Four Persons Die Ate T Ornado
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^ C H E S T E R , CONN., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2 9 ,197S- VOL. XCR, No. 280 Mancheiter—A City o f Village Charm THIRTY-SIX PAGES — TWO SECTIONS PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS r ' Four Persons Die K w rsR ^ ;-' D U i H ate T ornado Heat Wave Continues West Stockbridge In State Surveys Damage By The Associated Press To Truck Plaza The first break in the op pressive weather that has been WEST STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Clean-up making Connecticut sweat is operations began today to clear away debris and survey not pnklicted by the weather damage caused by a tornado that ripped through eastern man until the weekend. New York into western Massachusetts Tuesday, killing The extended outlook for four persons and injuring 31 others. Connecticut calls for fair, hot and humid weather through The twister leveled the State Line Diner at the Berkshire Friday, partly cloudy Saturday Truck Plaza complex here. with a chance of showers and The dead were identified as ville, N.Y. His son, Eric, 7, was thunderstorms toward evening Robert Hoag, 56, of New Hart in fair condition at the hospital. Earthquake Victims and Sunday fair, not as hot and ford, N.Y., Louis J . Pascale, 28, Bank checks and papers from less humid. of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Lewis the diner were apparently The National Weather Ser People who lost friends and relatives in the earthquake which struck south central Mexico Dubois, 58, a truck driver from carried as far as M or 60 miles vice at Bradley International Tuesday, carry wooden caskets through the rubble left by the tremor. (AP photo) Foxboro, Mass. A fourth vic away into Connecticut by the Airport in Windsor Locks says tim, Constantine Delmolino, 37, winds. Philip Lansing of Gran the temperature — humidity in died of injuries suffered when by, Conn., and Cindy Lariviere Rains Hamper Rescue Efforts dex is supposed to climb into the tornado hit his home about a of South Windsor, Conn., the 80s for the third straight ' half a mile from the diner. reported finding papers bearing day. That means it’s uncom State Police, from the name of the State Line fortable for most people. J/t ■yi- Massachusetts and New York Diner in their front yards. The heat and humidity were and more than 60 volunteers Other checks and receipts accompanied Tuesday by high remained on the scene blew into Manchester and Hundreds Perish winds, rain and hail that ripped throughout the night, and heavy Hebron, Conn. across Western Connecticut equipment was called in to Keith Loveiess of and then out over Long Island clear up the debris which was Stockbridge, who was lunching Sound, the weatherman said. strewn at least half a mile at the diner when the storm hit, The force of the storms up away. said a group of patrons had In Earthquake rooted trees, caused property clustered at the door to watch damage and interrupted elec A state Department of Conservation hydroplane was Ihe heavy downpour. MEXICO CITY (AP) - records started in the eariy spouted dust for hours, until tric and telephone service. “I heard a snap and looked up Torrential rains drenched 1900s. afternoon rains damped it. Numerous highway injuries called in this morning to check a swampy area near the truck and saw the whole roof divide rescue workers in some parts of President Luis Echeverria . Ciudad Serdan, 170 miles east were attributed, at least in down the middle and blow off,” southeast Mexico today as they scheduled a bus tour of the of Mexico City, appeared to be part, to the bad weather. stop for possible bodies. However, a state police Loveless said. searched for bodies or trapped devastated area today. in the center of the area hit The National Weather Ser “ I thought I was dead. 1 survivors from the worst 'The quake, coming during the hardest. The police duty officer vice at Sikorsky Memorial Air spokesman sald^ “ We don’t expect to find anybody.’’ thought the whole city had been earthquake in modem Mexican worst rainy season in 30 years, in the city reported early today port, Stratford, said winds history. Of the 31 persons treated at destroyed,” said another extended a disaster area that that between 300 and 400 per gusted up to 46 miles per hour The rains added to an already sons were dead in the city of three Pittsfield hospitals, all patron, Orosa Girona of West already covered much of cen- at about 3 p.m. serious flood problem and 22,000. people and its adjacent but two were listed in satlsfac- Stockbridge. ^tral Mexico. Sdventy-six per Easton, northwest of drove more people from their villages. toiy condition today. Trees and utility poles were sons have died in floods in the Bridgeport, was hardest hit in homes. past month, the homes of more Listed in critical condition at uprooted, about 20 cars and In Orizaba, a center of the that area. United Illuminating Pruned By Tornado Late figures from the quake than 400,000 have been damaged Berkshire Medical Center was trucks were overturned and gas brewing industry, 80 deaths Co. said about 2,000 customers areas 120 to 220 miles south and and millions of dollars worth of Curtis Valentine, 38, of Lyndon- (See Page Eighteen) were reported, most of them in were left without electricai ser Only a trui^lMiLetree remains in the yard of the Berkshire east of Mexico City indicated crops have been ruined. the collapse of a five-story vice well into the night. Truck Plaza near West Stockbridge, Mass., after a tornado more than 600 persons perished The earthquake, which building in which 20 families in the devastating earth shock registered 6.5 on theRichter Lightning caused an es struck the area Tuesday afternoon. Four persons died in lived. timated $8,000 in damage to a at 3:51 a.m. Tue^ay. scale, struck at least 24 cities, the debris left by the twister. (AP photo) Tornado Debris Twenty-four hours after the Fairfield home. It was the highest death toll towns and villages along the of an earthquake in Mexico Sierra Madre range in the quake the exact toll was not Carolyn Peake, 55, of Water- known because many small since the keeping of such states of Puebla and Veracruz. bury was treated at New Found By Many villages along the edge of the In Richter measurements, an Milford Hospital for head extinct Pico de Orizaba volcano earthquake of 7.0 is 10 times lacerations, police and hospital Jacobs Recall Leaves and debris, mostly mons of Hebron as well as from were still isolated. officials said. papers, flew over the area Manchester residents. more severe than one of 6.0, The government reported 393 She was injured by a sailboat yesterday afternoon, driven by which is 10 times greater than The Manchester findings confirmed dead in the state of boom while sailing on Lake the winds of a tornado which one of 5.0. That is because the were reported by John Mun- Puebla and 92 in Veracruz Waramalig in the state park of 1953 Tornado smashed into West Stockbridge, Richter scale measures wave ford, 872 Vernon St.; Mrs. state. But later reports from the same name, police said. Mass. magnitudes and not something BARBARA RICHMOND they had better head for the Kenneth Viara, 99 St. John S t.; both areas added another 17 The lake area in Washington Many forms, especially in like an increase in automobile (Herald Reporter) basement where there was an Frank Guinipero, Scarborough deaths. was one of the hardest — hit voices from the Berkshire speed from 60 to 70 miles per A tornado on June 9,1953 put inclosed stairwell. She said Rd., John D e^attro, 49 Arvine areas, police said. ’Truck Plaza, demolished by the hour. There were no reports of the very small town of Fayville, they just reached it when all of PI., Thomas Kelley of 36 Local and state highway storm, fluttered to the ground Huge cracks opened in the foreigners being injured and Mass, on the map but at the the v^dows were blown out of Wellman Rd. Plane Crashes crews, as well as workmen in Manchester and surrounding earth in Puebla state, into Acapulco, the tourist resort on same time almost blew it away, the house. MADRID (AP) - A U.S. from utility companies, worked towns. In Rockville, Gregory St. which homes and other the Pacific coast, barely felt and Mr. and Mrs. Whitney The basement door was military cargo piane crashed 40 into the night to restore ser - Reports of finding the forms Germain of Lawrence St., a buildings tumbled. The craters the tremor. Jacobs of 62 Alexander St. blown out and they could see, miies east of Madrid Tuesday vice. came from Lt. (^1. Marvin Herald newsboy, found some of today recalled their night, and the Spanish Air (See Page Eighteen) Ross of Gilead and Randy Sim the forms near his home. Upwards of 7,000 electric experiences in that storm. Ministry said 24 of the 25 per customer were without power Jacobs was a Manchester sons alMard were killed. at one time or another during - Herald reporter from 1954 to The C141 Starlifter jet was Swedish Gunmen day. Powi^r companies reported 1956 and is now administrative based at McGuire Air Force half of the town of Washington assistant to the Health Center Base in New Jersey and was en still out at dawn. Several hun Planning Committee at the route from Athens, Greece, to Surrender form 7.01 dred customers in northwestern University of Connecticut.