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Significant Tornado Events

locomusic01 said:
There are a handful of photos, some of which I don't think I've seen anywhere else. If I have time and can remember I'll take some screenshots later. Not as much as I was hoping when I bought it tbh, but nice to see some photos from some more poorly documented areas.


The Wayback Machine has it, but it looks like it didn't archive the video. No idea what photos may've been in it.


No, I don't have any documentation for them and haven't really had time to do a deep dive and see if I can glean any more info.


Not entirely sure what you're asking. Is there something specific you're looking for?
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Any luck with those photos? Also online I have seen some confusion with the actual location of Leadanna's mines, looking on Google earth it does appear that there is a mining area south of Annapolis? But others say it was 2 miles east?
 
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HAwkmoon said:
Any luck with those photos? Also online I have seen some confusion with the actual location of Leadanna's mines, looking on Google earth it does appear that there is a mining area south of Annapolis? But others say it was 2 miles east?
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It was definitely east of Annapolis, just look at the map of deaths in Missouri by locomusic01 on pages 489/490. 2 deaths occurred there.
 
HAwkmoon said:
Any luck with those photos? Also online I have seen some confusion with the actual location of Leadanna's mines, looking on Google earth it does appear that there is a mining area south of Annapolis? But others say it was 2 miles east?
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Well Leadanna is a ghost town nowadays so you won't find it anymore, there is a street named after it in Annapolis though.
 
HAwkmoon said:
Ah ok.
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And also I can’t get a accurate death toll of the Annapolis/Leadanna area like for example my various books say anywhere from 2 to 6 deaths occurred there 2 to 4 in Annapolis and another 2 in Leadanna. Can you help identify the other victims of this area cos I only found 2 so far (Orso Kelly and Raymond Stewart) there were always 2 very severe people in Annapolis (Sylvia Berry and George Maberry) that I haven’t been able to figure out if they died of their injures or not?
 
Tornadowritter said:
And also I can’t get a accurate death toll of the Annapolis/Leadanna area like for example my various books say anywhere from 2 to 6 deaths occurred there 2 to 4 in Annapolis and another 2 in Leadanna. Can you help identify the other victims of this area cos I only found 2 so far (Orso Kelly and Raymond Stewart) there were always 2 very severe people in Annapolis (Sylvia Berry and George Maberry) that I haven’t been able to figure out if they died of their injures or not?
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I'm afraid I am also at a loss, I have also read that a niece of Carl Brown was killed in the Leadanna area which would increase the death toll to 3 in that area plus the 2-4 in Annapolis.
 
HAwkmoon said:
I'm afraid I am also at a loss, I have also read that a niece of Carl Brown was killed in the Leadanna area which would increase the death toll to 3 in that area plus the 2-4 in Annapolis.
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Yeah I got that too, and I also read that Clara Lewis who was the wife/fiancee of Carl Brown at the time had a cousin whose husband was killed in the Leadanna area, so it increases to 4. And where did you read that the niece of Carl Brown was killed in Leadanna. Cos the only source that I know has the info of the niece of Carl Brown being killed never said it was in Leadanna. It said it was in Annapolis. So where was the source you read it from?
 
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HAwkmoon said:
I'm afraid I am also at a loss, I have also read that a niece of Carl Brown was killed in the Leadanna area which would increase the death toll to 3 in that area plus the 2-4 in Annapolis.
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And also do you or anybody else have info on any of the other victims in Biehle cos out of the 4 that were killed there only 1 (Joseph Blechle) has been identified and the 3 others who were killed in Perry County (Crittenden Bull, Martha Kaempfe, and Louise Stueve) according to the same source were all killed in the rural area miles outside of Biehle along with 1 more unidentified person? (The area is Schalls, Brazeau, and Ridge)
 
Tornadowritter said:
Can you please share the 14 deaths you got in Missouri cause I only managed to get 12 despite looking though lots of digital archived newspapers and dozens of websites, and can you also please share the ones you haven’t confirmed yet cause I might be able to confirm some of them, and also I have a few (around 10) more people that might have died of their injuries from the tornado months later, so you can check them out and comfirmed if their injuries killed them or not?
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Tornadowritter said:
And also I can’t get a accurate death toll of the Annapolis/Leadanna area like for example my various books say anywhere from 2 to 6 deaths occurred there 2 to 4 in Annapolis and another 2 in Leadanna. Can you help identify the other victims of this area cos I only found 2 so far (Orso Kelly and Raymond Stewart) there were always 2 very severe people in Annapolis (Sylvia Berry and George Maberry) that I haven’t been able to figure out if they died of their injures or not?
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IIRC I was able to narrow it down to like 5-6 victims in MO who were injured and may have died later, but I couldn't confirm them. Several others I was able to rule out. As soon as I have time, I'll check my research to put together a list. I ran into the same problem in the Annapolis area actually; I think that's the issue I was working on several months ago before I switched focus back to finishing New Richmond. I'll need to refresh my memory a bit before I can offer anything useful, but I know in checking a bunch of local newspapers most of them specifically reported four deaths in the Annapolis area. Frustratingly, I don't think any of them mentioned the other two besides Osro Kelley and Raymond Stewart. I think I found that Berry & Maberry both survived, but don't quote me on that.

