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4AThe Jackson Sun Monday, Jan. 1 8, 3 999 nrm STORMS RAKE WEST TENNESSEE rip Continued from cover Cantrell was in his South Jackson mobile home when a tornado hit, lifting the trailer off its foundation. Cantrell was found by his brother, Tommy, who came to his shop beside the trailer on Chester Levee Road to help neighbors clear some of the wreckage. Snider was nearby at Peoples Church on Grove Avenue when three walls and the roof were torn off the one-story building. She died after she was buried under debris at the Jackson church.

"I thought this building was stouter than that, but nothing is stout enough for the power of God," Jerry Snider of Madison County said. He was at the church when his wife was killed. Clumps of pink insulation hung from the trees at the church. Three naked dolls, a mangled bicycle and strips of sheet metal littered the yard. A woman was killed in her Blue Goose Road home in Henderson County and a man inside the house was seriously injured, Assistant Chief Michael Stanford of the Henderson County Fire Department said.

About 30 houses were damaged in the heavy hail and high winds, Stanford said. Officials were unsure Sunday whether a tornado touched down in Henderson County- About 40 houses were damaged or destroyed in the Orchard Hill subdivision in Southeast Madison County, making it one of the hardest-hit areas. "That thing looked like it was a half-mile wide just a dark blue cloud," said Travis Crawford, a 51-year-old resident of. Southeast Madison County. "It sounded like an airplane coming over." The National Weather Service confirmed funnel clouds touched down twice in Madison County and once in Alamo, Henderson and Fayette counties.

"About 12 tornadoes touched down in West Tennessee," said James Duke, chief meteorologist in Memphis. Duke said two tornadoes hit Madison County. One was spotted at McKellar-Sipes Regional Airport at 6:25 p.m. and moved east into town. At about the same time, another tornado touched down in Bemis and moved east toward Beech Bluff, Duke said.

Sun staffers Duane Cross, Jacque Hillman, Todd Kkffman, Kathy D. Thomas and Andy Henion contributed to this story. ''Jr-'- A v'--a, -vj -v-ii'Syr "'-v fx'- VVv-V--. 1 I iJfmm. Sji t-M HELEN COMERThe Jackson Sun Van Phelps and his wife, Judy, embrace after finding each other after a tornado with their children when the storm struck.

At least 12 tornadoes swept through aesiroyea xneir urcnara rim nome. van was ai nome ana juay was ax cnurcn west lennessee on ounaay nigru, wniny nine pbu(ji cimu injunny swica. Storm kills two people in south Madison County 41 itlVA1 v' 1 vrrT .1: brother," said Marie Hale, Tommy Cantrell's sister-in-law, who was at the scene as Cantrell's body was removed. The twister lifted the mobile home from its foundation and dropped it 50 feet away. It also demolished Cantrell's a heating and air conditioning business owned by Tommy Cantrell.

Bill Cantrell's dog, Sam, was inside the shop but survived storm unhurt. Steve Douglas and Marie FJatt live across the street from Peoples Chapel and saw the tornado, tut it did only minor damage to their home. "We actually saw the tornado; it was huge," said Douglas. "It wasn't one of those skinny ones. It was wide." doors of the church when disaster struck.

"I never heard the sirens," he said. "It was just like a freight train coming through." As the workers tossed aside mangled piles of sheet metal and twisted support beams, a voice called from behind the front wall of the church. "She was standing between the foyer and the bathroom, in the hallway," a searcher said. At 8:07 p.m., more than an hour after the tragedy, rescuers found Ann Snider near the front of the church. Cantrell's body was found in the mangled wreckage of his trailer near Peoples Chapel.

Cantrell, 43, was discovered by his brother, Tommy Cantrell, "Tommy came back to get his backhoe to help out and found his By DUANE CROSS and TODD KLEFFMAN The Jackson Sun Ann Snider was at church. Bill Cantrell was just down the road in his trailer. Both died Sunday night when a tornado ripped through south Madison County. Snider's body was found in the rubble of Peoples Chapel Church on Grove Avenue. Her husband of 10 years, Jerry Snider, was wrapped in a blanket and appeared in shock as rescue workers sifted through the wreckage.

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