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University Dally Kansan, June 22, 1981
Twister hits Lawrence; kills 1, injures 33
Construction workers Gary Blake (right) and Gary Miller silhouette the sky Saturday morning while fixing the roof of a house near 28th and Kasold streets that was destroyed during Friday night's tornado.
Photos by Marti Frumhoff
Alberta and Melvin Heideman, Alain Vista, sort through the remains of daughter Sharon's trailer home Saturday morning after Friday's tornado. They visited half a half. Sharon left to visit them Friday afternoon.
By JOE BIRNEY Staff Reporter
The intersection of 31st and Iowa streets was congested Saturday as residents of Lawrence viewed the damage caused Friday night by a tornado that left one man dead, 35 in injured and damage estimated at $10 million.
Stanley Pittman, 30,11 Michigan St., a KU graduate student in computer science killed when he was crushed by a shotgun at the Macy's Discount Store, 31st and lowns streets.
Phil Rankin, 44, 908 W. 25th, and Fay Sanders, 61, 1900 W. 31st, were listed in satisfactory condition Sunday afternoon at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where others injured in the attack were treated and released from the hospital.
THE GASLIGHT VILLAGE mobile home park, 1900 W. 31st St., was the scene of the worst attack. City of
ficials estimated that damage there could be as high as $1 million.
Residents of the mobile home park spent Saturday picking up debris and pondering the events of the night before.
"I feel pretty damn lucky," Cindy Sarmek, KU graduate student, said, as she picked up insulation that had blown into her vard from a nearby trailer.
When she returned to the trailer the funnel cloud had passed. It seemed to bounce over the trailers, she said.
SARMEC SAID she had left her trailer Friday evening for a short visit with a friend. Before leaving she had gazed at the clouds in the west but did not see any sign of clouds that she thought looked like a tornado.
Sarmek said her trailer must have been between bounces as it suffered miner property damage.
A few trawlers west of Sarmrek's, Dough Fletcher was also watching the approaching clouds. He too failed to realize what was coming.
"I wasn't paying any attention to
them, and all of a sudden it hit," Fletcher said.
FLETCHER, A KU law student, said the pressure from the tornado caused the wall of his trailer to move in. He decided to try to get to his car that was parked in the driveway. He quickly abandoned the idea when the air around him became filled with flying pieces of wood.
Along with many other residents of Gaslaig Village, Fletcher could not explain why his trailer suffered almost all the damage to the trailers on both sides were destroyed.
Fletcher had just finished taking two law school finals an hour before the twister hit, and Saturday he put all of his paperwork in by saying it was a day to remember.
Jule Eeglegen occupied the trailer east of Fletcher and was less than enthusiastic about describing again the results it resulted in the destruction of her home.
EGEEGER SAID she was in the trailer when the tornado struck. She hid behind the doors in the kitchen when the front of the house blew in. The walls were broken, and eventually a motorcycle was desposited in the living room.
Gov. John Carlin's office will examine Lawrence this week in order to decide whether or not to ask for federal disaster assistance.
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Michael Kelehar and his parents rest and think about cleaning up the wreckage left in Gaslight Village by Friday's tornado, which ripped through Lawrence. Kelehar graduated from KU in Liberal Arts last May.
Terry Daulai (right) escaped serious injury Friday night after being bounced off the top of his mobile home three times in Gaslight Village. Daulai said the tornado picked him up on the ground while he was holding his young son. The tornado then bounced him and his son off of the car, where he was treated for minor injuries at Lone Rock Memorial Hospital and released.
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