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he Pes Moines Register DM NATIONAL NEWS Thursday, July 27, 2000 Page 3A Minnesota tornado kills 1, razes homes Storm strikes Granite Falls, other areas .1 I JIM BILNAMEASSOCIATED PRESS Aftermath: A tornado in Granite Falls, Tuesday left heaps of debris and litter Wednesday, including the town's yellow warning siren and a wrecked semitrailer truck. HOMESHOV XEXPO2000 'ly kJ By ASHLEY GRANT ASSOCIATED PRESS Granite Falls, Minn. Mayor Dave Smiglewski was on his way to pick up pizza for his family when a tornado materialized from the west with a swirling mass of debris. It snaked along a 12-block path Tuesday, killing one man and injuring at least 14 people while tearing up 300 to 350 homes. As many as five funnel clouds were spotted at one time.

"It was gut-wrenching, sickening to see," Smiglewski said. By Wednesday morning, power had been restored to all the homes possible in the town of some 3,000 people, authorities said. The only confirmed death was that of Arty Swanson, described by neighbors as elderly. Smiglewski said Swanson was crushed by his own pickup truck. Fourteen people were treated for cuts and bruises, said George Gerlach, administrator of Granite Falls Municipal Hospital.

People, dogs crouch As the storm swept in around 6 p.m., 10 people and three dogs crouched in a small bathroom at the SuperAmerica gas station. "We didnt hear any sirens, nothing. The skies got real dark real fast," cashier Amanda Velde said. Gov. Jesse Ventura sent the National Guard to help with security and debris cleanup.

Emergency workers went house to house through the disaster area, marking Xs on the homes where the safety of the residents could be confirmed. In many places, there were no houses to mark. "There's at least a half-dozen of them that are gone completely," said Paul Krogstad, city public works director. The funnel also toppled portions www.HomeShowExpo2000.com Homes Open Today ury: A tornado tears through hundreds of houses in Granite Falls, lina, Tuesday. One person was killed.

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"I could see insulation pieces some as big as blankets falling from the sky The winds had stopped, but things were still falling. It was so eerie." Near Iowa In extreme southwestern Minnesota, a tornado touched down on a farm near Adrian, about 20 miles northeast of Rock Rapids, but caused only moderate damage. "It came down straight as can be, touched down, then got wider because of all the debris around it," said Jane Hermsen, who was driving past on her way from Freeman, S.D., to Worthington to visit relatives. "We saw it go back up, but then it came down again, horizontally this time. It did that twice before it went up for good." 75 OFF Men's 274-3485 Women's 274-1553 1-600-332-0176 Over 50 Years i Farmland Bacon 16 ox.

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The order to conduct DNA test-tig, issued July 13 by Judge LA. flcConnell Jr. of the Houston bounty Superior Court, had been ought by the Boston Globe. Later, IBS News and two Georgia lewspapers, the Atlanta Journal-institution and the Macon Tele-Faph, were granted permission rom the court to join in the DNA esting. The testing will be paid for ry the news organizations, and is ixpected to take weeks.

Ellis Wayne Felker was execut-id by Georgia in November 1996. his death, he said he was inno-ent of the rape and murder of iveryn Joy Ludlum, 19, in Decem-ler 1981. Ludlum's body was found a rural stream two weeks after he had been reported missing 10 miles south of Atlanta Ludlum, a waitress, met Felker it the Holiday Inn where she vorked. They talked, and she ex-ressed interest in a job at the eather-working shop he owned, iccording to court data Felker in-'ited her to his home for a job in-erview. He was convicted of rinding, raping, and strangling her jefore dumping her body in the tream.

There was contradictory estimony at Felker's trial, regarding the date and time of jidlum's death. Witnesses for the iefense and prosecution differed how long she had been dead vhen her body was discovered. Felker's defense lawyers said heir client could not have had the ime to kill Ludlum, because he had ieen released from prison for an-ither sexual assault conviction and was put under police surveil-ance as soon as Ludlum was re-jorted missing. The prosecution and its wit-lesses, however, convinced the ury that Felker could have used he few hours before the police earned Ludlum was missing to mmit the murder and to dispose )f the evidence. Felker's lawyers used the Perfecting the art of relaxation Win FREE GROCERIES a YEAR tl the game board from Sunday, July 23, Register.

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