XENIA OHIO 1974 TORNADO- PART 1 OF 2:OHIO OUTBREAK

[slobomotion]

I remember this, and a late friend was a volunteer EMS worker here. A stop sign sliced a man's head in two. Warren found the other half and when the two pieces fit together perfectly, he got the horrors and went into shock. He'd been okay all day but cracked for awhile at that point. I remember a newspaper headline with a much higher death toll. Shared.

[shane8109]

Very interesting

[ViewerwithPanache02]

The written narration accompanied with this video is inaccurate. Many words are totally dfferent from what was actually stated, plus other words had no connection whatsoever with the story line. If given the opportunity, I am certain someone would love to completely narrate this video with the proper words, including verbatim testimony of the survivors and the newscaster(s). Anybody reading this account would be thoroughly confused !!

[AALIYAHFOREVER22YOUN]

nice video man but i have a question

¿what was the type of tornado?......¿F6, F7 or F8?

[usgitmo33]

@AALIYAHFOREVER22YOUN it was rated F5. But Ted Fujita after whom the scale is named almost rated it an F6. The this tornado and the F5 that hit Guin,Alabama on the Same day were almost rated F6.

[XeniaWordontheStreet]

Thank you for posting! It's eye opening!

[weareclouds]

The Super Outbreak fascinates me. I wasn't born yet (I was in 1987) But, my mom told me that she, my grandmother, my uncle, and my mom's first husband (not my dad) hid out in their basement. They were in Lexington, KY and luckily did not get hit. Thank God they did not live in Xenia.

[caycay4722]

april3 is my birthday

[johninloveindaytona]

I remember that day. Me and my mom spent the day in the basement. we went and saw my Aunt that lived just a few blocks from all the devestation. It was the first time I ever saw Destruction on a scale like that. Looked like a huge landfill on one side of the road. and on the other side of the road the houses were not touched. Awesom video of footage from back in 1974. thanks for the memories.  I dont think the government could do any better today..

[SuperRob81]

Interesting stuff man

[book492]

Im a graduate of Central State University (2010). I heard about this all the time.

[thebugs67]

Cool



[reddebone]

I too was a part of this history, but one would not know this because it hasn't been mentioned that the tornado also destroyed the college campus of Central State University that was right up the road from the town of Xenia. We were kids ourselves and also afraid. Yes Central State was hit hard and much was destroyed, but you wouldn't know it today. CSU has rebuilt and is still growing. For God, For Central, For State!

[book492]

@reddebone CSU c/o 2010!

[stormmoss]

One of the strongest tornadoes even seen in history. 148 tornadoes that day.

[N0LINKNEWS]

I remember that day. My uncle lost his lake cottage in the Palm Sunday outbreak.

[CraigOH1981]

crazyness... i wasn't born yet, but my mother remembers it... born and raised in huber heights!

[dominiquefilmworks]

dit is gewoon heel erg!

[nothingfunnyleft]

this would not have been a great day for the poor residents :-(

[CelticDragon0]

We had something similar here in Wisconsin back on June 8 1984 in Barneveld-city was destroyed with 9 dead by an F5 tornado-one of only TWO such rated tornadoes in Wisconsin; the other one was in Colfax, WI, in 1958-part of a two-state outbreak with at least 28 dead en dot wiki pedia dot org/wiki/1958_Colfax,_Wisconsi­n_tornado_outbreak

[CelticDragon0]

@CelticDragon0 21 dead 74 injured in the Colfax tornado

[nostalgicmalcontent]

Thanks man.

[BillDiceVideos]

I was in Bellbrook, Ohio & my sister was driving thru Xenia. My grandfather George Dice built many of the homes that were blown away.

[Petemonster62]

The Great Lakes States had previously suffered a tornado outbreak on Palm Sunday 1965. The 1965 outbreak seems to be forgotten but you can find out about it on the internet including some documentaries on You Tube. Tornado outbreaks do occur from time to time.

