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Murphysboro
• 234 killed, highest single-city death toll of any tornado
• 17 children killed at Longfellow School, 9 at Logan School
• Remains of city caught fire shortly after tornado passed
• Major industries destroyed
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De Soto
• Town virtually annihilated; strong F-5 damage
• 69 deaths including 33 at the school—still the worst tornado school death toll
• Business district destroyed, caught fire after storm’s passage
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West Frankfort
• Most men were employed in mines and were underground when storm struck
• 147 fatalities, most of them women and children
• Tornado devastated northwest quadrant of town, where most miners lived
• Business district largely spared
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Rural Hamilton and White Counties, Illinois
• No population centers struck
• 65 deaths, hundreds injured
• Strong F-5 damage continues, with concrete walkways blown out of the ground at one Hamilton County farm
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Griffin, Indiana
• Town completely destroyed
• Large quantities of mud sucked from Wabash River, pelted many survivors
• Storm still exhibiting F-5 damage
• 26 fatalities in village of 400 people
• Schoolchildren killed on the way home from school
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Owensville, Indiana Area
• Storm turned slightly northward; first deviation in path since touchdown
• Tornado passed just northwest of Owensville, destroying 85 farms
• Entire farm families wiped out
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Princeton, Indiana
• Largest city to be struck by tornado after Murphysboro and West Frankfort
• Two southern neighborhoods, Baldwin Heights and Summit, bore brunt of storm
• Heinz Ketchup plant and Southern Railroad shops demolished
• 25 deaths in Princeton area
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