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1 Thureday. March 15. 1990 7ORHAD0ES The Lincoln Star Fag i Lawrence residents assess i Ml if wor Ic i 4X i. --v 'i 4 iff 3 Volunteers help clear the way to rebuild. By Paul Hammel oiTh Lincoin Sm LAWRENCE The reddened eyes of Jerome Uaxour scanned the farmstead that took years to buDd and 30 seconds to destroy.

Tuesday afternoon's tornado tit lb-ma's farm at the southeast edge of Lawrence especially hard, levelling several (arm buMngs, ripping the top story off his borne, demolishing two pickups and a grain truck, and killing aa estimated 40 head of cattle and sheep. Some of the animals had to be shot because of their storm-related injuries. They were then picked up by a by-products firm. WAS a buMng there, there was a building there, there was a house. said Mazour, 62, pointing across the farm that his daughter, Linda, described as "a garbage yard Mazour, his wife, Rita, and a brother and his wife drove east out of Lawrence and escaped the storm.

His home wasn't so lucky. 1 knew it was an gone, the whole 37 years I put the son of a bitch," he said Down the street in Lawrence, the hardest hit town in Tuesday's storm, the borne of distant relatives William and LaVeta Mazour was ripped from its foundation and shredded into backyard confetti Across a field. Stan Pallas' home had been stamped "condemned" by state fire inspectors after being moved off the foundation. A shed and ga- Paw womfnwuwCTew Star A basement was all that remained of the William Mazour home in Lawrence after Tuesday's tornado. return to normal life: a funeral was held Wednesday inormng as scheduled If are than 200 attended.

DOZENS OF VOLUNTEERS loaded debris by hand or with loaders volunteered by local farmers or hauling firms. Others boarded up blown-out windows or secured battered roofs from the cooL cloudy weather. The southeast quarter of town remained roped off to sightseers. Officials expected dollar estimates of damage oa Friday, after inspections Wednesday by Red Cross, civil defense and state fire Ron Oaklund of Blue Hifl directed traffic at the east edge of town and helped his boss, Lawrence farmer Mick Karmazin, load debris from a damaged home. Oaklund, 27, didn't know the owner.

It didn't matter, he said. "We got our work done and it looked fcke they could use -more help than they had." AT THE LEGION CLUB, Jane Streff and two dozen other wives of Lawrence firemen served food and coffee to the 350 to 400 workers who flooded town. "There's a lot of good people here and. they an help each other out," said Streff. She expected most Lawrence residents to rebuild, except, perhaps, for, some nearing retirement The town will rebound, she said, even after the devastation, which included a flattened set of lights at the town ban-field.

"Well play away," said Streff, "but well play ban." rage were gone. NEXT DOOR, Lyle and Joann Hoett-ing, owners of the Lawrence Grain Elevator, were counting up the damage: a condemned and roofless home, three vehicles extensively damaged, two quon-set huts destroyed, a three-car garage missing, a grain dryer and two storage tanks demolished Their son, Rick, who had traveled from Omaha to help with the cleanup, estimated damages at wen beyond $200,000. Two Lawrence residents were transported to Hastings' Mary Lanning Hospital Wednesday evening with undisclosed stress-related symptoms. But for the most part, residents of tne 350 population village were struggling to "5r 1 mi mmrtl liniaai llm Worker at tha Jeroma Mazour farm on Wednesday found a pregnant ewe. nervous but healthy, underneath the rubble.

Storms exact high price on rural power districts Tornado damage cleared; BN tracks between Lincoln, Alliance reopen The Burlington Northern tracks 'be-' tween Lincoln and Alliance reopened at 4:50 p.m. Wednesday after tornadoes derailed portions of two trains Tuesday, The tornado that cut a swath through York County about 6:30 p.m Tuesday knocked over 57 Burlington Northern empty coal cars west of Waco. Jim Blosser, spokesman for BN, said the preliminary damage estimates to the train at Waco was 855,000. That westbound train with a total of lit cars and four locomotives was oa a siding because of a tornado that struck another BN coal train eight miles west of Grand Island at 5:45 pm. The damage west of Grand Island included the derail-' ment of 47 cars.

