The Paducah Sun from Paducah, Kentucky • 32

4D The Paducah Sun Saturday, January 23, 1999 .1 "WTO" Jf -v VP Associated Press Beebe, Friends gather around a wrecked home in Beebe. Tornado kills seven in Arkansas foray "0 power to hundreds of residents. "It was something you could just feel it encircling you," said Rhonda Baker as she surveyed the damage to a mall where she was working late processing tax loans. "My ears started popping as everything went black. I couldn't see nothing and I could feel the building shaking." Mobile homes, trees and power lines were also damaged by high winds in Mississippi.

In Greenville, just across the Mississippi River from Arkansas; Lori Wilkins recalled the storm. "It was just like when you watch TV and these big funnel clouds pick up every kind of debris," she said. "It was just like watching something like what I see on 'National Continued from 1D At least 60 people were injured, including 45 in Little Rock. Parts of the state also reported grapefruit-size hail. Four other people were killed in White County, outside the capital.

In hard-hit Beebe, residents were tense as police held them back from seeing the damage. Charles Underwood, a volunteer at the Church of Christ, was embarrassed after asking people how their homes fared during the storm. "They say, 'We have no Underwood said. In Alexandria, an apparent tornado ripped apart businesses and downed electrical lines, cutting Associated Press Massive mess: Cleanup began when daylight hit Beebe Friday morning. ft Associated Press No Stopping it: A street sign has little traffic to direct on this Little Rock street near the Governor's Mansion.

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