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  • Collection: 1968 Wheelersburg Tornado Collection

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Scan of a Portsmouth Daily Times newspaper article telling about Wheelersburg rebuilding itself one year after the tornado. Article includes photos of the destruction and then the rebuilding process.

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Photo image of an article from the Portsmouth Times: Six Die As Tornado Hits Area. Newspaper is aged and yellowing.

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Photo image of a newspaper article from the Portsmouth Times: Area Death Toll Stands At Six In Wake Of Tuesday's Tornado.

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Photo image of Portsmouth Times articles about the Wheelersburg tornado.

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Photo image of Portsmouth times newspaper articles about the Wheelersburg tornado

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Photo image of Portsmouth times newspaper articles about the Wheelersburg tornado

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Newspaper photo of the remains of homes after the tornado. Far Right: remains of Ed Pyles' home on Dogwood Ridge.

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Scanned newspaper photos of the destruction from the 1968 Tornado.

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Scan of an aged newspaper article about the remains of a destroyed house Pyles Addition during the Wheelersburg Tornado on Dogwood Ridge. Article also includes a photo of the destruction.

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Colorized photo image of broken trees blocking the road to the Ockerman house on Shela Boulevard or "Slaughter House Hollow."

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Newspaper images of the aftermath of the tornado.
Left: Broken tree against wrecked home. Debris scattered along U. S. Route 52.
Top Right: Homes damaged all in a row
Middle Right: Front of house taken away by storm
Lower Right: Automobile is…

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Scan of a newspaper article from the Columbus Dispatch with a map of Ohio with counties outlined in the center. Inside the counties are numbers denoting the number of tornadoes, deaths by tornadoes, and injuries by tornadoes for that county.
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