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1 TWO MUNCIE EVENING PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1965 Twisters Rake Path of Havoc Over 6 States CHICAGO (UPI)-The today in the wake of a smashed through six Midwest Rescue workers groped more victims. The twisters slammed from the dark spring sky Sunday afternoon and Sunday night. They left a trail of tragedy. More than 1,000 persons were injured and property damage ran into untold millions of dollars. Bodies were still being brought out of the shambles today.

Indiana was hardest hit with at least 100 dead in the state's worst disaster record. Ohio caught the tailend of the storm and authorities there counted at least 64 dead. There were 34 dead in Michigan, 7 in Illinois and 3 in Wisconsn for an over all. death count of 208. wae HOMELESS FAMILIES HUNT FOR SHELTERS Two of the hardest-hit areas were west of Toledo, Ohio, where at least 20 persons per-1 and i in a trailer camp at ished, Dunlap, where the same number were killed.

The storm took at least 18 lives at Lebanon, and at least 17 in Lorain Indiana County west of Cleveland. Gov. Roger Branigan declared the stricken area of his state-a broad band stretching from near the Hosier captal to the Michigan line-to be a disaster area. An aerial armada of 18 planes took off at dawn to survey the destruction. Authorities urged rural residents in need of help to lay out white sheets in the form of a cross.

Hospitals throughout the battered areas in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio were filled with injured. Makeshift today morgues were set up in some towns for the dead. Homeless families filled high schools, churches and National Guard armories. The twisters knocked down homes, stores, barns and trees. They left streets in many towns More About: Entire Families Perish death toll soared past 200 barrage of tornadoes that states from Iowa to Ohio.

through mounds of rubble for deep with rubble and debris. National Guardsmen were called out to patrol some areas where there was a possibility of looting. Civil defense workers. policemen and volunteers set up flood lights and sifted, through shattered buildings night long in search of the dead and injured. Indiana reports parts of 40 counties without electrical power because of the storm.

BOATS ARE HURLED ON TOP OF HOUSES The force of the tornadoes wae awesome. One twister rolled back new blacktop road in Michigan as if it were a rug. Another railed 50 cars of freight in Ohio. Boats docked on Erie near Point were on top of houses. Aluminum siding from homes near Gilead, Ohio, was around utility poles.

The twister that through Grand Rapids, swooped came whistling in "like an German 88 shell in World II," one witness said. The nado that picked up the car an Indiana couple- with still in it-felt "something a big hand." A salesman who watched storm bear down on Rapids said simply: "If I to be 100, I'll never forget I don't want to see this again." The outbreak of twisters its place as one of the worst record. The U.S. Weather reau said the most disasterous tornado in history struck souri, Illinois and in 1925 with a loss of 689 Indiana CLUB TO MEET The Muncie Coin and Stamp Club will meet at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the YWCA. Russiaville, a resident said, "The town is gone." The same cluster of twisters moved northeastward into Marion, where it flattened a shopping center and slashed away the roof of one building at the Veterans Administration Hospital.

COTTAGES FLATTENED AT KOONTZ LAKE (Continued From Page One) The tornadoes carved a 140- mile corridor across Central Indiana before moving into Northwest Ohio. The Northern Indiana storm swept on into Michigan. The death dealing cloud touched down in the Lake area northeast of Knox in Northern Indiana about 6 p.m., just as weathermen were issuing a tornado alert. About 100 lakeside cottages were flattened. Cats, were twister tossed whirled into the lake.

the Lapaz area south of South Bend, into, leveling a church only 20 minjutes before a youth group was scheduled to meet. Homes were splintered. A 3-year-old boy was sliced in two by a piece of sheet metal. Two tornadoes lashed Wyatt. Residents of the town of 300 took refuge in a bank vault as the second storm passed.

The same one two punch leveled two residential sections of Dunlap. "It's unbelievable," said one newsman. "From what I could see there was nothing standing at all," said one newsman. Rescue workers were searchthe in the wake of tornado when Dunlap, the second hit half an hour later. One volunteer fireman who had left his home to help returned to find his family killed.

A junior high school in Elkhart was converted into a morgue. Telephone lines through out the Elkhart Goshen area were strewn across the countryside and communications were non-existent. The Midway Trailer Camp between Dunlap and Goshen was a devastated. Mobile homes were stacked on top of each other like crushed paper cartons. At the Midway Truck Stop between Elkhart and Middlebury, authorities dug among the shattered ruins throughout the night to recover mutilated bodies.

