Worth, Missouri Tornado
April 27, 1947
Town Is Razed By a Tornado
A tornado dipped down upon the farming community
of Worth, population 223, at 2:35 o’clock
Tuesday afternoon to snap out the lives of
thirteen and injure at least twelve seriously.
Attempts to ascertain the number of injured was
almost futile as several were taken to Grant
City for treatment of minor injuries or others
stayed in Worth to pick through their debris for
valuables. The storm swept west to east on the
main street of the village, wrecking everything
in its path. The funnel-shaped storm tore a path
of at least five blocks wide in which houses
were splintered, brick buildings crumbles and
trucks and autos twisted beyond repair.
The town of Worth is located in Worth county,
about seven miles south of Grant City.
Mayor Starl Murdock,
who took office in Worth earlier this month said
it was too early to discuss possible plans for
rebuilding the business district. He said the
first concern would be to rehabilitate the homes
not too badly damaged so that at least a portion
of the citizens could fine refuge.
The mayor suggests that some homeowners might
be able to outfit temporary quarters in the
basement of houses which had been damaged on the
upper floors.
Murdock said he expected the total damage to run
well above the $75,000 figure first advanced by
Capt James S. Poage
of the highway patrol The mayor estimated
that at least twenty0five homes with an average
value of $5,000 had been demolished by the
tornado.
Wells Sucked Dry
The village official pointed out that this was
in addition to the damage to twelve to fifteen
business houses, two churched and the railroad
station. Mayor Murdock said he believed many
property owners had carried insurance covering
tornado damage.
Some municipal services such as telephones and
lights were being installed this morning. The
water supply was believed to be one of the most
critical items in immediate relief efforts Mayor
Murdock said several wells which had supplied
water for the town had been sucked dry by the
tornado
Died in Homes
The storm dipped down at a ridge at the west
edge of the community, with only the warning of
a farm woman four miles west of there The
victims died in their own homes – one in the
Adams store,
one en route to the Maryville hospital, two
struck down while on the streets and one after
arrival at the hospital here.
Ambulances from Grant City arrived first on
the scene. Eleven were taken to the morgue at
that town.
The storm was preceded by several electrical
and hail storms that struck in Nodaway county
and took a course northeast into Worth county.
Some Houses Left
Only on the south and north fringes of the town
were houses left intact The dark funnel struck
two farm houses east across federal highway 169
and the Burlington tracks were demolished. They
belonged to Marion
Schuster and
Will Morgan.
Federal highway No. 169 runs north and south
at the east edge of Worth. To the east of it the
Burlington railway runs parallel The Burlington
station was leveled and a number of cows, which
had been grazing nearby, were killed.
A Rainbow Appears
As Red Cross crews were organizing relief plans
and parties, a glowing rainbow appeared at the
east end of the ravished town.
Coroner Arch Dunfee
of Grant City, who made a check of the dead that
were taken to the funeral homes at Grant City,
said it would be difficult to estimate the
injured. About 30 were treated at Grant City.
Dr. C. N. Williamson
of Gentry, a nearby community, was the first
physician on the scene.
Found in Ditch
FRED JENNINGS
was found dead in a ditch along the main street.
FRANK ROBERTS
was killed in the feed and grocery store of
C. B. Adams,
which was a brick building on the north side of
the street. Part of the east wall of the
building is standing.
Alton James, who was brought to the
St. Francis hospital at Maryville, suffered
broken bones of both legs.
The Worth Burlington depot, located at the
eastern foot of the main street was totally
destroyed and scattered over the right-of-way
and the farm hands east of town. A large pile of
telephone poles stored along, the railroad right
of way were scattered over the tracks and over
the spot where the station had been standing.
Several head of dead livestock were in the
fields east of town. Other cattle were grazing
near the bodies an hour after the storm had
devastated the area.
Carried to Cave
Mrs. T. J. Adams,
91 years old, was carried to a cave and safety
by her daughter and son-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Starl
Murdock. Murdock, member of the town
board, saw the storm approaching the town and
rushed to the house which was located south of
the business section. After the force of it had
passed, Murdock saw that little damage to the
home had been done, but timbers from the
downtown buildings were strewn through his yard
and many were thrown into the side of the house.