[andynj35]

We will keep hoping for the best for everyone from that region. We hope and pray nothing like this ever happens, because natural disaster is a dangerous thing to live with. We wish everyone our sincere recovery. Those who lost their lives, may their family have the strength and look ahead with hope. Our prayers are with everyone involved!

[Green0rRed]

Really sad, tornados are a horrible, devastating force of nature.

Nice video

[longlakeshore]

So many sad stories, but just as many miraculous survival stories, like the five kids who parents ran the Xenia glass shop downtown. They took shelter in the shop as the tornado approached. Can you imagine a worse place to be? The tornado sucked all the plate glass out of the shop and all five survived unscathed. My neighbor from Beavercreek was waiting at the RR crossing downtown as the tornado derailed freight cars in front of him. Flipped his car, but he survived.

[Colorado4722]

Good video. Brings back memories of the terrible tornado. Although I didn't live in Xenia, I live only 80 miles away and remember it well and have lived through other ones in different states.

[SonnyMontrose]

Good work!

[MoosicandCritters]

I live in Hillsboro (Highland County) about 40 minutes from Xenia. I had an aunt and uncle and 3 cousins who lived there. It took 2 days for us to hear from them and find out they were all ok. I'll never forget that day! I was in 7th grade.

[thecoolj45221]

@MoosicandCritters was your families houses okay are were they destroyed, 

[MoosicandCritters]

@thecoolj45221 They just had very minimal damage. A few shingles and alot of debris in their yard. None of them were home at the time, they were scattered about town and experienced the tornado firsthand, but they weren't injured. It was very scary!!!!

[slobomotion]

@thecoolj45221 My Pennsy Dutch family's from all around there. I remember this. Whatever happened to Casstown, Ohio? I can't find it on maps anymore. My great uncle Eugene Herman had a nice farm there with his wife Myrtle Baumgardner. Wright-Patterson AFB is built on land the govt seized from my family, plunging most of us into generations of abject poverty up in Cleveland. My great aunt Martha was head surgical nurse at the Dayton hospital and born in a house on that land.

[KatsuGuitar]

My dad was a police officer for Bellbrook. The town right down the road from Xenia. He told me stories of stacking bodies in the gym of the high school. Man. That would be such a crazy thing to live through.

[thecoolj45221]

@KatsuGuitar i read on wipkedia the tornado formed near bellbrook

[DannyDad208]

@KatsuGuitar I was seven years old and in a babysiters house in Bellbrook while my mom worked. I saw a couple of small tornados form in the Lower Hillside area. When we got home that evening after it was all clear at Xenia (we lived about three miles outside of Xenia between Bellbrook and Xenia) we found out what had actually happened. My uncle was a Greene County deputy and did similar things as your dad that day.  Also he had a house in Arrowhead that survived right next to a destroyed one.

[FrostC1Elite]

I live in Ohio so this is an eye opener for me. I don't know how i would be able to deal with something like this. Thanks for sharing.

[JamesBondTeam]

interesting

[ConstantineRobbins]

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[ConstantineRobbins]

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[peterphilip]

gummo.



[Judy101101]

I can't wait until we understand natural disasters are not as natural as we think

[KatsuGuitar]

@Judy101101 lol. I'm assuming you are referring to the weather manipulation programs in effect all around the world. Yes. I know. However the weather is a very natural thing my friend. Not everything is created from scratch. It is nuts that we live in a day where we have to question what is and isn't with the weather.

[Judy101101]

@KatsuGuitar yup it's kind of insane when you can't recognize our human foot print - cut a rain forest down and try and convince me that won't affect weather - do some research - we've been changing the weather with lifestyle knowing or unknowingly -gain some knowledge so that in this day and age some of us humans don't look so dumb

[blacksultan85]

where's Xena located at?

[thecoolj45221]

@blacksultan85 it is located in greene county which i think is about a half hour from dayton

[blacksultan85]

@thecoolj45221 thanx for telling me i didn't know that!

