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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1925
Page
7
Chicago April weather details explain tornado formation with near ground heat and humidity, and icy conditions aloft. Forecaster Henry Cox notes typical tornado width about a quarter mile, speed 200 to 300 mph, and path under forty miles.
Initial trading showed moderate activity with a broad lift from yesterday’s close. Steel common rose to 120 2 8 after dipping 1.8, American Smelting +1 to 95, General Electric +2, Cast Iron Pipe up to 190 after reaching 189, others small gains, midday volatility eased as buying support appeared and authorities noted potential accumulation in weakly held issues.
Local Bank Clearings totaled 9 000 with bank debits listed at 4 989 000 dollars. The figures reflect routine financial activity for the period reported.
The listing details wholesale prices for butter eggs poultry and produce. It includes prices for ducks geese turkeys roosters hens leghorns and various regional items with per pound and per hundredweight figures. Regional markets referenced include Wisconsin Michigan Ohio North and Florida with price ranges and firsts backs and extras noted.
A reader list shows varied seafood prices including haddock fillets at 35 cents, dressed haddock 30c, halibut 40c, red snapper 35c, bluefish 86c, fresh cod steak 80c, and oysters 80c. Maine and River varieties include lake white fish 35c, yellow pike 35c, herring 25-35c, and river carp 18c with other catches priced per pound or jar.
An OCR fragment lists prices for cleaners and related items with company names such as Moore and Bright, Energee Cleaners, Standolind Cleaners, and Sinclair. The text shows prices like 12.7c and 19.5c and references products including Amond and Perfection as part of an old advertisement.
A terse market note lists prices for cereals and notes on coal and Indians. The entry mentions lump stock figures and a Wheeling reference, implying regional trade prices and sourcing details.
A garbled price sheet lists rolled shatter 25 and 100 pound bases and galvanized sheets 28 gauge at five dollars and five cents per hundred. other items show 28 gauge sheet at four dollars and seventy five cents and related tent and seam goods.
The readable fragment shows prices and items like tin ware and different gauges such as 28 and 25. It includes garbled phrases and stray numbers, suggesting a damaged market list or catalog text.
The forecast maps freight activity with coastal lanes showing 25 to 35 and southern routes near 30 to 35. The report emphasizes higher demand on western and northern corridors with increased volumes toward the south and east.
The page lists daily stock quotations compiled by Thomson and McKinnon with figures for prices, highs and lows, and timbered indices. It enumerates companies, market sectors, and fluctuation data updated for trading sessions.
A long list of names and ages appears, citing deaths or hospital cases in Indiana towns including Evansville and Griffin. The items mention many individuals such as Clarissa 14, Vera Young 9, Charles Majors, and others connected to railroad workers, companies, and local families with ages ranging from children to elderly.
Illinois death notices list Mrs. James Stokes and Mrs. Harry Maurer with child, Mrs. Orla Warthen and William Felty, 9, Roy Bigman, Mrs. Albert Ryan, and Hoover Floore noted as former United States marshal at Murphysburg. Mrs. James Gibson, wife of the postmaster, also named.
Packers faced declines amid reverse conditions with steady to $14.50 top for hogs and widespread trading around $14.30 to $14.50. Heavy and light hogs varied near $14.30 to $14.50 while calves, cows, steers, and veals showed mixed prices. overall yard activity included about 5,000 hogs today and 6,000 expected Friday, with no sheep-lamb quotes due to sparse availability.
Chicago on March 19 reports May wheat closing 2 cents higher on the local Board of Trade while July and September were down fractions. Good export business and stronger cables buoyed wheat and corn gained slight ground with light receipts supporting move higher. Hog prices fell with weaker cables affecting market sentiment.
Plans near completion for a reception and dinner for State and Federal jurists by the Indiana and Indianapolis Bar Associations at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. About 500 guests expected. Federal Judges Baltzell and Slick to attend along with five judges from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago.
Carbondale, once a mining town, overnight shifts to a hospital and first aid center for De Soto and Murphysboro victims. Churches and halls become wards as trucks and trains bring more than 500 injured to receive care and relief supplies.
Walter announces the park board meeting scheduled for today at 2 p m is canceled because several members are ill. Charles A Bookwalter, board member, made the announcement.
In Middlesbrough on March 19 an inquest into the accidental death of a Japanese sailor began. A fellow crew member was granted permission to take the dead man's hair and toe for a wider examination.
Cattle receipts described as slow with mixed demand across markets in Chicago, East St. Louis, Buffalo and Cincinnati. Prices showed small gains and declines, with bids lower for some classes and slabs of cattle, hogs, and sheep traded at reduced or uneven levels.
Births listed include Lettie Cushingberry and Katherine Gibbons among families in Ames and Clare. several Methodist names appear with addresses in streets such as 3420 E, 1469 8 and 744 N. Melusine Lecha and Rose Nick noted. deaths include Jolley aged 80 and Olman 47 with addresses on Shriver and Boulevard Place. Hospital and chronic conditions referenced for Patton and other patients.
