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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1955
Page
2
The Red Cross reported its Bloodmobile visited Blackwell Oklahoma Wednesday afternoon before the tornado struck. Blackwell residents donated 120 pints of blood and some of it was later returned or used for victims.
A massive tornado outbreak devastates Udall and surrounding towns killing dozens and injuring hundreds. Reports list funnels touching down near Antony Kansas, Higginson Missouri, Hillsdale Kansas, Butler Missouri, and multiple sites in Kansas and Oklahoma with widespread structural damage and no-clear casualty counts yet.
Four official probes by the district attorney police coroner and Interstate Commerce Commission move to determine the cause of the fatal runaway van crash in San Francisco killing seven people and injuring many as a 10 ton truck plowed down Clay Street from Nob Hill to Chinatown. The vehicle operated by Mayflower Van and Storage of Indianapolis crashed into buildings burst into flames and caused at least 160000 in damage. Driver William McCandless 50 died in the cab. Wayne Jennings DeWolf 38 escaped after leaping from the van. Eight other victims were named as among the dead including Barbara Szabionian and Donald Stone among others wounded or missing. The incident prompted intensified safety reviews and recalls by authorities.
The hunt for Rodney G. Sheran, 35, husband of Esme Sheran, 41, intensified in Sonoma County amid two reports he was spotted there. A Cloverdale bar owner reported a nervous sighting as investigators pursue leads in the slaying case.
Obituary notes the death of a 20 year old Mexican native, son of Jose Rodrigues, with funeral from Estudilio Chapel in San Leandro on May 31 1955 and a requiem mass at St Toachims Church. Separate police report describes a bar incident and a missing contractor linked to a homicide investigation involving a stranger in a red pickup and FBI federal warrant.
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