The search resumes in the morning for more victims of Saturday night's deadly tornadoes in southwest Missouri. 14 bodies have been found in and around the small town of Seneca. Governor Blunt has called in the National Guard to patrol the towns of Newtonia and Granby. Emergency shelters have been set up in Diamond, Neosho and Purdy. Most of the damage done Saturday was in three counties. . .Barry, Jasper and Newton, near the Oklahoma border. In the St. Louis area, most of our problems began Sunday morning. After heavy rain and some street flooding and lightning hitting power transformers Saturday and Saturday night, the winds picked up to 40 miles per hour around nine Sunday morning. Then, trees began falling like ten-pins. With the ground saturated, large tree root systems could not hold. The wind blew down the trees. . .the trees pulled down electrical wires. . .and over 50-thousand electric company customers on both sides of the Mississippi lost their power. By day's end, close to half the service had been restored with the rest of the re-connections are due to be done within the next 24-hours. Power lines weren't the only property casualties. The wind Sunday blew down tents set up for a beer festival in Forest Park. At Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis County, the Art Fair was cancelled Sunday because of concern that those who were there would be hit by wind-blown debris.
