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ix Illustrations Track map of the Tri-State Tornado 5 Total destruction in Gorham, Illinois 8 Brown Shoe Company plant no. 7, Murphysboro, Illinois 11 Murphysboro Paving Brick Company yard 12 Reliance mill before the tornado 14 Reliance mill after the tornado 14 Carbondale and Shawneetown Railroad stock certificate 15 M&O rail shops before the tornado 17 Man walking the wreckage of the M&O rail yards 18 Rudolph Stecher brewery 20 Logan School ruins 21 Remains of Longfellow School 22 Damaged high school 23 St. Andrew’s Hospital, Murphysboro 26 Men standing next to an army-issue tent 29 Murphysboro family visiting what is left of their home 32 Murphysboro Elks Club Lodge 572 35 Temporary morgue in Murphysboro 36 Typical street scene after debris was moved 37 Old jail and courthouse in Murphysboro 39 Public funeral service held on Courthouse Square 40 Destruction in Murphysboro’s northeastern corner 41 DeSoto, Illinois 43 DeSoto the day after the tornado 43 x Illustrations Ruins of the Albon State Bank 44 Seven army-issue tents in what is left of DeSoto 47 Team of mules hauling coal from a drift mine 49 Remains of the DeSoto business district 52 DeSoto School and teachers 53 DeSoto business district ruins 54 DeSoto business district 55 South façade of the DeSoto schoolhouse ruins 57 Rebuilt miners’ homes in Bush 61 New Orient Mine No. 2 62 Remains of New Addition, West Frankfort 63 New Addition remains, West Frankfort 65 Salvation Army offices, West Frankfort 68 New Addition, West Frankfort 70 Remains of Peabody Mine No. 18, Caldwell, Illinois 71 Chesapeake, Baltimore, and Ohio railcar blown from the hump track 72 Scant remains of Lampley’s farmhouse 77 Sightseers at desks left sitting as they were before winds hit Braden School 78 Ruins of Lawrence Smith Sr.’s home near the Olga Telephone Exchange 79 Ruins of the Lick Creek Church in Mayberry Township 80 Devastation at Griffin, Indiana 84 Unemployed coal miner and his dog, Bush, Illinois 91 Charles Lindbergh adjusting a parachute at Bridgton Field 95 Solitary girl inspecting wreckage in DeSoto 111 ...

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