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April 17, 2006
Access Tens of Thousands of Historic Newspaper Pages about Tornadoes at TornadoArchive.com
Archive recalls chilling accounts of the survival and aftermath of tornado disasters throughout the US.
(PRWEB) April 17, 2006 --TornadoArchive.com, a free archive of 50,000 historical newspaper pages sponsored by NewspaperARCHIVE.com, contains terrifying stories about the survival and aftermath of tornadoes throughout the US. This collection of emotion-filled newspapers includes accounts of when Glazier, Texas, was completely destroyed in 1947, the Tri-State Tornado of 1925 that killed hundreds and more recent newspaper articles covering events such as the twister that hit Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1999.
The newspaper pages in the archive date back to the 1800s and are searchable by key word and date with the use of Optical Character Recognition technology and Adobe Reader. For example, articles about the massive tornado that struck Natchez, Mississippi, in 1840 can be found by searching for the word "Natchez" and selecting the year 1840 under the Advanced Search.
An account about the Natchez disaster from The Adams Sentinel on May 25, 1840, reads, "The devoted city of Natchez was visited yesterday with one of the most awful and distressing calamities it has ever been our fate to witness. Yesterday, about 2 o'clock P.M., a dark cloud made its appearance in the southwest, preceded by a continued roaring of the winds."
Along with the archive, a timeline details major tornado disasters in the history of the US. For instance, an article from 1908 describes the "Dixie Outbreak" when tornadoes struck from Texas to Georgia on April 23-24, 1908.
"From the first recorded American tornado at Rehobeth, Massachusetts, in 1671 to the killer storms that tore through the central United States on April 2, 2006, tornadoes continue to affect the US in a very real way," said Greg Hollingsworth, researcher for TornadoArchive.com. "Even the destructive Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Gulf Coast, spawned the most tornadoes ever reported on a single day in August in Georgia."
TornadoArchive.com is part of a series of free archives that include GlobalWarmingArchive.com, TitanicArchive.com, FBIArchive.com,
CollegeBasketballArchive.com, ProBaseballArchive.com, AIDSArchive.com,
MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com and many more.
Researchers interested in finding more information on tornadoes or other natural disasters can go to NewspaperARCHIVE.com where there are 228,813 newspaper pages on tornadoes, 359,306 on hurricanes, and 266,723 on earthquakes. NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the largest newspaper database available online, also contains access to entire editions of newspapers so researchers can page through tornado coverage in a single newspaper. Heritage Microfilm, located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, began NewspaperARCHIVE.com in 1999.
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