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ELLICOTT, Colo. (AP) —
Dozens of residents of a sparse
ly populated town in southern
Colorado spent the night in a
church after a tornado crushed
trailer homes, sprayed hail and
injured 18 people.
“We just hit the floor in the liv
ing room and covered the kids
and the tornado hit,” said Trish
Davidson, whose mobile home
was lifted into the air and dropped
10 feet from its foundation.
Davidson and about 30 other
people spent Monday night in
the basement of the Ellicott
United Methodist Church.
Power was out to the church and
much of the surrounding area.
As the sun came up Tuesday,
the extent of the damage was
clear. Ellicott’s high school took
a direct hit from the tornado. Its
roof was torn off and pieces were
hurled a quarter-mile away.
Barns were flattened, trees
knocked down and seven trailer
We looked
over and saw
the trailer park
disappear and
that's when we
decided we bet
ter skedaddle”
— Ella May Burnham
Ellicott resident
homes smashed to bits. People
had to be evacuated from the
area because part of the roof hit
a large propane tank, ripping the
valve off and starting a leak.
Crews were trying to plug the
leak early Tuesday.
Search and rescue crews
moved through the area to help
assess the damage and deter
mine if any people were trapped
under debris, El Paso County
Sheriff’s Lt. Melissa Hartman
said Tuesday.
“With it being a holiday
weekend and vacation season
and people out of town, we don’t
have any indication of anybody
missing now, but we won’t know
until we survey all the damage,”
she said.
Crews were working to repair
damage to power lines, Hart
man said.
Seventeen people were treat
ed at one hospital for an array of
licott, a town of abou|f”4,600
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NEW YORK (AP) — Four
followers of Osama bin Laden
were convicted Tuesday of all
charges in the 1998 bombings
of two U.S. embassies in
Africa that killed 224 people
and injured thousands of oth
ers in a shower of rubble and
twisted metal.
Two defendants were con
victed of counts that could carry
the death penalty.
Rashed Daoud Al-’Owhali,
24, of Saudi Arabia; Khalfan
Khamis Mohamed, 27, of Tan
zania; Wadih El-Hage, 40, of
Arlington, Texas; and Mo
hamed Sadeek Odeh, 36, ofjor-
dan, were convicted of conspir
ing to kill Americans in the
nearly simultaneous bombinj
The death penalty courf
pertained to Al-Owhali and Mi
hamed, who were convicted !
using an explosive to cause mi
destruction. The jury will retir
Wednesday to begin the pen
ty phase for the two.
The verdict from an anor.
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guarded Manhattan fede:
courtroom set the stage l
more trials: Six other defend
charged in the conspiracy’art
custody; a dozen cithers, inch
ing bin Laden, are beingsouc
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with about 100 spectators w
the verdicts were read on
12th day of jury deliberate
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ored in such a fashion.
injuries. A woman was brought
to another hospital with bruises
and a broken shoulder and toe.
Most of the injured were re
leased by Tuesday morning.
The storm moved in shortly
after dinner time Monday and
dumped about 6 inches of hail,
some the size of nickels, on El-
people. The hail had mostly
melted several hours after the
tornado moved throughijp
Missie Long and her great
grandmother, Ella May Burn
ham,, took shelter in thetHmilk
barn. The tornado blew over a
hors'e barn, but their home was
spared.
“We looked over and saw the
trailer park disappear arid that’s
when we decided we better
skedaddle,” Burnham said.
She is also the chairyvoman
of the AMAP Performance
Measurement Advisory Com
mittee and the Texas Health
Quality Institute.
Williams believes she was
the first woman to receive the
honor because she has been on
the forefront of issues such as
patient safety, and was one of
the first women to earn a med
ical degree from A&M.
Williams said she was born
at a good time, when others
had blazed a trail ahead of her.
“I was just able to capitalize
on the work of those before
me,” she said. “You do the
things you’re given to do, and
when you’re recognized, it’s
tremendous.”
Texas A&M University
President Dr. Ray M. Bowen
said he is fortunate to be pres
ident of A&M during the pres
entation, and he is sure that
Williams is only the first in a
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