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I OUT OF CELLAR FHE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS HOME EDITION Partly cloudy tonight with low around 40; tomorrow mostly) sunny with' high near 6o. Tfce Grtof Hoosler Daily Since 7869 "Aere Mt Spirit of th Lord It, Thtrt It Liberty" II Cor. 3-17 38 PAGES MEIrose 8-2411 MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1965 sm. taw Mo! m. 1 mmmmmitm, Details on Page 19 i' I YEAR I 11 TtT 1,000 Hurt; Damage Is High In Millions At least 111 persons, possibly as many as 150, were killed and approximately 1,000 injured last night as three deadly bands of tornadoes rumbled across Indiana.

The toll is expected to rise as rescue work continues. Damage is expected to be in the tens of millions of dollars. A score of cities and towns in 20 counties were lashed by the series of storms that added up to the worst disaster in Indiana's history. Authorities said it will be restored to most of the Ko- several days before an actual komo area today count of the dead is completed. rhe first band of the mur- A total of 97 bodies had been derous tornadoes slashed identified and 14 still were across a five-county Northern Indiana area shortly before unidentified.

nightfall The secQnd and third Twenty persons were re- twisters swirled out of the sky ported dead at Dunlap, south- an hour later and ripped across east of Elkhart. Fifteen more Central Indiana from Mont-were listed as killed at a trail- gomery to Randolph County, er camp between Dunlap and ng died the Goshen. Seven were believed mtpr ftf thpir 1 v- vjf r. 7 CENTS eeliveredby carrier 0 0 a homes 0thers died when autos were tumbled about like weeds and tossed against trees and other objects. Despite the death and destruction, the storms could have been worse.

They missed a i 1 y-populated areas as they hopscotched across rural areas. The Indiana National Guard and state police began an air search of the tornado belts today to determine whether isolated areas have been luvmvu sjjf v. um tn Eighteen usea planes were Ground search parties also were detailed to the stricken areas- National Guardsmen were called outcast night, in the storm areas, In Boone County a series tornadoes ripped from the Montgomery ou ty line wardi Ham'lton Countv- Je swaths varied from less th?" 100 rds to miles- Destroyed were homes, barns- mlles of fences- Power llnes were V1 on instance, a funnel-shaped cloud picked up cattle from a barnyard and left them in a field more than a half mile away. Giant trees were uprooted and blown as far as 1,000 yards. Hundreds of volunteers turned out to help Sheriff James McConnaha with rescue work in Boone County.

They set up roadblocks to prevent looting of damaged homes and used power saws on trees to clear roads. TWO FOUND DEAD IN CAR NEAR SHERIDAN Two more persons were found dead tod jn a car that had blown off of Ind 47 near sheridan. They were identified by state ag Joe, Thomas White, and his wife, Judy, iafavette been reported in or near on map. Th arwi pi Thi NEWS Phrt. Pot Redmond.

Tornado wrecked Panorama Shopping Center at Marion. Tornadoes Scourge a 1 1 i jL Mother Killed By Just Awful Roar dead in the rubble of a truck stop north of Goshen. In Central Indiana, 20 persons were dead in Boone County, four in Hamilton County, at least 12- in Howard County and six in Grant County. WRECKED CARS AND DEBRIS CLUTTER ROADS Highways were littered with debris and lined with crumpled cars. Power was blacked out over a wide area of Central and Northern Indiana.

Hospi- ima, n.c.i wiiiuuia nuwucu with the injured, operated on emergency electrical genera- tors. The Indiana Bell Tele- phone Co. reported 6,500 phones were out in Central Indiana. Some communities were al- most demolished by the storms At Russiaville in Western Howard County, the downtown area was leveled and few houses were left standing. The community of Alto was demol- ished.

Greentown on the op- posite side of the county was heavily damaged. Its a mess, said one wuiivei ai iMissiavuie. Authorities had to take se curity measures to prevent homes and businesses dam- aged by the wind from being lootea. borne areas were sealed off to keep sight-seers and looters out. The Weather Bureau re- ported three tornadoes hit Marion, where the Panorama Shopping Center on Ind.

15 was leveled. The entire com- munity was without electricity starting at 8:11 p.m. when the Deer Creek power station was leveled. Power is not expected to be restored for two or three days Newspapers in Marion could iiui puuiiwi mm wuio auu.uns could not broadcast. Three buildings at Veterans miawesr orares TORNADO DISASTERS OF THE PAST Indiana's worst tornadoes of the past: May 14-15, 1886 43 killed from Anderson to the Ohio line.

March 23, 191745 killed in New Albany. March 28, 1920 At least 40 killed in three tornadoes that hit Jay, Wayne, Randolph and Adams counties. March 18, 192570 killed in Indiana in a series of twisters that also swept Missouri and Illinois, leaving 689 dead altogether. March 26, 194820 killed from Terre Haute to Red-key, 16 of them in Coates-ville. May 21, 194917 killed at Shelburn and Terre Haute.

