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Monticello, Indiana April 3, 1974
The following pictures are from the book "Killer Tornado" published by the Monticello Herald Journal. If you use any of the pictures or or text please give them credit. All photos are thumb nailed.
 

The book is Divided into 5 pages. the major headings are as following:

Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5
Moments after it Hit Business District Sustained Major Damage
 
Before After
 
Homes Destroyed
 
Students Continue Studies at Various Churches
Shocked Residents Unite to Help Others
 
Monticello Homes Ravaged Years Needed to
 Restore Town
National Home Badly Battered
 
Churches, Cemeteries Ravaged
Damaged Estimated at $100 Million
 
monticelloin_page2 $500,000 Damage
to Penn-Central Bridge
Housing Addition
 Nearly Leveled
 
Local Groups, Outsiders offered help to Victims.
People organize Rescue, Search Operations Fort Wayne Girl Survives Van's Plunge Courthouse
History Rich, Full
Hickory Ridge
Area in Tornado's Path
 
Officials Offer Help
Homes, Churches, Schools, Businesses were touched by twister monticelloin_page2 122-year-old
 Bell Survives
Many Left Homeless
 
People Pick up the Pieces
  Local Businesses Give Evidence to Twister's Destructive Power
 
Courthouse Activities
 move to National
Guard Armory
Farms Hit Monticelloan's Begin Salvage, Repair, Removal
 
Twin Lakes Totaled
Schools Meet with
 Disaster

Downtown Monticello will Rise Again... Bigger, Better different and More Beautiful Than Ever Before
 

 

Homes Destroyed

 

National Home Badly Battered



 

 

 

 

Housing Addition Nearly Leveled



 


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Hickory Ridge Area in Tornado's Path

        
Many Left Homeless

Farms Hit


Neighbors and Relatives begin clean-up at Parschen farm on SR39

Next 5 photos show farm buildings that were either partially or totally destroyed when the tornado struck.

Twin Lakes Totaled


Aerial view of the badly damaged school complex has Roosevelt Jr. High in the foreground, Twin Lakes High School at left and Meadowlawn Elementary at rear. Photos below show damage at Twin Lakes

 

 
Schools Meet with Disaster


Twin Lakes Gym was torn Open.

Roosevelt Jr. High School will reopen next fall (Fall of 1975)
   

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