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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MARcH 8, 2019
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Debris from a home litters a yard the day after a tornado blew it off its foundation, lower right, in Beauregard, Ala.
TORNADO
TEARS THROUGH
ALABAMA TOWN
Associated Press
BEAUREGARD, Ala. — Volunteers helped clear debris-clogged roads and
donated money to help pay for the funerals of 23 people killed by a devastat-
ing tornado in Alabama, where grieving survivors hunted amid twisted wreck-
age for keepsakes to help them remember the dead.
The tornado scoured a nearly mile-wide path Sunday roughly 70 miles into
neighboring Georgia. Forecasters said more severe weather could strike Ala-
bama and neighboring states over the weekend.
Grant Blankenship /The Macon Telegraph
Residents of Talbotton, Ga., pray together outside a home destroyed by a tornado.
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Jessica Taylor prays in front of a cross for Jonathan Bowen, 9, at a makeshift memorial for the victims of a tornado in Beauregard, Ala. ‘I have a son his age,’ said Taylor. ‘I can’t imagine
that mother’s loss.’
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Mickey Welsh/Montgomery Advertiser
Volunteers look for valuables among the debris in Beauregard, Ala.
Danny Allen helps recover belongings while sifting through
the debris of a friend’s home destroyed by a tornado in
Beauregard, Ala.