Wagner Glass factory destroyed by storm, Henry Wagner hurt by cut glass

Several Injured at Ingalls

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

INGALLS, Ind., June 25. — The storm did thousands of dollars of damage to this town and vicinity this morning. No lives were lost here, but many persons were in­jured, suffering broken arms and legs. In this town the large plant of the Wagner Glass Company was completely wrecked, throwing 200 people out of employment and entailing a loss of about $20,000 to the concern. The Journal correspondent was in this plant ten minutes before the storm struck it, and a full force of hands was at work. Within twenty minutes the main building was demolished beyond recogni­tion, and many narrow escapes were ex­perienced by employes. Three men were hurt — Ben Flannigan, Harry Allen and Sam Flannigan. Henry Wagner, president of the company, was badly cut about the face by flying glass.

Other damage in the town was as fol­lows: Brick livery barn, loss $200; Kinley Hotel unroofed, $300 loss; James Manifeld’s barn destroyed, in which was a new $150 carriage, loss $400; Mr. Henry Sudder's home partially wrecked, loss $300; Henry Burns’s house moved from its foundation ten feet and a complete loss of $800; the John Cumins business block unroofed, loss to building and contents of upper floors, occupied by the family of John Wagner, about $600.

At Alpunte the old Cumins house was completely wrecked. Prather’s house par­tially so and W. W. Manifeld's barn flat­tened, a combined loss of possibly $2,000.

The greatest loss in this vicinity is the destruction to growing crops. Wheat in the fields is stripped and flattened to the ground. Corn is bent and broken so that it would seem it could never recover. Orchards are destroyed and the farms stripped of their timber.

When the storm broke here the Ginnivan Paullin Show Company’s wagons were just entering the town. The big, heavy wagons wer [sic] were overturned, and one man, Hays Isenberger, tuba player in the band, was crushed beneath a dynamo used by the company for electric light purposes. He is not expected to recover. The loss to the show is estimated at $1,000.

The house in which Bert Rineheart and his family lived was overturned. There was a case of smallpox in the house, but the patient and family were rescued. A horse belonging to Fred Kinley was blown into a barb-wire fence and badly crippled. The wind carried the horse probably fifteen feet in the air.