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Under
cover of darkness a tornado, at times one mile wide, cut a ten-mile
long path from the community of Vaughn
to the village of Bynum
on March 31, 1959. Five people died in four different homes that collapsed
around them, including a brother and sister and an elderly woman in
Vaughn and
two men in Bynum.
Near Bynum,
Mrs. C.B. Bruner, the wife of an Air Force doctor, perished when the
storm tossed the car in which she, her husband, and two children were
riding, one hundred yards. Thirty-one suffered injuries. Those who
escaped injury included the Bill Orr family who huddled under a bed
as the tornado demolished their house. The National Weather Service
retroactively rated this tornado an F4, with winds exceeding 200 miles
per hour.
© Marlene
Bradford July
18, 2014
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