Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1949 — Page 1

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FORECAST: Heavy thundershowers today. Highest temperatures, T¢ to 78.

4 Dead At Shelburn, 2 At Terre Haute, In Poland As Tornado Hits Indiana SRE More That 60 inivred

* As Winds Rip Through Towns in Vigo County

Mining-Farm Community Almost Laid Flat; Storm Zig-Zags Northeast Through Indiana

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Path of the Tornado: Missouri, Southern Illinois and Indiana from the vicinity of Sullivan through Shelburn, southeast outskirts of Terre Haute, eventually blowing itself out northeast of Terre Haute, :

Forecast today: Cloudy and windy with possible showers or thunderstorms this morning. Cooler this. afternoon. Partly cloudy and cooler tomorrow.

Four dead at Shelburn, 56 injured and 500 honseless. From the ruins of the little town may come more bodies. : pr : : Two dead at Terre Haute, four [hjured. One dead at Poland, Ind. Two. 74" <g hurt at Clay City. ; : That was the story of the tornado that left another Coatesville in Indiana in its tragedy-strewn wake last night. It was a night of terror for all of Indiana as the tornado and violent thunderstorins rocked sections of the state. In sections that were not struck residents prayed that their kin.n the storm areas had been spared. .

This was the home in the Cherrydale area of Shelburn after the twister ripped through the res Photos by Henry K, Qlesing Jr. Times Staff Photographer. fown. . ‘One- side of this dwelling was sheared off in Shelburn where 500 were left homeless.

x = Fa * Twister By Count Twister pypasses ounty, But Residents Are "Jittery" False Radio Reports Have Tornadoes Striking at Half a Dozen Cities THE WESTERN half of Indiana from Indianapolis to the Iilinois line was jittery last night after first reports of the tornado # which struck Shelburn and the southeastern section of Terre Haute, Reports that tornadoes had struck half a dozen cities, including

Crawfordsville, Lafayette and Greencastle, were flashed over the air, but proved false a few minutes later.

Ope report: from & ny reise ” ; . . » 1 It was a night of horror in radio station said Indianapolisi ~Pebris wes all over the fields : : little Shelburn, a mi ‘had been hit and another report|and streets. Wire were down and om oes ! y d 8 from an Indianapolis station sai ail twisted up and you had to be 7% farming town of 1600 re Kokomo had been hit. caréful whefe you walked or Si dents, 12 miles south of Terre Indianapolis escaped the ‘wind drove. Household goods were scat- : Masta... 7 RET Lodi oy

violence entirely, although north-jter ed everywhere. western sections of the county re- 1 heagd reports about the § ported heavy rain. Twister-like tornado at Sullivan but my uncle, formations roared overhead Rex Truelock, who lives there, across the western portion of said there was no big damage. Marion County but did not strike/ He was worried about me and the ground. called to Shelburn to look me in» up.” TELEPHONE calls swamped 5.5 switchboards at The Times and . INDIANAPOLIS members of Police Headquarters as anxious Travelers Sales Auxiliary of Inrelatives of those in the tornadol/diana were returning from a sales , area asked for casualty lists. convention in Terre Haute just, last night. no» as the, storm struck. rotor sei pr ea ————

~ . One member said just east of I” THE TORNADO was sighted ithe-eity ‘a ‘black fhinnel-shaped as it approached Shelburn’ by Lawrence Baker, 4 farmer who. cloud came down the road from lives two miles north of Shelburn, the direction & Indianapolis, |

: {then veered off to the west just § ' TT: : i a Jarmingunining town of 2000. (700 feet in front of the chartered 200 ime fa S heard the roar,” Mr. Baker oa in which they were riding. |

At Least 30 Killed,

250 Others Hurt witness story, Page 9.

| CHICAGO, May 21 (UP)—Tor-|ripping tornado that whipped out nadoes ripped through cities and of Palestine, Ill, and wg-zagged small towns of northern Missouri, northeast through Indiana. southern Illinois, southwestern| Towns northeast of Palestine Towa and southern Indiana to- apparently escaped disaster until night, killing at least 30 personsithe tornado saw Shelburn in its and injuring an estimated 250 path, ~, others. : | - This time it did not swerve a8

! . » Cape Girardeau, Mo, was re- it had done coming np from Illi 1 # IC oun [ported the hardest hit, inois, It encircled half of the i! | State highway police reported houses which collapsed like piles a . {14 persons killed there. The Red of matchsticks. {Cross said 300 homes in a 17-| Plunged Into Darkness n er in 10 S {block area had been. damaged, | The town was immediately

with some flattened. Unofficial] . estimates said 70 to 125 rsons | Plunged into darkness as powet {| Violence Mounts were injured, or 1G SSIIPHONE ict tilgten m In Rail Strike Swirling across countrysides| Ag in Coatesville, a year ago, pn tenn | OF B10DE city streets, the roaring the ‘noise was as if a thousand World Report, Page $5 {black funnels of wind struck in| express trains were roaring esi |the late afternoon. At one Illinois! through the hamlet.

