Jackson County IL Archives News.....REVISED LIST OF DEAD--INJURED - The Tri-State Tornado March 21, 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Riseling riseling@insightbb.com July 15, 2006, 8:59 pm The Murphysboro Daily Republican-Era. Murphysboro, IL March 21, 1925 DEAD Mrs. J. W. GIBSON Frances HAMMER Joe MOORE Louis MILLER David ELLIS Sam KEARNS Arthur DUNN J. B. HABERMEHL Ben HABERMEHL Mary DAVIS John SWAFFORD Frank BARONI Mrs. Ardell SPANGLER and child Mrs. Louis MILLER Robert PILTZ Luella PILTZ Tressy SCHMALLERBERGER Clara BAILEY Dr. L. R. WAYMAN's son Mrs. August HASSEBROCK Irvin HASSEBROCK Alworth GREGORY Mrs. George BAKER John DeWITT E. J. BJIK J. G. ANDREWS John BERRA Mrs. Jas. MARTIN Willis COCHRAN Henrietta DITZLER Dorris STEPHENSON Jerry CALLAHAN's child Albert CALLAHAN's child Ernie A. HINCHCLIFF Robert STEPHENSON Joe CORRENTI's child Helen May COOK (child) Columbus PIERSON's child J. G. HARRIS Campbell LIPE H. S. KOONTZ D. E. DARBY Dr. FORSHEE's son-in-law Martha BOWERMAN Mrs. Mary BRANDON Albert BAKER Frank KEOUGH Mrs. Geo. BERGER One unidentified man wearing a 1922 Class ring Mrs. Mart HALLIDAY S. M. HANEY, Meridian, Mississippi J. A. JONES W. E. NEAL Ernest HARWIG Ben McALLISTER Mrs. James FIELDING Claud LIPE Jerry M. MIFFLIN ---------- WILLIS, child Joe BARONI Alberta NAUSLEY, daughter of Ray Paul ROBERTS DAN BOUCHER (not D.L.) Edna Imogene BOUCHER Mrs. Chas. NOLTE Octavia TREMBLY Evelyn BOSTON Edna HAYES Robert McCORD's child Mr. & Mrs. O. S. SILVEY Earl RUSSELL John J. BREWER Three unidentified children Wm. SPURLAZZIE Dolph ISOM, colored Mrs. JONES, colored Mrs. KELLY, colored Major VTRBAL and wife Mary MAINARD One STIVER child ------------- CLEMENTS Herbert LENNINGTON Mrs. Sam RODMAN Mrs. SLATER, colored Sister of Necie COFFER Joe HENRY Mrs. Anna LOY Thomas LOY Earl VARNUM Louis GUOLDONI Mrs. Mildred WHITE Foster BROWN E. C. HARRIS' boy Mrs. Wallace BLACKLOCK Iva LIPET Harriet GRAFF and son BERNARD SRELEY Mrs. L. E. FILE Minnie BECK B. A. ORLAND Joe SCHIRO and four children James MARTIN John BREWER Mrs. SPALLAZO Aldencliff ISOM Mrs. ------------- JONES Phoebe PELLEY Alice BROWN Unidentified white baby Sadie STRATTAN Mrs. Mollie HIGGINS Two STRIBAIT boys Jimmy HAYS' baby Mrs. Ahra WILL John MORGAN's baby girl Joseph WAGNER Junior WADE, colored boy Mrs. Ray NAUSLEY Bertha Frances SIMON Mrs. Thomas RAINES Josephine SCHIRO Constant COMTE Mrs. Joe PIERON Mrs. Lutsine SAMPSON Carl HAGLER W. E. VARNUM Mrs. HUGGINS Fred CRISTLER's baby boy Arthur FLATT James BLEDSOE Mrs. Charles SMITH James SMITH Bert BLACKWOOD Allen PENROD Mayme BJICK Luthena JAMES Pearl HUPPERT Granda THORNTON Mr. VERNER and three children Rount EASCUS child Angeline CUCHHOLZ J. J. WAGNER William COCHRAN Victor McBRIDE Orin McBRIDE L. C. HARRISON Louis THEISS Arabella THEISS James O'GOOCH, Salina, Kansas Mayme HUPPERT Millard BAKER, Jr. (at Holden Hospital, Carbondale) Barbara HALL (at Holden Hospital) Robert ICENOGLE (at Holden Hospital) Hugh REEDER Evenlyn SMITH Freeman BRYAN John BRYAN Marjorie INGRAM Mrs. Leslie THIS Isabelle THIS 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/jackson/newspapers/revisedl123nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb