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Significant Tornado Events

So the Perry County Lutheran historical society has said that there were deaths in the Ridge community (it’s 4/5 miles north of Altenburg) from the Tri State Tornado, and none of the 15 identified dead from the tornado were killed in the Ridge area, so who was the person that was either instantly killed or fatally injured by the tornado in the Ridge area?

Also to most websites and books say that 4 people were killed in the Biehle area, but I only identified 2 of them (Joseph Blechle and August Lappe), so who were the other 2 people that were instantly killed or fatally injured in the Biehle area?

Also according to essjm it said that 1 girl died of her injuries on March 19th when she was injured at the Garner School, but none of the tornado victims I found in Bollinger County died on March 19th, and Trula Henry who was supposedly the girl fatally injured at the Garner School, but she died on March 25th, so there were 2 deaths at the Garner School instead of 1, so who was the girl that was fatally injured at the Garner School?

In one of the books about the 1925 tornado named America’s deadliest twister it said that 5 students died in the Lixville area, but I only managed to find 4 of them, 3 identified (Perry Fellows, Trula Henry, and John Fulton), and 1 unidentified (the girl at the Garner School who died of her injuries on March 19th), and there were 2 children (Julius Crites and Richard Statler) who were injured and died later in 1925, but I don’t know if they died of their injuries, or not, so who was the 5th student who was instantly killed or fatally injured in the Lixville area?
 
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HAwkmoon said:
Based on damage I think they are actually fairly equal, both produced equally extreme vehicle damage, Bridge Creek produced worse scouring, granulation for both was extreme though I think Piedmont had worse and tree damage likewise. Structural damage for Bridge Creek was extreme and it also produced more extreme instances of vehicle damage. The one thing for me is Cactus-117 from Piedmont which I think makes it stand out. Plus cyclodials in this area were extreme.
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Do you have a photo of the cyclodial marking near Cactus-117 by any chance?
 
Forgot to post it but yesterday was the 30th anniversary of a now-relatively obscure tornado outbreak in Wisconsin, although it was unusually intense (Four F2+) and quite deadly by our standards (four fatalities total, two from each of the two F3 tornadoes).

www.wmtv15news.com

30 years since a deadly tornado in Adams County

Tuesday marks the 30-year anniversary of a deadly tornado outbreak in central Wisconsin
www.wmtv15news.com www.wmtv15news.com

NSSFC/SELS (shortly before it became SPC) even put out a high risk that day, which remains the only one ever issued in August.
 
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locomusic01 said:
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Most of the casualties were around Tinker AFB - the last photo is a Jeep that was thrown a great distance (anywhere from 250 yards to over a mile, depending on the source), killing a Corporal Ernest Montgomery. I did a bunch of research on the OKC-area tornadoes because at one point I was planning to follow up the 5/3/99 article with an article about all of OKC's close calls.
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I think this photo is from the June 12th, 1942 OKC tornado
 
locomusic01 said:
Don't have much unfortunately. Years ago I was planning on doing an article on it since it's probably one of the most underrated high-end outbreaks, but I wasn't very good at research back then so I got discouraged and gave up pretty much right away lol. I've come across a few random photos here and there since then but haven't really made a concerted effort to look.

Anywho, this is from the Cooter-Cottonwood Point, MO F4 - one person was killed here:

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These are from the Dierks, AR F4. I believe they're all from the same general area where seven people were killed in multiple houses that were demolished:

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These are from the Fowlkes-Dyersburg, TN F3. The first is a 1942 Ford that was thrown a few hundred yards and had its body stripped from its frame:

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This one's hard to make out much detail, but it's a house that was blown away in the same area:

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A hangar at the Dyersburg Airport, where 27 planes were destroyed:

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These are from the Henderson, TN F4:

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This car was apparently thrown 300 yards:

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This is on a property in Bolivar (near the beginning of the path) where four people were killed - even some of the small saplings around the main tree are debarked:

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A couple poor quality shots from the Hickory Ridge-Vanndale, AR F4:

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And an album of what I have from Judsonia. The first photo is the town water tower btw:

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@locomusic01 the Judsonia album won't load for me
 
locomusic01 said:
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.


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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Also are you able to identify these photos, apparently the last one is Annapolis?
 
locomusic01 said:
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.