[slobomotion]

@thecoolj45221 I am from Ohio but found it too horrible in that State. I moved to NYC ASAP and am now in France.

[HeadBanger368]

my teacher was maybe 8 when this happend and he was in the basment with his family and he looked up and his house was gone

[terrilynn909]

this was a really sad day for alot of people. I dont understand how this can happen to a family losing 3 kids at once. But there is alot i dont understand in life I guess. I was only 10 when it happened, still to this day I dont understand WHY!! I miss and love my family

[terrilynn909]

This is to longlakeshoe.Im not sure who u r. but Im the aunt to the kids who lost there lives, Sandy was my sister. Her kids were not left alone, Both parents were home with them. They was all in the basement together. They was never left alone thank you.. Sandy had her daughter on her lap and David had his sons beside him. So please if u dont know dont post wrong info. this was a very sad day for our family and we think about them everyday we love and miss them all.so dont post if u dont know

[longlakeshore]

@terrilynn909 I'm quoting the story of the Graham children which appeared in the Xenia Gazette the week after the tornado and again a year later on the first anniversary. I was a Gazette paperboy at the time and still have the newspapers here beside me. If the story is inaccurate, you should contact the Gazette and have them print a correction. The same story appeared in both the Dayton Journal Herald and the Dayton Daily News.

[thecoolj45221]

@longlakeshore I POSTED THE VIDEO LONGSHORE,I would like to see these newspapers, you have had them all this time, I AM THE GUY WHO SPEAKS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE VIDEO

[longlakeshore]

@thecoolj45221 You can find those old newspapers on microfilm or microfiche at any decent city or university library, especially in the Dayton area. I watched the tornado that day while out on my paper route. I collect stories from that day. If the Graham kids were in the basement with their parents, as terrilynn909 has posted, no one would be more interested than I. It's sad to say, but it makes the story even more tragic.

[longlakeshore]

The fate of the Graham children is one of the saddest stories of the 1974 Xenia tornado. Latchkey kids, they were home alone after school, heard or saw the tornado coming and sheltered in the basement of their home, just as they had been taught. Who guessed the floor would collapse on them? They did everything right and still they were lost. Their legacy is clear: even if you shelter in a basement, get under a sturdy desk, workbench or couch, or inside a closet.

[thecoolj45221]

@longlakeshore You know another sad story was the WISECUP family, Paul and his wife and his little girl. I just read about them on the internet and saw their picture that Paul's brother-in-law put on the find a grave website, there is a picture of Paul and his wife holding their little girl at their house, cute little family, that in that picture had little time left, the website said that they were killed at the a and w rootbeer stand, they all were they and the tornado just came along so sad

[longlakeshore]

@thecoolj45221 So many sad stories, but just as many miraculous survival stories, like the five kids who parents ran the Xenia glass shop downtown. They took shelter in the shop as the tornado approached. Can you imagine a worse place to be? The tornado sucked all the plate glass out of the shop and all five survived unscathed. My neighbor from Beavercreek was waiting at the RR crossing downtown as the tornado derailed freight cars in front of him. Flipped his car, but he survived.

[OHtheFAM]

What a devastating storm! That story of the family that lost 3 children broke my heart, as a mother I can't imagine, that's so sad. it somehow seems like the news reporting was so much better back then as it is now.

[rictorvlogs]

I am a new resident of Dayton. This is very interesting and horrible at the same time... Xenia looks great today!

[bradasstv]

Wow, hey Jacob! How have you been?!

[Shaaniali]

@thescootercooter, I say sorry to you from them ... I can understand when you lose your love one.. Hearty sorry to you by them

[Shaaniali]

For Muslims, Our beloved Prophet (Peace and bless of ALLAH TALLAH be upon HIM) said , Interpretation of hadith "don't call a pagan as pagan, it may hurt them.. If you hurt a human means you have hurt the whole humanity"... This is a biggest msg for you Muslim brothers..

