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August 29,1994
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BIG FLATS, Wis. (AP) —
Shirley Andersen looked up
from the floor and saw her
house was gone, ripped away by
a tornado. A couple in their 60s
rode out the storm in their
bathtub. The town hall was
squashed “like a soda can.”
Four people were killed as tor
nadoes tore across Wisconsin dur
ing the night Saturday, ripping
up small communities and farms.
One tornado gouged a 13-
mile-long swath through central
Wisconsin and turned this
small town’s main street into a
tangle of metal, lumber and
trees.
“All I could think about was
all this stuff was going to come
down on my head and it was go
ing to hurt,” said Shirley Warn
er, 57, who was staying at a
friend’s mobile home in Big
Flats with her 6-year-old grand
son, Nicholas Forslund.
“I tried to pull the mattress
over my head but I couldn’t get
it off the bed. And then all of a
sudden, ‘Wooooof.’ It was over.”
The walls were torn away
and most of the furniture blown
out.
Damage from the tornado in
Adams County, where Big Flats
is located, was estimated at
S4.5 million, Sheriff Robert Far-
ber said.
The bodies of an elderly cou
ple were found in the wreckage
of their home near Big Flats.
Twenty-two people were in
jured and five remained hospi
talized Sunday, Farber said.
Authorities knew of 24 houses
destroyed in Adams County
and about 175 damaged.
A tornado in Eau Claire
County in western Wisconsin
killed a 3-year-old girl when a
trailer home was blown into a
ditch. A woman riding in a van
that was blown off a highway
also died.
More tornadoes touched down
in Green Lake and Juneau coun
ties, wrecking houses and bams
and leaving dead cattle in pas
tures.
Adams County Emergency
Government Director Frank Zer-
nia estimated up to 400 of the 740
residents of Big Flats, 80 miles
north of Madison, were affected
by the tornado. The town sits in a
flat, heavily wooded area of pota
to farms and vacation homes.
Trees were draped with pink
insulation, power lines lay
across roads and broken glass
and splintered boards were
scattered throughout the area.
The buzz of chainsaws working
to clear fallen trees from yards
and roadways seemed nonstop
on Sunday.
The only recognizable feature
of what used to be the town hall
was the concrete vault used to
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Alaskan community faces flooding,
isolation as local river violently surges
ANCHORAGE, Fairbanks. crews, Bergman said. some people in there
municipal building looked as
though it was crushed “like a
soda can.”
Big Flats residents Bob
Geiger, 65, and his wife, Mari
on, 60, rode out the storm in
their bathtub as their roof was
torn off and windows shattered.
Geiger said they crawled into
the tub because it seemed like
the safest place.
“Glass was flying, you could
hardly see anything. Things
were whirling around,” he said.
“I was really scared.”
Shirley Andersen, 58, looking
at the wreckage of her trailer
home Sunday morning, said the
last thing she remembered be
fore the twister hit was the
lights going out and her hus
band reaching for a candle.
“And that was it. That fast.
It was over,” she said.
“We hit the floor. It seemed
like a half a second later I raised
my head up from the floor and
looked to the north and there was
nothing there. Everything was
gone,” she said.
Anderson, her husband and
two granddaughters escaped
without serious injury. All that
remained of the trailer home
was the foundation.
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Alaska (AP) — Army
helicopters were sent
Sunday to evacuate
residents of the village
of Allakaket after the
Koyukuk River surged
to its highest level in
40 years.
“We’re completely
surrounded by water,”
Allakaket Mayor
Agnes Bergman said.
No injuries were re
ported and nobody was
in immediate danger,
National Guard Capt.
Mike Haller said from
Anchorage. One house
in Allakaket was up
rooted and a neighbor
said only the electric
wires were keeping it
from being swept
downstream.
The community of
about 175 people is
180 miles northwest of
Fairbanks.
The river has been
rising because of heavy
rains last week in Interi
or Alaska. It was not ex
pected to crest until
Monday at Allakaket.
Most of the village’s
35 to 40 homes were
flooded with about 4 or 5
feet of water, Haller
said.
