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Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 2

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2 Thursday, 21, '57 DETROIT FREE PRESS Xc HI- Deadly Wind Struck Three Times Freak Windstorm A 1 Rim Un East Side! MBBM4h white brocade George Ames, 39, of 7605 Jordan, said a tree with a 50-lnch trunk in his yard was knocked down and snap ped power wires as it fell. His wife, Alice, 38, said: "Everything went dark, then there was a blue flash and a deafening road. We could hear hailstones pounding the side of the house." THE GARAGE at the home of Otis Wanner, 41, at 7604 Continued from Page One machine in the spring and axle shop when concrete and glass began flailing him. He had a shoulder injury. Wutkieuicz, a shipping clerk, said he was just walking back Into the spring shop with material when "the next thing" I knew I was sitting on the floor inside the door and my leg hurt." The wind overturned a gtaked-down amphibian light nlane at City Airport and Morgan, was twisted 90 degrees dv me win a.

The garage at the home of Ewald Wikolaucyk, 47, 7618 Morgan, was lifted off a new car and smashed against Wiko- laucyk's house. The car was not moved or damaged. regularly higher priced A SO-foot section of a 10-foot-high cinder block wall was flattened by the wind at Airport Auto Parts, 10235 Van Dyke. William Wojtkiewicz, 55, had just stepped out of his car on Van Dyke when his vehicle was blown over. ripped away porches and plate-glasg windows in the neighborhood.

THE STORM, described by some observers as of tornado force, first struck at Mt. Elliott and Hubert where it lifted a workman off the ground and tore his lunch bucket from his hand. Next the wind tore roofs off houses at Lynch and Van Dyke where limbs from trees were blown about the street like straw. A large plate glass window in the Petzold Motor Sales 11280 Gratiot, was blown into the showroom, scattering glass over a Chrysler Imperial." The luxury car's paint was badly scratched. Hardest hit residential area was a block bounded by El-don, Van Dyke, Jordan and Morgan.

0 TAXI DRIVER William Wan-amaker, 34, of 660 Simpson, saw the single-engine plane ripped from its anchor at the City Airport. "The wind tor the steel stakes from the ground and blew one of them through the roof of the Happy Landing Bar across Connor street," said Wanamaker. i 1 Wanamaker said he saw no The area was thrown into funnel-like cloud formation and said at the time there was rain mixed with falling snow. A captivating, holiday dream dress. The lovely scooped neckline bordered front and back with lush fake fur.

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RESIDENTS agreed there was a terrible roar, a blinding flash of lightning and then eudden blackness. Mrs. William E. Jordan, of 7575 Jordan, said she heard the roar approaching and scooted to the basement with her daughters, Patricia, 5, and Nettie, 7. When they emerged their front porch was gone and a 40-foot tree in the front yard was snapped at the base.

At 7565 Jordan two huge holes were torn in the roof. i 1 I if 11 1 xz-i I z-s 1 L-J LJ LJ lA Li Mr. and Mrs. Myer Bogel, of) 3212 Clements, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Thursday. Married in New York City Nov.

21, 1907, they have been! f-1 Detroit residents 42 years. Mr. Bogel retired five years ago from the Chevrolet Gear and A Axle plant. They have two daughters, Mrs. Philip Eisner, of Oak Park, and Mrs.

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