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Thirty miles to the north this corridor, still another battery of tornadoes began ripping across the state. It hit a trailer camp south of Lafayette and destroyed homes and farm buildings in the vicinity of Mulberry, Rossville, Moran and Middle Fork without fatalities, then descended upon Howard County. Russiaville virtually vanished. So did the nearby town of Alto, south of Kokomo. Only one wall of a new bank was left standing in Russiaville with the safe protruding from HOLIDAY INN MOTEL AT KOKOMO DESTROYED In three Russiaville churches, congregations huddled in the basements as the buildings were blown away above them.

South of Kokomo, a trailer salesman, Howard Johnson, sighted the approaching, twister. looked elephant's trunk," he said. "I just stood there and stared at it." The Maplecrest apartments in Kokomo were leveled. The tornado ripped the west wall away from the Chrysler transmission factory, The nearby Holiday Inn motel was demolished. Patrons stampeded from the packed motel dining room.

don't know what kept them from being trampled to death," the innkeeper said. Power was knocked out at Howard Community Hospital which was jammed with up to injured persons. Another 100 were taken to St. Joseph Hospital. The twisters slashed at the city of Marion, destroying a crowded supermarket and half dozen other stores in a shopping center.

At the Veterans Administration Hospital, one building was demolished. Dr. Edward R. Bennett, hospital direcsaid about 20 patients were injured. A Marion policeman reported "hail as big as apples" in the midst of the storm.

The Weather Bureau said three separate tornadoes assailed Marion. Estimates of the dead varied from four to eight. Other victims died at nearby Gas City and Upland. The crossroads hamlet of Roll was buffeted as the fatal funnels roared on toward Keystone, soutn of Bluffton. The roof of a Keystone church was ripped away while the congregation was at Sunday night services.

Fatalities were reported at Bluffton and Linngrove, south of Decatur. At Berne, the tornadoes flattened a supermarket, a square foot lumber yard, a restaurant, a furniture store, a pet hospital and a bowling alley. Power was out in Fort Wayne, Elkhart, Marion, Kokomo dozens of smaller cities. Main road lines from Chicago to New were impassable because debris. The National Guard was called out in many counties.

A convoy of troops was sent from Bunker Hill Air Force Base to aid Kokomo. Gas leaks in the Maplecrest area of Kokomo hampered rescue workers. State police sped blood plasma from hospitals in unharmed areas to emergency wards in hard-hit cities. The toll easily surpassed the 74 dead and 375 injured in the state's worst previous disaster, the explosion that ripped the State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Indianapolis minutes before the end of a Halloween ice show i in 1963. WALL TUMBLED DOWN on it during the tornado.

A solid THE wall of A station wagon parked along the west heavy blocks squashed the vehicle. side of the Panorama Shopping Center at -Evening Press Marion Photo by Jerry Burney. was demolished when the wall fell County Gets Equipment. Bids, Plans Bridges By LARRY The Board of County ceived bids on new equipment ment and discussed bridge mer. Plans are to be completed bridge on Petty Road just west with an estimated cost of the summer program, financed fund, is a bridge on county This bridge fell in last week, according to the commissioners.

They said dredging of the ditch caused the bridge supports to and wash away. W. TRUCK BIDS ARE RECEIVED The engineering firm of Butler, Fairman and Seufert Inc. was instructed to prepare plans for a new bridge there and continue plans for two other bridges even though construction may be delayed because of the fall-in. More About: Local Rescue (Continued From Page One) persons were to be brought in from Marion-but only three persons arrived, Mr.

and Mrs. James Ford Sr. and their 2- year-old son. They were treated for cuts and bruises in the emergency room and released. Twenty five off-duty nurses were called in, including surgery and emergency room call teams; about 10 staff physicians all eight interns.

The night duty staff stayed on duty through the early morning hours. All patient charts were evaluated to see how many could be discharged to make room for the injured expected to come from the Marion-Gas City area. Walter Ebert, hospital administrator, said since this was a Sunday night, lowest period of patient occupancy in the hospital during ordinary weeks, 30 beds were available. The hospital felt it could handle about 50 patients with no trouble. Through the night the waited but the injured were cared for in Marion General Hospital or smaller community hospitals and none came to Muncie.

Mrs. Carl M. Schultz, executive director of Muncie area Red Cross, went to Hartford City this morning to check on some residents of Roll who were hospitalized after being injured in the tornado. She was then going to FIELD Commissioners today refor the Highway Departbuilding plans for ths sum- by next week for a new of the Muncie city limits $22,000. A new addition to by the cumulative bridge road 350-N at 400-W.

