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ssr ny due A terror JOTS WdD The Edmonton rtinnTm 50 Cents (Metro only) SATURDAYAUGUST 1, 1987 .1 t-f iiuM MHitfl imi mti PICTURE: Steve Simon Most of the people who died in Friday's tornado were residents of Evergreen trailer park in the city's northeast corner 0 jL no 1 1 ornacio Special Edition Friday's tornadoes left The Journal's Eastgate plant without power and unable to publish. This special edition was prepared here and flown down to the Calgary Herald to be printed. We Story A2 apologize for not bringing you a full paper but with the state of emergency we felt it essential we provide Edmontonians with news of the disaster. An expanded paper will be published Sunday. 1 rJMW MJ 'A Journal Staff Writers The worst tornado in Canadian history ripped through the Edmonton area Friday killing at least 36 people, destroying homes, toppling trains and levelling industrial parks.

The two-block wide tornado touched down in Mill Woods at about 3:30 p.m. and continued its 30-km path of destruction through Refinery Row and into Clareview before leaving the city about an hour later. The tornado claimed 25 lives in northeast Edmonton, four in the southeast end of the city and seven in Strathcona County. Hundreds of people )were injured. Ted Gartner, who witnessed the tornado as it swept through Strathcona Industrial Park, said: "It seemed like the end of the world was here we all thought we were going to die." Mayor Laurence Decore declared a state of emergency in the city at 6:15 p.m.

after crews discovered the tornado had wiped out a southeast end industrial park, a Clarview trailer park and a Mill Woods subdivision. City officials described the disaster as they had ever seen and an ashen-faced Decore said he worried about the people who "perished in Iks dreadful tragedy." Provincial emergency teams were on standby Friday and Labor Minister Ian Reid told reporters urban victims of the killer storm are likely eligible for help under a provincial program. Damage to property was estimated in the tens of millions of dollars, by the mayor's office. Houses and factories were flattened, power lines were snapped and lay snarled on city streets as the tornado cut its path across the city. The Evergreen Mobile Home Park Court at 16700 10th St.

received the majority of the storm's force, as 25 residents lost their lives and many more their homes. Many Evergreen residents were devastated to find their homes and loved ones had disappeared in the wake of the storm. Albert William shouted: "I don't know where the hell they are as he searched for his two children in the chaos that had descended in the 700-home park. In the industrial park, Frank Pasek freed himself from where he was pinned to the ground by a metal rod to run for help for his trapped friend. When he returned, rescuers shouted for the missing man but could not find the co-worker under the debris.

"If he was still alive he would have heard me and answered," Pasek said. City hospitals were swamped with storm victims as 209 Edmontonians flooded emergency rooms. The entire southeast section of Edmonton was tU' -Ty plunged into darkness, knocking out stoplights and causing major traffic at most major intersections. Edmonton Power reported 234 homes and 67 city streets were flooded when 44 mm of rain fell between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.

At least 12 cars from a CN Rail freight train were Jfcssed off the tracks near 17th Street and srellowhead Highway. A boxcar was toppled off the tracks injuring two workers who had sought refuge inside the car which was stationed at 60th Avenue and 17th Street. Regular emergency crews bolstered by hundreds of volunteers worked through the night to uncover survivors trapped in rubble. Police foot patrols were investigating reports of looting in areas touched by the tornado. Environment Canada spokesmen said it is unlikely another tornado will hit Saturday.

They forecast clouds with scattered showers. Bodies of victims are being brought from temporary morgues or hospitals to the medical examiner's office in Edmonton, police said. Only five or six victims had been brought to the medical examiner's office by 10:30 p.m. Friday, and officials will contact family members for positive identification. The father of 30-year-old Rick Gillespie, an employee of Lee Mason Tools, was one of the first to arrive at the medical examiner's office Friday night.

He left with a frieid of Rick's after identifying the body, saying through tears only that his son "was in that tornado." As the storm hit Refinery Row, a transport truck was flipped into a ditch. Police believe the driver is dead. mil" i -nr trwr wk ti Inside 1 1 Map of path through city A2 'I can't believe we got out of there survivor says A4 Machine shop blown apart A5 Evergreen Trailer Park was demolished in seconds A3 Published dairy by rhe proprietor. Southam inc at The Journal Bmk-xj Edmonton. Aria T5J 2S6 Second class mad registrator! numoet 0566 PICTURE: Ken Orr Byers Transport lies devastated, the warehouse crushed and trucks scattered 558296" i 1 i.