The Indiana Gazette from Indiana, Pennsylvania • 3

AtedfeewAhw -f "4 ft -tM 'z INDIANA EVENING GAZETTE SATURDAY JUNE 24 1944 THREE The Elmer Short Barn Did Not Escape the Storm -v am a The Clair Mabon Home North of Indiana This picture ehowe the house of Clair Mabon on Ko ute 119 about six miles north of Indiana Th outside of the house does not look to be so badly damaged but ev ery thing inside was destroyed The barn of Elmer Short which stood just gcrosa th road from the Homer Dick place did not escape the fury of the storm as this picture will testify Two pigs were electrocuted in the burn The Clair Mabon Barn After The Storm hfyH' a is1 Methodist Choir Entertained At DeGaetano Farm Yerla Garrettson Thomas Hushes Honored Kira Work was a patient In the near Shiimaton said they had re-Columbia Hospital She will be a I ports of bodies alone the mads wheel-chair patient for some ttme Upon ordera of Gov Matthew but her friends hope for a speedy recovery Her address is: New Con cord Ohio Neely four compenlea of West Virginia state Guardsmen went into the devastated area Power waa aupplted to the Stricken section by emergency ser- 'vice from Parkersburg but nearby S- vjry generous with their JtrrwhiTmrri tourtb term and have each summer en- hum uu- near future A shower was tendered iterteined many organizations Loot 7J Htur mg sJnT them and the couple received I nlsht the Method bt Usher numerous beautiful gifts tion was entertained at the cabin inoiana largest city had no power until well Corridors of one of Clslksburgs hospitals were filled with lnjurad sent there after emergency TORNADO Community Canning Center At Homer City Meeting Called For June 26th At 8 Much Interest Is being developed class which met last winter at the among local gardeners and from 'high school is interested for the Tto tek advmtte of winn food muy bo conned ind njjg onDOrtunlty preserved Modern equipment will I be provided and adequate help! A meeting la called tor Monday Continued from page one from the outskirts of Pittsburgh more than MO miles into Wait Virginia Authorities feared the list of dead would increase as rsssusrs battled! their way through the wreckage and searched toe hills and hollows of West Virginia At dawn 10 hours after a funnel-shaped cloud descended first on Pennsylvania and then its neighboring state rescue squads redoubled their efforts to locate bodies: Every hour brought reports of death and deatruction in new see-' lions of West Virginia The death toll there rose steadily this morning from to 10 victims In Pennsylvania 11 were reported dead in rural areas from McKeesport near Pittsburgh to the state -line near Whyntjburg- Pittsburgh Itself -ems given to provide wholesome canned foods Peas com tomatoes fruits etc may be brought to the center by the family and taken home as a finished product properly preserved in tin or glass containers Many communities have operated community canneries very success fully at practically no cost to the right array Farm families aiqieeial-local people ly are Invited to come tp the meet- The Homer City adult gardening 'lng Monday evening Soil Birthday Party For evening June II at the agriculture room in the middle building of the high school at I Miss Jaau Patterson supervisor of Home Economics of Indie no County will be Further plana will be worked out may begin treatment it Shimulan Scone also were sent to Ihirmont 19 miles north An emergency aid station was the Bhlnneton Methodist Church A survey In West Virginia showed more than a score sf persona reported missing and indicated toe death list might eaetsd DM in the mountain slate alone Hsporta wore slow coming in from isolated communities paralyzed by failure of facilities and with highway arteries clogged with trees and debris The stem apparently hit hardest at Shbmetan which reported 9g deed In addition West Virginia thie morning reported eight kilted at Prowact Valley eight at Simpson nine in Barbour County munttieg torn in Rudolph County and five victims who died in a hospital at Clarksburg alter being brought In from too stem ana a few miles away The atom mimed toe mere populous places striking milter eom-munlUm and form and coal mine MIMH1UHB8IH1 H'CUP ton of Harrison County Va returning home after an outing at a take last evening heard hie smell son cell to him en the approach of the stem: there's a tornado' Upton amazed told hie son That couldn't be in Vast Virginia them it wan long funnel over the hills several mites from he mid taler Beeching Shlnniten shortly after thl stem Upton sold: cut path possibly quarter milt wide leveling all the houses It touched and threw some of them Into too Weat Fork river Thera were reports of ora house In the stream with seven bodies In It Msny of the bodies recovered The bam of Clair Mitbon wai destroyed The pict ure ehowe 11 that ie left of the structure blown onto telephone end electric wires 11 along th high way mosk -ftoe-Xasia e-red for Hg injuries to hands jutiyAnn Getty The James Hadden Home On Punxsutawney Road Hundreds were made hemekei as whole blocks in aome eonununlttea were leveled Hospitals wire Kited with tot injured Wont hit apparently was Bhldna-ton cool town of IgOO a dozen miles from Clarksburg Vs A Rod Cross represented vs reported 00 bodice hid bean reesvered from toot vicinity The representative Mrs Lola Heavner mid possibly a hundred persons still were unaccounted for Cbptain Dorsey Ballsy of thd West Virginia State Police said: "We are certain to find mom Nsllef work was reported In good Judy Ann daughter of 'Seaman and Mrs James Getty of Aultman celebrated her fifth birthday with a lawn party June 19 The afternoon was spent playing game followed by a delicious