Shinnston Tornado Quotes

“An incident that had an unexplainable angle, has to do with the closing of the Shinnston Grade School. Esta Cunningham, teacher of the second grade, had, as a part of the closing exercises, many of her pupils write their plans for the vacation period. One little boy, Robert Basford, said, “I am going away this summer.” He was missing after the tornado.”
― John Finlayson, Shinnston Tornado: Eyewitness Accounts of Nature On The War Path

“Every person killed or injured was a personal friend of mine; and you can imagine how grieved I am, and how glad I was to be of service in a special way—being a registered pharmacist. “I feel that I justified my entire thirty-one years as a pharmacist, by this one night of horror, and I should like to have you make a special appeal to young women whose parents have given their life to pharmacy, thus giving them proper background, to go on from there and study pharmacy.   “Mrs. Margaret Strickler”
― John Finlayson, Shinnston Tornado: Eyewitness Accounts of Nature On The War Path