Des Moines Tribune from Des Moines, Iowa • 20

Path of Death 100 Yards Wide II ft ft.i: I "I fc It 'ft A I --'f II -V. -w. i I -ifh sac" i J- ft Jf i u-rtrxx i ii mmmwmM Horror of Tornado On Child's Face Wlrephoto (A.P. There was horror etched on the faces of those who lived through" Flint's tornado. A small girl, injured by the winds, still appears terror-stricken in a Saginaw hospital where she and others were brought for treatment.

In background, nurses work on injured while a clergyman stands by to offer solace. p-rnr--, 2ftjf i I i "i tift WIMphoto (A.P.) 10-mile arc around the north part of the Wtrepnoto (A.P.y Tornadoes struck, too, near Bowling Green, Ohio, and 7-year-old Barbara Perry took refuge with her brother, mother and aunt in this shelter. Winds ripped top off, sucked the family from their place of safety, killing Barbara. Wind left bicycle behind. Whole Family Sucked From This Shelter Flint, 163,000) aboit 8:40 p.

m. Monday was the focal point of one of worst tornado disasters in American history. A light rain was falling when a tornado literally mowed a swath (as shown above) 100 yards wide through the residential outskirts of the city. The tornado missed the downtown area as it swept a wide city. This photo shows how fury of the winds was concentrated in small pathway a water tower (upper right) just outsid the path was not damaged and large buiL ing (at left), likewise was little damaged.

The street along which the tornado traveled is Coldwater road. JLAYT c- ft; ft: rZs "'f fc 7 4" i i i 1 rfte -ir tii -a i -mim. jfc rrir Wlftpboto (A.r. Michigan state troopers hunted for the dead and This photo show how houses and trees wers wiped injured after toe tornado struck. They spread out on from the landscape as the chusning winds swept the 100-yard wide pathway cut by the storm and around the city.

The winds virtually wiped out every walked abreast probing into debris and wreckage, house in a 200-house residential housing area. 200 Houses Wiped Out.