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The tornado outbreak sequence of May 25–June 1, 1917 was an eight-day tornado event, known as a tornado outbreak sequence, that killed at least 383 people, mostly in the Midwestern and parts of the Southeastern United States. It was the most intense and the longest continuous tornado outbreak sequence on record, with at least 66 tornadoes ...
1917 tornado damage in Mattoon. On May 26, 1917, the town was devastated by an F4 tornado which killed 101 people and injured approximately 638 people. The tornado was Illinois's third-deadliest tornado disaster. [8] In 1932, the Kuehne Manufacturing Co. began producing dinette sets at their new plant on the south side of Mattoon.
Several other historical accounts of very long track (VLT) tornadoes have subsequently been determined to be the product of tornado families [60] (notably the Charleston-Mattoon, Illinois tornado family of May 1917 and the Woodward, Oklahoma tornado family of April 1947).
The tornado destroyed almost every building in northern Mattoon, Illinois, where 53 people were killed, and another 38 died in the devastation of Charleston. 1924 – A significant tornado outbreak resulted in 38 deaths across Mississippi and Alabama , with multiple deaths in several families.
They represent 19 people who were injured and the family of the man who was killed when an EF-1 tornado packing winds of 100 mph struck the Apollo Theatre, 104 N. State St., causing the roof to ...
Amazon is being sued by the family of delivery driver Austin McEwan who died in the Edwardsville, Illinois warehouse struck by a tornado last month, CNET has reported. The lawsuit alleges that ...
A tornado struck Mattoon, Illinois, causing devastation and killing 101 people. Other tornadoes that same day in Illinois and Indiana killed 10 more people. British hospital ship HMHS Dover Castle was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by German submarine SM UC-67. Seven crew were lost with the survivors rescued by HMS Cameleon.
Devastated Pekin homes and property line the path of destruction as seen from the air Nov 18, 2013, the day after a tornado ripped through the area.