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he Weather Forecast PARTLY SUNNY, MILD Temp. Range: Fahrenheit 54 to 68 Celsius 12 to Complete Weather, Tides On Page 2 start uvery a jj Dav Riirht ESTABLISHED 1764, VOL. HARTFORD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1979- 88 PAGES 20C cr wmaviY 1.20 tornado tears ihrougn eavin One Dead, Hundreds. Injured, Homeless PEaiifpj prom if' 'j 9 1 1 Windsor Locks Badly Battered A fierce tornado struck without warning in Windsor Locks and Windsor Wednesday afternoon, killing at least one person and cutting a 'mile-wide, three-mile-long swath of destruction that left hundreds injured or homeless. The hardest hit area, where scores of businesses and homes were li leveled, ran from Brad- ley International Air- Other PhotOS port in Windsor Locks no fa along Rt.

75 to Colonial ages 11 4il, 5U Village, a middle-in- a mmii Homes Reduced to Rubble nock section of Windsor Wednesday afternoon in the aftermath of a tornado that struck unexpectedly and devastat- Wreckage as far as the eye can see litters the ground, in the Meakin Drive and Pioneer Drive area of the Poquo- 4 found our little dog yet. I heard him crying." Others were separated from family members during rescue operations and sat sobbing in hospital waiting rooms. One little girl, sitting in Mount Sinai Hospital in Hartford, learned that her mother had been taken to Hartford Hospital where the worst cases were reportedly treated Peter Kula, 65, of 10 Oxcart Drive in Windsor Locks, went outside to close his garage door and saw a big tree crash into the side of his house. "It sounded like 10 jet planes were coming at you," he said. In The Colonial Village development of 65 homes, where Kula lives, 40 homes were said to be uninhabitable.

About a dozen See Suddenness, Page 49 Hospitals as I ed the area. Dozens of homes were leveled (Courant Photo by JudyGriesedieck). Many Trapped By Twister's Sudden Arrival come housing development in Windsor where 40 of 65 houses were made uninhabitable and 12 structures were destroyed. The tornado, which struck at 2:55 p.m. with wind gusts of up to 86 miles an hour, virtually demolished the main industrial section of Windsor Locks, causing millions of dollars in damages.

Helicopters Damaged Emergency medical teams worked for hours transporting scores of people suffering from broken bones and cuts from flying glass to hospitals in Hartford and Springfield. Their work was hampered because most of the Air National Guard helicopters at Bradley had been destroyed or damaged. Gov Grasso, who toured the area by helicopter, declared a curfew for the area along Rt. 75 from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.

today. No one was to be allowed into the area except residents and emergency personnel. She activated 200 National Guardsmen to patrol throughout the night to prevent looting and keep order. They were assisted by about 60 state troopers. "I was absolutely horrified," Mrs.

Grasso said after viewing the dmage. "I have never seen that kind of damage. I've only seen it on television and here it is happening to my neighbors," said the governor, who has a home in Windsor Locks. Her home was not damaged. State officials Wednesday night listed one dead, 10 persons in critical condition, 118 who got hospital care for serious injuries and another 300 persons who received emergency first aid treatment at Union School in Windsor Locks.

Meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Windsor Locks were taken by surprise when the tornado developed out of the rain storm. Radar equipment had failed to pick up the tornado because it struck Too close to the airport, said meteorologist Roland Laro. Headings on the equipment showed the winds had dropped to about 8 miles an hour, then gusted almost instantaneously to 86 miles an hour. A few minutes later they dropped to 45 miles an hour. Bradley airport was shut down and the main terminal evacuated when the building lost power.

About 125 stranded passengers were transported to Hartford by bus. The tornado, the first confirmed in Connecticut since 1976, demolished most of the. vintage warplanes at the Bradley Air Museum, which has one of the largest collections of airplanes in the country. Hundreds of automobiles parked in lots in Windsor Locks were severely damaged. About 10 tractor-trailers were flipped on their sides, some draped with fallen power lines.

Wednesday's storm also caused flash flooding in New Britain, Southington and Meriden. The heavy rains flooded streets, filled basements, brought down tree limbs and blacked out traffic signals throughout much of New Britain. The Connecticut Red Cross opened an emergency shelter for the homeless at Union School on Church Street in Windsor Locks. The agency also said that it had scores of calls from area people throughout the region offering their homes to storm victims. About 10,000 families in the area lost their electric power.