Allakaket villagers
were putting belong
ings on top of houses
and building a heliport
on high ground for the
evacuation. The town’s
only airplane landing
strip was under 5 feet
of water.
Making matters dif
ficult, most of the able-
bodied men from the
remote, largely Alaska
Native community
were in the Lower 48
as part of firefighting
crews, Bergman said.
Marian Acker took
refuge at the school af
ter her cabin flooded.
“I also lost my gar
den,” she said. “I was
waiting for the first
frost to pull the pota
toes out. But they’re
gone now.”
Water was rising at
a rate of 1 1/2 inches
per hour near the
school, where many
sought shelter, but
would not enter the
building until some
time Monday, if at all,
school principal Mary
Moses-Edwin said.
Both Army and Na
tional Guard troops
were headed to the vil
lage in the Army heli
copters, Haller said.
“It’s real serious,
and for the sake of life
and limb we’re getting
some people in there,”
Haller said.
The Red Cross was
arranging food and
housing for an expect
ed 127 evacuees at the
Army’s Fort Wain-
wright base in Fair
banks, he said.
Four sections of the
Dalton Highway,
Alaska’s only road
north to the Arctic
Coast, were washed
out Saturday, tem
porarily stranding
truckers and tourists.
“We’re looking at
the highest flood on
that river in our
recorded history,” Na
tional Weather Service
hydrologist Paul Mey
er said. Records for
that section of the riv
er have been kept for
40 years, he said.
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credibility of police officer, DNA
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Defense attorneys in
the O.J. Simpson case are shifting their attack
from the credibility of DNA blood tests to the cred
ibility of a police officer who discovered a bloody
glove on Simpson’s estate.
Defense attorneys were expected to argue at a
hearing Monday that the Los Angeles Police De
partment should turn over Detective Mark
Fuhrman’s personnel records to see if he has any
past instances of racially motivated wrongdoing.
Simpson’s attorneys have claimed in court pa
pers that Fuhrman hates blacks and other minori
ties and once tried to frame a black suspect.
The Police Department has opposed the defense
request, as has Fuhrman, whose attorney por
trayed the request as a desperate act.
The defense is also seeking Fuhrman’s military
records and police department records on other of
ficers tied to the case, including Detectives Philip
Vannatter, Tom Lange and Fuhrman’s partner,
Ronald Phillips.
In a motion filed earlier this month, the de
fense claims that Vannatter and Lange lied and
concealed facts to obtain a warrant to search
Simpson’s estate, and that Phillips violated po
lice procedures.
Superior Court Judge Lance Ito will decide
whether to make the records available and, if so,
which ones.
Last week, Ito ruled the prosecution didn’t have
to share blood samples the defense said it wanted
for independent genetic testing.
Simpson has pleaded innocent to the murders
of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, and her
friend, Ronald Goldman, 25.
Discrediting Fuhrman is important to the de
fense because the glove he said he found the day
after the Jupe 12 killings may be among one of the
most incriminating pieces of evidence.
Trial is set to begin Sept. 19 with jury selection.
remain steady
NEW YORK (AP) - Job
growth in the United States
should remain steady during
the fourth quarter, despite
what some analysts see as
signs of a slowing economy, a
survey Finds.
Milwaukee-based Manpow
er Inc., a temporary help firm,
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survey of 15,000 businesses,
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workers. Ten percent plan job
cuts, 61 percent expect ne
change and 3 percent are un
certain.
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jections are lower than the pre
vious two quarters but better
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year, when 22 percent planned
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“The nation’s job machine is
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and steady pace but it is stilt
tempered by a concern for total
labor costs in a very competi
tive pricing environment,” said
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Mitchell S. Fromstein.
Merrill Lynch & Co. senior
economist Bruce Steinberg
said the survey results are
“consistent with what we’re
seeing in the economy — it
continues to grow but not as
rapidly as it was in the first
half of the year.”
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omy is rising interest rates,
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care reforms on businesses
said Raymond Worseck, chiel
economist with A.G. Edwards
& Sons Inc. in St. Louis.
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to hire people on a full-timek
sis if firms can possibly avoid
it,” Worseck said.
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