Jackson County IL Archives News.....The Tri-State Tornado - Deaths and Injuries March 23, 1925
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The Daily Independent Newspaper, Murphysboro, IL March 23, 1925
 
38 MOST SERIOUSLY INJURED

    Here is listed thirty-eight storm victims, the most seriously injured or
suffering injuries of a nature such as could be better treated in a metropolitan
hospital.  These injured were placed in Barnes hospital, St. Louis, Frank
WHITTINGTON died en route and his body ordered consigned to the Red Cross here
for burial, relatives being fundless after the storm.

Ed WHITTINGTON
Elery GROB
Luella FLEMING
Mrs. RAY
Geo. J. BOWERMAN
Elsie RATHBERT
Simpson HALL
Mattie LIVELY
Mrs. Troy HANEY
Grant YOUNG
Laura EXOM
Elmus AKIN
Thelma TAVEGGIA
Ernest RUBLE
J. H. CRISLER
Mrs. W. F. VARNUM
Mrs. F. W. SCHMALLENBERGER
Pauline PURDY
Mrs. Miles BAGWELL
Emma STANFIELD
Edna HAYES
Hattie WINTERS
Louis ETHERTON
J. H. STAPLES
Yoonue WAGNER
Leon WAGNER
Lawrence WEBER
Marsh SMITH
Mrs. C. SHOOD
Mrs. LOWDEN
BAILEY (boy)
Miss STANFIELD
Lewis TURNER
Gertrude DEWILLE
Beulah THORNTON
Eugene THIS
Mattie BROWN
Frank WHITTINGTON

MISSING
    The following persons are missing since Wednesday.  If you know their
whereabouts notify the Independent.  If there are members of your family missing
notify the Independent for listing in this column.

Dorothy LAUNIUS, wife of G. L. LAUNIUS
Anna LONG, sistger of Chrissy HALDAMAN


COOPER STOUT RITES TUESDAY

    Funeral rites for Cooper STOUT, storm victim who died Sunday, will be
conducted Tuesday at 1:00 o'clock.  The service at Tower Grove Cemetery will
occur about 3:00 o'clock.


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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