Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1947 — Page 10

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saw the flash as the High Flyer exploded. Some -1500 law enforcement officers patrolled ‘the wrecked town. Thousands of other workérs dug imto debris for the bodies of those still missing. 350 Doctors on Scene { There were 350 doctors on the scene. = Airplanes winged into the disaster area with thousands of pounds of blood plasma and other medical supplies. A Braniff airlines plane

more embalming fluid and more morticians to the town. At least one airplane was blasted from the sky by the explosion aboard the Grand Camp which set off the chain of tragedy, and its two {occupants killed. Today, it was reported that another private plane, also with two aboard, might have gone down into Galveston bay after the blast. Police searched blocked highways for a bus-load of children ‘which left Texas City yesterday and disappeared. Death and injury came in strange ways, A naval lieutenant who had worked through yesterday and into the night told his men: Right Leg Severed’

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FRANKFURT, Germany, April 17 (U. P)~—Gen. Lucius D. Clay, the American commander in Europe, announced today that the army will not allow new arrivals to enter displaced persons camps in the United States zone of Germany

Bulldozer Seeks Victims

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at’ the 30-acre, $19 million Monsanto Chemical Co. plant when The High Flyer blew up without{it was destroyed by yesterday's, warning shortly after 1 a. m. in its blasts, Hundreds of them were still ilies were encouraged to leave. The : water supply was-condemned, ‘Gas was shut off.

Bulldozers pushed through “the

{gory debris along the water front today, searching for victims.

The town was shut off for the Pieces of the ifigh Flyer went a

merely curious. Survivors who had quarter of a mile into the air and no missing members of their fam-

It was the worst disaster since {the French ammunition ship, Mont

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a large section was blown inland. W. H. Sandberg, vice pregident of the Tefas City Terminal Co., said at least one-man was killed and 25 others’ injured in the latest blast, ° Both of the blasts aboard ship early today were seconds apart, The

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Black clouds of smoke covered Blanc, exploded in Halifax harbor first was weak, followed by the sec-

smoke reached as far as the city sons,

the coast of Galveston bay. .The on Dec. 6, 1017, killing 1326 Pe fone which lighted the waterfront

of Galveston, on an island 10 miles! The tanks burned for hours, then away, as day broke on the town of suddenly collapsed, letting the burntwisted . steel girders, smashed and /ing oil boil out into fire pits. The burning oil storage tanks and shells oil burned quickly 'and left the

of office and industrial bulidings. [crumpled tanks looking from a dis

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windows were|tance like someone had wadded up boarded up. ! Venetian blinds in'an empty cigaret pack and thrown homes flapped out of gaping win- it away. Since the war, Texas City has

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after next Sunday. This does not mean, he emphasized, that persons who are persecuted—such as Jews who come in from Poland — will be denied a haven in the. American zone. But they will now have to pay their own way, although exceptions will be made in “certain hardship cases.” The same regulations will become effective in displaced persons camps in Austria on Monday.

“I had better call my wife and tell ther I'm okay.” | {| As he turned to leave the waterfront, the High Flyer wtnt up, and |

Mayor Orders End To Gas Violence

Threatens to Use Entire Police Force (Continued From Page One)

pany were damaged by shotgun fire | and stone throwing.

Threatens Legal Action

Mayor Tyndall said he will take legal action in event of any further.

: demonstrations. |

A temporary injunction against | “mass picketing or illegal interference” already is in effect at the plant. It was issued Monday by! Circuit Judge Lloyd D. Claycombe. | The injunction has been appealed ito the Indiana supreme court by |Lynnville Miles, attdrney for the! union. Meanwhile, new violence and threats were reported to police by {workers who ‘Stayed on the job at the utility and their families. Brick Thrown Through Door Mrs. Beatrice Wheatley, 1853 {Barth ave., told police a brick was {thrown through her front door glass {last night. Mrs. Wheatley said she {was “warned” Tuesday night. Her | husband, Elmer, works at the plant. | | Mrs. Nora Grandison, 1222 st.| Peter st., told police a piece of con | crete was thrown through a front window. Her husband is employed at the ‘utility. A rock was thrown through a window at the home of Emory Grif- |

{ fith, 2152 N. Arsenal ave. police

were told. . Officers were called to the American Bearing Corp. 429 S. Harding | st., to intervene when it was charged that strikers refused to let foremen {enter the plant.

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from flaming tanks of oil. ~ ‘Run for Your Lives Mr. Sandberg, his head bandaged

blast aboard the Grand Camp yes-: terday! was credited with saving scores of lives in the explosion this j morning. “I saw the sparks and I knew what was coming,” the dazed and shaken executive said. He ran down the wharf yelling to 200 workers: “Run for your lives, get behind something.” s Mr. Sandberg and 20 others took refuge behind the 150-foot barge Longhorn II which had been blown ashore yesterday. .

Shattered Struetures

(Ben Kaplan, announcer for radio station KTHT, Houston, was describing the water front scene when the High Flyer blew up. The sound of the explosion was picked {up by the microphone and carried

(dirt, He picked himself up and (said: “This is no place for people with weak nerves.) A Texas City, yesterday the hub of one of the greatest clusters of industrial plants on the teeming gulf coast, was today a place of blood and shattered structures.

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