Daily Mirror - 04.03.2020

(^18) DAILY MIRROR WEDNESDAY 04.03.
DM1ST
right now.” The death toll was
14 in Putnam County, while
two each were confirmed in
Wilson and Davidson coun-
ties and one in Benton.
Governor William Lee said
the total may rise given
the number of
people missing.
A n d p o l i c e
warned the
danger was not
over, saying:
“There are gas
lines leaking,
power lines that
are on the ground.”
President
Donald Trump said: “Prayers
for all affected by the torna-
does in Tennessee.”
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by CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN
US Editor
22 die in
tornado
Nashville left ‘devastated’
A tornAdo killed at least
2 2 people and left 44,
without power yesterday
as it ravaged the US state
of tennessee.
Some 40 build-
ings were flat-
tened as it hit
downtown
Nashville in the
early hours.
May or Jo hn
Cooper said the
city was “devas-
tated” and urged
people to “lend a
helping hand” to neighbours.
Tennessee Emergency
Community Relations Officer
Maggie Hannan added: “It is
an ongoing search and rescue
AFTERMATH Carnage
RESCUE workers reach
out to free survivors bill
Wallace and wife Shirley
from the devastation of
their collapsed home.
They were pulled
from the rubble of their
basement after son bill
Jr called them to warn
the tornado was due.
Rubble
rescue
HUG Father and son
lIFT Shirley is safe
dEBRIS Emergency
workers free couple
‘RUdE’ Mr von Hessen
Tycoon calls
cop ‘poofter’
but is cleared
NOTORIOuS property
tycoon Nicholas Adolf von
Hessen suggested a police
officer was a “poofter”, a
court heard.
Mr von Hessen, 75,
formerly Nicholas van
Hoogstraten, made the
comment after his son was
arrested following an argu-
ment over car-clamping at
a car park he owns.
Brighton magistrate
Barbara Dart said she
heard Mr von Hessen say
“Maybe he’s a poofter as
well,” in a video but that he
was not confrontational
and not criminal, just rude.
He was cleared of behav-
iour causing harassment,
alarm or distress at the car
park in Hove.
Mr von Hessen was con-
victed of the manslaughter
of a business rival in 1999
but it was later overturned.
He lost a civil case.
by MICHAEl dRUMMONd