Jackson County IL Archives News.....CHRISTMAS SAVINGS BOOK RETURNED - The Tri-State Tornado March 27, 1925
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The Murphysboro Daily Republican-Era. Murphysboro, IL March 27, 1925


   A vagary of the storm last Wednesday is again shown in the return to Miss
Adleine SHOMAKER, daughter of T. E. SHOMAKER, of a City National Bank Christmas
savings book which was blown from the home on Pine street.  It was mailed from
Chester by C. B. DeROUSET, who found it.  As the storm came from the southwest,
the book must have swirled about in the air and dropped to earth back of the
storm area to the west.


Additional Comments:
Widely considered the most devastating and powerful tornado in American history,
the Great Tri-State Tornado ripped through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on
March 18, 1925. In its 219-mile-long wake it left four completely destroyed
towns, six severely damaged ones, 15,000 destroyed homes, and 2,000 injured.
Most significantly, 695 people were killed, a record for a single tornado.

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