The Springfield News-Leader from Springfield, Missouri • 3

Storms 3a Wednesday. Mfh 17,1932 Missouri -1 lit" I -w i if, Is Stufl PtuxoaBryan Oiifliby nJ Mylr Coopar Ray and jmi jon txjitl thew earth-htteed home in Cd.if Springs adacn! to Missoun S4 bocausa they thought a basement noma. as safe besides txng eorgy ef1icn( Monday night that illusion duxj when a tornado dropped out a storm surging northeast out of Ota noma and destroyed it By Tuesday morning. Ray Jones (abovt, with coMee Cup) could onty sit in front ot the rums ot the home while Jamie tried to comfort their daughter, Brandy, in the after math of the storm They werenl the only ones trying to recover from the trauma ot the tornado, though, as authorities reported 38 persons were injured in Cedar County and one woman. Lois Smith.

75. of El Dorado Springs, was lulled In addition, at least su mobile homes and seven houses were destroyed leaving scenes such as the one pictured in the aerial photograph above Authorities estimated the damage in Cedar County at $2 million Kansas 1 4 yjimf trj -Mr is i 1 i HiiiilWtil X' 7 J7m Staff PhotoiRon Tarver and Mik PanpraM Sherry Sharp (above) was one of the residents of Mulberry, who was trying to dig personal way through Mulberry, the tornado demolished the town's general store, several mobile homes effects out of the rubble Tuesday morning after a tornado virtually sliced the town of 650 in half and many houses that had been built 40 to 50 years ago, Crawford County Undersheriff Lynn about 8 30 Monday night. Ms. Sharp was looking for the personal effects of her mother, Anna Fields said. At least eight residents were Injured, and scenes such as the one above in which a Copeland, who was in the house when the twister hit and suffered several broken bones.

On its car was wedged under a roof were commonplace, Fields said. Oklahoma 'It. i.x?. y-: i 1 United Press International i houses. The tornado cleared a swath about 21 blocks long and up to five blocks wide.

At least 57 people were injured, authorities said, and property damage was estimated at $30 million. Elsewhere in dklahoma, tornadoes struck Ada, Hoidenville, Konawa, Marietta, and Lenapah, leaving at least 92 people hurt and at least one person dead. Scores of mobile homes and other struc Cpl. Bill Cole (above, left) and Sgt. Bobby Long were among Oklahoma National Guardsmen who stood guard with ax handles over the wreckage of stores and homes destroyed Monday night in after a tornado gouged a path through the city's downtown section.

After sweeping through the business section, the tornado blew through several homes, pushing some of them, such as the one pictured above right, several feet off their foundations and into adjacent tures were destroyed..