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Injured Tell Tornado StoryMany Saw 'Funnel's' ApproachLouis H. Danner, 74, of 714 N. Collett-st, face and leg cut when house blew down: “My wife (admitted to St. Rita’s hospital) had gone upstairs to close the windows and my daughter was in the front of the house. I went to the kitchen door to close it. When I took hold of the door I was blown under the kitchen table. Then everything fell. The table held it off me. That saved my life, I guess. When I got out I saw my1* wife in the upper part of thewreckage. She wasn’t trapped. Just up there with no place to go. Took about five minutes to get us out. A police cruiser came along and the policemen got us out. They brought us to the hospital.”ft * ftR. S. OGLE, 64, of 1089 Jef-ferson-st, face and legs cut at home: “I saw the thing coming. I got the whole family together —worst thing I could do. There ivas a crash. I saw a lot of blue flame spurting all over the kitchen. Then something hit me. I don’t know what it was.”ft * *3. D STAGER, 68, of 668 Run-yan-av, arm and leg cut at Lennox Furnace Co. parking lot: “I had just left the plant and was going towards the car of Dwight Miller when the wind hit me and I couldn’t move. I looked up and saw a lot of stuff flying thru the air. 1 couldn’t find a place to duck. I don’t know what hit me—a little of everything, I guess. Miller took me to the hospital.”ft ft *NEAL DAVIS, 33, of 824 N. McDonel-st, chest and head cuts from glass: “I was in the house when the wind struck. I ran out to close the garage door—I had a new washing machine in there. When I grabbed the door, the wind blew it over. A glass window shattered. James Guthrie, a neighbor, brought me to the hospital.”CHARLES WANAMAKER, 33,of 542 Hazel-av, cut below left eye: ”1 satv the storm coming and had just gathered the two children and my aunt to start for the basement. Something flew off the stove and hit me m the eye—I guess it was a salt-shaker. Afterward, a neighbor put a dressing on it but it kept bleeding so 1 came to the hospital. My son, Phillip, 7, was on the porch when I called him inside. Less than a half minute later the porch was gone.”* * *MRS. MABEL STALTER, 33,of 1311 McKinley-st, shock and cut on right arm: “My husband saw it coming on the way home to supper. We all went out on the back porch to watch it. There was some lightning and a queer hissing noise. A window blew out right in front of us. Then the house broke up. It fell right down on top of us. (On the porch with her were her husband, James, 33, and two children, Marian, 14, and Carol, 11). We managed to crawl out thru a narrow opening where the window had been ripped away from the wall,* * *PATTI MEYER, 14, of 105 Ed-wards-st, left leg cut: “When the wind shook the house I ran to the back door to close it. The wind took it right out of my hand. The glass broke—some of the pieces hit me on the leg.
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The Lima News
Lima, Ohio, US
Thu, Jul 20, 1950
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