Oh, yes -- it downloaded, and with it memories of a truly horrible time. I was teaching at Shortridge in Indianapolis, and all day, every few minutes, the intercom speaker would interrupt: "Anyone knowing the whereabouts of..." "Anyone with any information about..." Each announcement made every one of us freeze -- "Not someone I know, please!" Every class had empty chairs, for one reason or another. All of us knew someone who had been there. Many others had tickets for the later nights of this popular show; my aunt and uncle would have been in the section which blew if it had happened just one night later. The whole of central Indiana suffered when this iconic building, the centerpiece of the State Fairgrounds, suddenly became a place of death for people we knew. No one talked of anything else; no one could think of anything else. The dreadful details we heard replay themselves, even now, nearly 50 years later. My father-in-law, an Episcopal priest, was a patient in Methodist Hospital, having suffered a heart attack a few days before. The lights flashing and the sirens -- more than the usual evening noise -- woke him. He found out what had happened to cause the lights and commotion by bullying the student nurse who had been left in charge as all medical staff departed for the ER and the corridors filled with patients for triage. Father L dressed himself in his clerical collar, and took the elevator to the lowest level. He was a staff chaplain, knew the hospital well and was known to many there, so it was only a few hours before someone who knew him, and knew he was a seriously ill patient, chased him back upstairs. We've always felt that he was perfectly safe that night, doing God's work in the ER with families and shocked people. By the end of November he was back at work at Trinity Episcopal Church on Meridian Street, and retired from Trinity years later. The Reverend G. Ernest Lynch died in Farmington, Maine on November 28, 2000. OK, there's no Montgomery County connection for what I have written. Blame Angie! She stirred it all up! Thank you, Angie, for a piece of the history of the nineteen-sixties! Kathy > From: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:17:27 -0500 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [InMontgo] Horrible Halloween "Holiday On Ice" propane gas explosion in the Indianapolis Coliseum, 1963. > > Pharos-Tribune archives. I hope this downloads. Angela (Angie) Todd > > http://pharostrib.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewer.aspx?pubdateid=11549621&src=browse > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

And people from many other towns. As you said, "the whole of Central Indiana." It was on the Montgomery County Mail site where I saw this mentioned. Anyway, people from Logansport, my home town, had been there, too. Something you never forget. When I read that one...of many...Pharos-Tribune obits, it was just as I remember it, down to the people thinking that the flying bodies were part of the show. Thanks for sharing your recollections, too. Angie On Jan 26, 2011, at 7:55 AM, Kathleen lynch wrote: > > Oh, yes -- it downloaded, and with it memories of a truly horrible time. I was teaching at Shortridge in Indianapolis, and all day, every few minutes, the intercom speaker would interrupt: "Anyone knowing the whereabouts of..." "Anyone with any information about..." Each announcement made every one of us freeze -- "Not someone I know, please!" Every class had empty chairs, for one reason or another. All of us knew someone who had been there. Many others had tickets for the later nights of this popular show; my aunt and uncle would have been in the section which blew if it had happened just one night later. The whole of central Indiana suffered when this iconic building, the centerpiece of the State Fairgrounds, suddenly became a place of death for people we knew. No one talked of anything else; no one could think of anything else. The dreadful details we heard replay themselves, even now, nearly 50 years later. > My father-in-law, an Episcopal priest, was a patient in Methodist Hospital, having suffered a heart attack a few days before. The lights flashing and the sirens -- more than the usual evening noise -- woke him. He found out what had happened to cause the lights and commotion by bullying the student nurse who had been left in charge as all medical staff departed for the ER and the corridors filled with patients for triage. Father L dressed himself in his clerical collar, and took the elevator to the lowest level. He was a staff chaplain, knew the hospital well and was known to many there, so it was only a few hours before someone who knew him, and knew he was a seriously ill patient, chased him back upstairs. We've always felt that he was perfectly safe that night, doing God's work in the ER with families and shocked people. By the end of November he was back at work at Trinity Episcopal Church on Meridian Street, and retired from Trinity years later. The Reverend G. Ernes! t ! > Lynch died in Farmington, Maine on November 28, 2000. > OK, there's no Montgomery County connection for what I have written. Blame Angie! She stirred it all up! Thank you, Angie, for a piece of the history of the nineteen-sixties! > Kathy > >> From: [email protected] >> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:17:27 -0500 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [InMontgo] Horrible Halloween "Holiday On Ice" propane gas explosion in the Indianapolis Coliseum, 1963. >> >> Pharos-Tribune archives. I hope this downloads. Angela (Angie) Todd >> >> http://pharostrib.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewer.aspx?pubdateid=11549621&src=browse >> >> http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ >> >> List Manager - [email protected] >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message