Tornadowritter said:
And also do you or anybody else have info on any of the other victims in Biehle cos out of the 4 that were killed there only 1 (Joseph Blechle) has been identified and the 3 others who were killed in Perry County (Crittenden Bull, Martha Kaempfe, and Louise Stueve) according to the same source were all killed in the rural area miles outside of Biehle along with 1 more unidentified person? (The area is Schalls, Brazeau, and Ridge)
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Here are the deaths I have mapped in Missouri (including the two TBD listed near Annapolis, which may eventually be removed if I can't 100% confirm names):

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locomusic01 said:
Here are the deaths I have mapped in Missouri (including the two TBD listed near Annapolis, which may eventually be removed if I can't 100% confirm names):

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I can give you a few more comfirmed deaths, so the list will increase from 14 to 17 deaths, and sorry that this post is long.

I can actually confirmed the other 2 deaths in Annapolis, so according to the Death Rides the Sky book it said that a niece of Carl Brown’s and a husband of one of Clara Brown née Lewis’s cousins were also killed in Annapolis, so it said the husband was killed in Leadanna and it treats the husband and Orso Kelly as separate victims, so Leadanna now has 2 deaths. Orso Kelly and a husband of one of Clara Brown née Lewis’s cousins.
And based on the above statement that means that the niece of Carl Brown’s died in Annapolis, so now Annapolis now has 2 deaths. Merrill Raymond Stewart and a niece of Carl Brown’s. Unfortunately I couldn’t identify them, but the book does comfirmed they died, so Annapolis death toll is at 4 including 2 in Leadanna.

Also According to America’s deadliest Twitter book it said that 5 schoolchildren died in/near Lixville yet only 3 out of the 5 kids that died in Bollinger County. John Fulton, Perry Fellows, and Trula Henry were schoolkids as Harley Fellows and Irene Clements were infants and too young to go to school, so I did research for the other 2 dead schoolkids, and I think I found one. Julius Crites not only was he injured in the Conrad school, but he also died 2 months later in May, so if one of the 5/6 unconfirmed deaths is a schoolchild from Whitewater township besides Julius Crites it’s very likely that they both died of their injuries.

And finally according to various newspapers and websites they said that 1 child died in a school 5 miles north of Altenburg or in the Ridge School which are the same school, so far I managed to narrow it down between Ida Stueve and Edna Leimbach, so if another one of your unconfirmed deaths was injured in the Ridge School. It most likely they died of their injuries, and if you don’t have any from the Ridge School, but you have one from the Ridge area then it very likely they died of their injuries as according to the Perry County Lutheran Historical Society post “A Tornado tale of two towns” It saids that there were deaths near Biehle, north of Frohna, and most importantly in the Ridge community, so there was a death in the Ridge community.
 
locomusic01 said:
Pretty much the same area, give or take like a quarter-mile. That spot along CR 2967/Red Rock Rd. is about as bad as it gets - just unreal devastation.

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What's interesting is that it seems to have rapidly pulsed in intensity a couple of times. It first peaked over the Willow Lake subdivision in the southwest part of Bridge Creek, where it produced similarly incredible destruction:

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And then it noticeably weakened (though obviously still very intense) as it passed over the unpopulated area that's now OK-4:

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And completely hulked out again over Southern Hills (the original aerial shot), which is immediately to the bottom right of the photo above. You can see it in the satellite imagery I posted the other day (the photo above would be just slightly below + left of center, with swaths of absolute desolation on either side):

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Is there a link to that SAT imagery for Bridge Creek?
 
locomusic01 said:
Probably not a huge number since this event received pretty thorough coverage, but no doubt there were some. Two of the deaths I mapped in Missouri were seriously injured people who died weeks later (nearly three months later in one case) but don't seem to have been officially counted. Occasionally there are also people who are counted who shouldn't be, like the woman who died of a heart attack near Alliance, MO despite the tornado missing her house by almost half a mile. Overall though, the death toll is probably somewhat higher than reported.
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I have 2 questions about this.

1. Are there any other people that shouldn’t be counted, but are still counted anyway such as Amanda Emma Hanners, the woman who died of a heart attack?

2. You said that 2 of the deaths you mapped in Missouri happened at least 2 weeks later, and 1 of them died nearly 3 months later, but when I look at your map for those 2 deaths none of the people on your map match up with the 2 deaths. The last person to died of their injuries in Missouri was Louise Stueve and she only died 10 days later effectively not being 1 of the 2 deaths, so did you forgot about those 2 deaths or did you find out that those 2 deaths like Amanda Emma Hanners didn’t died of their injuries and you didn’t count them?
 
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