressure Raises Specter of Disastrous Fire; Chief Issues
service paralyzed, the public schools closed, the water company in imminent danger of a shut down and the Indianapolis Gas Company on the verge of being put out of commission, Indianapolis faces the
Fire Chief Coots issued a warning to the people this morning to
as possible afl But ten cars were hurried te the Louisiana barns. n cars were Teft in the barns at the mercy of the furious waters, The of the company at the barns were Tocked after the records had been
river and the West Michigan Tine te Agnes street. AN south |
ndianapolis Now Facing Worst Flood Situation in Its His
INDIANAPOLIS HOME EDITION—_TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1913.
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d shut off the gas. Little Eagle creeks, Pleasant| of their banks and are inunir homes snd
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Sea of Mud.
out of the barnes and after werk.
ower was shut off, the Bismarck Fair grounds tine te Forty-third | i the West Washington line had |
versifie Vine; the Blake fine was | parsistant but unconfirmed
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Scenes in Indianapolis’ Inundated District,
OVER LEVEES INTO YTON
Flood Sweeps Into Be tion of City Before Peo-
Standing Above Great
REPORT 1,600 PERISHED Sixteen hundred people perished by the breaking of the Miami river tevee near Dayton according to a
Verification has net been obtained
betause of Interrupted wire com. munication with the stricken dis | trict.
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» SIN BOAT AND WAGON ON WEST NEW YORK STREET TAKING FAMILY FROM INUNDATED Pern, RS ACROSS WEST MICHIGAN STREET, THIZ DRIVER CHARGED PERSONS FIVE CENTS FoR BALLING THEN ACROSS THE FLOODED DISTRICT AND PUT IN A PROFITABLE DAV. LOWER PICTURES, LEFT TO RIGHT -WEST NEW YORK STREET FLODDED Dig)
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Today's flood headlines find a close parallel in the newspaper accounts of the 1913 flood waters which raged throughout the state, creating the worst disaster in its history. A portion of the front page of the March 25, 1913, edition of The Evening Sun, which later became The Times, gives a graphic accpunt of the flood peril in Indianapolis and other parts of the state. John Worley, now foreman of The Times engraving department, made the photo engravings 30 years ago, while Herbert J. Blatz, assistant foreman of the composing room, made up the page reproduced
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Tornado
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families were forced to flee their |
in Franklin county completely washed away.
from all outside aid;
Ushered in F
lood Disaster of 1913; 10,000 Homes Flooded, Loss $10,000,000
charged a rescue fee of 10 cents rocketed be turned in. Some grocers
per person. | A blinding snowstorm and drop!
\ PErsons homes before the onrushing waters. i, temperature added to the suffer-| drowned in flood waters yesterday| Brookville and several smaller towns| jo on Wednesday, March 26, as the| without its humorous incidents. were almost) aoog waters continued to rise. Sev- Mayor Shank and two police ser[eral hundred Indianapolis refugees geants took a sight-seeing tour of Peru and Logansport Finn = off crowded hospital wards, Tomlinson the flooded area in a rowboat, and ) { kena + ood Ft. hall, the Salvation Army, churches while Hi Wg i Wayne was threatened with a water and the Y. W. C. A. i a wy famine; people perched on their] ‘The collapse of the W. Washing-| boat. Eventually an n the Embarrass river, and Robert | tone in parts of Terre Haute; |{ tbr t off all le d re th ed E Bohlinger, 17, Was reported to Setops in ‘{ton st. bridge cut off all com-| was secured to remove the strand 20 bridges were down in Richmond; munication with West Indianapolis; officials.
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have drowned in the White river .,.4 parts of Kokomo, Marion, El-|where thousands were maroon ed.
at Muncie.
pected within the next two or three] gpe 50-mile-an-hour gale which /the Belt railroad and the section mud over the once-tidy lawns andy the other was a forerunner of the 1913 flood called the “Hill,” about one mile neat homes. y : The Wabash was reported sta- hit Indianapolis on Friday, March west of the river, was under eight refugees started wending their way following Monday a to 10 feet of water which reached homeward, reconstruction
days.