Miss Aletha Moore,
age 30, who recently gave up a job with the TWA
in Kansas City, had only recently returned to
Worth to help care for her sister,
Mrs. Fred Michel.
She and Mrs. Michel were injured and take to a
hospital in St. Joseph. They were living with
their mother, Mrs. E.
E. Moore.
Pigs Roam Debris
Pigs roamed through some of the streets of the
destroyed town. One with broken front legs was
seen inching its way to the rest of the scared
swine which rooted amidst the debris with dirty
and tattered cats and dogs. One Collie dog was
crushed under brick walls and an overturned
automobile.
A decapitated chicken, with most feathers
stripped off, was found in the rubble of what
was the main street.
Home Just Completed
A home just recently completed by
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Michels
at the west end of town was totally demolished.
The community building of the town was a
total loss and the walls and roof were scattered
over the town. Both grocery stores in the town
were destroyed, their provender mixed with the
debris of homes, school and garages.
Bill Morgan
had returned within the last day or two to his
farm home two miles east and north of Worth from
a St. Joseph hospital where he had undergone a
second major operation.
But he, with his wife escaped injury by going
to their outdoor cave. Their home and farm
buildings were completely destroyed.
Sheriff D. L. Hiatt
of Worth county took a crew of men
from Grant City to aid in the rescue and relief
work. Two groups of men under
Sheriff Harry Bowman,
Gentry county, were brought in from Albany.
Buildings Destroyed
Buildings that were destroyed includes those of:
Mrs. Stella Adkins
Community building.
Fred Michels
Harvey Wayman.
Mrs. O. L. Roberts
Mrs. E. E. Moore.
Ray Pittsenbarger
Mrs Marion Schuster
Alona Wilson
Ernest Waker
Charles Hall.
Ed Holmes
Bruce Pickering.
Jess Lane
Mrs. Enid Smith.
Mr and Mrs. Blaine Adams, who lived
in the defunct bank building.
Le?? [illegible] Burns
Mont Trump
C. B. Adams feed and grocery.
Baptist church.
Harvey Wayman
store.
Burlington station.
Hotel building occupied by
Mr. and Mrs. George Brown,
who went to the cellar
The band stand located in the middle of the main
street, was lifted off the ground, and then
swirled backward to the west.
Give First Aid
Holding her hands stiffly in front of her from
dried blood and dirt
Mrs Leland Shannon told of making the
rounds with Dr. C. N.
Williamson the first physician to
arrive on the scene. She said that they
administered first aid to those who received
minor injuries. Meanwhile, the able men of the
town searched the debris for victims and helped
get them in ambulances which were summoned from
Grant City. Mrs. Shannon lives a short distance
south of Worth.
Typical of the survivors was
Mrs. Moore
whose home was destroyed. Still dazed and
suffering a bad bruise on her forehead, she was
seen fumbling through the ruins of her home in
which two were injured.
Search for Valuables
While plagued by reporters she kept asking
herself “where can I put these things?” “These
things” referred to some shoes and odds and ends
which she had retrieved.
Like most of the survivors,
Mrs. Moore
found refuge last night in the home of the more
fortunate whose homes ringed the business
section and were left standing.
Roaming more or less at loss up and down the
scattered debris of main street was
Mrs. Harvey Wayman.
She wore a first aid bandage on her forehead,
which bled freely. Finally she returned to the
site of the store which she and her husband
operated and there helped in searching the
rubble. Mr. Wayman
said that a customer had just paid him $100 in
cash for some items bought at the store and the
hunt was on for the money.
Steeple Blown Off
There were some odd stories which came out of
the sorrow and death.
Mrs. George Brown, who operated a
rooming house, was fortunate to find a diamond
at the entrance of a storm cellar. The diamond
had been in a jewel case on the dresser in her
home.
Then there was the school bell. It was blown
100 yards in front of what remained of the
C. B. Adams
home.
Mrs. Ernest Packard,
who lived on a slight incline to the
north of the main street was working in her
strawberry patch when she noted the storm
approaching. She saw the rotating clouds and
told of seeing the steeple of the Baptist church
literally "take off" in the storm.
