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State Daily American, Somerset, Wednesday, June 3, 1998 8 Storms hit hilltop Pittsburgh neighborhood ripped the three-story rear brick wall off building including laundry. "You could just see a funnel cloud forming above the trees. The clouds kind of split up. You could see stuff getting sucked toward it. It was wrapping around," said Craig Stout, 23.

Residents of Mount Washington, a neighborhood popular with Pittsburgh tourists, said they saw a funnel cloud. it came right through the house. It felt like a big train was coming, it happened so fast," said Noreen Parker, 45. The Monongahela Incline, popular with Pittsburgh visitors, failed with three people inside because of a power failure. They were stuck on the steep hillside for 15 minutes until 1 operators activated an emergency generator and brought them down, said Judi McNeil, a spokeswoman for incline Operator Port Authority Transit.

The storm began jn eastern Ohio Tuesday afternoon and moved into western Pennsylvania at about 5 p.m., the National Weather Service said. A second round of storms roared through Beaver, Butler and Allegheny counties at about 7:45 p.m., but those storms were less intense. Workers at Sewicklcy Heights Golf Club, east of Pittsburgh, paused shortly before 5:30 p.m. Next door, stocks of ice cream began to melt during a power failure at the Custer City Drive-in. "I was just over there, and it looks like we'r going to have a big ice cream party tonight," said Laurie Vecellio of Custer City Residents of the small north-.

western Pennsylvania town of 500 lit candles and covered over broken windows with plywood. One family with a damaged home, the Cedars, just put it up for sale last week. The storm also snapped the tops off several tall pine trees along U.S. 219 near Bradford. More than 33,000 homes in Allegheny, Beaver, Westmoreland and Fayette counties were in the dark because of power outages, according to spokespeople for Allegheny Power and Duquesne Light.

Del Grant, a 32-year-old landlord who lives on the hilltop of Mount Washington above downtown Pittsburgh, said lamps and paper in his bedroom rose and began to spin around when the storm hit a few minutes after 6 p.m. The storm ripped half the roof from his house, and his cat, Maniki, disappeared. "The lamps started to spin," Grant said. 'It really seemed like it was twisting inside my room. I'll probably never see my cat again." Twisted corrugated steel landed in front of Grant's house The storm snapped tops off surrounding trees in the neighborhood and Del Grant climbs down from the half of his roof the south side that is still there after looking around for where off (ap photo) the other half went from his house Tuesday on from preparing a 1 30-person dinner dark and it disappeared," dining for the Children's Home of Pitts- room supervisor RuthAnn Mixtcr burgh to watch a funnel cloud form said.

over the 10th fairway. A tornado touched down Sunday "It was gray and it was swirling night in the small Somerset County it was up in the sky, then it got town of Salisbury, killing a 13- Nation By GEOF BECKER Associated Press Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) A series of severe thunderstorms hit western Pennsylvania for the second time in two days, damaging homes on Pittsburgh's scenic Mount Washington Tuesday night and leaving missing roofs and downed trees and power lines in its wake. Storm damage was reported in Beaver, Allegheny, McKean, Fayette, JefferSfon and Westmoreland counties in western Pennsylvania. Lee Hendricks, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said the weather service had reports of tornadoes in BrfSver, Allegheny, Westmoreland and Fayette counties. He said the weather service would investigate Wednesday to determine if tornadoes actually had touched down.

Hendricks said the reports of tornadoes came from Raccoon Township, Beaver County; Pittsburgh and Monroeville, Allegheny County; Irwin, West Leechburg, Delmont, Greensburg and Latrobe, Westmoreland County; and Con-nellsville, Fayette County. Four people were injured in Pittsburgh, none seriously, sflid Peg McCormick Barron, a spokeswoman for Mayor Tom Murphy. Strong winds blew over a derrick outside a museum honoring the oil business in Custer City, McKean and destroyed the museum's new annex, neighbors said. Arizonans pay their respects PHOENIX (AP)' Arizonans lined up Tuesday to pay their respects to five-term U.S. senator Barry Goldwater, the one-time presidential candidate who became this state's favorite son.

The conservative icon died Friday at the age of 89. "To me, he epitomized what Arizona used to be about," said Lorraine Falukner Deri, 56, who attended Tuesday's visitation at the Episcopal cathedral where Gold-water was bapttted in 191 1 Deri called Goldwater a rugged individual who spoke his mind and voted his conscience no matter who got offended. Mark Ishikawa, 41, brought his family from suburban Gilbert to the visitation. "I had to come," he said. "He was always part of the scenery and About 150 people lined up in the blazing sun Tuesday morning.

Crowds thinned by the afternoon. Inside the cathedral, Goldwater' flag-draped casket sat at the front of the church, flanked by two Air Force honor guards, a lone candle burning behind it. Goldwater's widow, Susan, shook hands with visitors as they filed past, occasionally bringing a friend or relative up to lay a respectful hand on the casket. Visitation will continue Wednesday morning prior to a memorial service at Arizona State University's Gammage Auditorium, which seats 3,000. Former Vice-president Dan Quayle and former first lady Nancy Reagan are among the dignitaries expected for the service.

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