Word: sylacauga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tornado freakishness was plentiful. At Cassville, Ga. chickens were stripped of their feathers. An automobile owned by a Nashville, Tenn. family went hurtling through the side of a barn without puncturing a tire. Luther Kelley of Sylacauga. Ala. lost his second wife. His first died in the tornado of 1917. At Cleveland, Tenn. an infant was snatched from its mother's arms, dropped into a well, drowned. An Alabama farmer hung on a barbed-wire fence while the wind tore him to pieces. A Georgian sailed into a tree with a piece of wood through his arm, hung there...