The Maryville Daily Forum, Maryville, MO
30 Apr 1947
One Storm Victim Was Sucked Out of Hotel
Cave
One of the peculiarities of the storm at Worth
was related today by a Daily Forum
representative. He had interviewed persons who
told of the death of
Fred Jennings, postal employe [sic]
Jennings, who lived at the old hotel with
Mr and Mrs Brown,
went to the hotel cave with the Browns.
The storm swept down over the town from the
southwest, striking first at the cave taking all
the dirt off the top. Jennings was sucked out of
the cave at the hotel and killed, according to
the accounts related today. Mrs. Brown said that
although she had washed her hair three times
today she was unable to get out all the sand
which enveloped them in the cave.
The storm after hitting the hotel cave, then
swirled and whipped back west on the main street
of town.
Worth Tornado Victims
The dead in Worth tornado:
FRED JENNINGS,
58.
W. FRANK ROBERTS, 70.
MRS. MOLLIE PORTER, 75.
BERT SHIPLEY, 65.
MRS. BERT SHIPLEY, 64.
OREN MYERS, 49.
MRS. CHARLES Hall, 60.
JOHN DANNAR, 75.
LEVI BURNS, 70.
MRS. LEVI BURNS, 70.
MISS IRENE PICKERING, age 21, of
Kansas City.
MRS. ELLA WALKER, 80.
MELVIN PICKERING, age 25, who died on
the way to the hospital.
Those hospitalized in Maryville:
Alton James.
Charles Hall.
William Burns.
Goldie Burns.
Harry Lewis.
Mrs. Armanda Abplanalp
Mrs. Edna Wayman, and her husband
H. T. Wayman
Fred Ferguson.
In St. Joseph hospitals:
Mrs. Hazel Mitchel
Miss Aletha Moore.
Ed Porter.
In Bethany hospital:
Mrs. George Allee
Nine Tornado Injured Are in Local Hospital
Nine victims of Tuesday’s storm at Worth were
admitted last evening to the St. Francis
hospital, with the last one,
Fred Ferguson,
65, being admitted about midnight.
The condition of all of the nine patients was
reported to be slightly improved. Perhaps the
most critical of all was
Charles Hall, 56, a retired
farmer. While his injuries had not been
determined, it is thought his right arm was
broken and his right leg mangled. His body,
particularly his head, received several
lacerations. His condition was considered
serious. MR. HALL’S
WIFE, 54, was killed outright, and their home
destroyed.
Mr. Hall’s son,
Vincent Hall and wife and their
one-year baby escaped with slight injuries, with
perhaps a few scratches for Mrs. Vincent Hall.
An Unusual Injury
Alton James
received the most unusual injury when a plank as
big as the man’s fist was forced through his
right leg about half way between the ankle and
the knee and pinned him to a wall. Besides
having the right leg splintered from this blow,
his left leg was broken at the ankle.
This accident happened in the
C. B. Adams
feed store, at the same time that Frank Roberts
was killed outright. James was standing beside
him but was blown away. Also present at the
store was Fred
Ferguson, 65, a member of the town
board, who was admitted about midnight to the
hospital.
Home Destroyed
Ferguson’s
injuries were an injured back and right side,
which included the knee and ankle, with possible
fractures. He is a farmer but lived in Worth.
His home was destroyed.
Other patients at the hospital were
Miss Goldie and William
Burns, a brother and sister. They
were in the same room of their home as their
father and mother. MR
AND MRS LEVI BURNS who were killed
outright. Another occupant of the room was a cow
brought in by the storm.
Miss Burns, a cripple since childhood,
received deep lacerations about the right leg
and head, with possible chest injuries. Burns’
right foot was wedged between fallen timbers and
at the time was causing intense pain. His head
was severely lacerated.
Father of Heroine
Harry Lewis,
shoe maker and father of the heroine
school teacher, Mrs.
Anne Trump, was a patient at the
hospital with an injured back and left hand. He
thought his injuries were received in helping
remove a building from a friend pinned
underneath.
According to a friend at the hospital,
Mrs. Armanda Abplanalp,
a widow and invalid, was in her home with her
nurse, Miss Melva
Grooms, at the time the storm hit.
She was suffering from severe shock at the
hospital. Her body injuries were not known with
the exception of severe bruises and lacerations.
Particles of glass and wood were being extracted
from her back.
