<img src="http://www.joplinglobeonline.com/images/zope/updated.gif" border=0 > 9:46 p.m. “Complete devastation” reported in Picher; Joplin hospitals treating injured

May 10, 2008 11:00 pm

— Heather Goff, spokesperson for Freeman Health System, is reporting 36 injured have been taken there so far as a result of tornado damage Saturday.

John Sparkman, of Picher, Okla., characterized the damage done by a tornado in the Northeast Oklahoma community this evening as “complete devastation.”
“The whole south part of town is much totally destroyed. ... The path of destuction has to be a half-mile wide.”