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The search is on for Skyular Logsdon in Joplin
Date: 5/24/2011 Album ID: 1254352
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Family members are frantically searching for Skyular Logsdon, a 16-month-old boy, after the child disappeared during Sunday evening's tornado. Skyular's parents, Carol Jo Tate and Corderro Logsdon, were both injured and are hospitalized in Pittsburg. "I'm starting to lose hope...but I don't want to think about that," said the child's grandfather, Rusty Burton.
May 24, 2011 - Rusty Burton keeps his grandson Skyular Logsdon's picture on his cellphone as he waits at the missing persons center at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin. Family members are frantically searching for the 16-month-old boy after the child disappeared during Sunday evening's tornado. Skyular's parents, Carol Jo Tate and Corderro Logsdon, were both injured and are hospitalized in Pittsburg.Robert Cohen rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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May 24, 2011 - Rusty Burton meets with an AmeriCorps staff member as he receives a list of hospitals that his grandson Skyular Logsdon may have been brought to. Family members are frantically searching for the 16-month-old boy after the child disappeared during Sunday evening's tornado. Skyular's parents, Carol Jo Tate and Corderro Logsdon, were both injured and are hospitalized in Pittsburg. I'm starting to lose hope...but I don't want to thing about that, said Burton.Robert Cohen rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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May 24, 2011 - Rusty Burton rejoices after finding out from his wife Milissa Burns that his grandson had not been found at the temporary morgue in Joplin. Family members are frantically searching for the 16-month-old boy after the child disappeared during Sunday evening's tornado. Skyular's parents, Carol Jo Tate and Corderro Logsdon, were both injured and are hospitalized in Pittsburg. I'm starting to lose hope...but I don't want to thing about that, said Burton.Robert Cohen rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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May 24, 2011 - Tsvia Tate is comforted by Milissa Burns, left, as she saw the destruction surrounding her nephew's home for the first time Tuesday. Family members are frantically searching for Skyular Logsdon, a 16-month-old boy, after the child disappeared during Sunday evening's tornado. Skyular's parents, Carol Jo Tate and Corderro Logsdon, were both injured and are hospitalized in Pittsburg. Robert Cohen rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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May 24, 2011 - Rusty Burton decides where to dig first as he stands on the remainder of his grandson's home on Maiden Lane. Family members are frantically searching for Skyular Logsdon, a 16-month-old boy, after the child disappeared during Sunday evening's tornado. Skyular's parents, Carol Jo Tate and Corderro Logsdon, were both injured and are hospitalized in Pittsburg. I'm starting to lose hope...but I don't want to thing about that, said Burton.Robert Cohen rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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May 24, 2011 - Rusty Burton tears through the remnants of the home of his grandson on Maiden Lane in Joplin. Family members are frantically searching for Skyular Logsdon, a 16-month-old boy, after the child disappeared during Sunday evening's tornado. Skyular's parents, Carol Jo Tate and Corderro Logsdon, were both injured and are hospitalized in Pittsburg. I'm starting to lose hope...but I don't want to thing about that, said Burton.Robert Cohen rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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May 24, 2011 - Rusty Burton rests from tearing through the remnants of the home of his grandson on Maiden Lane in Joplin. Family members are frantically searching for Skyular Logsdon, a 16-month-old boy, after the child disappeared during Sunday evening's tornado. Skyular's parents, Carol Jo Tate and Corderro Logsdon, were both injured and are hospitalized in Pittsburg. I'm starting to lose hope...but I don't want to thing about that, said Burton.Robert Cohen rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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May 24, 2011 - Rusty Burton tears through the remnants of the home of his grandson on Maiden Lane in Joplin. Family members are frantically searching for Skyular Logsdon, a 16-month-old boy, after the child disappeared during Sunday evening's tornado. Skyular's parents, Carol Jo Tate and Corderro Logsdon, were both injured and are hospitalized in Pittsburg. I'm starting to lose hope...but I don't want to thing about that, said Burton.Robert Cohen rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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May 24, 2011 - Pam Tate discovers a muddied onesie belonging to her nephew at the site of the family home on Maiden Lane in Joplin. Family members are frantically searching for Skyular Logsdon, a 16-month-old boy, after the child disappeared during Sunday evening's tornado. Skyular's parents, Carol Jo Tate and Corderro Logsdon, were both injured and are hospitalized in Pittsburg. Robert Cohen rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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May 24, 2011 - Rusty Burton finds important papers and a stuffed bear he won for his grandson as he sifted through the remnants of the child's home on Maiden Lane in Joplin. Family members are frantically searching for Skyular Logsdon, a 16-month-old boy, after the child disappeared during Sunday evening's tornado. Skyular's parents, Carol Jo Tate and Corderro Logsdon, were both injured and are hospitalized in Pittsburg. I'm starting to lose hope...but I don't want to thing about that, said Burton.Robert Cohen rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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May 24, 2011 - Tsvia Tate, at right, aunt of Skyular Logsdon, holds onto some of the child's clothing as she embraces Skyular's great aunt Pam Tate outside the Logsdon family home on Maiden Lane in Joplin. Family members are frantically searching for the 16-month-old boy after the child disappeared during Sunday evening's tornado. Skyular's parents, Carol Jo Tate and Corderro Logsdon, were both injured and are hospitalized in Pittsburg.Robert Cohen rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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May 24, 2011 - Rusty Burton tears through the remnants of the home of his grandson on Maiden Lane in Joplin. Family members are frantically searching for Skyular Logsdon, a 16-month-old boy, after the child disappeared during Sunday evening's tornado. Skyular's parents, Carol Jo Tate and Corderro Logsdon, were both injured and are hospitalized in Pittsburg. I'm starting to lose hope...but I don't want to thing about that, said Burton.Robert Cohen rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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May 24, 2011 - Milissa Burns waited outside the neonatal intensive care unit at Freeman West Hospital in Joplin Tuesday, hoping that her grandson Skyular Logsdon was there. Neighbors told the family that a baby found Monday evening had been brought to the hospital, but 16-month Skyular was not there. Robert Cohen rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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May 24, 2011 - A glimpse of hope was dashed Tuesday as Tsvia Tate and Pam Tate, right, head back to their van after their nephew did not turn up at Freeman West Hospital in Joplin Tuesday. Skyular Logsdon, 16-months-old, has been missing since Sunday evening when a tornado ripped through his neighborhood. During his family's frantic search, a neighbor told them that police had found a child late Monday that was brought to Freeman. But he was not there. Robert Cohen rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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