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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Please correct me if I wrong, but I assuming the 5-6 people that might had died of their injuries were Julius Crites, Christina Fellows, Richard D Statler, Elizabeth Statler, and Heinrich Doberenz? Also 1 more that I might add is Irene Reents, and I can also confirm that August Lappe did die of his injuries.

Can you please give me the link to your Tri State Tornado article?

Who were the 2 people that died of their injuries weeks later (in 1 case nearly 3 months later)?

And have you found new people that ether were killed by the tornado, or might had died of their injuries?
 
This is basically a timeline of the 1925 Tri State Tornado while it was in Bollinger County, MO


Please correct me if I get anything wrong


By the time the tornado had entered Bollinger County it had already killed 5 people in Missouri: 1 in Reynolds County, 2 in Annapolis, and 2 more in Leadanna.


The tornado first entered Union Township where it moved south of Ezra, and North of Patton hitting rural areas, and a few farms here and there, but other than that no one was killed or injured within Union Township although Whitewater Township will get a much worse fate.


The tornado crossed Whitewater river and struck the Conrad School and destroyed it killing 10 year old John Fulton, and injuring the teacher and 16 students including Julius Crites, and due to poor recording at the time I don’t know if Julius Crites died of his injuries or not. After the tornado wrecked the school it didn’t hit anything for a mile until it reached the 2 story farmhouse of Frederick Fellows like the Conrad School the farmhouse was also completely destroyed, and 2 of Frederick’s grandsons Perry, and Harley Fellows were both killed instantly while his granddaughter, Ann Fellows will be injured. Also injured in the farmhouse was Frederick’s wife, Christina, and due to poor recording at the time I don’t know if Christina Fellows died of her injuries or not. The tornado then stuck Henry Bangert’s property, and wrecked his house, and destroyed 2 of his farms. The tornado also indirectly killed a woman named Amanda Hanners by giving her a heart attack before it struck Lixville.


The village of Lixville then was struck with the Lutheran Church moved off its foundation, and Hobert Loberg’s store, and a blacksmith shop being destroyed. While the northern part of Lixville Judge Louis Lix’s concrete home was severely damaged, and 2 of his barns were destroyed, and just to the east Fred Bangert’s house and barn were demolished while William Bangert’s house was destroyed except for the log cabin interior room. but luckily the Shrum Family had warned everyone in the village to seek shelter no one was killed in Lixville


The tornado then went a mile without destroying anything before completely demolishing the Garner School injuring the teacher, and 16 students, and unfortunately 1 unidentified girl died of her injuries a day later while another girl Trula Henry will died a week later on March 25th of her injuries. Less than a mile north of the school was Peter Monroe Statler’s house and barn which were both destroyed, and the house was blown away just as Peter’s son, Willis Statler got under the house, and since the house was blown away it luckily didn’t collapsed on him therefore not injuring or killing him. Unfortunately Peter, his wife, Elizabeth, and 2 others were all badly injured as they were in the house when it was blown away, and due to poor recording at the time I don’t know if Elizabeth Statler died of her injuries or not. Henry Werth’s house and barn were hit next with the house having its roof blown off, and the barn being destroyed. The tornado then struck Louis Clements’s house and completely demolished it along with every single outbuilding, and his wife, and 3 of his children were injured while his daughter, Irene Clements was killed. The last house to be struck was Grant Miller’s house which only had its roof blown away unfortunately the barn was completely demolished with Grant Miller being killed, and his brother Cecil was injured. Also killed in Bollinger County was 1 more unidentified student, and 1 more home that was owned by Emily Shrum was destroyed.


The tornado then finally left Bollinger County at 2:00 pm after killing at least 9 people, and possibly fatally injuring a few more.
 
Tornadowritter said:
This is basically a timeline of the 1925 Tri State Tornado while it was in Bollinger County, MO


Please correct me if I get anything wrong


By the time the tornado had entered Bollinger County it had already killed 5 people in Missouri: 1 in Reynolds County, 2 in Annapolis, and 2 more in Leadanna.


The tornado first entered Union Township where it moved south of Ezra, and North of Patton hitting rural areas, and a few farms here and there, but other than that no one was killed or injured within Union Township although Whitewater Township will get a much worse fate.