House Fell on Them
The other two patients were
H. T. Wayman,
60 and his wife, Edna.
Their injuries, were confined mostly to their
heads. When falling timbers and bricks fell on
them. Mrs. Wayman’s right hand and legs were
also injured. The two with Mr. Wayman’s mother
Mrs. Scadophia Pigg,
85, had gone to the basement of their home, and
the house fell on them. Mrs. Pigg was uninjured.
The Wayman’s owned and operated a general
store and a feed store. Those two buildings and
their home were completely destroyed.
The Maryville Daily Forum, Maryville, MO
30 Apr 1947
Tornado Death Toll Up to 14
Charles Hall,
56-year-old retired farmer and a victim of
Tuesday’s storm at Worth died at 9 o’clock
Wednesday night at the St. Francis hospital in
Maryville bringing the total dead to fourteen.
Because of his serious condition his injuries
were not exactly determined, but his right arm
was broken and his right leg mangled. His body,
particularly his head, had received deep
lacerations.
Hall’s wife, LILLIE,
54, was killed outright and their home
destroyed. His son, Vincent Hall and wife and
one-year baby escaped with slight injuries, with
perhaps a few scratches and bruises for Mrs.
Hall.
Rites for Burns
The Rev. L. B. Day,
Christian minister has advised that
funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock
Friday afternoon at the Prugh funeral home at
Grant City for MR. and
MRS. LEVI BURNS. They were killed in
the tornado which hit the town of Worth Tuesday
afternoon. Mr. Day
will conduct the services.
PICKERING Rites Today
Funeral services for two other tornado victims,
MISS IRENE PICKERING,
22, and her brother
MELVIN, 27 were held this afternoon
at Grant City.
Besides the brother and sister, their
maternal grandmother,
MRS. MOLLIE PORTER, 75, was killed.
Funeral arrangements have not been announced for
MRS. PORTER.
MISS PICKERING
had been employed at Kansas City and had gone to
Worth to attend the funeral of her grandfather,
ALEX PORTER.
Suffers Broken Foot
William Burns,
injured in the Worth tornado Tuesday, was shown
to have a fractured heel and a cracked bone on
the top of his right foot in X-ray pictures
taken at the St. Francis hospital, Maryville.
Other known injuries are general bruises and
lacerations, particularly about the head. His
condition today was said to be improved.
Burns’ sister,
Goldie, also a patient of the
hospital, remained about the same, probably
showing slight improvement. Her injuries were
severe lacerations about the right leg and head,
with a bruised chest. The father and mother,
MR. and MRS. LEVI
BURNS, were killed.
Harry Lewis Better
Harry Lewis,
shoemaker and father of
Mrs. Anne Trump,
was improved. Injuries as shown by X-ray
pictures at the hospital were fractured shoulder
blade and ribs.
Besides the injured back and left hand, his
injuries included lacerations on the back left
side of his head.
The condition of
Mrs. Armanda Abplanalp, a widow,
remained about the same. She is still suffering
shock because of a heart ailment.
Four others at the hospital injured in the
storm passed a good night and showed general
improvement.
The Maryville Daily Forum, Maryville, MO 1
May 1947
Three Members of PICKERING Family Killed
in Storm That Hit Worth
“Everything gone, everything.” Were the only
words Mrs. Bruce
Pickering of Worth could say as she
and her husband entered the St. Francis hospital
here to learn the remaining member of their
family was dead.
Their son, MELVIN,
25, had died in the ambulance on the way to the
hospital in Maryville.
The Pickerings buried Mrs. Pickerings father,
Alex Porter,
Monday. Yesterday they had gone to Grant City
only to return to find the remaining members of
their family dead and their home and farm stock
completely demolished.
Others of the family killed in the storm
which hit Worth Tuesday included Mrs.
Pickering’s mother,
MOLLIE PORTER and their daughter,
IRENE, 21, who was employed in Kansas
City but had returned for her grandfather’s
funeral.
The Pickerings’ home was located on their
farm just at the east edge of Worth and
considered the show place of that town. By hard
labor they acquired their home about two and
one-half years ago. The home, a two and one-half
story frame building, was complete in
furnishings with an elevator that operated from
the basement to the attic.
The house was surrounded with trees shrubbery
and flowers.
