Eight bodies pulled from rubble of tavern

Thursday, April 22, 2004

UTICA, Ill. -- Searchers with shovels and buckets pulled eight bodies Wednesday from the rubble of a tavern where residents had gathered to seek shelter from a twister that flattened the century-old building.

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