tionary at Bluffton and Hunting-
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| Lightning fighters bombed docks {and shipping at Trapani in Sieily, | blowing up one ship and plastering land objectives with explosives. A strong force of medium bomblers struck out from African bases! lat Pantelleria, between Tunisia and Sicily, hitting two small ships and leaving fires in the dock area and! at an airdrome,
Ruhr Riots Reported
The heaviest allied blow of the week-long offensive was the royal air force blasting of three big dams in the Ruhr area. i
ALLIED PLANES CONTINUE RAIDS
‘R. A. F. Makes Sweep Over France; Russ-Nazi
Armies Massed. (Continued from Page One)
were selling milk at 25 cents a pint and bread at 25 cents a loaf. However, the disaster was not
visiting the Nordyke &
Marmon Co. someone stole their . .] automobile | Communications in the occupied
| territory of western Europe. |ing flood said it had spread devas-! | Meanwhile, Russian and German tation on a wholesale scale through s ‘armies massed in key sectors of the|rich industrial regions, flooding, By Saturday, March 29, the sub-/,,,,s soviet front traded punches more than 50 towns and villages. |
wood, Lafayette, Rushville, Muncie The entire western part of town siding flood waters left a two-inch boveh The crest of the flood Was ex-|and Noblesville Were under water. | ) y 1 | which each side insisted were feelers The Algiers radio said the flood | e |between Washington st., the river, coating of yellow ooze and river|,.cjiminary to major offensive blows peril and fear of further air attacks
21. The
had touched off disorders at Puig burg and Muelheim. . Campaign Recalled Swiss sources received reports that! It was in May last year that cam- | Italian naval cadets at the Leghorn
As the thousands of
began
ton and the rise was slackening be- tornado swept through the Middle- the second floor of many homes. |immediately. And “Ol' Man River” | oigning in Russia burst into full academy, the “Annapolis” of Italy
Jow there at many points.
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Potatoes Found
In Barber Shop
NEW YORK, May 18 (U. P).— Numerous city officials including
Mayor P. H. La Guardia, the OPA | and even the selective service be- |
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came interested today in the dis- |
covery of 18000 pounds of potatoes in a barber shop.
The potatoes, which have be- |
gome a rarity in New York were impounded and police were questioning Benjamin Caplan, Philadelphia, whom they was the owner. La Guardia personally took charge of the case shortly after they were brought in by truck from upstate New York.
ROBERT PAGE RITES T0 BE MELD FRIDAY
Funeral services for Robert Pa who died yesterday at his home, 2132 Boulevard pl. will be held at
said
10 a. m. Friday at the St. Rita’ Thirty-five hundred families were set at $10.000,000-
Catholic church.
Mr. Page lived here most of his fife and was an active worker in geventh ward Democratic circles
ber of St. Rita's church.
Survivors are two daughters, Mrs.
Amos Perry and Mrs. George Woodson; a son, Robert Page Jr: f grandson, Robert Page III, and a sister, all of Indianapolis.
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west, leaving death and destruction | the
in its wake. Heavy rain§ in vicinity of Indianapolis started Big
Eagle creek on its rise, and by Mon- |
day evening families had started to
leave their homes in the adjacent,
lowlands.
Helplessly Watched Devastation
By Tuesday, March 25 White river, Fall creek, Big and Little Eagle creeks, and Pleasant and Pogue's run were over their banks. Breaks began to appear in the inadequate levees along White river and Fall creek and the normal half-
mile course of Big Eagle creek was)
transformed to a mile in width in some parts. Broad Ripple was flooded and White river backed up from Washington st. through the bottoms to Michigan st. over a mile-wide area, surrounding and forcing muddy water through the windows of 500 homes. | The Evening Sun, predecessor of The Times, reported that “weeping women and children stood along the banks of Big Eagle, helplessly
ge. Watching the destruction of their]
homes.” Snow Added Suffering
driven from their homes on this first day. Streetcar service was paralyzed, public schools closed and water and gas supplies cut off. | The rescue work
moving vans, auto trucks and boats, J -
Seek Farm Job
The Kentucky ave. levee gave way in several places, and the Indian-| 'apolis and Vincennes railroad] bridge over Eagle creek at Ken-' tucky ave. and the Kingan bridge went down.