Mr. Pickering is a veteran of the First World
War.
The Maryville Daily Forum, Maryville, MO 30 Apr
1947
Carol Schooler Drives His Car Out of Storm
Path at Worth
Carol Schooler
of Maryville, packing company salesman,
probably owes his life to the new Chevrolet he
obtained last week. So do
Mr. and Mrs. Monte Trump,
Worth café owners.
Schooler was just finishing a meal in the
Trump’s café on the east edge of Worth when a
telephone call came through announcing the
approach of the storm. Schooler and café owners
went outside to view the dark twister which was
coming out of the southwest.
Their first reaction was to “hit a ditch”
Schooler said. Then her remembered the “newness”
of his automobile and his second impulse was to
“get it out of Worth and the tornado’s path.”
Travel Two Miles
The three piled into the car and headed south on
Highway 169, pausing momentarily to offer a ride
out of town to a passing pedestrian. The
pedestrian, gazing apprehensively at the black
cloud, refused the offer.
The Schooler auto traveled approximately two
miles out of Worth, then it hailed and its
passengers turned to view the tornados havoc
behind them.
“Worth was blacked out,” Schooler reported
“and it sounded as though 200 B-29’s were flying
through it.”
Pedestrian Found Dead
When the tornado had completed its brief journey
down the small town’s main thoroughfare and
headed northeast Schooler and his passengers
slowly returned to Worth and its destruction.
Their first sight on entering the town was
the pedestrian who had refused their offer of a
ride. He was lying in the street-dead.
Car in Mangled
While the Trumps surveyed the ruins of their
café, Schooler studied a 1935 Chevrolet which
had been parked next to his new car in front of
the café.
It wasn’t parked in front of the café then
Schooler said. “It was half a block off, mangled
and twisted to where it wouldn’t have brought $5
on a sale.”
Schooler mentioned he had received four good
orders from Worth merchants-before the tornado
cancelled them.
The Maryville Daily Forum, Maryville, MO
30 Apr 1947
Garage Operator Saves His Life by Jumping
Into Ditch
Ralph Harris,
who operates the garage at Worth saved himself
from the storm by jumping in a ditch and hanging
onto a pole. But his father-in-law and
mother-in-law, MR. and
MRS. LEVI BURNS lost their lives in
the storm.
Harris saw the storm approaching the town, so
he rushed to a phone to warn his wife and
daughter at their home north of town. However,
he was unable to reach them. Returning to his
place of business, where he had been repairing a
car in the street, he saw the funnel already
above him. He jumped into a nearby ditch.
The storm passed over shaking the pole which
he had grabbed and coating him with mud and
pebbles. He momentarily “blacked” out and then
rushed to the remains of his shop where his
father-in-law had been inside.
The building had collapsed completely and the
car on which he was working was on top of the
demolished building.
He then heard the cries of help and his
father-in-law, LEVI
BURNS, was found crushed beneath the
brick walls of the garage. Burns was extricated
by Harris,
but the elderly man died.
Mrs. Burns mother-in-law was in bed at the
home southwest of town, suffering from a
previous heart attack. The tornado moved the
home several feet off of the foundation and
damaged the home in general Mrs. Burns suffered
shock and was taken out of the home but soon
died.
Mrs. Harris and her daughter were safe in
their untouched home north of the path of the
funnel.
The Maryville Daily Forum, Maryville, MO
30 Apr 1947
Woman School Teacher Emerges as Heroine
Worth, Mo., AP- A 37-year-old school
teacher was the heroine Wednesday of this
tornado-battered and sorrowing town where almost
a fourth of the population was killed or injured
by Tuesday’s devastating winds.
Mrs. Anne Trump
was credited with saving the lives of her pupils
by herding them into a cave just before the
tornado struck, demolishing the schoolhouse.
Warned by a passerby that a strong wind was
approaching, Mrs. Trump rushed outside with
Max Lee Murdock,
one of the pupils. They saw a cloud resembling a
funnel. Mrs. Trump said it looked “just like
pictures we had studied in science classes.”
“I knew we had to find a cave and I tried to
recall one nearby.
“I finally thought of one about half a block
away at Bill Setzer’s
and I started the children into the cave.
