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I .2 Sunday, May 13. 1956 DETROIT FREE PRESS A 'Terrible Crash' Or plians 3 Little Girls as Tornado Takes Its Traoic Toll ARF.R..?'SIiEA JR-I 8, and Kendra 6 were Drimu- 1 KAKEX. in critical onHi- h1n thK ARTHUR W. OSHEA, JR. and Kendra 6 were primp- in critical fondi- help.

I thought it BY was Ruth, "There are other tor them mg tor a trip downtown to 1 tion, and Mrs, Hubbard's sis-buy a Mother's Day present I ter and neighbor. Mrs. Helen to take them in with roe. Everything was going to be so harry this." she said, "but I might be able Then a freak of nafnm Carter, told a pitiful story of rr etaff Writer FLLVT-What was to be a JTous shopping trip for three little girls and their dad ended tragically Saturday night. The Hubbard familyAl Lewis; his wife, Ruth.

and three girla, Karen 12. Cheryl, iJowntown ajelroif LJays turned everything to a shambles. In minutes Lewis and Ruth were dead. Karen and Kendra are sharing a room in St. Joseph's Hospital and Cheryl is in Goodrich Hospital.

i a savings spree. days monday tutldly Wednesday T. B. RAYl'S SPORT SHIRT usiea as critical. is suffering only minor injuries.

IT WAS A TRAGIC story of a young family near the realization of a dream. Hubbard had decided to build a new home. The house was completed except for the plumbing and heating work. While he worked on the house he moved his family into the trailer on the same lot. Six-year-old Kendra, cute little blue-eyed blond, was worried about her pony-tail hairdo.

When her aunt came in to see her, she said: "See, my pony tail is all right." Mrs. Carter wasn't sure about the future of the but it was little Karen." "It took an hour and a half to free Karen. Part of the fireplace fell on her LITTLE SAMBO, the Hub-bards' cocker spaniel, was dead in the little girl's lap. Her father lay nearby, his neck broken. Mom was only a few feet away.

She was dead, too. "You Mrs. Carter, "they were in the torner they were supposed to be tin the basement. And that was the corner that everything fell info. "If they had been in any other corner in the place they'd have been all right." Karen and Cheryl are both 1IT Styles Galore! the events that changed their lives.

"We went down into the basement, Karen said. "We did everything just like daddy told us. He seemed cross, but he knew what to do because our uncle had been in the last tornado in Flint. "Finally daddy, who was up watching the clouds, came down and sat with us. Then there was a terrible crash." Mrs.

Carter completes the story.1 "We had been in the basement of our home for a while and didn't hear anything. I went to the top of the stairs and saw that the whole house had caved in next door. "We rushed next door and heard a voice hollering for FINER QUALITY SHIRTS CHILDREN IN TORNADO 'We Hid Under Table And Covered Heads' BY WILLIAM SUDOMIER Free Prrss SUff ritr Paddled down the long hall of the La-layette School in Lincoln Park in her white-stockinged feet. 2 BIG STORES 1 AT SENSATIONAL SAVINGS! Yeur choice of many different styles end patterns in various fabrics and Itnitj, Colors and styles galore to please every taste! Buy several now for all-summer NEW STARCKETTE WINDSOR 3-DAY SPECIALS 5 Are Dead In Storm at Cleveland SPINET PIANO Her Jong blond haiiv was plastered against her neck, still wet from the rain. But her orange pinafore looked neat and pressed.

"I remembered what my teacher taught me," she said. "When the big wind came, John and I hid under the table in the basement and covered our heads with our hands." Tonya and John, 6, are two of the four children of Mrs. Jean Clark. 25, of 1762 Garfield, Lincoln Park. The other Giant Ruffled Monster Petunia ialla Priced! noecia children are Denise, 3, and Bobby, 12.

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shattered. "I like it here," Tonya said. "I am getting lots of sleep." Six children and six adults who live on Garfield were taken to the school, in which an emergency shelter center had been set up minutes after the tornado struck. Co-operating were the Red Cross, the Lincoln Park Junior Chamber of Commerce, Civil Defense and school officials. Mrs.

Clark, who lives with her mother, Mrs. Edith Bloom, 42, described the tornado as a "surprise." I didn't even think it was a twister," she said. "I was going to argue." HER MOTHER said she had heard the warnings but didn't think the storm would strike in Lincoln Park. "Then I looked out the basement window and watched the wind whip by the shingles from a warehouse." Mrs. Clark said the children remained calm.

Dressed in shorts and a shirt, tiny Mrs. Clark looked tired as she drank coffee in. the hall of the school. How fast authorities moved to meet the tornado emergency in the suburb is shown by the fact that the shelter was set up and running less than a half-hour after the twister hit. 36 Mos.

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