Cut Off From World
| Indianapolis was cut off from the outside world. Capitol ave. was {the only street open all the way north since Fall creek covered Meridian and Illinois sts. several {blocks below the Fall creek bridge, land the Northwestern ave. bridge was out of commission. | On Thursday, March 27, the flood was receding three inches an hour. 'But this, too, brought its complica- | tions as numerous cases of looting |of empty homes were reported. Or- | ders were issued to shoot the thieves ron sight. { A blizzard and extremely cold weather brought more discomfort to [the refugees. Flood relief dontributions in Indianapolis totaled $48000 and theaters were giving benefit matinees daily,
25 te 50 Deaths
Deaths were estimated at between 125 and 50, and the property loss was
| As looting continued. West side) citizens asked for a declaration of martial law. | Governor Ralston ordered all
took on a saloons west of White river closed for practically all meat classificaue : y classifica and the Elks lodge. He wasamem- ,. 0 jote when operators of and demanded that the names of tions to be announced soon probe
grocers whose food prices had sky-
s for Italian
War Prisoners at Atterbury
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| employers, besides transportation to jand from the internment camp. | The employer also is expected to | provide toilet facilities and drinking | water approved by the state board of health. Work must be supervised by the employer or his representative, and no dangerous work is allowed. | A 10-hour working day is the | maximum, including time to and from the camp. Hours will be from ‘TamtoSp m | At the conference, it was decided that prisoners of war should be used only to meet demands which cannot
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be filled by civilian labor. Announcements will be made later on wages. Attending the meeting were: Melvin Flock, Nashville, Brown county; A. V. Keesling, Columbus, Bartholomew county; S. B. Scott, agent, and Loren E. Bills, assistant agent,’ Franklin, Johnson county; William! Records, Martinsville, Morgan county; and Dwight Brinson, Shel-| byville, Shelby county, and LeRoy E. Hoffman, associate director, Ag-| ricultural Extension Service, Purdue university. HINELESS MANENT
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settled back in his bed, not to rise; : ; Vine . 1 jith Fas to such heights again until 1943 |fUIY, carrying the Germans to/$*Shed Wh J Hr embers . |Stelivere Sud Se A Dy ver) | ther fealty to King Victor Emman- | ' westward almost to the eper. All yel and ignoring Premier Mussolini. On the War Fronts | | By UNITED PRESS
signs were that this May again! ioe (May 19, 1943)
| —— would bring major fighting. ‘GUILTY OF MURDER The Russians reported that they . ’ alk Wal: Allied i offend {had smashed 49 German defense | AND ‘THAT'S THAT : offensive : ° positions on the front below Leninrounds out full week of non-stop grad. the major Soviet prize on SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 19 attacks on Europe with long range in closest range of the Nazi grasp. (U. P.).—Robert J. Loftus, 44, RockBritich fighters hitting German) ppoqcow also said the Soviets had ford, Ill, faced a mandatory death CO Bae ten | encircled and destroyed an im- sentence after a St. Joseph cirguit p ¢ Trapani nd Pantelieria IPC nt concentration of German court jury found him guilty of the! base ; tanks and trucks in an unspecified gest.degree murder of William Ten
Mi: sector. {nell, bank clerk. ALEUTIANS: American forces pre-| As the armies jabbed back and pare for decisive assault on main|forth from Leningrad to the yesterday before returning its ver-| Japanese concentrations at Attu. | Caucasus the Nazis said the Red dict. Loftus calmly listened to the army was massing in three vital verdict and commented, “Well, that’s RUSSIA—Red army attacking on |regions—Leningrad, Orel at the that.” | Leningrad, Ukraine and Caucasus| junction of the central and south- | Judge Dan Pyle said he would fronts as both Moscow and Berlin fern fronts, and in the northwest pronounce sentence Monday predict major offcnsives at any Caucasus—for full scale ocensives. morning. WIRE; Report Seviet Attacks
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Allies raid] A German communique reported | | Japanese base at Gasmata, New strong Soviet attacks against the, Lightning struck the home of Max, Britain, for seventh straight day Kuban bridgehead in the Caucasus H. Berndt, 437 N. Dearborn st, this and hit other enemy concentra- and in the Izyum area southeast of morning. Damage was estimated at| tions in island fringe north of Kharkov. The Germans counter- $30 by firemen. Part of the front Australia; Japanese attack Wau attacked, it said, without indicating gable of the home was torn out and airffirome. the trend of the fighting. | the electric system put out of comFlying Fortresses escorted by mission.
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LIGHTNING DAMAGES HOME
MEAT POINTS TO BE CHANGED WASHINGTON, May 18 (U.P). —Rationing officials said today that substantial changes in point values
ably will be maintained for the most part through the summer
TIRE SUPPLY DWINDLES In 1943, it is estimated there will be only five-eights as many tires, including recaps, available for autos as the normal demand for new tires. y
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