Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 14

SECTION ONE THE CLARION-LEDGER, JACKSON. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, T953 PAGt Words And Pictures Tell Tornado Story At Vicksburg wi'Muuianifi, i .41 I 4 i vr ry i 1 I I '1 A v. 1 74 Ik I I i I 1 1 I jr frf PORTABLE LIGHT UNIT set up In the Isle of the Saenrer aids rescue teams in bringing out the injured. (Photo my Cliff Bingham.) SIAX DISCOVERS WTFE blnj Ukrn from colli sed Saenfcr Theatre. George Mitchell, with back camera watchlaz rescue teams, discover hi a own wie-, critically injured, taken from wreckage.

(Photo by Cliff Bint-ham.) ANXIOUS PARENTS watch outside the Saenger Theatre as children are taken from the nearly collapsed building, where a typical Saturday crowd of children watched the movie as the storm hit Vicksburf. (Photo, by Cllf Bingham) 7a A -v to 4 ia, 111- 'U mil, AS-. I If i t' tzl 1 A u-w it i a 4 A COVERED WTTI1 DEBRIS were Vicksburg streets when emergency crews made way Into the stricken city to relieve the injured. Injured and dead were dragged from similar, scenes. (Photo by Cliff Bingham) SEARCHING INSIDE COLLAPSED THEATRE Officers and volunteers bring injured from partly demolished building which was mainly filled with children.

(Photo by Cliff Bingham.) ALL PITCH IN Policemen, patrolmen, boy scouts, all pitch In to clear the streets of Vicksburg for ambulances from Jackson, Natcbei, Memphis, and other cities who sent emergency help. (Photo by Cliff Bingham) jwas a deafening roar and the shook." I Mrs. Perkins said she stumbled through the darkness into the street Tornado Youngster Pictures Scene In Theatre TL lir.es still stood In residential fringes along the storm's path. Official reports 'of the vicksburg tornado filtered slowly out of the city, but Gen. John R.

Hardin, president of the Mississippi River Commission, toured the damage roared up Mulberry Street where stores and buildings were damaged, skipped over to Washington Street, main street of Vicksburg. then on third bounce struck the Saneger Theater. Mrs. Gladys Perkins, manager of the Saenger. said 34 children (Continued From Pt I Store Owner Tells How Storm Struck 'Guess It Just Wasn't My Turn' VICKSBURG, Dec.

5 downtown Vicksburg was blown in. 5 The Red Cross rushed a 10-per- i lie i ouin Desiae Him Didn't Make It son disaster team into the area with 150 units of blood serum for use In shock. wunout Knowing exacuy wnat caa happened. Wlhin seconds, part of the audience mostly adults toward the exit streamed out screaming the roof had fallen in. Walls of the Mississippi Hardware Co.

on Washington street collapsed. Early reports said 12 persons were pinned underneath the wreckage but there was no 1 (were seated toward the front screen. The roof, she said, caved iin from the front about halfway 'up the building. Part was caught, the stage. Half cf the side' i walls also fell in.

TTi Htrht. BiifMn1v flirkprprt; area and said: "The city is in a complete state of disorganization. A four blocks of buildings are a shambles. The business section of the main street was very badly hit. I believe there are many bodies inside V1CKSBURO.

Dec. 5 Roger Powers is only nine j'ears Ambulances from throughout the area cirened their way toward where hospital facilities Bill Login, hardware dealer, leaned against the wall of his demolished store tonight and sighed. "A half hour ago." he said. "I wouldn't have given three cents for my chances In there." He had been in the store in the ths stores, but we can't get into and went out." she said. "There' rapid verification.

were strained beyond capacities. The injured lay on floors of cor them. -i ti. "Everyone is trying to help but ridors. Doctors and nurses labored among the wost hurt, in dining rooms.

old. But, his eyes tonight looked dead with the dullness you see sometimes in old men. Roger got that look in IS minutes inside Vicksburg's Saenger Theater torJght. It was Vicksburg's tornado look. His voice was clear, however, when he said: conditions are chaotic right now." middle of the business district, i Communications were snarled wjien Vicksburg's worst tornado i ripped through the city and in five! Two big trouble ppots developed after the storm.

First was the Saenger Theater, where 73 persons beyond much help In the worst of the downtown storm area. Some minutes caused a million dollars damage. were inside. Thirty-four were children. Most of the injured reported early came from this building.

"There were 10 of us in there." "I was in the front row when he said, pointing to the pile of haunting it. "Just his hand was sticking out. A downtown hardware store held stone, brick and lumber that once the roof fell In." 12 persons. It was flattened. was a retail-wholesale hardware "He was dead.

I think." "No. he wasn't." replied his He paused for a second, his eyes wandering here and there, one Mayor- Fat Kelly said damage to the city of Vicksburg would "run is sure to be yours when you buy Baldwin's marvelous new spinet organ the Orga-sonic Stop in today prove to yourself that Baldwin'! Orga-sonic spinet organ is just the family gift you have been looking for. hand going to the bandage that mother as her son's voice died away. ito the millions." 1 covered a big gash on his head His other hand was clutched tight Witnesses said the tornado came She looked at reporters and you knew she lied. from across the Mississippi River.

store. "I heard the wind and said That's a tornado Then I heard the front glass blow in. I decided the best thing to do would be to go out back. "We couldn't. The back door was jammed shut with debris.

The building was shaking so we went ly in the comforting hands of his mother. "It pinned me under the seats with a lot of other guys. It seemed like a long time before they pulled down Into the basement and hid 'A under a concrete staircase. We listened to the building falling down." Finally, after what seemed like a lifetime. Logan said he and the me out.

