Lueckenhoff said Golden City itself had power lines and trees down but no serious injuries. The storm also ripped a roof off a fertilizer plant in the area, prompting a precautionary evacuation of 1-mile radius because of a possible chemical leak. John Lueckenhoff said the bodies of 86-year-old Kenneth Harris and his 83-year-old wife, Opal, were found about 200 yards from their home outside Golden City Wednesday night.Īnd 56-year-old Betty Berg died and her husband, Mark, was seriously injured when their mobile home was destroyed just west of Golden City. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says an elderly couple and another woman were killed when a powerful storm destroyed their homes in southwest Missouri. Spokeswoman Lindsay Huhman says only one person was admitted. Mary’s Hospital, said seven people with minor injuries were treated there.Ībout 12 people suffering minor to moderate injuries such as cuts and bruises were treated at Capital Regional Medical Center. Jessica Royston, a spokeswoman for SSM St. Jefferson City hospitals report treating 19 people after a tornado hit the city overnight. Rayhart said two shelters in Eldon are housing between 60 and 70 people. Rayhart said the tornado skipped through Eldon, damaged the business district and “tore up several neighborhoods.” The National Weather Service said it was the same storm that hit Jefferson City, though it’s not clear whether it was the same tornado. Miller County Emergency Management Director Mike Rayhart said Thursday that several of the injuries in Eldon were serious enough to send people to the hospital but he did not have more specifics.Įldon has about 4,900 residents and is about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Jefferson City. Rothstein said a single tornado could have been on the ground for 80 minutes.īut he said the Weather Service won’t know for sure whether there was one or multiple tornadoes until two teams finish surveying the storm’s path Thursday.Ī local emergency management official says a few people sustained injuries from a tornado in a town southwest of the Missouri capital of Jefferson City. Authorities said three people were found dead and one injured outside Golden City. Officials said a tornado damaged homes in Carl Junction, Missouri, near Joplin and moved through Oronogo and Golden City. Weather Service Meteorologist Cory Rothstein in Springfield, Missouri, said a tornado touched down Wednesday night near Treece, a southeast Kansas ghost town on the Oklahoma border, and then moved northeast. The National Weather Service says it’s possible that a tornado that left three people dead and one injured in southwest Missouri had a 50-mile path. Fourteen people died after their vehicles plunged into the water. Over Memorial Day weekend in 2002, a barge struck the Interstate 40 bridge pier at Webbers Falls, causing part of the bridge to collapse into the Arkansas River. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation says the Interstate 40 bridge and a state highway bridge remain closed over the Arkansas River at Webber Falls. The two barges became stuck in rocks overnight but somehow broke loose Thursday morning as crews tried to secure them.Īerial footage from Tulsa television station KOTV shows the pair of barges, apparently still tied together, floating slowly down the river. The barges near Webbers Falls first became loose Wednesday night, and officials had warned it would be “catastrophic” if they collided with a nearby dam. Watson didn’t yet have details about how many people were staying at the third shelter, at the Eldon Community Center.Īn Oklahoma town says two barges are again loose and headed down the swollen Arkansas River toward a dam. Thirty-two people were staying at a shelter at an Eldon elementary school. Spokeswoman Sharon Watson says 50 people were at the Jefferson City shelter as of late morning. The American Red Cross opened one shelter in Jefferson City and two in Eldon. Tornadoes caused significant damage overnight in Missouri’s capital city of Jefferson City and in Eldon, a town of about 4,900 residents around 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest. More than 80 people are staying in shelters in central Missouri after tornadoes ripped through the region.
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