MURPHYSBORO, Ill. (AP) — From Logan School’s top floor, 11-year-old Othella Silvey should have been able to see her house easily — it was less than two blocks away.
But after a monstrous tornado ripped through the Illinois town of Murphysboro on March 18, 1925, Othella saw nothing but flattened wasteland.
“She couldn’t tell which direction was home,” said Othella’s daughter, 81-year-old Sylvia Carvell.
Deadliest twister in recorded U.S. history