Ruins of the Baptist Church at Murphysboro, Illinois. A funeral was in progress
when the tornado hit around 2:30 p.m. A casualty of the Tri-State Tornado
, the longest-lived and longest path of any recorded tornado. It traveled over
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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