State Storm Victims Listed By Counties A part list by counties of persons injured fatally in last night's tornadoes: BOONE Boone County authorities reported these residents and motorists killed in the storm: Charles Kincaid, 45. His wife, Gertrude, 42. Their sons, David, 12, and Bryan, 4. Mary Hopkins, 35. Gene Hopkins, 14.

Mary DeAtley, 70. Allen Sauer, 30, Chicago, a motorist on U.S. 52. Clare Alice Caldwell, Dover. James Marcelak, 26, a Chicago policeman who died in his car.

Earl Neal, 77, rural Sheridan. James P. Good, 56. His wife, Orpha Mae, 55, Sheridan. Robert Starrett, 31.

His wife, Betty Starrett, 29. Their children, Bryan, 5, and Brenda, 2. Neal died in Riverview Hospital at Noblesville and Mrs. Caldwell in Culver Hospital at Crawfordsville. HAMILTON Floyd Conoway, 56, Arcadia.

Lawrence Kercheval, 56, Sheridan. His wife, Edwilda, 55. Rosemary Graham, 38, Sheridan. HOWARD Mrs. Charles Shenk, Green-town.

Mrs. Fl Douglas, Greentown. Mrs. Anthony Sheffler, 30, Greentown. Mrs.

Ruby Fleming, 69, Greentown. George C. Green, a Tipton schoolteacher. Josephine Warner, Logans-port. Woodrow Parmon, Elwood.

Ralph Ratliff, Russiaville. His wife, Virginia Ratliff. David Evans, 8, Forest. Tamara Lynn Harvey, 2 weeks, Greentown. Continued on Page 4 NEWS FEATURES Pages Amusements 10 Bridge 21 Business News 28 Comics 14, 15 Crossword Puzzle 38 Dear Abby 21 Editorials 6 Family Features 15 Obituaries 5 Picture Pages 12, 23 Sports 24-26 TV and Radio 17 Want Ads 29-37 Women's Features .20, 21 By RALPH KRAMER Staff Reporter SHERIDAN, Ind.

Ten-year-old Brant Graham remembers it was 8:20 p.m. and he was watching television before going to bed. Seconds later his mother was dead, his little brother was critically hurt and he was lying near his father, Herschell Graham, 38, Sheridan, in the driveway of their home. Brant, huddled in a wheel chair in a hospital hallway, later recalled, "It was just an awful roar." Brant and his father were lucky. They got out of the house a split second before Mrs.

Graham, 38, and young Bryan. "I knew they were behind us," said Graham. He choked with emotion. "The kids were getting ready for bed. I heard the roar and I yelled to head for a crawl space under the house.

Administration Hospital there The tornado that ripped were heavily damaged. At across Howard County first least 20 elderly patients were touched down at Middlefork injured. All were treated at jn Clinton County before jump-the hospital. ing to Russiaville. It then hit Electricity also was off at AUo and the southeast sec Kokomo and Fort Wayne and smaller towns.

Service was Continued on Page 2 I grabbed Brant but I knew we'd never make it." "We got into the garage and then the wind came. I saw the car and the truck get sucked out, and then I just grabbed for anything. I hung on." "They found Rosemary (Mrs. Graham) in the middle of the field, and now they've taken Bryan out of here and I don't know if he's going to make it," Graham said. Bryan remains in critical condition at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.

But he is in better shape than four members of the Robert Starrett family. Starrett, his wife Betty and their youngsters, Bryan, 5, and Brenda, 2, were found dead and partly buried in a cornfield a quarter of a mile and two farm fences from where their house once stood. "It looked like they were caught in a meat grinder," said a red-eyed state trooper. The majority of guardsmen are in the Kokomo-Marion area, Anderson said. The Plymouth and Lebanon units were among the first mobilized and on the scene of the disaster less than 30 minutes after the storm hit.

The guardsmen will continue to patrol, working with local authorities in these areas until Anderson can confer with Gov. Roger D. Branigin. Guard units are operating emergency generators to supply power to Berne and parts of Marion, Anderson said. Maj.

Gen. Noble Slaughter, division commander, will fly over the disaster area to survey the damage on his way back to Fort Wayne. Other Units participating in the search, rescue and patrolling operations include: 1,100 Guardsmen Patrol Stricken Areas International through six Midwest states more bodies were in the Hospitals throughout the battered areas were filled today with i injured. Makeshift morgues Were set up in some towns for the dead. Homeless families fUled high schools, churches and National Guard armories.

