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(Continued from Page 1) washers were found scattered around the towers. However, all pieces of the discarded hardware were much smaller than the type used to fasten the tower legs to their concrete bases.)
Convinced Of Vandalism
When informed of Welk’s statements, Carmack said that both Vepco and Wayland-Richardson were convinced that vandalism had caused the tower to fall. He reported that threads of bolts attached to the tower had been examined under a microscope and matched with threads of the nuts found near the fallen tower. "We can tell exactly which nut came off each bolt." hesaid. adding that nuts had been found still attached to two tower legs after the fall.
In addition, he said, examination showed "dig marks" from washers on each of the steel plates astened to the legs of the lallen tower.
Carmack reported that, according to weather bureau records. Rappahannock had seen four nights of w inds that would have taken an unanchored tower over between the fallen tower's date of erection on December 14 and the date it toppled, presumably January 18.
He guessed that Welk had iewed the tower during the lew days before the nuts were screwed to the bolts. According to Carmack, one ol the four nuts at the base of each leg is screwed down
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