A spokesman for Northeast Utilities said that it may take more than two See Deadly, Page 22 I 3 v. 1 -'i gali, 16, a junior at Notre Dame. "He had no difficulty accepting us he fit right in with us teen-agers," he said. At the garden, several times the pope responded to the teen-ager's cheering with the word "woo" the Polish equivalent of "wow." In his message delayed repeatedly by cheers, whistles and applause the pontiff urged the youths to accept responsibility to the church and to live a life patterned after Christ. "The church needs you the world needs you because the world needs Christ," he told them.

"A a men, a a men," the teen-agers sang back to the pope, when he had finished his talk. Students from Notre Dame said they had no regrets about having to get up See Youths, Page 18 Today's Chuckle Remember when you looked forward to receiving the salary you can't live on today? Wrecked Pieces of historic warplanes lie scattered at the Bradley Air Museum in Windsor Locks after Wednesday's tornado struck without warning. The 40 planes de stroyed or severely damaged belong to one of the largest airplane collections in the country (Courant Photo by John Long and Cross Country Aviation Teen-Agers Rally for Pontiff Aircraft As the pope entered Madison Square Garden in a special vehicle, flashbulbs popped, three bands began to play, girls waved and squealed and boys jumped up and down, whistling and clapping. The 59-year-old pope de Inside Cope With Injuries The tornado struck so suddenly that there was no escape. Some people huddled in a cafe with the doors locked, one man climbed into a van and a woman just watched in disbelief as her house fell around her.

In their homes, in their cars or at work, people reacted with the same fear and shock. Afterward, everyone had a story to tell. Penny Mahler, a 53-year-old woman who lives in a section of Windsor where the twister struck hard, told her story from a wheelchair in the emergency room at Hartford Hospital. She was walking up the stairs to the aecond floor when the storm hit. "The downstairs door hit me and threw me across the room, I looked up and I saw all the windows on the east side and they just all blew in.

Mrs. Mahler said. The woman found herself exposed to the sky, with the rain pouring down on her, pile of furniture and walls all around her and the keys to her organ flying at her. "We've only got the foundation left. I prayed very hard," she said.

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Page 25. veloped immediate rapport' with his young audience, speaking to it as if carrying on an intimate conversation. "He is a man who can relate to all kinds of people, young or old. He adjusts to everyone," said Michael Do- Story- Page Farm News 33 Feminine Topics 10 Legals 10,59 Lifestyle 51-57 Obituaries 24 Sketches 87 Sports 73-79 Sydney Omarr 87 Television 58 Thursday's Child 20 Towns 45-48 By JACKIE ROSS Staff Reporter NEW YORK Pope John Paul II received an ecstatic reception from 20,000 screaming teen-agers at Madison Square Garden Wednesday, in a welcome usually reserved for rock singers and basketball stars. RELATED STORIES ON PAGE 18 The teen-agers gave the pope symbols of their generation: a pair of blue jeans, a T-shirt, a guitar and a tape of contemporary music.

The pontiff had asked to meet with youths of the New York area during his seven-day visit to the United States. About 500 youths from the diocese of Bridgeport attended the rally, including 28 teen-agers from Notre Dame High School in Fairfield who almost didn't arrive in time because of transportation problems. Hartford Courant Classi-' fied Ad Dept. open Wednesday and Thurs. evenings 5 to 8.

Telephone service only. 249-6492. Advt. Planning the airport and organized care there. Ambulances were alerted by their own radio network, state and police officials, and headed through the tangled traffic into Windsor Locks and Windsor.

The hospitals all instituted their own disaster plans clearing out space, keeping personnel on overtime, and calling in more doctors, nurses and technicians to -cope with the still unknown number of casualties. i "The lack of communica-. tions was devastating," state Emergency Medical Services Director Christopher Gentile said from his office. "We couldn't get anything together. It's a credit to everyone that it all worked as well as it did." Two among all the injured were transported by helicop- lance drivers and even civilian passers-by who brought the first casualties to the hospitals.

Rumors of helicopters en route to the hospitals triggered the clearing of parking lots, the closing of streets and the stationing of personnel on rooftops at the hospitals. But no aircraft brought casualties into the city. The false reports were just one example of the lack of coordinated direction, officials admitted. Mount Sinai Hospital was the first to go into action, alerted by its first-aid station at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks at 3 p.m. that a storm had ripped through the area.

The hospital's director of ambulatory services, Dr. Charles A. Parton, sped to "See Hoffman for By DAVID H.RHINELANDER Ambulance drivers and emergency room workers treated scores of persons injured in Wednesday's violent storm and did it without clear direction or leadership. "Disaster plan? It's nonexistent," admitted Dr. Philip A.

Stent of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, while trying to learn the extent of the destruction. "We have no system in this city to handle disasters," echoed Dr. Howard J. Wet-stone of Hartford Hospital.

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