The force of the tornadoes was awesome. One twister rolled back a new blacktop road in Michigan as if it were a rug. Another derailed 50 cars of a freight train in Ohio. Boats docked on Lake Erie near Point Place were tossed on top of houses. Aluminum siding from homes near Mount Gilcad, Ohio, was rapped around utility poles.

A state-by-state look at the storm's path: OHIO At least 20 persons were killed in the Toledo area. Five died when a bus was blown over on the Tole-do-to-Detroit Expressway. At Bluffton, ambulances had to wait in a line three or four deep to discharge their passengers. The high winds de. railed about 50 cars of a freight train near Shelby.

MICHIGAN The hardest hit area was in the Cflmstock Park section near Grand Rapids, where the twisters killed at least five persons. The storm's fury was so strong it rolled back a new blacktop road as if it were a carpet An estimated 50 homes were flattened in the area and guardrails on highways were twisted from their concrete posts. At Pearl Beach and Crystal Beach near Coldwater, police said the damage was so extensive an assessment could not be made until daylight: WISCONSIN The tornadoes cut a path through Southwestern Wi i chewing a wide path of property damage and causing at least three deaths when the wild winds blew cars cff the highway. Gov. Warren Knowles, who drove through the tornado area just before the storms hit, declared Green, Rock and Jefferson Counties as disaster areas.

ILLINOIS Twisters tore through the Chicago suburb of Crystal Lake, killing at least five persons. An estimated 120 homes were flattened, and hundreds of persons were treated at hospitals. A force of 500 rescue workers moved into the area to help. IOWA In Iowa, where the barrage of twisters began, there was widespread damage and several persons were injured. Thousands of persons were left without electric power when the winds pulled down electric wires.

Tornadoes Among Worst Of Century United Press Inftrnatlenal The tornadoes which struck the Midwest yesterday rank among the deadliest recorded by the U.S. Weather Bureau since the turn of the century. The worst tornado in U.S. history touched down March 18, 1925, in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 689 persons. Seven years later, March 21, 1932, several tornadoes swept across Alabama and killed 268 persons.

The next worst tornado struck April 5, 1936, when 216 persons were killed at Tupelo, Miss. The next day another twister struck Gainesville, killing 203 On March 21 and 22, 1952, a series of tornadoes killed 208 persons in Arkansas, Missouri and Tennessee. Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas were the victims of a tornado April 9, 1947, which killed 169 persons. By United Preii 'Tornadoes that spun left at least 225 dead. Rescue workers said rubble.

Indiana was hardest hit with at least 111 dead in the state's worst 'disaster on record. Ohio authorities counted at least 61 dead. There were 42 dead in Michigan, 8 in Illinois and 3 in Wisconsin. More than 2,000 persons were injured and property damage ran into millions of dollars. The Weather Bureau said 37 twisters raked the six states.

Two of the, hardest-hit areas were west of Toledo, where at least 20 persons perished, and -in a trailer camp at Dunlap, where the same number were killed. The storm took at least 20 lives at Lebanon, and at least 17 in Lorain County west of Cleveland. BRIDAL PAIR LEAPS INTO MATRIMONY PISA, Italy (AP) Tino Feola, 24, and. his bride Clara, 23. literally plunged into matrimony.

The two are members of a parachutists' club. After their wedding yesterday, they bailed out of a CI 19 Flying Boxcar over a big meadow outside Pisa to start their honeymoon. Wishing them well were 243 fellow chuting enthusiasts from Milan, Bergams and Brescia. A few went up with them and took the leap. Most watched from the ground.

Believing, that a wife should always follow her husband, Tino went down first Clara came right after him. Then they drove off in a car for the rest of the honeymoon. ElMi.rtD I I 1 Dutilap oRilnbow Lake I vtitt, C8hen OJf- BRlLl fsJ) WMITiey JALLCN wmsnl piBT HUNTING Start pin Bluffton aL LLS rOV 1 I-0'30" tLM'm Caaa-M SEt OOSS IHAMILTON I "1 snartaburs; Dover Sheridan feaa-ajaaaaii I I 1 k4 I FHs I lr fa ru- More than 1,100 Indiana National Guardsmen braced for an assault of curiosity seekers tonight in the devastated areas where tornadoes ripped through the Northern half of the state. Adj. Gen.

John S. Anderson, who arrived in Indianapolis from Washington about noon, said guardsmen were patrolling the disaster areas to prevent looting and curiosity seekers from hampering rescue operations. "They have been particularly bad in the Marion and South Bend areas," he said. "Onlookers started arriving shortly after the storm." Seventeen Air National Guard planes are being used to spot survivors and bring aid. "We also have radio equipped jeeps working with the planes in an air-to-ground search for persons still Marion Portland Hmninaten ivtton South lend Elkhart Fronklert Titen Alexandria Kekemt Peru Hartford City Tornado fatalities have Indiana towns shown 1.