Just my bead was sticking out." Those shocked eyes watched his mother. Roger was quiet now but his mother's anguished face told the story of that twitching body others decided the blow was over .1 -VT and left by the rear basement they pulled from the wreckage of the Saenger. door. "I don't know," he said wearily, "the Lord was with us. I guess.

My warehouse in the next block The boy's voice rose again. "The men came and began digging me out. When they dug out my seat they found another guy." The voice rose a bit. hysteria was flattened. guess it just wasn't my turn.

EXAMINING WRECKAGE OF CAR flattened by the tornado are rescue teams on a downtown Vk-ksburg Street. This scene was typical of many automobiles demolished by the storm. (Photo by Cliff Bingham.) Jackson, State Rush To Help Vicksburg emergency surgical teams in Jack i son were ordered to "standby'' in the event they are needed at ti Naval Reserve Units were In Vicksburg or standing by awaiting calls for service. Col. William H.

Craig said that 14 regular army of lice 5 and 24 enlisted regular army men were dis Vicksburg. Dr. Lawrence W. Long state chairman of the Emergency Medi cal Service Committee of Civil De I All neighboring towns and cities patched to the scene to give any as fense, said that nine emergency sistance needed. The Third Army surgical teams in Jackson were or sprang to the aid of the stricken city of Vicksburg with the first Headquarters in Atlanta authorized dered to "standby" in the event the issue of supplies, bedding and they are needed at Vicksburg.

Iran and Britain Renew Relations I news that the tornado had hit there. Ambulances from Jackson, and all surrounding towns, and from as cio nun as neeaea. HJ Dr. Long talked to Dr. Gus Street frffasonic The Mississippi Air National Guard flew all of its transport in Vicksburg early in the night and far away as Memphis, sped into the the latter informed Dr.

Long that Blood cny xo rescue tne injured planes to the area equipped with The Orga-Kmie take lew tpce than a cpinet piano and is priced to fit your budget liberal term, of course. plasma from a Jackson hospital litter and first Aid hnrmiiM "at the present" available medical personnel were able to handle the Baldwin's new Spinet Organ IT Iranlr-d 'rom the Greenville Army Air Ten disaster workers from the TEHRAN. Iran. Dec. emergency cases.

and Britain announced today they rorce uase was rusned into the American Red Cross area head-cltT- quarters In Atlanta were ordered Lee M. Taylor, vice president of the Mississippi Power and Light Among the first National Guard to the scene to assist the Warren are resuming diplomatic relations. Both expressed confidence of fi-rally settling the multi-million dol Two Locations: COMING TO JACKSON IN PERSON units ordered to Vicksburg by Major General Pat Wilson were the said that he had been advised by company officials in Vicksburg lar oil dispute that led Mohammed that power haa Been restorea we Mossadegh to break the ties Oct. following Jackson units: Hq. and On Saturday night, December 12.

there will be a thrilling Song Festi hospitals and a large number of crewmen were busy restoring ser val at the City Auditorium in which you can hear the Beggs Quartet, consisting of Truitt Roberts, baritone; Howard Crawford, bass; E. T. vice as fast as possible. Ray Bras- McKinney, second tenor; L. A.

Crawford, first tenor, and Mrs. Jimmle well, operations vice president of the power company, is in Vicksburg directing overall operations. County Chapter. In Jackson the Hinds-Rankin County Chapter reopened the Chapter House on North State Street to handle hundreds of calls coming in from all over the state from friends and relatives of Vicksburg people. The Jackson Chapter also supplied 150 units of serum-albumin (equivalent of blood plasma) and had a long list of doctors and nurses standing by for call if needed.

As Civil Defense Service opened its offices Dr. Lawrence W. Long state chairman of the Emer Scott at the keyboard. The famous Tall Men with Swain Lambert at the piano, the outstanding Mt. Olive Melody Boys with little Howard Rutland.

11-year-old singing sensation, and the sensational Cainwood 120 W. Capitol 511 Yazoo Juir off N. Stars 18. 1352. Hq.

Detachment; Co. B. 106th The elderly Nationalist leader Hq. Hq. 1st 155 Inf Co.

then Iran's Premier and now a C. 155 mf. Reg; Hq Hq 150th prisoner on trial on a charjre of jTtansportation Ba; Hq Hq Co. treason sent British diplomats' 136 Transportation group: Hq Hq packing after Prime Minister Ba 115 AAA Ba; 31st Recon Churchill's government rejected' 114th MP some from 183rd his demands for patching up thelPAC Sq: and from Hattiesburg the row over his nationalization off365 Ord group; from Natchez. Co.

Iranian assets of the British-owned jB 155th Inf Reg and Battery D. Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. The chief of 204th AAA Ba. these demands wa for 43 million Br early Sunday morning prac- fu The Alabama Highway Patrol Quartet with Doyle Smith, the nation's most thrilling tenor. said they were sending Colonel Brown to Vicksburg to help direct This aggregation of gospel and spiritual harmony singers are performing for the benefit of the Methodist and Baptist orphan children.

You can purchase tickets In advance at H. L. Green's Record emergency operations, and the Mississippi State Highway Patrol rushed medical supplies from the Baptist hospital in Jackson to the Vicksburg area. Bar at 50c and $1.00 or on the night of the performance at 65c and gency Medical Service Committee pouna ail cr the National Guard $1.25 at the Auditorium. Enjoy a big evening of song.

rsvalties. iVnits In the state as well as the of Civil Defense, said that nine.