August FLUTTROW

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Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Monday, March 29, 1920:

Main Headline: "Tornado Takes Heavy Toll"
August Fluttrow, 73, the proprietor of a grocery store at Townley, was killed instantly, suffering a fractured skull and a fracture of the right leg. His body was found in the wreckage some distance east of the site of his store at the cross roads.


News Sentinel
March 31, 1920

Safe Hurled 300 Feet

The safe at the store of August Fluttrow, aged 73, who lost his life in the storm, was hurled fully 300 feet from where the store stood. So terrific was the effect of the churning mass of iron, steel and wooden debris on the strong-box, that a number of deep cuts were gashed into the metal. The cash register from the Fluttrow store was almost twisted in two.

Fluttrow's body was hurled against the remains of a large tree, and was then crushed under a large amount of debris. Besides being generally mangled and mutilated, the body suffered a fracture of the skull and a shattered right leg.






Married Elizabeth Dager February 1, 1870 in Allen County, Indiana.

Married Jennie Crapo Leininger May 20, 1903 in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana.


Civil War Veteran
Co. H 91 Indiana Infantry

August married Jennie Olivia CRAPO on 20 May 1903 in Fort Wayne, Allen Co., Indiana. Jennie (daughter of Marquis De Lafayette CRAPO and Jane Elizabeth HALE) was born on 27 Sep 1858 in Barry Co., Michigan; died on 20 Aug 1922; was buried in Monroeville Memorial Cemetery, Monroeville, Allen Co., Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]