The tornado crossed Whitewater river and struck the Conrad School and destroyed it killing 10 year old John Fulton, and injuring the teacher and 16 students including Julius Crites, and due to poor recording at the time I don’t know if Julius Crites died of his injuries or not. After the tornado wrecked the school it didn’t hit anything for a mile until it reached the 2 story farmhouse of Frederick Fellows like the Conrad School the farmhouse was also completely destroyed, and 2 of Frederick’s grandsons Perry, and Harley Fellows were both killed instantly while his granddaughter, Ann Fellows will be injured. Also injured in the farmhouse was Frederick’s wife, Christina, and due to poor recording at the time I don’t know if Christina Fellows died of her injuries or not. The tornado then stuck Henry Bangert’s property, and wrecked his house, and destroyed 2 of his farms. The tornado also indirectly killed a woman named Amanda Hanners by giving her a heart attack before it struck Lixville.


The village of Lixville then was struck with the Lutheran Church moved off its foundation, and Hobert Loberg’s store, and a blacksmith shop being destroyed. While the northern part of Lixville Judge Louis Lix’s concrete home was severely damaged, and 2 of his barns were destroyed, and just to the east Fred Bangert’s house and barn were demolished while William Bangert’s house was destroyed except for the log cabin interior room. but luckily the Shrum Family had warned everyone in the village to seek shelter no one was killed in Lixville


The tornado then went a mile without destroying anything before completely demolishing the Garner School injuring the teacher, and 16 students, and unfortunately 1 unidentified girl died of her injuries a day later while another girl Trula Henry will died a week later on March 25th of her injuries. Less than a mile north of the school was Peter Monroe Statler’s house and barn which were both destroyed, and the house was blown away just as Peter’s son, Willis Statler got under the house, and since the house was blown away it luckily didn’t collapsed on him therefore not injuring or killing him. Unfortunately Peter, his wife, Elizabeth, and 2 others were all badly injured as they were in the house when it was blown away, and due to poor recording at the time I don’t know if Elizabeth Statler died of her injuries or not. Henry Werth’s house and barn were hit next with the house having its roof blown off, and the barn being destroyed. The tornado then struck Louis Clements’s house and completely demolished it along with every single outbuilding, and his wife, and 3 of his children were injured while his daughter, Irene Clements was killed. The last house to be struck was Grant Miller’s house which only had its roof blown away unfortunately the barn was completely demolished with Grant Miller being killed, and his brother Cecil was injured. Also killed in Bollinger County was 1 more unidentified student, and 1 more home that was owned by Emily Shrum was destroyed.


The tornado then finally left Bollinger County at 2:00 pm after killing at least 9 people, and possibly fatally injuring a few more.
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Everything correct besides the fact that William Bangert's home was completely demolished, no mention of a log cabin interior room.
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TH2002 said:
That second photo caught my attention. It's one of the few photos I've seen from the Tri-State tornado that show clear cut debarking. From what I hear, many trees in IL are of a particularly durable species of hardwood that is nearly impossible to completely debark (the 11/17/2013 Washington tornado managed to completely debark few, if any trees despite moving through town at high end EF4/marginal EF5 intensity) and yet that tree appears to be almost completely debarked. Very impressive.



I can see you are as disorganized with your browser tabs as me. ;)
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Two images showing shredded and debarked trees in front of Longfellow School.
 
HAwkmoon said:
Yeah, I think it was supposed to work, and way back when I think it did. I had someone send it to me who got it directly from the authors.
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Well since the link doesn’t work. Can you tell me what deaths, injuries, or other damage points you remember that were in Missouri?

And what do the Green, yellow, and red dots mean cos they don’t seem to mean damage as I see 2 green dots directly south of Schumer Springs that Grant Miller was most likely killed at?
 
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Tornadowritter said:
Well since the link doesn’t work. Can you tell me what deaths, injuries, or other damage points you remember that were in Missouri?

And what do the Green, yellow, and red dots mean cos they don’t seem to mean damage as I see 2 green dots directly south of Schumer Springs that Grant Miller was most likely killed at?
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Red is listed as "devastating", typically requiring everything to be swept away. Green is total/ destroyed. Yellow is moderate. IIRC there were about 15 listed deaths but lemme go over it again.
 
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