The Indicator Westville Indiana Publisher Notice
The Indicator, Westville Indiana, edited by G L MARTIN, published weekly every Thursday. Subscriptions are 1 504 dollars annually in advance. Advertising rates on request. Submissions must arrive by Wednesday noon to appear in the same week. Read by about 5 000 in Laporte and Porter counties. They are solid and reputable citizens. Get busy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westville
Ind
Indiana
Laporte
Porter
Tornado Rages Through Hebron and Kouts Wrecking Towns
A huge tornado swept southern Porter county Indiana from Hebron to Kouts on May 28 causing extensive ruin. Seven deaths are confirmed with many injuries and a $500000 plus property loss. Many farms barns homes and a creamery were destroyed while roads and communications were severed and livestock killed.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Hebron
Kouts
Porter County
Pennsylvania Railroad
Houts
Kankakee
Indiana
Lake County
Chine
Gust Carlson
Isaac Jones
C. A. Carpenter
Joseph Cannon
David Humeau
Gordon
Starke
Marshall
Doepker
Mr. Doepker
James Hollandsworth
Keuts
Jerome Massey
Pan Handle
Kouts Road
Chris
Tornado Rips Hebron and Kouts Indiana Towns
A destructive tornado struck Hebron and nearby Kouts Indiana damaging homes, farms, and the Charleston Ice Cream plant. Four killed and three injured with many treated at improvised hospitals. relief work and clearup continued as officials surveyed the aftermath.
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Hebron
Ind
Kouts
Tornado Strikes Hebron Amid Northern Indiana Fury
A tornado swept through northern Indiana with Hebron taking the worst losses. After the storm passed, items found included a saw embedded in a tree limb and a horse left undisturbed among the wreckage.
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Indiana
Hebron
Barn floor and house destroyed in storm reports
The scene describes a barn floor and a house wrecked by a storm with the roof torn off and furniture displaced into trees. One room remains intact housing an invalid woman, a clock on a mantel still running, and scattered belongings. Nearby pigs for sale and two sale notices list Kedward Jardine and Mrs. Rollo Link Wanatah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kedward Jardine
Westville
Rollo Link
Wanatah
Aftermath of Porter County Tornado Damages
The Vidette reports that tornado damage in Porter County may exceed one million dollars with extensive timber loss and ruined orchards. In Hebron and surrounding towns residents and crews salvage lumber, rebuild shattered structures, and organize relief efforts while patients at the hospital show signs of recovery and doctors assess trauma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hannon
Tom Hannon
John Welsh
George Koontz
Nelson Hughes
Clinton Aylesworth
Jerome Massey
Rudolf Gesse
Charles
Hebron
Funerals Held Tuesday for Tornado Victims in Hebron
Sorrow filled Hebron as the funeral service for Leslie Kenney, a tornado victim, was held at the United Presbyterian church with Rev. C. M. Filer presiding. Interment followed in Hebron cemetery. The bodies of D. B. Resh and Julia Lane, killed at Kouts, were sent to other locations for their funerals and burial.
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Hebron
Leslie Kenney
United Presbyterian Church
C. M. Filer
D. B. Resh
Julia Lane
Kouts
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Hebron and
Dexas
D. B ‘Regh
Julia Kane
B. B. Pratt
C. J. Bessecker
New York City
Railroad Gang
C. P. Perkins
P. T. Rochelle
Jesse Lewis
James Green
John Harrison
Paul Moore
Lynn Kane
Charles Rushing
Robert Taylor
John Ryan
Roy Rathburn
Homer F. Porter
Giles Aylesworth
Seriously. Co. A. Carpenter
Fred Simpson
Edward Garvey
Marie Garvey
R. B. Smith
Oscar Burley
Will Gray
Morgan
Pleasant Townships
Medaryville
Monterey
Lanes
Otto Wharton
John Downs
James Thompson
Root Lumber Co
M. J. Brown Elevator
Rosa Coplin
Thomas Ross
Eliza Wood
Ben Blackstone
Kate Nolan
Ida Fisher
Lesta Sweenty
Anna Ross
Rol Gordon
Wheeler
Clayton McAllpin
Joseph Patton
Margaret Cook
S. W. Brown
L. H. Coplin
Mike Ryan
Mary Rathburn
Burley Pratt
Allie Thatcher
A. Crawford
Geo. Gidley
Celista Lewis
Wm. Morgan
Harry Sheldon
Hattie Williams
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Chas
Leeka
Clyde Johnson
Jessee Stanley
James Hollingsworth
G. E. Firebaugh
Chicago Tribune
Pittsburg
Cincinnati, Chicago
Pulaski
Pearl Mudge
Oliver Mudge
Madge
New Durham
Paul Hannon
J. N. Kelly
Fairview Farm
Wm. C. Weir
J. E. Payne
E. B. Ebbert
Weir & Ebbert
J. Vene Dorland
Ab Cereta
Firat National Bank
Iian Hospital
W. E. Bell
W. Dunkle
Baby Lane
Aylesworth
Gerald Lane
Elmer
Gerald
Elmer Lane
Darrow NX
Earl Rowley
Darrow
Rowley & Tassal
Isa Porte
Masonic Taemple
Frankie Osborn
LEE L. _OSBORNE, METH
D. Osborne
Osborne & Osborne
First Nat'l Bank B'ld
LaPorte, Ind
Jos. P. Fogarty
Julia A. Fogarty
Osteopathic
National Bank
Laporte Starland Building
Michigan City
John W. Rogers
Wendt’s
Axminsters
Brussels
RUHL
Finney GO
Valparatiso
Bank of Westville
Oberreich & Arnold
Davidson & Porter
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