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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Saturday,/April 10, 1999 Fierce Storms Rip Midwest, Killing Six While Destroying Hundreds of Homes Four die in tornados in Ohio, while twoarekilled in Illinois; other states also hit THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CINCINNATI — A tornado with 200-mph winds demolished about 200 houses in two Cincinnati suburbs before daybreak Friday, killing four people and leaving normally manicured yards littered with bricks, broken two-by-fours andtattered roofs. Two other peoplewerekilledin Illinois as powerful storms tore through the Midwest overnight. In the Cincinnati suburbs of Montgomeryand Blue Ash, water spewedinto the air from brokenfire hydrants and shopping centerparking lots werestrewn with broken glass, Sheet metal that hadbeen siding was wrapped around utilitypoles. Stately pines and thick sycamoreand mapletrees were yankedout by Gov. Bob Taft said officials had no estimate of damage. He declared three counties emergency ar- eas “We saw homeswherewalls were torn down and chairs, tables and computers weresitting there untouched,” he said. “It’s a total rebuilding effort.’ In Ashland, Ill. a communityof 1,200, a tornado rippedinto a trailer park and killed a 68-year-old woman. And a 43-year-old womanwaskilled in-a F mobile home inCisco, 65 miles to theeast. The storms also damaged homes in Indiana. In ther Two people werekilled in a house, and two in Iowa, at least nine suspected tornadoes destroyed homes, flattened barns and uprooted trees. separatecarcrashes, One of the victims, a 40-year-old man, was thrown A tornado also ravaged afive-block area in the Neb a town of North Bend on Thursdayafter- Police Chief MikeAllen said. The same gust flipped a tractor-trailer. Ohio’s Emergency Management Agencyestimated “I was napping,” said Margaret Linville, whose barn was destroyed in Barnard, Mo. “When I roused, from his car whenthe wind flippedit over, Blue Ash Craig Ruttle/TheAssocia Wind damaged houses and trees in Symmes Township, Ohio, shown on Friday morning. Thunderstorms packing high winds swept through OhioandIllinois,killing at least six people. cinnati's northeastern suburbs alone. The utility Cinergy said about 200.000 customerslost power. Most service had beenrestored bythe afternoon. 200 homes weredestroyed and 400 damagedin Cin- noon, and the storm damaged buildings and downed F powerlinesin Missouri the barn was gone, debris wasstill flying.” McDougalDeliberations Temporarily Halted As Ex-Judge’s Law Book Found in Jury Room no jury tampering occurred, the judge toldthe panel to resumeits work next week, skirting a mistrial Deliberations werefrozenafter a court clerk seized the juror’s book, which had belongedto former ansas Supreme Court Justice John Purtle, an acquaintance of McDougal, her ex-hus band and President and Hillary RodhamClinton US. District Judge George Howard Jr. initially planned to seek an FBI probe into possible jury tampering. He changed his mindafter questioning juror Mi chael Nance andPurtle, who sold his houseto Nance in 1997 I left somebooks andno doubt this is one of them,” Purtle told the judge and lawyers for both sides. Purtle’s business card was found in the book that Nance car said that Nanceappeared to have In separate questioning by the judge, Nancesaid he found the deliberations Purtle’s law book on state and federal court rules has in it handwriting and a highlighted portion improperly engaged book in room of the house he bought m Purtle through a real-estate agent jury convenedin the independent counsel's investiga of the Clintons. The jury begandeliber ations Thursday in the monthlong trial It is possible to continuea fed- eral trial withonly 11 jurors if the defendant doesn't object Starr prosecutor Mark Barrett mo./36 mo. frustration. Jurors had asked Howard to clarify certain legal Ruling that Nance would remain the judgetold the jurors to reMcDougal is accused of two yh}:) Nance may have brought the law book to the jury room out of on, or hewouldask for a mistrial fusingto testify before a grand 10 Best Cars ceive instructions explaining legal terminology. McDougal lawyer Mark Geragos urgedthat all 12 jurors be kept counts of criminal contempt and one count of obstruction for re. Voted One of Car & Driver's “self- saying prospectivejurorsshall re- Kenneth Starr's prosecutors wanted Nance dismissed, but sumetheir deliberations Monday in help,” using the book to assist in riedinto the jury room terms, but the judge responded byreferring them back to their written instructions MSRP $42,191 The jurors wanted to knowif they could find there was an *36 month lease, $4,000 total “in- nocent reason” for McDougal to have refused to answer grandjury questions in 1996 and 1998 in Starr's probe McDougal says she refused to testify out of fear that Starr would charge her with perjury unless shefalsely implicated the Clintonsin wrongdoing due “y Larry H. Miller iy LEXUS — THE ASSO} IATED PRESS LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — In a wild day at Susan McDougal’s trial, a judge abruptly haltedjury deliberations after a juror brought a law bookto thecourt house. 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