Bloomington (Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana) Daily Telephone, June 20, 1928, p. 1. EXTRA SIX PEOPLE KILLED BY STORM IN INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS, June 2000(INS)-Six person [sic] were killed, a number of others were injured and thousands of dollars of property and crop damage was done by severe electrical storms which swept Indiana late yesterday and late night and which were continuing today. The property damage was most severe in Wayne and Henry counties where building [sic] were blown down, crops destroyed, trees uprooted and electric wires blown down. Bloomington reported the heaviest loss of life, four men being killed by a lightning bol [sic] when they took refuge from the storm under a tree on the Indiana University water work grounds. At Mays, in Rush county, a boy playing in a yard was killed by lightning. At the state reformatory at Pendleton, Fred Cook, 24, of Evansville who was awaiting his parole papers to leave the reformatory was fatally injured when he was struck by a flying piece of timber from a building in which he and others had sought refuge.