Power-line damage wfll cost power districts hundreds of thousands of uninsured dollars, Nebraska Rural Electric' Association general manager Rex Car penter said Wednesday. Districts hardest nit were the South Central Rural Public Power District, headquartered in Nelson; the York County RPPD, in York; and the Butler County RPPD, in David City. Sustaining less damage were the Cornhusker Public Power District and the Southern Nebraska, Seward County and Howard Greeley (St Paul) RPPDs, Carpenter said. ABOUT 101 South Central customers were without power Wednesday after tornadoes carved a swath 50 miles long and one-quarter mile wide through Nuckolls County. Carpenter said three neighboring rural electric systems had sent crews to help More than 200 poles went down in the area of York and Fillmore counties that is served by York County RPPD.

Power was expected to be returned to the last 40 customers by Thursday morning. The most damage occurred in Butler County. Carpenter said the storm broke 200 poles and brought down about two about 840,000 per mile of transmission line, be said And that's under norma) conditions. Overtime pay and temporary fixes win drive the costs even higher. Power lines and poles are not insured for storm damage, Carpenter said But districts usually budget for emergencies, so repair costs wont necessarily result in higher rates for customers.

Tuesday's storm had the effect of a "double whammy" on the state's rural electric system. Carpenter said Last week's ice and snow storm caused more outages than Tuesday's tornadoes. "Last week, it was tough because so few systems were not affected," Carpenter said "About 12 systems were ex Lancaster County storm damage light miles of transmission line. Two substations were out of service, BUTLER COUNTY'S crew of 11 linemen worked an night Tuesday. On Wednesday, a total of 18 lineman from the Burt County, Cornhusker, Stanton County, Polk County and Loup Valley districts came in to lend their hands.

REA has acted as a clearinghouse to facilitate such mterdistrict cooperation, Cunningham said Because of the extent of damage in Butler County, he said, some customers may be without power for a few days. Costs wont be totaled for a week or more, Carpenter said But the number of downed poles gives some idea of the expense involved There usually are 18 poles in a mile, Carpenter said Thus, 200 downed poles would amount to more than 10 miles of downed lines if the poles were all in a row. IT COSTS $10,000 to $12,000 to construct a mile of distribution line, and the school, which serves about 375 Storm damage in Lancaster County was light in comparison to other counties. At Eagle Elementary School the roof of a storage the school, was lifted and droooed Virtu- pupils, nor its playground, were damaged. He said he was aware of no other notable storm damage in the town about 10 miles east of Lincoln.

In Lincoln wind blew down the sign at 'Pickles music store at 1637 P' St The $14,000 sign landed in the middle of the streetand had to be towed away. Many geese killed; cranes find shelter tensively damaged" -I T.ally Mart about 50 jrards to-thecast of ma have been killed. The latest "whammy," however, win the storage building. take longer and cost more to fix, he said. Principal Bin Peterson said neither Several flocks of migrating wild geese north and west of York and near Gresham may have tried to outfly Tuesday night's storm, but failed, a spokeswoman for the York County Sheriffs department said Hail adrninistered the fatal blows.

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Paul Rogers, a local resident and ma jority owner' of the 84-unit motel' jut? York's southern outskirts, said theJoss of the roof over the pool was part of what he estimated as damage from arm that struck about Although the storm nit only the southeast fringe of York directly, Rogers said insurance was not the only reason he considered himself lucky. He said the staff managed to get an guests down into the lobby area before the storm bit and no one was hurt That's not unlucky. That's lucky," he said The motel was closed for damage assessment Wednesday. Rogers said the restaurant might be in use again in two weeks. The rest of the job could take two months.

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