MURPHYSBORO, Ill ... “We think about the number of people killed in 1925 during the Tri-State Tornado---400 people were killed in just one day. So that created a situation where we had a ...
Most of Gorham and much of Murphysboro had been destroyed just 32 years earlier by the 1925 Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest and longest-tracked tornado in U.S. history. The 21 twisters spawned ...