Word: murphysboro
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...predicted that a storm was due- but none predicted what took place. Shortly after noon, Death came from the skies. It struck first in Missouri, touched Biehle and Annapolis, hurdled the Mississippi River into Illinois, in the unaccountable way of such storms, and struck about five miles inland at Murphysboro. For the next 30 miles, it seems to have swept on most fiercely through De Soto, Bush, West Frankfort, Parrish, passing about five miles north of Herrin. Then it seems to have stopped again, 20 or 30 miles to McLeansboro and Carmi, crossed the Wabash River into Indiana, promptly demolishing...
...From Murphysboro to Parrish, little remained in the track of the tornado. .Parrish was completely wiped out. Murphysboro, a town of about 11,000, was more than half destroyed. Several schools, filled with children, were wrecked with heavy loss of life. Fire succeeded the storm in many places; and, still later, gangrene set in among the wounded...