Six Die in Storms From Md. to Mo. (Associated Press)
Maryland was hit especially hard Sunday evening, with a tornado causing at
least three deaths and 70 injuries in two counties south of the nation's
capital. A twister caused serious damage to at least a 10-mile stretch of
this town of about 6,500 even blowing windows out of the hospital.
A curfew was set in La Plata to keep people off the streets, and all public
schools in Charles County were closed on Monday, officials said. About
6,500 homes in the area were without power early Monday.
Thunderstorms struck states throughout the Tennessee and Ohio valleys on
Sunday. The northern edge of the system brought heavy snow to Wisconsin and
Minnesota.
In Missouri, a tornado packing wind of up to 180 mph and stretching roughly
two football fields wide plowed through the small town of Marble Hill,
hurling a 12-year-old boy 50 yards to his death. At least 16 people were
injured and several homes were destroyed.
"It took several houses completely away. Blown to sticks nothing left but
the subfloor," Marble Hill Police Sgt. Dennis Willis said.
The tornado also tossed vehicles, razed buildings and twisted
tractor-trailers before it raced eastward into southern Illinois and
western Kentucky.
At least 30 people were injured in Providence and Irvington, Ky.
Dozens were injured in southern Illinois and a 69-year-old woman was found
dead outside her mobile home in the town of Dongola. In nearby Cypress,
school officials called off classes Monday after two second-floor
classrooms of the brick Cypress Grade School were missing a roof and walls.
They were looking for temporary shelter so students could finish the few
weeks left in the school year.
The tiny town of Tobinsport sustained the heaviest damage in Indiana from
the storms. A dozen people were injured and 10 of the 30 homes in the
unincorporated community 60 miles east of Evansville were destroyed.
In Tennessee, a tornado cut a 10-mile path through the Murfreesboro area,
about 30 miles southeast of Nashville, injuring 18 people and damaging 62
homes and buildings. Winds reached 140 mph.
A storm carrying heavy rains and winds exceeding 55 mph blew through
Pennsylvania, dropping large hail, blowing the roofs off buildings and
leaving thousands in the Pittsburgh area without power.
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