The Times Herald from Port Huron, Michigan • Page 3

THE PORT HURON TIMES HERALD TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1953 PACE THREE TIMES HERALD WANT ADS PHONE 7171 Farms In Jeddo Area Show Heavy Storm Damage I wJ2S THE ROOF OF this wrecked shed landed on a parked truck, and other parts crashed Into a nearby automobile. TWO stand forlornly along bales of straw and rubble of what used to be a barn at the J. Burch farm near Jeddo. 1 1 1 Will It! I I plf Vfm Fn5: r1 1 A 7 I 'Most Terrible Thing 1 Ever Saw Flint Man Says Disaster And Anguish Twister Leaves Trail Of Ruin On Ohio Area It was Flint, June 9 AP "It was horrible the most terrible thing I ever That's the way John J. of Coldwater, (By The Associated Press) road, described the tornado that soread death and i 1 y-v rrti i i 1 i uowiing ween, June me tornaao over thig neighborhood.

swept through Wood County Monday niffht left trag- i Turbin and his wife and two relatives escaped edy and near tragedy its wake. Freak mishaps junhurt) while neighbors were left in pain and death, told a tale of disaster and anguish. their homes leveled by the twisting devilish wind Gerald Seville, who lives on Bloomdale road, that hit the area about 8:45 p.m. Monday, eight miles south of Bowling Green, said the storm! it was preceded by rain and hailstones "as big as hen's; i(J noxrT VKnvff wW rp eggs. ivwutu i uii.

ij vuin, oaxu ill ucw lluctlllclH, His son, Carl, whispered "thank God, thank HE SAID HE heard a roar and looked up to see' it: i a ir -i tt -it vj VyU Carl and his wife came in search of the Turbins when they heard of the tornado. When they saw the sagging Turbin home, Mrs. Carl Turbin, said: "I just knew they were dead." Instead of finding death, they found life. Carl's father, his terrifying experience, was out helping rescue workers when the son got there. FRIENDS AN'D neighbors of Mr.

and Mrs. Ernst Turloff, 83 G5 Lake Shore road, search the ruins of the couple's home. Mri. Turloff is in Port Huron Hospital with shoulder injuries and cuts and bruises. me cnaracrerisnc iunnei in xne SKy.

ne saia ne ran to his house, grabbed his wife and drove south in their car, out of the storm's path. The tornado missed the Seville house, but hit another across the way, stopping an electric kitchen clock at 7:15 p.m. Nick Blassius, 54, who lives two miles east of US-25 on Ohio 281, said he was working on a farm east of his home when he saw the twister. He said he jumped into a car and raced to his home. He found it completely flattened.

His three children were buried underneath the rubble. But his oldest daughter. Evelyn. 17. was able to free herself and rescue his two other children, Bernard, 5, and Carolyn, 11.

Only Bernard required medical treatment. Ott Blosse said his brand new house was completely destroyed. He escaped injury. Blosse said the house was blown off its foundations. Mr.

and Mrs. Ernest Fullmer dashed into their house when they heard the first roar of the tornado. THE YOUNGER Turbin's relief knew no bounds when they learned the entire family was safe. Carl and his six-year-old son, Dennis, had just left the elder Turbin's home minutes before the twister struck. They were stowing some of Carl's belongings in the barn which was blown away after they left it.

John Turbin's recollection of the tornado was "a black looking cloud," with a terrific wind velocity." if lliSaBll TrWi I I If rz: If "7 Sir "-iii flHrr tit 1 If Iff With him and Mrs. Turbin were Chris Carlson, La-er, rescue workers found him in a field hundreds of yards from the home, dead. His wife was injured. Turbin's brother-in-law, and Mrs. Elsie Booth, Tur- Only the foundation was left on their house.

jbin slster wn0 llves Mulligan, Mich. I "I looked out the dining room window' Turbin A REPORTER said it appeared that a giant called "and saw an 18-inch-wide maple-tree uj 4u at and twisted right out of the ground. There was a U1UUU1 avc terrific noise and I felt something strike the house i i ii mi meni oi iurniiure was iouna xne area, xnere was awful force no trace of the household articles, although searchers combed an area for hundreds of yards around the house. "A GIANT HAND seemed to push me suddenly and I flew through the doorway into the kitchen against the stove. My wife and sister were sitting at the kitchen table.

Chris was in the dining room. "Let's get out of here," Turbin warned them. Then he grabbed a two-by-four that had fallen from the ceiling and smashed a front dining room window and all four were safe from the savage wind Outside, Turbin found his barn was gone. His garage and breezeway attached to his home were A State Highway Patrolman reported seeing three chickens plastered flat against the furnace of one house, the only article which remained after the great wind blew through it. An automobile, travelling on US-25, was hurled through a woods as though propelled from a giant sling shot.

A huge truck loaded with freight was picked up and transplanted off the same road as though it were a child's plaything. Moved 400 feet, it was found intact, without any trace of its driver. gone. His home was slapped off its foundation, and part of a room was in a nearby field. But death came calling anyway.

Turbin found jthe body of a neighbor on his lawn. The corpse had this rural area, dozens of farm buildings been wind-tossed at least 400 feet from a home across mere either flattened completely or ruined. I the road. 4 NEIGHBORS OF THE T. W.

Coopers, foreground, try to coax the family from their demolished home. But at the time this photograph was taken they still had refused to leave..