Walter Woolwine, 46, of 2025 Olive Street, was held on a blind tiger charge after Deputy Sheriff Koffel found seven quarts and five gallons of beer at his home Wednesday.
A powerful tornado swept across Illinois and Indiana killing hundreds and injuring many more. Towns like Murphysboro and Desoto suffered extreme damage as schools and warehouses were destroyed. Rescue workers, doctors, and relief crews converged from Evansville, St. Louis, and surrounding areas amid downed wires and ruined infrastructure.
A tornado struck Littleville near Scumbia killing Ww Green and badly injuring his wife and five year old daughter. Four stores and several homes were blown down by the fierce storm.
The first official counts report eighty four dead in West Frankfort two hundred in De Soto and one hundred fifty in Murphysboro from the southern Illinois tornado. Governor Len Small received telegram details from Col. Samuel Hunter of the Illinois National Guard as relief committees work through the night and into today leaving many homeless.
Three groups of relief fliers are on the scene providing all aid possible. General Black's staff says casualties are scattered across rural areas and cities, so no official total estimate will be available for several days.
The medical corps of the 130th Illinois National Guard based in Quincy under Maj. Ray Mercer moved out this morning to assist a storm-stricken region in southern Illinois.
Meager reports from Sumner County indicate the death toll could reach fifty with over a hundred injured after a tornado swept the area late yesterday. Medical aid and Red Cross workers rushed from Nashville to Buck Lodge Oak Grove Sulphuria Peatown Witham Angle and Keyton, all reported devastated by the cyclone.
A fierce wind and rainstorm swept through Detroit and northern and western Michigan, severing wire communications. Winds reached seventy miles per hour and caused the collapse of several hundred telephone and telegraph poles, crippling links in the storm region.
Twenty five people dead in Sumner County after a late Wednesday tornado wrecks homes and trees. A 400 pound stone was uprooted and set among small trees as the cyclone roared 16 miles long and 150 yards wide. Mrs Ellison’s body was found cut in half beside eight family members killed. In Gallatin, Tenn a cyclone killed thirty and injured unknown numbers, Red Cross reports say.
The cyclone leaves a high death and injury toll across Indiana Illinois Missouri and Tennessee with figures from Griffin Griffin Indiana to Murphysboro Illinois and Sumner County Tennessee. Reported deaths range from single digits to hundreds and injuries from dozens to hundreds in towns such as Owensville Princeton Cape Girardeau De Soto Bush West Frankfort Parrish Crossville Caldwell and Orient.
The Indianapolis Association of Credit Men will award five dollars in cash to the fifth name drawn at their dinner. The drawing takes place at 6 15 at the Hotel Severin with the event on March 26.
Governor Len Small appeals to Illinois citizens for relief funds after a tornado devastates Jackson and Franklin counties. The Red Cross branch in St Louis will receive and disburse aid, while the National Guard may be mobilized as needed.
National Red Cross volunteers including Willard Bray Gerritt Hutchinson and Duane Hicks prepare relief follow a southern Indiana cyclone. Mrs Georgia W Scott and Mrs Wolf Sussman seek nursing help. Action on service applications delayed until plans are proposed. Messages from John Barton Payne and President Coolidge urge swift aid.
The Rev. Michael H. Abrahams of Michigan City will lecture Friday night at St. Francia De Sates church 2197 Avondale Pl on Jerusalem of the Past and the Modern Jerusalem. He has toured the Holy Lands and will lead a Jubilee Pilgrimage to Europe sailing June 6 from New York for France with Indiana participants likely including Indianapolis residents.
Lorain Ohio expresses heartfelt sympathy after a devastating tornado that leveled the city last year. Mayor Hoffman and Governor Jackson join in the outpouring of condolences and pledge readiness to provide any requested assistance.
An appropriation bill for 500000 for storm stricken southern Illinois was introduced in the senate by Senator John to aid Jackson and Franklin Counties. The measure awaits passage and signature, with a special committee to allocate funds and National Guard units already deployed to the scene. Governor Small appeals for national aid, and Red Cross mobilizes its resources as medical units head toward West Frankfort and Murphysboro.
The Indiana storm struck northern Posey and southern Gibson Counties causing extensive damage in Princeton where two people died at the Southern Railroad shops and total losses reach about 2 million dollars. Rescue efforts faced severe obstacles as hospitals filled with dead and injured and martial law restricted access to the stricken area.
Mrs. Joseph Haas, 25, of Griffin Indiana, is in Walker Hospital with a ten inch fence rail driven through her left shoulder after a storm struck the town. Her condition is listed as critical.
Today Edward J. Hecker of Indianapolis was appointed to supervise publication of the 1925 Legislative Acts. Hecker, owner of a local print shop, also serves as trustee of Warren township.
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