RESIDENTS URGED TO EVACUATE; ILLINOIS RESIDENTS PREPARE FOR WORST

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Tuesday, July 27, 1993

GORHAM, Ill. -- Mildred Dawson, 70, and her sister Rosetta Adams, 77, were among the first to arrive at Monday afternoon's town meeting at the Gorham United Methodist Church. They, like most everyone in the town of 400, already knew they were about to be asked to leave their homes.

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