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Pearl, IL Tornado May 1917

Posted November 26th, 2007 by Linda Horton

FIVE HURT AT PEARL.

Quincy, May 27.---One woman was seriously injuring and four other persons hurt at Pearl, Pike county, Illinois, at noon Saturday by a tornado which demolished five houses, four in Pike county. The injured ran outdoors when the storm broke which probably saved their lives.

Mrs. Abe Crater, an aged woman, is perhaps fatally injured. She noticed the approach of the storm and ran to her granddaughters house, but failed to reach it before the tornado hit. Her granddaughters likewise quit her home to escape the storm. The Wheeler home was completely demolished and the Crater home partly destroyed.

The Daily Review, Decatur, IL 27 May 1917
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!

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