America's Deadliest Twister: The Tri-State Tornado of 1925

Appendix: Rosters of the Dead by Town

115 Appendix: Rosters of the Dead by Town This roster is not intended to be definitive and is included solely for reference. Where possible, the age of the victim is furnished. GORHAM, ILLINOIS From the Murphysboro Daily Independent, March 26, 1925 Murray Asbury Charles Barton Harve Bean Sarah Bean Margaret Brown Bertha Casey Martha Cole June Crain (Crane), wife of C. Crain (Crane) Ruben Crain (Crane) and his wife, Ollie Delia (Della) Cross Gerald Cross, 5 years old Joe Robert Dunn William Foncree Lawrence Gale Charles Gordon Miss Sally Inchcliff Dick Johnson Andrew Moschenrose Edward Moschenrose Miss Louise “Lulu” Moschenrose Mrs. Mary Moschenrose Lafayette Needham Mildred Marle Needham, infant Gus Reeder Nancy Reeder Mrs. William Roeder Opal Rosenberger Frances Stamp George Temure (sometimes Thormure) Kitty White (sometimes Katy; cook at Wallace’s Restaurant) 116 Appendix MURPHYSBORO, ILLINOIS From the Jackson County Coroner’s Report, April 1, 1925 John G. Andrews, 47 Clara Bailey, 55 Albert Baker Emma Baker, 41 Mrs. Frank Baker Millard Baker Jr., 14 Opal Baker, 4 Thelma Baker, 13, Longfellow School G. S. Bandy, 80 Frank Baroli, 21 Joe Baroni, 3 months Mary L. Batterush, 3 months Eugene Beasley, 8 Minnie Beck, 25 Mrs. George Berger Juanita Berger, 3 Margaret Berger, 28 John Berra, 65 E. J. Bjick, 30 Fredia Blacklock, 42 Bert Blackwood, 16 Jessie Bledso, 32 Evelyn Boston, 8, Logan School fatality Dan Boucher (not D. L.), 64 Edna Imogene Boucher, 8 Martha L. Bowerman, 11, Logan School Mrs. Mary Brandon, 75 John J. Brewer, 36 Alice Brown, 41, black Joe Henry Brown, 3, black Mrs. Lou Brown, 53, black Freeman Bryan, 23 Angeline Buchholz, 32 John M. Cagdale, 93 Albert W. Callihan, 2 Jerry C. Callihan, 3 Elizabeth Carner Howard Carr, Longfellow School Earl Chrisler, 1 Kate Clemons, 18, black, Carbondale William Cochran, 64 Willis Cochran Ethel Rode Coffer, 12, Logan School Constant Comte, 44 Helen Cook, 4 Joe Correnti’s child Mrs. Mary Correnti Herbert Cristler—Fred Cristler’s baby boy Mrs. Mary C. Cupp T. E. Darby, 27 Mary Ellen Davis, 13, Logan School Grazia DeLuca (or Gratia), 3 DeLuca infant of Jake DeLuca Marian DeLuca, 5 Joe DeWitt, 7 Henrietta Ditzler, 6, Longfellow School Charles M. Dukes, 57 Arthur Dunn Chapman Arthur Dunn, 24 Rounzey E. Eason, 8 David A. Ellis C. F. Elmore, 50 Sylvester Ferguson, 25, Carbondale Nellie Fielding, 32 Pauline Fielding, 3 Effie File, 30 Ella Flott, 38 Mary Etta Gibson, 54 James O. Gooch, 52, Salem, Tennessee Y. G. Green, 30, black Alworth A. Gregory, 29 Rose Margaret Griffin, 26 Louis Gualdoni, 26 Josephine Guy, 53 John Habermehl, 35 Ben Habermehl, 62 Barbara Ethel Hall, 29 Ruby Hall, 1 Della Hamlet, 24, black Francis Abe Hammer, 1 Rosters of the Dead by Town 117 Samuel Haney, 76 Ernest Hardwig, 64 John Gilford Harris, 68 L. C. Harrison, 12, Longfellow School Ervin Hassebrock, 30 Junita Hayes, 7 months Cudrey Heinny, 45, black Jennie Alice Higgins, 64 Ernest Hinchcliff, 54 James Holliday, 5, black Sarah C. Holliday, 64 Mary Edward Hopkins, 5, black Mollie Hudgens, 26 Eliza Humphreys, 66 Will Hunziker, 38 Minnie Pearl Huppert, 32 Robert Icenogle, 12 Adolphy Isom, 75, black Loney Jackson, 41 J. A. Janes, 75 Margaret Janes, 58, black Sarah Janes, 64 Mrs. Jones, black Mrs. Kelly, black Francis Patrick Keough, 30 Sam Kerren, 39 Herbert T. (S.) Koonce, 42 Dorothy Launius, 18 Herbert Lennington, 33 Campbell Lipe, 40 Claude Lipe, 18 Evan Lipe, 74 Anna Bernice Loy, 28 Charles Edward Loy, 4 months Thomas James Loy, 3 James Pete Martin, 8 John Martin, 5 Madeline Martin, 3 months Mamie Martin, 35 Mary Maynor, 49 May Dell Martin, 2 Ben McAllister, 50, black Oren McBride, 22 Victoria McBride, 64 Robert McCord, 6, Longfellow School William E. McNeil Sr., 50 Jeremiah Newton Mifflin, 1 Louise H. Miller, 40 Louis E. Miller, 40 Joe Moore, 51 Essie Lee Nausley, 26 Zora Lee Nausley, 3 C. H. Nolte, 48 Herbert Addison Orland, 58 Della Pate, 23 Oscar Perkins, 53, black Bertha May Pieron, 37 Mildred Pieron, 1 month Lucile Piltz, 37 Robert Piltz, 1 Hugh Reeder, 36 Francis Riggo, 56 Paul Edward Roberts, 10, Logan School Earl Russell, 18 Latisha Sampson, 82 Joe Schiro, 5 John Schiro Jr., 2 Josephine Schiro, 8 Laura Schiro, 30 Mildred Schiro, 4 Tessie Schmallenberger, 13, Logan School Elizabeth Schoole, 22 Sadie Evelyn Shaw, 65 Bernard J. Sheley, 21, high school Oliver Smith Silvey, 21 Rhoda Silvey, 64 Bertha F...