Remains of a car destroyed by a deadly tornado that hit Hackneyville, Alabama, on Thanksgiving night.
From an article describing the storm's aftermath: "A chicken house a short distance from the house was not damaged, yet an automobile standing in the front yard was blown more than 100 yards away, its motor ripped from its place, tires blown from its wheels." The tornado, one of sever...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | From an article describing the storm's aftermath: "A chicken house a short distance from the house was not damaged, yet an automobile standing in the front yard was blown more than 100 yards away, its motor ripped from its place, tires blown from its wheels." The tornado, one of several that hit the state around the same time, blew one house into another, killing all ten members of the Harkins family who were sheltering in the first building (the people in the second house, Ethel Hicks and her nine children, were unharmed). |
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