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Salt Lake Telegram | 1952-03-01 | Page 2 | Workers Seek Victims in South Tornado

Type issue
Date 1952-03-01
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Reference URL https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6s76qwp

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Article Title Workers Seek Victims in South Tornado
Type article
Date 1952-03-01
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 2
OCR Text IW Workers Seek Victims in South Tornado I FAYETTEVILLE Tenn March l 1 on Red Al-Red Red Cross workers highway highway high high- way patrolmen and National Guardsmen pr probed bed w wrecked r e c e c k e c d homes and businesses and poked among twisted trees and a snarl of power lines Saturday looking for more tore possible victims of Fridays Friday's Fridays Friday's Fri Fri- days day's savage tornado The late afternoon ripper left at least two dead in this south central Tennessee town The Tennessee Highway Patrol estimated estimated estimated esti esti- esti- esti mated were ere hurt or burned in the subsequent rash of fires As heavy clouds scudded low overhead in the gray dawn Patrol Patrol Patrol Pa Pa- Chief W V T. T Shelton said I HI dont don't see how this sort of a blow blo I could strike and kill only two people Theres no telling how high the toll would have been had it hit early in the morning when the people were vere asleep The emergency workers headed out for their first of light-of-day survey of the tile grim scene Shelton said he had heard estimates estimates estimates esti esti- mates of damage ranging up to but added it was as impossible impossible im impossible im- im possible to gauge accurately the extent of destruction The business business business busi busi- ness section was raked but not hit squarely by the tornado Shelton Shelton Shelton Shel Shel- ton said houses were deI destroyed destroyed de de- de- de I or damaged
Reference URL https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6s76qwp/17689881