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Beecher Tornado

Smashed car in field of tornado wreckage.

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Historical: Beecher Tornado of 1953

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Three men looking under destroyed car.

Two people in front of debris and collapsed home.

Smashed and upside down care sitting on pile of debris.

Police officers in front of cruiser and damaged building.

Damaged building.

Car in pieces in front of large damaged building.

Field of wreckage, debris, and broken trees.

Single standing home in destroyed neighborhood.

Destroyed factory rubble.

Flattened field filled with debris.

Field of debris.

Smashed and turned over car with telephone pole on top.

House foundation and stairs to basement in field of destroyed homes.

Lamp post, destroyed care, and broken trees in field of debris.

Scattered bricks in front of damaged building.

Damaged Drewry's building.

Destroyed school bus.

Field of cars on their sides, upside down, and destroyed.

Workers moving cars and clearing debris.

Car upside down over ditch.

Destroyed home and yard.

Broken trees wrapped around each other.

Crane, fire truck, and heavy equipment lined up for debris clean up.

Debris field and broken telephone poles.

Damaged cars lined up next to fallen telephone pole.

Field of destroyed buildings.

Crane atop rubble.

Collapsed building.

Man in front of destroyed home and address sign.

Building moved off its foundation.

Mountain of rubble and collapsing building.

Side of school with broken windows and trees.

Damaged school.

Destroyed school

Line of 3 crushed pick-up trucks.

House missing roof and collapsing.

Truck winching car out of tree.

Group of damaged homes.

Field of debris and crane.

Smashed cars on the side of a dirt road.

Single house in destroyed neighborhood.

Beecher High School broken windows and destroyed parking lot.

Damaged entrance to Beecher High School

Beecher High School.

Children standing and looking at debris.

Field of debris with water tower in background.

Field of debris with water tower in background.

Field of destroyed cars.

Back of a crushed car.

Field of debris with water tower in background.

Tow truck pulling car away.

Close up of destroyed car.

Field of debris.

Crushed cars in ditch.

Field of debris with water tower in background.

Field of debris and Red Cross tent.

Close up of debris pile.

Debris field and car.

Red Cross Tent

Man and police officer holding address sign in front of destroyed home.

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