It was an unusually warm day in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys. A warm breeze blowing up from the south had raised the temperature to 60°-75°. A cold wind was approaching from the northwest. Any meteorologist could have predicted that a storm was due but none predicted what took place. Shortly after noon, Death came from the skies. It struck first in Missouri, touched Biehle and Annapolis, hurdled the Mississippi River into Illinois, in the unaccountable way of such storms, and struck about five miles inland at Murphysboro. For the next 30...
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