Ruins of the Longfellow School where 17 children were killed. The storm hit the
school at about 2:30 p.m. A casualty of the Tri-State Tornado, the longest-
lived and longest path of any recorded tornado. It travelled 300 miles from SE
Missouri to Indiana and killed over 600. In: Journal of the
Western Society of Engineers, Vol. 30, No. 9. September, 1925.
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