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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - The body of another apparent victim from a weekend tornado that leveled a mobile home park was found Monday by rescuers searching a large retention pond.
The discovery raised to 22 the death toll from the tornado, which struck at 2 a.m. Sunday as people slept, making it the deadliest in Indiana in more than three decades. Vanderburgh County Sheriff Brad Ellsworth released no details about the latest victim, whose body was found within hours of work beginning to drain the 6-foot-deep pond.
Eighteen people died at Eastbrook Mobile Home Park, including four found Sunday in the retention pond, Chief Deputy Sheriff Eric Williams said.
"It is the one spot in this area that we have not thoroughly searched because it is under water," Williams said.
Ellsworth said the pond near the mobile home park would be drained by Monday evening to determine whether it held any other bodies.
Knight Township Fire Chief Dale Naylor said he believed that all survivors or bodies left in the wreckage had otherwise been found.
"We turned over every piece of debris on the site," he said Monday. "We backed it up with search dogs, and we are confident that if anyone is still in there, we would've found them."
Four people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, died from the tornado in neighboring Warrick County, east of Evansville. More than 100 people were taken to hospitals. Ellsworth said authorities did not have a count of any people missing because so many had left the area near the Ohio River on their own.
Authorities were not yet allowing residents to return to check on their homes as crews continued to clean up and check that utilities had been shut off.
"Mother Nature picked the worst place to drop in a tornado," Ellsworth said. "There's not a safe place to escape to. You're just up to fate at this point."
More: http://www.dailyvidette.com/media/paper420/news/2005/11/08/National/Another.Tornado.Victim.Found.In.Indiana.Mobile.Home.Park-1048723.shtml
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The discovery raised to 22 the death toll from the tornado, which struck at 2 a.m. Sunday as people slept, making it the deadliest in Indiana in more than three decades. Vanderburgh County Sheriff Brad Ellsworth released no details about the latest victim, whose body was found within hours of work beginning to drain the 6-foot-deep pond.
Eighteen people died at Eastbrook Mobile Home Park, including four found Sunday in the retention pond, Chief Deputy Sheriff Eric Williams said.
"It is the one spot in this area that we have not thoroughly searched because it is under water," Williams said.
Ellsworth said the pond near the mobile home park would be drained by Monday evening to determine whether it held any other bodies.
Knight Township Fire Chief Dale Naylor said he believed that all survivors or bodies left in the wreckage had otherwise been found.
"We turned over every piece of debris on the site," he said Monday. "We backed it up with search dogs, and we are confident that if anyone is still in there, we would've found them."
Four people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, died from the tornado in neighboring Warrick County, east of Evansville. More than 100 people were taken to hospitals. Ellsworth said authorities did not have a count of any people missing because so many had left the area near the Ohio River on their own.
Authorities were not yet allowing residents to return to check on their homes as crews continued to clean up and check that utilities had been shut off.
"Mother Nature picked the worst place to drop in a tornado," Ellsworth said. "There's not a safe place to escape to. You're just up to fate at this point."
More: http://www.dailyvidette.com/media/paper420/news/2005/11/08/National/Another.Tornado.Victim.Found.In.Indiana.Mobile.Home.Park-1048723.shtml
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