TRR photo by Tom Kane Steve Pajka is pictured watching an American disaster unfold at the TV department of the Honesdale K-Mart. (Click for larger image)

An American tragedy touches the valley

By TOM KANE and DAVID HULSE

SULLIVAN & WAYNE COUNTIES — Tuesday’s disaster sent many valley residents scrambling for telephones to check on friends and relatives or to try and volunteer their help.

Narrowsburg Realtor Diane Butler was at work, worrying about two police officers in her family when she got a call this morning. A woman, who was to see property on Wednesday, was calling in tears. She was on her way to try and find several missing relatives working at the World Trade Center, and as people will sometimes remember the most unusual things under stress, she remembered to call and cancel her appointment.

Butler also told of another friend in Bloomfield, NJ, across the Hudson from the disaster, who was stuffing towels under window sashes to keep the fine dust from the center from infiltrating her home.