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Show TWISTER WRECKS SERVICE STATION IN MINERSVILLE A "twister" formed a few hundred hun-dred feet from the Truman Brad-field Brad-field service station in Miners-ville Miners-ville Monday afternoon, as Mr. Bradfield watched, then swooped down onto his station, wrecked the canopy and a gas pump, moved on toward his home and took out a front bay window as it passed between a peach tree and his home, a distance of 15 feet, then roared straight down the street and out of town without with-out doing further damage. Not a leaf of the peach tree was harmed, but a large plate glass window in his home was shattered, an awning twisted, and tie glass broken out of an inside door at ithe rear of- his house. Mr. Bradfield crouched on the ground beside his truck, under the canopy, as the twister headed head-ed toward him, and the truck was lifted several feet off the ground before (the canopy was torn from its moorings, raised in the air then dropped onto the truck. The truck and a gas pump took the brunt of the weight and Mr. Bradfield was unharmed, un-harmed, although all his pockets were filled with sand. |