The other bridges are at 700-N 825-W and at 500-S and 200- Contracts for purchase of the equipment will be awarded next on two dump trucks, four tailgate spreaders and two snow bids were submitted to supa wrecker for the highway department SO it will be readvertised. Bidders on the trucks and are: Cusick-Friend Ford Roll to see what aid the Red Cross could provide there. In Muncie, electricity was off in some areas, caused by blown transformer fuses and in one area, about 13th and Gharkey, when lightning struck an electric line. A blown transformer knocked out lights on only one street in Ernest Pifer, manager of the Indiana and Michigan Electric said of Gaston and the northwest part of Delaware County lost electricity for a period when the tornado struck the company's Deer Creek Station on the southeast corner of Marion. However, by, switching, the company was able to get service to the Gaston area about 10 p.m.

Minor damage to a house (2912, S. Elm struck by light- at ning, was reported by city firemen. Some windows were broken on South Madison and some fences torn up in the Indian Village area at the southeast edge of the city. A house trailer at Johnson Trailer Sales, Ind. 3 and 67, South, was turned over on its top.

This morning the only evidence of the storm were small floods of water in yards, a few tree limbs and television antennas that" and a general air of relief the city was spared. Once scorned by settlers, the abalone, giant mollusk of California's coast, now is considered a delicacy. Repair to Force Shutoff of Water A non-functioning fire hydrant will cause more than 100 Southeast Muncie families to be with- SUBSCRIPTION RATES EVENING PRESS Published every afternoon except Sunday at by High and Muncie Jackson Newspapers, Streets, Muncie. Ind. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Muncie, under the Act of March 3.

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Make checks, money orders or bank drafts payable to the Muncie Evening Press. PHONE 282-5921 Sales, $10,630 (and $10,052 option); Bill Conner Chevrolet, Swartz Ford Sales, and General GMC Truck Sales, $10,423.12. Bids for the spreaders were from Allied Truck Equipment Indianapolis, $2,840 (or $3,164 alternate); and Indiana Equipment Indianapolis, $3,695. The Indiana Equipment firm the only bidder on snow plows with $2,995 for two. In other business, the board heard a complaint about water standing along Wheeling near the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and received the monthly report from Veteran Affairs Officer James W.

Wilson. Wilson reported 550 personal interviews during March and 566 telephone interviews. Martha Patchell, 71, Dies at Hospital Mrs. Martha M. Patchell, 75, W.

Howard, died today at Ball Hospital following an extended illness. A native of Huntington, W.Va., she had lived in Muncie since 1913. During World War II she was employed at the Durham Co. Mrs. Patchell was a member of St.

Lawrence Catholic Church and the Eagles Auxiliary. She is survived by her husband, Roy (Pat) Patchell; a daughter, Mrs. Jean Brumfield, Muncie; two sisters, Mrs. Leona Leaird, Eaton, and Mrs. Sarah Phillips, Muncie, and a brother, James T.

Allie, Muncie. Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Lawrence Church with Rt. Rev.

Msgr. Emil A. Schweier officiating. Burial will be in Elm Ridge Cemetery. Callers will be received at the Piepho Funeral Home from 2 to 5 and from 7 to 9 p.m.

Tuesday. The Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. William Teal Dies At Ball Hospital William Teal, 79, 1921 Clark, died Sunday in Ball Hospital: following an extended illness. was a native of Wheeling, W.Va., and had spent most of his life in the Muncie area. He was a retired employee AcmeLees and was a veteran of World War I.

Survivors include an son, LeonRR 2, Gaston; three children, and five great grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Parson Mortuary with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary after 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

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284-0281 5808 Taylor Road Muncie, Ind. week plows. No ply prices out water for about 30 minutes Tuesday morning, it was announced today by Gene Amlin, manager of the Muncie Water Works Co. The hydrant at 21st and Vine was found to be broken last week during the annual spring flushing of the city's water system. Six streets, a total of 23 blocks, will be affected by the water shutdown that will begin at 8 a.m.

Amlin said the water would be shut off to residents living in the following locations: 21st, from Walnut to Hackley; Mulberry, from 20th to 23rd; Monroe, from 20th to 26th; Vine, from 20th to 26th; Elm, from 20th to 21st, and Pershing, from 21st to 26th. "I am hoping we can restore water service within 30 Amlin said. "It will take us about that long to replace the broken part." a.