Memory Bank: Tornado relief, 1925

Packed with tornado-relief supplies, a truck heads to Princeton in southwestern Indiana to provide assistance to families impacted by the Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history. On March 18, 1925, the tornado roared from Missouri to Indiana, killing 695 people in its 219-mile path and destroying half the town of Princeton. The Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation, in cooperation with the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, donated supplies to states struck by the tornado.

Sources: Indiana Historical Society, The Washington Post

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