Half of the residential section

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Harold Stevenson surveys the damage to his home in Shelburn. [Other photos, Page 2.

The Times The Indianapdlis man, who) : : a hat it 11 right|28Ked his name be withheld, said’ Drivers Escape Serious ' I knew what it was all righti;, oq were torn from their roots! ' | and called my wife, Wilma 0/309 hurled across U. 8. 40. He| Injury; 4 Qualify | come out of the house. {said houses and buildings along ————— —w— mn | “It was hailing at the time. the highway collapsed. He -said Photos, Speedway lineup, Page 49; b he be hoppy Jo Te the salesmen helped one family] How they qualified, Page 52 | about a block 3 - Iifrom the ruins of their garage. mv LOUIS ARMSTRONG | Saw that 2 href bo it Shel-| They were uninjured. Earag yoy Louis AR ROY for! urn an um n the car * 2 = | and went right down. | MOTORISTS along the high-|the 500-Mile Race yesterday as “There were at least 30 houses way left their cars and took three accidents marred the third | down, The tornado missed the shelter in ditches when the cloud 92Y of time trials at Indianapolis

{May 22. (UP)— Soviet sector" & restaurant were Killed and groaning,” said Farmer Lawrence Berlin police fired on striking |'D® restaurant was blo AWAY.| Baker who lives outside Shel. : .| Communications were disrupt- burn, ! oman in ort early 10-l.4, wires and poles torn down, | Those who escaped Injury «.]/9ay injuring at least five persons, ang in some areas radio commu- groped through the darkened

business district.” lappeared. U. 8. 40 was blocked Motor Speedway. {as mob violence flared higher in nications were disrupted by sta- | town, lighted only by occasional “I went by Albert Oakes’ house by fallen ‘es. A few thousand spectators at-| the bloody day-old walk-out, tie. forks of lighting, trying to find and they had Mrs. Oakes covered, C. H. Hayes, Terre Haute, said ‘ended the tjflals yesterday which More than 500 others already, The death toll by states was: their loved ones. up with a blanket. {he was forced back from the out-| Were highlighted by- a spin. and |had been hurt, many seriously, INDIANA Tour dead Others prayed. aon» |skirts of Terre Haute in his light Crash on the northwest turn by ’ Y: Arel ! « + » four dead at Over: a. Minutes “THERE MAY be other dead {plane when he saw the tornado! Tommy Hinnershitz driving Walt! {in the strike which has Mied, | elburn; two dend at Terre but at first nobody was reported from an altitude of 2000 feet. He Brown's car, Tommy Mattson's| a 13400 est Berlin rail workers Haute, one dead at Poland. | In less than five minytes ha missing. There may be other per- said he saw debris flying through Crash into the retaining wall of jan : virtually paralyzed train! JLLINOIS—Four dead at Wood storm had rolled out of the , ‘ } 4 the pits and the burning of the traffic in Western Berlin, River, accordind to the state/trict. On its course northeasterly,

sons underneath that wreckage. the air at that height. “At least five were hurt and En route to Terre Haute from they took them to Mary Sherman‘Indianapolis, he turned back and Hospital at Sullivan. {landed at Weir Cook.

| Strikers were fired upon in highway patrol; four dead at Pal-|it flicked angrily at Carlisle, Jitwo separate incidents involving estine, II, 130 miles to the east- | Lewis, Farmersburg, Sullivan, East and West zone German po- ward. {It was impossible for local aus lice, strikers and Conmmunist-led ‘ thorities and state police to deMIS — strikebreakers at disputed elevat- at ISSOURLe14 Seporied dead termine how many were injured ed rallway stations in the Amer- au, Mo.; three dea outside of Shelburn, Terre Hautes

Tom Sarafoff Special while it was being driven by Chet Miller, None of the drivers was injured | seriously. Accidents made it a spectacular