“As soon as I got the children in, I started
toward my mother’s house. My mother is an
invalid and I knew she would need help. I got
about a block from
Marry Harris’ house and I was walking
right into the storm.
“Mrs. Harris was sick and bed and her sister,
Mrs. Sam Holmes,
came to the door. Just then the house began to
shake and I ran around the back.
“The back porch fell on me, knocking me to
the ground. I stayed under it and covered my
head with my arms.
When Mrs. Trump finally got home she found
her mother dazed but unhurt.
The mother, although an invalid, had managed
to move from the west part of the house which
probably saved her life because that side was
damaged.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs,
IA 30 Apr 1947
Get Black Left Eyes in Storm
The eight victims of Tuesday’s storm at Worth
confined at St. Francis hospital here have
discovered one thing in common-a black left eye.
As their complexions have cleared from
gravel, sand and dirt forced into their skin by
the wind and healing process has begun, this
discovery was made by
Mrs. H. T. Wayman. While she is still
confined to her bed, she has been permitted to
visit her husband on another floor of the
hospital. Through this visit and talking to
relatives and friends she found this bit of
humor.
Lacks Clothing
With the exception of
William Burns, 35, all of the injured
have shown improvement. While Burns is holding
his own, his recovery is slower.
His sister, Miss
Goldie Burns, a 38-year-old cripple
since childhood, was today permitted to sit in a
slightly inclined position. Her chief worry was
the lack of anything to call her own,
particularly clothes. The clothing she was
wearing was torn from her body in the storm. She
wears size 18 – 20. The Burns brother and sister
lost their parents in the storm and their home
was demolished.
Neck Is Fractured
Through x-ray pictures taken at the hospital, it
was found that Fred
Ferguson, 65, member of the town
board, suffered a fractured neck in addition to
other general injuries.
The Sisters of St. Francis attribute the
general improvement of the morale of their storm
patients to bouquets of snap-dragons and lilies
sent to each by Mrs.
Alfred Engelmann and her daughter,
Miss Margaret Engelmann,
florists.
Funeral Today
WORTH, Mo – (AP)-Funeral services were to
be held in nearby Grant City today for
MR. AND MRS. BERT
SHIPLEY and
MR. AND MRS. LEVI BURNS, victims of
the tornado that swept through Worth Tuesday
killing 14 and injuring at least 50.
Last rites were held here yesterday for five
persons killed in the disaster.
Mayor Starl E. Murdock
issued a proclamation, in which he praised “all
those who have helped, especially the mayors and
chambers of commerce of Albany, Grant City, St.
Joseph, Stanberry and Kansas City, for their
assistance and words of comfort, and also to the
state police, the Boy Scouts and the Red Cross
for the job they have done.”
Twenty Worth families have already applied to
the Red Cross for rehabilitation and according
to O. M. Briggs,
Worth county Red Cross chairman.
The Maryville Daily Forum, Maryville, MO 2
May 1947
Francis Sisters and nurses were meeting the
emergency ready. To add to the seriousness of
the scene, priests and ministers came as the
doctors were making a rapid change to their
operating gowns.
Lose of Parents in Storm
Among the first to be brought in were
William Burns
and his sister, Miss
Goldie.
At the time of admittance Goldie Burns seemed
the least injured of the two. Though stunned and
suffering head injuries, she was able to sit up.
This brother and sister lost their parents,
MR and MRS LEVI BURNS,
who were killed outright in the storm. Other
members of this family include three sisters,
Mrs. Maggie Harris, Mrs.
Eva Gabriel and Miss Bertha Burns and
one brother Howard
Burns.
The Burns home was completely destroyed.
Other Casualties
Other casualties at the hospital included
Alton James,
who seemed at the time of admittance to be
suffering from a mangled right leg.
Charles Hall’s
head was covered with deep lacerations. Other
injuries were not apparent because of the
mangled condition of his clothing. They were mud
and blood soaked. According to hospital
authorities his condition was the most critical.
Mrs. Armanda
Abplanalp, an elderly widow who lived
along, was unable to lie down when she was
admitted to the hospital because of injuries
received. Her clothing was torn, exposing parts
of her body. The outside covering was mud and
blood.
The Maryville Daily Forum, Maryville, MO
30 Apr 1947
Articles transcribed by
Jenni Lanham. Thank you,
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