EXHIBIT 24
                              INDIANA ENERGY, INC.
                            LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY
                    (To Sign and File Registration Statement)

         The undersigned  director  and/or officer of INDIANA  ENERGY,  INC., an
Indiana  corporation (the "Company"),  which intends to file with the Securities
and  Exchange  Commission,   Washington,  D.C.,  under  the  provisions  of  the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended,  a Registration  Statement or Statements for
the  registration  of Common Stock of the Company in connection with the Indiana
Energy,  Inc.  Automatic  Dividend  Reinvestment  and Stock Purchase Plan,  does
hereby  appoint  each of  Lawrence  A.  Ferger  and Niel C.  Ellerbrook  as such
person's  true  and  lawful  attorney-in-fact  and  agent,  with  full  power of
substitution  and  resubstitution,  for such person and in such  person's  name,
place and stead, in any and all capacities,  to sign said Registration Statement
or Statements and any and all amendments thereto, and to file the same, with all
exhibits  thereto,  and  other  documents  in  connection  therewith,  with  the
Securities and Exchange Commission granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent
full  power  and  authority  to do and  perform  each and  every  act and  thing
requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as such
person might or could do in person,  hereby  ratifying and  confirming  all that
said attorney-in-fact and agent, or a substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do
or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF,  the undersigned has executed this Limited Power of
Attorney this 27th day of January, 1999.


/s/ Paul T. Baker                                      /s/ Niel C. Ellerbrook
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Paul T. Baker                                          Niel C. Ellerbrook


/s/ Lawrence A. Ferger                                 /s/ Otto N. Frenzel III
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Lawrence A. Ferger                                     Otto N. Frenzel III


/s/ Anton H. George                                    /s/ Don E. Marsh
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Anton H. George                                        Don E. Marsh


/s/ William G. Mays                                    /s/ J. Timothy McGinley
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William G. Mays                                        J. Timothy McGinley


/s/ Richard P. Rechter                                 /s/ James C. Shook
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Richard P. Rechter                                     James C. Shook


/s/ Jean L. Wojtowicz                                  /s/ John E. Worthen
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Jean L. Wojtowicz                                      John E. Worthen