” » . » » . List of Dead and Injured that probigdigibgnlis Beil ican sector. at, Clarkeeilie, socording ho iheland Clay City. The dead: Bert Howard, Rita Ray Haliette, four bought to 34. toe number 1 — a eee ras ot baa!ieEOnd toriadp to sire Indians Burton Krackenberger, 50, RR Margaret Hallette, Elizabeth already qualified “for the 33-car| Ripping out of Palestine, Ili, last night's tornado twisted into | More Hin 200 ancts wake ner ar the Midwest bad within phe past 38 onthe vas 5, Terre Haute. {Wright, Alex Wright, Leo Alex- classic. | Indiana, just missing Sullivan, leveling Shelburn, and through fo !injured ag strikers thwarted Southwest, a total of over 50 Terre Hauls. phe iWister mise

George W. Siner, 53, 1904 8. ander, Mrs. Leo Alexander, Billy, Jackie Holmes was the first persons have lost their lives.|

Sixth St. Terre Haute. |Lee Alexander, Robert Leroy and fastest of the day's quall- Lafayette. It dissipated near Lafayette. {an attempt by Communists and The toll may be two higher when!

11- It chose Deming Park--where |Alexander, Wanda K. Alexander, fiers. He tooled his six-wheeltd| {heavily armed Soviet zone police all missing persons are accounted | undreds of Jicnickers were fis

Sumner, Terre Haute, | : { | — : ig Graves, 49 Shel 108 Mae Alexander, John Henry Pat Clancy Special No. 57 around {to capture Neukoelin station, [for in Ft. Worth, Tex. stricken lori SULAER = Cajvary ona Mrs. Edna rs, 49, |Alexander. the 21; mile oval for four laps * | An unknown number were hurt ?Y floods early in the week. Ite y At Hi nl i burn. Ed Conrad, Linda Conrad, Mrs. at an average speed of 128.087 | Weathermen at Chicago said "> t Highland Lawn the damMrs. May Starkey, 50, Shel- Thomas Peak, Charles Jones, amar | n e iInsiae in an unsuccessful midnight al-l,, ¢ornadoes which ravaged thee Was $150,000. burn. |Della_Rehmel, Charles Hunt, Le- (Continued on Page 49,—Col. 1) tempt by West German strikers yjiqyest tonight, the latest fn, 10 the park, which is on the

Mrs. Ed Owens, 55, Shelburn./ota Hunt, Clem Taylor, Addie SS or ———— -'to wrest the key Wannsee station fy, “wories which have swept|®8st side of Terre Haute, the Bur.