lunch Judy Ann received many lovely I gifts Hsr little friends all Jotnad I in wishing her many more happy birthdays Out of town guests Included i cousins Bobby Nancy and Lois Jceon children of Private and Mia I Norman Coy of the 8 and Mrs Cornell Gallo all of Indiana: Patty and Arlene Getty Laura Ann and Mary Loa Chnra Shirley Gates Jitnalce Taylor Leroy Craig Billy Bertlebaugh Mary Jana Henderson Mary Jane and Tommy Fancelte Patly Jean NM Sandra and Betty Lou Ball Hubert Machok Harry Williams Nancy Bcdjtck Buddy Windows Mary and Donna Maria Runyan and Kathy Hallman AULTMAN 4-H The Aultman 4-H Stitch Awhile Club held at meeting Wednesday June II at I o'clock a In the home ofVerdesn Marcum's grandparents The work period was devoted to the suing of patterns After the mealing games warn ployed and refreshments served The next meeting will be held in the home of Jaenette and Nathalie Mikssell at 1:30 Hospitals ell over West Virginia sent bleed plasms to Bhinnston and Tm fra id there era it least go dead in toe area around Bhlnneton saw 14 dead at Clarksville We carried them Into too Union Hall There wen more than M0 Hospitals presented tragic scents one ollntinent woo flown to too city from Charleston too capitoL The Red Cram sent disaster teller crews Into the areas with btearl plasma medical supplies food end cote for toe Injured end home leas Civilian defer organizations end military police and army medical arootT' conmunlts from Pltbburah ond? other cltlee worked ride by side u1 i M-i i i pie wy en wo floor eomo sot up end others Just leaned against the walls but nearly everybody hod The devastation tsrrlfle ana dan Trees in IndianaL The bam was completely destroyed badly Striking St nightfall the torn trap: ped msny fsmiliss in their homes Through the night nscuo workers Rcu wo urtBr dug by toe light of flashlight end torch to extricate tie dead and Injured from the ruins 1 The atom tree descrlbrd by A Johnson of McKeesport whirlwind drape" that came roaring across toe city then leaped too Youghlogheny Rivor and traveled south "I raw it least a dozen houaea blown right off their foundaHona'' i Johnson said It was estimated el least 100 homes in the McKeesport I area were demolished completely end hundreds more were unrooted control There are two National Guard outfits the Red Cross Civilian Defense end State Police on th Job Tragedy paid Its test cell it the home sf Stephen Bernlsh In Chir-tlors Pa Banish was killed in the mine explosion here a couple areeka ago end last night hie widow and two children died in the storm At Versailles Borough Ps- a woman reported that SUM in currency whieh she had withdrawn from bank yesterday blew Into the air stong with wreckage of her heme Bescue workers The home of James Hadden on the Punxsutawney The roof was blown off the house and much damage don inside front of the house were uprooted Home From Hosptial Mrs Ernest Work who fell some time ago and fractured her hip was able to be benight to her home in New Concord fl400 end gave It triered about The Harry Stonebraker Barn On the Clymer Road COLD PERMANENT WAVE Our wonderful new Culd Permanent waves your hair as nature meant it to bo If you want to kwh like Natural Bom Curlyhead and want to relax luxuriously while having your Cold Permanent Wave we suggest you make your appointment noWc SlfcOO SB ioo ss We Use Soft Water for Sheaseoemg ALL WAVES GUARANTEED BETTY BEAUTY SHOP IS Indians Theatre BMg Over 14 Team la Indians or damaged West Virginians described the ukj funnel-shaped cloud At Wayneaburc Fa- surgeons Kansas twister" Don Fatter Mon- I worked in an emergency hospital ongahelo Vs- power company by flashlight to seas the pain end man seer sold: suffering of victims in too darkened "It ns a regular KsAsss twlrier dtp AU electric power eras riiut funnel-shaped with limbs and sticks 1 gown there test night floating around in Its middle It was Q)enn Arnold who was driving a greasy green color and logy look-' an mad near Clsrkavllle Pm re-Ing The Uma was Ml That 1 ported: was verified later because a lot of By ambulance commandeered clocks stepped at that ears end trucks the injured come to Hardest hit Pennsylvania com- 'hospitals in too area munitlss outside of the Pittsburgh Several departments of one Metres were the mining towns nf Keesport Pa war plant were to-Clarksville and Charters In Greene 'ported flooded and ware closed County approximately 4 miles As toe search for mere deed went smith of here on today at Bhinnston West Vir- Virtuelly every house In Chert-1 ginie State Police rant! In said: ten visited only two weeks ego by ere certain to find more a mine explosion end fin that kilted bodies" six men wee leveled There were Rescue crew found their way to eight known dead there and be-injured at Bhinnston during the tween 40 end 90 Homes destroyed night by listening to screams and "The destruction In Charters Is i erics almost unbelievable" raid Stanley Crewmen for the West Virginia Granger Collector of Internet Rove- road commission reported "There nue at Pittsburgh who lives in sre bodies up the hollows and overi nearby Wsyncsburg "The entire -the hills that will not be found for town appears to have been leveled" hours" There were 107 patients in hospitals it Fairmont and Clarksburg Vs- alone In eddlttoa to others In hospitals at Mannlngton Philippi Elkins and Grafton Mora then 400 were Injured Hi Bhinnston Vs end three surrounding counties and ambulance driven: frantically trying to get over blocked roods up Shinn's Run The barn of Stonebraker waa completely dee: royed in the storm that hit Indiana County last niffltu The house and the apple shed were not touched Many trees in te orchard were blown down.