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HIX VO the noise of a hundred freight trains. Ln, all
was silence. some 6 people were hospitalized from
Sherwood Village,
a number of them in critical
bodies
condition. A search for a and survivors is
continuing.
HELICOPTER SHOT
the storms raked the Western portion of
the state, from the New Mexico border to lNorthwestern
Oklahoma. these films are from Pampa, several miles
north of . Le were no deaths from the
tornado in Pampa, which whip ed the town from the
Southwest to the Northeast, but Property damage was
heavey.Atglmost immediately, the Governor
asked that the area struck by the storms---Whiteface,
Cotton Center, Lazguddie, Clarnedon, and Pampa,---ms
disaster areas. The Federal government followed
suit a few hours later---opening the road to low
interest loans for re-building the _ multi-
million dollars worth of damages One beleaguered
doctor in Clarendon summed it all up pretty well
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Tornadoes], script, April 18, 1970, 10:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1322933/m1/3/: accessed June 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.