User:Runningonbrains/Connecticut tornado newspaper sources

May 11, 1954
Tornado in Connecticut Flattens House, Sheds (Page 31)

ELLINGTON, Conn, May 10 (UP)&mdash;A small tornado, the first to hit Connecticut in three years, flattened an eight-room house and four tobacco sheds today [Monday, May 10], injuring two persons.

Mrs. Katherine Rothe, 41 years old, and her 18-year old son, Robert, were swept across a street into a field. Debris was scattered for hundreds of feet. Only a doorway remained standing. Pieces of clothing were found hanging from trees half a mile away.

The tornado swept out of darkened skies during a heavy rain and hail storm without warning. The weather bureau at first refused to call it a tornado, but weather man Larry Mahar then agreed with eye-witnesses that it was a "small but very dangerous tornado."