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On March 18, 1925, a storm like no other took to the sky.
Later known as the Tri-State Tornado, this twister killed 695 people and injured 2,027 in its 219-uninterrupted-mile path of destruction through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
Author Angela Mason, 49, of Richland County, was at the Flora Public Library, on Saturday, January 28, to promote and sign her book, “Death Rides the Sky: The Story of the 1925 Tri-State Tornado.”
Mason said that her account was the most comprehensive story of the storm available to date.
The storm, according to Mason, “Had the highest damage amount, $16.5 million, in 1925 dollars; the widest damage path, at one and one-quarter miles wide in Hamilton County.”
Mason went on to say that the twister, had “The fastest forward-moving speed, 73 mph in Griffin, Ind.; and the highest wind velocity, which was unmeasured but estimated to be over 318 mph, equal to an F5 or an F6.”
Mason originally penned the story from 1999 to 2001, but lost her original publisher twice, once due to 9/11 and reduced funding for University Press, and then later when the University decided there were already too many books about the tornado (There were two others).
In August of 2011, Michael Kleen at Black Oak Media opted to publish the title; now the book is that company’s best-seller.
“Death Rides” is available through Black Oak Media, on the Internet at www.blackoakmedia.org
Angela Mason’s website for the book can be visited at www.deathridesthesky.com
On March 18, 1925, a storm like no other took to the sky.
Later known as the Tri-State Tornado, this twister killed 695 people and injured 2,027 in its 219-uninterrupted-mile path of destruction through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
Author Angela Mason, 49, of Richland County, was at the Flora Public Library, on Saturday, January 28, to promote and sign her book, “Death Rides the Sky: The Story of the 1925 Tri-State Tornado.”
Mason said that her account was the most comprehensive story of the storm available to date.
The storm, according to Mason, “Had the highest damage amount, $16.5 million, in 1925 dollars; the widest damage path, at one and one-quarter miles wide in Hamilton County.”
Mason went on to say that the twister, had “The fastest forward-moving speed, 73 mph in Griffin, Ind.; and the highest wind velocity, which was unmeasured but estimated to be over 318 mph, equal to an F5 or an F6.”
Mason originally penned the story from 1999 to 2001, but lost her original publisher twice, once due to 9/11 and reduced funding for University Press, and then later when the University decided there were already too many books about the tornado (There were two others).
In August of 2011, Michael Kleen at Black Oak Media opted to publish the title; now the book is that company’s best-seller.
“Death Rides” is available through Black Oak Media, on the Internet at www.blackoakmedia.org
Angela Mason’s website for the book can be visited at www.deathridesthesky.com
