Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1949 — Page 2
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i win, 2 At Terre Haute ‘(Continiied From Page One) crashing throughout the park. As the tornado proper centered | upon the park, its accompanying Wiridstonms swirled through the city, brin thunder, ligh So and oa % ¢ igning, % Roads are Blocked The word swept through Iadiana that Terre Haute too had been leveled like Shelburn. Oficjals quickly called out the national guard, auxili lice, Boy Beotits for Aa imi ay. Roads were blocked with slowmoving traffic. i 3 Firemen and policemen were s¢nt by Mayor Ralph E. Tucker to handle relief work in the sec-| tions where the storms struck! hardest, % Nobody knows what happened to the tornado after it rolled out| ma of Terre Haute. There were dozens =. A of reports that it was tearing into! = Indianapolis, Kokomo, Crawfords- | ville, Lafayette, as far east as| Richmond. Quick calls into these towns by newspapers proved these reports false. |g i The Weather Bureau in India-| 1 a napolis issued a storm warning! ? but sald the tornado would / a : fiot ' hit here. It predicted! : Se Gi a hail, winds of 30 to 50 miles an : ; : Ty oe hour, thunderstorms last night, | adr 2 They failed to materialize except, d in some northern sections of the! county. Some thunderstorms may... 4 hit today, the Bureau predicted. ’ Hi ahaa Gi Nathan Francis, 75 Bowling s ; oe Zulia ds Green, was hurt when a chicken | ; Tags i ’ house blew away while he was : a 4 i : San gathering eggs inside, Mrs. Charles Krackenberger talks in a low voice with her husband who cried out in anguish
on none, ee when he learned his father, Burton Krackenberger, 50, was killed in the windblast in Deming Park,
and head when his automobile, lerre Haute.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Victims of Tornado Are Comforted in St. Anthony's Hospital
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SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1849
Tornadoes Rip Into 4 States
| At Least 30 Killed, 250 Others Hurt
,- (Continued From Page One) | Clarksville, about 80 miles north of St. Louis, highway patrolmen | 'said, injuring a number of others ‘and causing heavy damage. i | The same storm damaged Ashiley, Mo, Bowling Green, and
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| Palestine, Ill., near the Indiana
border, killing at least four pers |sons and leaving the town with out lights or water.
‘same storm which later killed
Terre Haute and one at Poland, Houses Flattened Houses were flattened and trees | were down. Illinois patrolmen reported 20 hurt and 150 homes damaged in
{liam Stoneham said he knew of {three persons dead in the town, © land believed a fourth dead listed _ by the highway patrol was from
we it. | Red Cross workers set up quar< ters for 100 homeless persons in the American Legion home,
{the damage the tornado had {wrought that the death toll in Shelburn jumped from one to 15 and finally back to four after ‘demolished homes were searched, |State Police at Putnamville ree
Photos by Victor Peterson, Times Staff Photographer.
{ported 10 to, 15 dead, but later re-
Nurse Ann Moss comforts Charles Kearney in St. Anthony's Hospital. He suffered a broken [vised their death toll downward wrist and injured back when the tornado caught him as he was loading mine timbers. (when rescue efforts were organ-
blew off Ind. 59 into a field] rynnel-shaped storms. also thun-
south of Clay City. Ey : > ) . MH ed + i el | F Eoin men were akon to Cay 3 Bure mon anime os we Je aa OF Indianapolis Firm os at ‘Brazil, | Cook Alrport to report what they 3 + ERP Por Answers Query Abou
Saw Storm Coming Reg. Harvey Transmits Reply fo Muncie
1 Charles Kearney told attend.| The rumors continued through-| ants at St. Ay BA nd! out the night. Lafayette police Housewife; Statement Lauds Program ; By DAN KIDNEY, Times Staff Writer
loading timbers from a truck then checked to find out about “when he saw the storm coming. | report that the tornado had Before he could flee to safety Struck there, sald it hadn't, but the wind had blown him from{had heard it had hit Crawfords-| the truek. ville. ne He is & veteran of the Battle! Crawfordsville police said it Harvey (R.Ind.) with an answer to the question. of the Bulge which he went had not hit there but thought it| through without injury. had struck at Lafayette, | Ing the DiI?" “Now this comes along and I, An airplane pilot reported tol wind up on my back,” he said with the Weather Bureau that a “ter. ®nSWer ‘was in the same mail, disgust. : Considerable property damage 12 miles south by southwest of Nationa
Parke County but there were no|dlapapolis at 7:30 p. m. reports of dead or injured. Many| Minding sheets of rain were buildings were destroyed in the/reported in some spots in northcommunity. Vr ern Marion County. 4 Several hours after the tornado! From the U. 8. weather station] struck Terre Haute there were|at Weir Cook Alrport, observers, chase and install improved: pro-|their own economies. reports that it had whipped saw three funnel-like clotids roat-| ductive “machinery and equiparound and had headed back in-|ing from south.to north across/ment,
to Terre Haute, traveling fromithe western part of Marion efficient : productive techniques— whence it came. These, reports County, They heard a roar like|both {aimed to help the rn were exaggerated. A: high wind that of a flight of jet planes and B ean nations become selfwhipped that city about four hours the sky was {illuminated by a supp ng later, but did ne, damage. weird, red light. : Throughout the evening up. te} No reports of damage in Mar-ithose nation midnight there were reports of|ion County were received, how-!esonomic stren miniature tornadoes y
through the Hoosier countryside. ud Times Photogrrpher Victor Peter- Frond were’ high, Bbove th son raced one as he sped to Terre groun ut were of the X Haute to take pictures. {as the funnels that struck Alrplane pilots reported the burn and Terre Haute.
far beyond pre-war levels.
was likely the tyister BEh goods and services for ducers. | . . Mown needs and obtain enough| “This is as it should be, . .
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