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Monday, November 23.1992
Tornadoes kill 16 in South
Tornadoes ripped through parts o the South yesterday and Saturday, killing 16 people, leveling houses and uprooting trees and utility poles.
Storms destroy homes, injure more than 150
Late Saturday, tornadoes killed 15 people and injured at least 150 in Mississippi, and one person was killed early yesterday in Tennessee. Thunderstorms and tornadoes also caused damage in Alabama and Georgia. Tornadoes were reported Saturday in Texas and Louisiana.
The Associated Press
"It's unbelievable," said W.L. Whittington, mayor of Brandon, Miss. "We're lucky we didn't lose more lives
In Brandon, a tornado smashed through a mobile home park and then skipped across town, where it killed three Cub Scout buddies enjoying a weekend sleep-over and the father of one of the boys.
At least six people were killed there, Whittington said.
Rescue workers and residents searched through the rubble after daylight, and Gov. Kirk Fordice poured the damaged area.
than we did." Ten people were killed in and around the town.
At the mobile home park, rescue workers used doors from smashed houses as makeshift stretchers, said Cedron, civil defense director for Rural Action.
Mississippi Power & Light Co. representative EJ Jessussi said power might not be restored to some Rankin County homes for two days.
The tornado roared through Brandon, 15 miles east of Jackson, about midnight. It leveled houses, uprooted trees and downed hundreds of power and telephone poles. At least 86 of the
Wilkinson said about 60 houses in Brandon were damaged, along with other buildings.
injuries were in Brandon, Wilkinson said.
"It just whisked through here like slicing hot butter," Constable Martin Mann said of the Rankin County town. "We've got two-story homes not bigger than a bag of firewood. They're wiped out."
"It was like a state fair — there were people all over the place," said James L. Callaham, sheriff of nearby Leake County, where one person was killed.
U. S. Rep. G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery, of Mississippi, whose district includes Rankin County, said he would ask President Bush to declare the area eligible for federal disaster
At the height of the storms, about 16,000 homes were without electricity. Alabama Power Co. representative Griffin Lasliter said.
relief. He said that he expected Bush to comply with the request.
Numerous injuries were reported in northern Alabama early yesterday as tornadoes destroyed mobile homes and toppled trees. Downed telephone lines made communication with some areas difficult, authorities said.
A tornado that struck in western Tennessee overturned a mobile home near Toome, killing an 11-year-old woman. Scattered damage was reported.
High wind caused scattered damage yesterday in five counties of northern Georgia, but only one injury was reported. Officials said 6,000 customers were without power in Cobb County, on the outskirts of Atlanta.
Castle fire leaves taxpayers footing the bill
Royals have no obligation to pay for Windsor repairs
The Associated Press
LONDON—As firefighters guarded Windsor Castle from further flames yesterday, opposition lawmakers questioned why taxpayers might have to pay to repair the queen's weekend residence.
Newspapers also speculated whether the fire was a claion call to Britons doubting the relevance of their monarchy, or whether it underlined how rundown Britain has become.
Heritage Secretary Peter Brooke said Saturday that the government would pay for the reconstruction. But there were plenty of dissenting voices. The Sunday Mirror ran an editorial headlined:
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The Sunday Mirror ran an editorial headlined:
"The bill's yours, Ma'm. am."
Tony Benn, opposition Labor party lawmaker,
told The Sunday Times: "When people say the taxpayer will pay for this, is that another cut in expenditure on the homeless and those on social security, or is it additional expenditure?"
Alan Williams, another Labor lawmaker, told BBC radio: "We have an anomalous situation where the taxpayer picks the bills for disasters and for losses, but the royals don't return the financial favor."
Queen Elizabeth II has not presented a bill to Parliament for repairs to the 11th century castle.
Williams acknowledged that Prince Charles pays 25 percent tax on income from his Duchy of Cornwall estate, but he said he hoped the fire would be an impetus for other members of the family to contribute.
The queen, reportedly the richest woman in the world, pays no taxes.
The cause of the fire is still unknown. Dickie Arbiter, a Buckingham Palace representative, said it also was not known what items in the castle's rich art collection might have been lost.
Friday's fire, which took more than nine hours to contain, severely damaged several historic rooms in the northwest corner of the castle, including St. George's Hall, the ornate banquet hall for visiting beads of state.
"There will be a lot of cross-cataloging to do before we will know the answers," Arbiter said. "One person who will know is her majesty. The queen knows everything in the castle, and if it's missing she'll know."
William the Conqueror began building Windsor Castle about 1070. It was greatly expanded and altered in the following centuries, and the queen spends most weekends there. About 630,000 tourists visited the grounds last year.
Soldiers of the Household Cavalry returned rescued valuables to the castle yesterday.
The castle contains tapestries, books and collections of furniture and porcelain, as well as works by Holbein, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Canaletto and Leonardo da Vinci.
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