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<br /> SPECIAL FIND—Robert Trembley,8,finds one garage roof caved in on the family cars at s Cow.
<br /> i of his toys,which was buried in the rubble when the. 70 home.
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<br /> Father �.. I ";."r» the ground face-down.Everything
<br /> �•, we have is gone.And the thing ab-
<br /> • out it is,I just got finished paying
<br /> Continued from Page Al off this trailer,"
<br /> his injuries.But I took my mother .J ' G ' To escape the driving storm,
<br /> and went for help,”
<br /> �' Clayton,Danny McCauley,34,Mi-
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<br /> to Duke University Hos -e" ,ti'' chael Chris,6,Lashay Croaker,11,
<br /> pital with a crushed leg and a bro- `' C Helen Croaker, 28, packed into a
<br /> ken back, Larry Talbert was in 1974 White Plymouth sedan•
<br /> stable and improved condition ` '".F -a" We don't hvean thin left,but
<br /> Tuesday. ..r.,"'-> nobody got hurt," Clayton said.
<br /> The storm's next victim would "All we've got is this old car."
<br /> du-
<br /> not escape. 1,-. A quarter of a mile away in a du-
<br /> Across the cow pasture plex on Faucette Mill Road,
<br /> I6-year-old Dion Wells was asleep
<br /> Dipping and diving along soggy in the corner bedroom when the
<br /> farm land,the twister hopped over
<br /> three barbed-wire fences and tornado passed over on its way to
<br /> churned toward the frame house of staff avow bi Barbara torso N�C. 86.
<br /> Mark and Lisa Hall. NEIGHBORS—Robbie Hall,2, didn't pay any tmind to it.And then
<br /> 1 Inside,the family was in a state of cousin and next door neighbor to
<br /> terror and confusion.The couple's Joshua Hall, who died. in the rTheoaftehrmathf off."
<br /> 4-year-old daughter, Megan, had storm, is comforted by his aunt In the aftermath along the tor-
<br /> 'sought refuge by climbing into her Mickey Sti all-Parker. :'•na
<br /> I ' mother's bed, Mvteanwhile, Maik',._ • _ g" f t S path,there was a mixture of
<br /> I had started down the hallway to • � '•• -•^ •�� emoh'ons. ,••
<br /> gad their son, Joshua. y: •'The brick homes of two other• , In the Wells household late Mon-
<br /> Hoursbefore,the family had met 'members of the clan were kicked in day afternoon;practical considers-
<br /> to celebrate what would have been shop on the family compound was hers methods llya search d
<br /> I Joshua's second birthday on
<br /> Tuesday, y launched into the air as the funnel through their belongings and sal-
<br /> There had been cake and picture- couude continued its northeasterly vaged clothes, dishes, anything
<br /> taking and song. with value.
<br /> Mark never made it to his son's In other places,where the dam- j}
<br /> room. Through the woods age was worse or where there was �
<br /> Reaching the height of its feroc- The storm raced a mile and a half loss of life, the operative emotion 1}:
<br /> ity,the storm lifted the Hall's home through pines and hardwoods into was one of dazed bewilderment.
<br /> from its finder block foundation, the middle of the Fairview tom_ On Odie Road,Danny McCauley
<br /> carried it up a slight rise and m111z�'a neighborhood of mobile searched intently amid the wreck-
<br /> slammed it into a line of trees 1 and homes and single-story frame age of his home.
<br /> yards away, When houses touching the city limits.
<br /> Caught up in the flying wreck_ It was the most heavily popu- for, McCauley responded, "My i
<br /> age, three members of the Tamil fated area the storm would touch, [driver's] license; I've got to find
<br /> flew g y and the effect was devastating, my license."
<br /> age, in one direction.
<br /> "Joshua flew the other way,"said Hardly a house escaped some kind And, finally, back at the Hall
<br /> LeLeslie Hall,the toddler s aunt who of damage;many were demolished. compound off U.S. 70,24-year-old
<br /> ss next door. od went out wo Mamie Clayton,44,and the four Troy Haithcock roamed the wreck-
<br /> flashlights,but nobody could find other members of her family were age,trying to come to grips with the
<br /> him for found asleep when the whirling columns
<br /> a while.'They fo him of air snatched their Odie Road mo- "This is so hard to believe," he
<br /> death of his 2-year-old cousin,
<br /> way or therein the woods."
<br /> He was later pronounced dead at bile home up into the air, and said,gazing over the littered land-
<br /> th He was later pronounced
<br /> North Carolina dumped them onto the ground. scape."It's so strange,we just cele-
<br /> Hospitals. "It lifted everything at one time," brated Joshua's birthday."
<br /> In the thicket near where the boy she said,"while we were lying on
<br /> was found, a mangled children's
<br /> swing set was Iodged in the crook
<br /> i of a tree.An automobile,slung like
<br /> ' a toy,was wrapped around an oak.
<br /> Even.after taking Joshua's life,
<br /> I the tornado,moving on,wasn't fin-
<br /> ished with its assault against the
<br /> Halls.
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