Memphis, Tennessee Tornado
April 25, 1932
WINDS SWEEP OVER DISTRICT NEAR MEMPHIS
At Least Six Are Dead In Shelby County Early
Today
Memphis, Tenn., April 25--Apparently
sweeping across the Mississippi river from
Arkansas a tornado that twisted into the north
end of Shelby county left at least six known
dead and more than a score injured.
The dead:
MRS. T. J. DALE,
65, Kerrville.
JESSE L. SPARKS, JR., aged 3,
Rosemark.
ROBERT HARRIS, 65, negro, Millington.
DICK SPIGEE, a negro child, Rosemark.
ETHEL ADAMS, negro woman, Millington.
Unidentified negro, Rosemark.
Carrie Durnger,
23, who said she weighs more than 200 pounds,
told reporters she was picked up from the
kitchen door of her home east of Millington and
sent flying through the air for a distance of
several hundred feet. She landed in soft mud.
T. J. Dale,
whose wife was killed, said the tornado
resembled a “black cloud rushing with
astonishing speed towards Millington.”
“The storm,” he said, “hit our house with a
terrific roar and the house seemed to lift for a
second and shake.
“Then with a deafening noise everything
seemed to pile around me and on top of me. I was
stunned for a few seconds.”
Dale and negro helpers on his farm dug their
way out of the wreckage and freed Mrs. Dale, who
died a short while after reaching the hospital.
Fayetteville Daily Democrat, Fayetteville,
AR 25 Apr 1932
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