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Mrs, Albert Oakes, 51, Shel-|Giibert, Daniel Starkey, James g from barricaded strikebreakers ocrons the central states, were|l0On Krackenberger and the George bum. er |Starkey, Josie Lydell, i Storm Danger i " and Soviet police. separate storms. ‘Siner families were gathered to Thjured at St. Anthony's Hos- Graves, R. H. Graves. Mihetta li d E d d (General news and features, Pages 1 to 16) Both sides were wielding guns, Hops Mississippi River celebrate the 16th birthday of pital, Terre Haute: |Brooks, Bonnie Brooks, , Kenny Believe nae | : - : pickaxes, fron bars, clubs and One swept the North St. Louis Eva Mae Krackenberger. Chagles Rack, 22. Brooks, Mrs. Frank Brown, The storm which raged across, Counter Spy spotlights start of picnic season at wire whips but only the Commun-leaunty area in Missouri, hopped | Fathers Crushed Fatally Terre Haute, broken and Fro Brown, Clint Woodard, southwestern Indiana last nights Mi % : y ist strikebreakers were reported the ssissippl into the ood w torm shock, condition fair. |Frank Walton, Madeline K. Wal- causing death and Boe i) 500-Mile Race”... Louise: Fletcher's chatty to have actually opened fire, |River, Til, area, and devastatea! Th GE ay he Shor vg pach phates BS amey: Ph rE ton, Sonute Walton. " |had apparently blown itself out| column. . . , News of the week's social activ- Like Revolution Porvona of Wood River andy. berger, Miss Krackenberger aute, broken wris ce Myers, Patty McGarvey, in northern Indiana early this| ; ; : . back, Taify Bobby McGarvey, Gerry Jean morning y ties by by Katy Atkins, ........ eran «+ Page 17 At Neukoelin the strikebreakers| - Another killed three men at ar a art, mon | Max Lucas, 60, Terre Haute, Ray, Delores Carpenter, Mrs. Paul A. Miller, head of Indian-| (Women's news, society, fashions, home-making, Pages 17 to 82) *lorMed the station, held by 200/ (Continued on Page 2—Col. 8) |in which they had driven to the : treated and released. {Paul Carpenter. |apolis Weather Bureau, said there ot : . : strikers, ~ captured it after a re park. and drove back towards Kenneth Stel, 15, rere Haute | was little liklihood of further Television comes to Indianapolis. EE .o Pages 36-48 bloody battle and then lost it to Ti F f Terre Haute, / treated for shock and released. WwW . - damage although moderately a counter-attack after they ran In Clay County Hospital: | ant a W eek End OE 8 Jous Ny ey (Editorials, politics, world report, Our Fair City, Pages 34 to 35) out of ammunition. imes edlvies ty Biner, My, Neathouhergut Nathan Francis, 75, Clay City. | As Erameh Lick? (continue throughout the day. Speedway news and pictures. ............ Caves Page 49 Witnesses sald the battle Coming of TV to shelter of some cement blocks Frank Simmons, 60, Terre : hs ! ‘Showers or thunder storms! | “looked like a revolution.” ®T.D 1 i near a park building but wers Haute, crushed chest and head. | OLike a honeymoon were expected this morning in (Sports, Pages 49 to 52; business page, Page 53; | Savage righting had been going “Day In Indianapolis, ! struck down by a large tree up Injured Shelburn _residents| week-end at the French Central Indiana and cooler wea- movies, Pages 54-55; classified advertising, Pages 56 to 63) ion all day in Berlin's rail termi- ® It means that televi- rooted in the storm. taken -to Mary Sherman Hos-!| Lick Springs Hotel at ther was forecast for this after- LE 2 TR Rha nals, elevated railroad stations sion is nearly Were in the | The fathers were crushed ital, Sullivan: | noon and tomorrow. . and in the streets. Hoosier capital. fatally. Pp Thomas Bowen, Theresa Kad Preneh Lick, 104? All MARES ERGY VOYAGE Other Features on Inside Pages 2 sn At 8choenberg Communist ® Television news in In- of Sumner of Terre Haute - | : 1 ~ ’ i» —-—— h . in em———— | a ne ae Srusblood, WASHINGTON, May 22 (UP) Amuse. ..54,55 Crossword ..55 Dan Kidney .34 Records .....16 firikebreakers and their Bast dianapolis ls NEWS to- led In Clay County Hospital of blood, Mrs. yle '| ® Then write a letter to y . . zone police were loaded on trucks injuries he received when struck Damon Trueblood, Joseph True-| The Times shout your | Sunday) The Navy tonight Eddie Am x8 Eahorialy xl Jes. Manners 4 Ruark ......13 and taken away from the area day because everybody is by flying debris at his summer , blood, Ted Trueblood, Ida Hauger,| successful marriage. ordered its aircraft carrier Phil- Beauty ...... ashions ....21 Movies ...54, 55 Schools .....11 amid jeers cat-calls. and hisses . interested in it, camp near Poland. ey. Mrs. Bob Moc-| . ippine Bea to “proceed at high Bridge ......32 Food .......28 Needlework .20 Sports ...49-52 2™! Hin 1 ¢ : DN tr Tincher, Ms. Opha/ @ Details of The Times' speed” to a rendezvous with the Business ....53 Forum ...... 34| Othman ....,13 Teen Prob, ..24, oh A Crowd of 1000 bystanders. ® Everything about tele- | A Shoup of Browils Scouts and * Tincher, Charles Wiggins, Mrs. happy marriage contest transport 88 Marine Flasher to Cap. Capers .25 Gardening 2627 Parliam.Law 23 Trave: ......31 G0 of back to your Russian vislon's impending. ar- feUStal chUvCh groups Wet gh Charles Wiggine. will be found on Page 1 deliver a rare blood type for a Churches ....14 Hollywood ..54! Pattern .....20 Earl Wison .55 TASIers.~ ihe crowd yelled. i ¥ival is 101d in the feature 10%} huge; 01d trees and seit them Art Weaver, Mrs. Art Weaver, of the Women's Section critically {ll patient on board the Classified .56-63 Home Dec. ..20 Politics .....35 Women's .17-32 charier's Jotaunant 14 EF Ohle Yor! section of today's Times. | uge; Ballie Magoter, today, : |transport. (Counter py .17 Laside Indpls. 13, RadIO +svseve+8, World Report 35 Noor Lusthse: 11/00 or Ki. bo 3:56 F) 3. ® Turn to Page 36, | (Continued om Page 1~0al. 1 > # s 4 ’ d i i. 1 : | d : } 7 J | ("Ho

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