DYCUS, KRISTIE L - Faulkner County, Arkansas | KRISTIE L DYCUS - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

Kristie L DYCUS

Mayflower Cemetery
Faulkner County,
Arkansas

Randy Doyle - October 23, 1964 - November 15, 1988

Waylon Doyle - October 28, 1987 - November 15, 1988

Kristie - November 5, 1966 - November 15, 1988

SCOTT, Ark. - National Guardsmen helped keep order Wednesday after up to 10 tornadoes churned through Arkansas, killing six people, damaging scores of homes and businesses and temporarily knocking out power to 16,000 customers.
The twisters destroyed or dam aged 240 homes and mobile homes and eight businesses, said Gary Talley, spokesman for the state Office of Emergency Services. No monetary estimate was available.

Gov. Bill Clinton declared seven counties disaster areas and set aside $350,000 in emergency funds.

At least 49 tornadoes touched down in Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Iowa Tuesday night. A seventh person was killed in southwest Missouri. The same storm system left three people dead in road accidents in Colorado and was blamed for the electrocution death of a woman in Illinois.

The National Weather Service said the storms were caused by a cold front colliding with warm, moist air.

"We saw it coming, but there was nothing we could do," said Police Chief Darnell Scott of the central Arkansas town of Lonoke, where two people were killed and about 30 houses were damaged heavily.

About 16,000 customers of Arkansas Power & Light Co. lost power, said utility spokesman Jerol Garrison. By Wednesday morning, only about 1,000 customers still had no electricity, he said.

About three dozen National Guardsmen were called out for several hours Wednesday morning to look for survivors and keep non-residents away from homes in the Scott area in Pulaski County. A second group of guardsmen performed similar duties in Van Buren County.

Three of the tornado victims, a couple and their infant son, died when their mobile home in Scott was battered by the last of the tornadoes to hit the state, authorities said. They were identified as Randall Dycus, 24, Kristi Dycus, 22, and their son, Waylon, about 1.

Robert W. McCain and Juanita A. McCain, both 62, died when high winds overturned their van on Interstate 40 near Lonoke, and Louis Breckel, 68, was killed in Van Buren County when the storm destroyed his home, authorities said.

A twister in Garland County demolished the Lake Hamilton Fire Department, along with a half-dozen mobile homes and a barn, and 14 mobile homes were destroyed and the roofs of several residences were damaged in Hot Spring County, said state Trooper Janet Welch.

In Johnson County, said Sheriff Eddie King, "We had several homes demolished, six to 10 homes homes destroyed - roofs blown out, trailer homes flipped over. Trees were just twisted up, thrown in people's yards. Cars were picked up - one was thrown up into the tree."

Contributed on 2/23/12 by hawkindonna
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Submitted: 2/23/12 • Approved: 9/3/19 • Last Updated: 9/6/19 • R653700-G653698-S3

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