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NANCEY HILLS, Ga. — An overturned car marks the
beginning of a tornado’s path through a trailer park.
‘Blackest looking
thing I ever saw’
By CHARLES PENTECOST
BRANDENBURG, Ky. (UPI)
— “It was the blackest looking
thing I ever saw,” said Thomas
Tichenor, the postmaster, of the
tornado that destroyed this
Ohio River hamlet Wednesday.
At least 30 persons died,
some of their bodies strewn
along the riverbank.
“Just before it hit, we
couldn’t see the building right
across the street,” Tichenor
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said. He was standing at the
side of postal clerk clerk Owen
Dugan at the time of the storm.
Dugan’s sister was one of the
victims.
Tichenor, 63, was still shak
ing from the experience.
“I looked to the side and saw
a piece of tin fly off the roof of
a house next door. I said,
‘Owen, we’re in for it.’”
The postmaster thought of his
wife who had taken their two
Strewn remains of trailers are seen in the background.
(UPI)
grandchildren home to High
Street moments before the
tornado came.
“I thought, oh my Lord. She’s
got the kids up there. I walked
out the front of the post office
and it was like nothing you had
ever seen before.”
Mrs. Tichenor and the two
children crouched down against
a wall in the house.
“The wall bent, but it held
| Tornadoes at glance
By United Press International
Approximately 305 persons killed in Kentucky,
Alabama, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Georgia, North
Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, Oklahoma.
§ Worst Hit
Alabama—Tornadoes roamed eastward from the
x Mississippi line across the northern part of the state; 68
dead, 19 in the town of Quin.
Ohio—Half of Xenia, population of 25,000, destroyed; at
least 35 dead. Four persons killed in Cincinnai.
$ Kentucky — Twenty counties hit. At least 30 killed at
town of Brandenburg. Five killed in Louisville area.
Tennessee—At least 53 dead, most in the eastern
section; 15,000 houses without power in Nashville.
Georgia—At least 15 killed. Hardest hit was Resaca
•j: Sugar Creek area where seven died, including famiily of
four.
through the tornado,” she said. ¥
Nearly every building in town <;
was either demolished or
heavily damaged in the town.
Army soldiers used earth $
moving equipment to clear
debris and look for bodies.
One house on High Street
contained four dead. A three
year-old lay on the lawn, two
trees across his body. £
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NANCEY HILLS, Ga. — Civil Defense rescue workers look under the foundation of a house
in search of a person missing since a tornado struck this northern area of Georgia. (UPI)
Town shattered
:•: XENIA, Ohio (UPI) — At
:•: least 35 persons were killed in
•:• this city of 25,000 by a tornado
•:• that shattered half the town in
:•:• less than five minutes.
$ Tornadoes also hit other parts
:•: of Ohio. Four were killed in
$ Cincinnati.
X Gov. John J. Gilligan, in
<: Xenia, asked the federal
•:• government to declare this
:•:• southwestern Ohio community
;:•: 20 miles east of Dayton a
■:•: disaster area. Some 2,500 Air
>•: and Army National Guardsmen
•:• were sent into Xenia and
•:• elsewhere.
•:• “I’ve seen tornadoes before,
:•: but none that touched this big a
:•: swath,” Gilligan said. “This
•:• boggles the mind. There is just
:•: no way to calculate the
<: damage.”
•:•: Officials said the twister was
•:■: 300 yards wide and about three
■:•: miles long and damaged if not
:•:• destroyed 50 per cent of the
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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, April 4,1974
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city. At least 300 houses were :g
destroyed and property damage |
ran into the millions of dollars. :•!;
About 1,200 were homeless 3
and were given shelter at the g
armory, motels and hotels. :•:
“I’ve never seen anything £
like this in my life,” said <
Greene County Sheriff Russell 3
Bradley at Xenia. “I watched a 5
big, black funnel cloud pass :•:
through the town for about :•:
three or four minutes. :•:
“At one point I watched it
make a left turn and then I :•:
watched it lift up off the
ground,” he added. :•
Xenia Police Chief Roy •:
Jordan said it might take most •:
of the day to count the number :•
of dead and injured, who filled •:
hospitals here and were taken :•
to surrounding cities. •:•
“Conservatively speaking, I’d >
say Xenia is about 50 per cent
leveled,” he said. :•:
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Hospital Report
Dismissed from the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital:
Mrs. Joann Keadle, William
Brown, James Janda, Mrs.
Louise Kilgore, Michael Wilson,
Mrs. Martha Fogarty, Maury
Webb, Terrance Webb, Eppie
Brown.
Mrs. Becky Sutton, Jance
Durham Worthy, Mrs. Jo Ann
Pledgerand baby, Mrs. Cynthia
Fluelyn and baby, Mrs. Ida Mae
Willis, Jennifer McMullen, Jack
Poulnott, Lamar Young, Mrs.
Shelia Smith.
Man charged
Danny Conkle, 28, of East
Mclntosh road, has been
charged with the theft of two
electric ranges from two homes
on Central Lake circle, off the
High Falls road.
He was released from the
county jail under $2,000 bond.
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