If you need any confirmation about it then you can contact me back and i'll give you the full definition of it with authentic Hadith by whom you believe.!

[Shaaniali]

I'm also a Muslim and i've come to give a msg here for both just because i saw the conversation and then i couldn't stop myself to say something here..

[thescootercooter]

you'll think fake when you are in a life or death situation or when you see the things ive seen you are deceived big time

[tkdgurl0g]

the number of people dead was wrong. born and raised in xenia. over 100 where killed, including my cousins' grandmother.

[thecoolj45221]

@tkdgurl0g who was your cousin's grandmother, i've seen the tornado memorial list

[tkdgurl0g]

@thecoolj45221 Her last name was Mott

[thecoolj45221]

@tkdgurl0g I found the name on the memorial thanks

[cosmicfile]

stupid idiot ,this is not mother nature. such acts of violence are caused by GOD.

WHO HAS NO SON AND NO MOTHER.

[DreamWalker131]

@cosmicfile No SON or mother? Mother I will give on technicalities however I would request you explain Jesus...Yeah that's what I thought.If you're gonna spew religious oddities at least learn the religion properly.

[cosmicfile]

@DreamWalker131 jesus never said he was divine,as stated in yr ever changing scriptures.

it was an invention of past OF THE  so call priest and for 2 thousand years it was swallowed without questioning !

he and his mother ate food.SO ? THEY DEFECATED !

you and the 1 billion christians ask yoursselves . the power and destruction,the ferocity of the tornadoes now

and before ,can jesus do this. stop all this nonsence and worship the real GOD IN HEAVEN.WHO HAS NO BEGINING AND NO END.

[DreamWalker131]

@cosmicfile No Honey you misunderstand,I'm not christian.I simply can stand religious people changing scripture to fit their argument.Jesus Christ was the Son of god.Making him part of the Father,THE SON,And the holy spirit.And if you wanted to get logical (Which has no place in modern religion) Mary could technically be called the mother of god as she so often is.This last row of tornadoes that ripped through the southern states where charged up while passing over the Mississippi river.

[DreamWalker131]

@DreamWalker131 (Cont.) Science and logic can give you all the answers you need,of course since your going on about "worshiping the real god." I doubt such things exist in your life.

[cosmicfile]

@DreamWalker131 you will always remain a pagan .worshipping man and women.until u see the punishment.

like tornadoes and earthquakes.

[cosmicfile]

@DreamWalker131 christianity is a childish and fake religion and a pagan one like hinduism ,buddhism

etc.you might be sucked up by the next tornado if u don't change..this no 19 .from today u will see everywhere

u go.A SIGN FOR YOU.

[thescootercooter]

@cosmicfile you'll think fake when you lose someone you love or are in a life or death situation you blasphemer

[cosmicfile]

@thescootercooter keep on worshipping a fake god jesus and his mother.utter blasphemy.and tornadoes will

come again and again.

[CupidsOnlyReject]

This is so much like the Joplin story. The only differences is that Joplin was destroyed completely because it's a bit smaler then Xenia, and there were over 300 dead. Thanks for sharing this video.

[squeapler]

Thanks for posting. I remember this storm well. I was 10 and was living in the suburbs of Cleveland at the time. It got a ton of local as well as national coverage, especially because a popular Cleveland news anchor was originally from Xenia. Also just noting that the closed captioning beta (from Google) is absolutely terrible on this video (Xenia is "senior" and there are references to Winona Ryder and American entitlement that have NOTHING to do with this video).

[RevolutionNo1]

Thanks for sharing. I'm visiting the states right now, from Ireland, and I'm in awe at the level of character people have here. Everyone is so nice and helpful here, more then any other country I've been to, that it really breaks my heart to see them being messed about by the insurance companies that claim to be looking out for them.

[michaelmyershall]

thnaks for sharing!!



[thetruegladiator]

whoa thanks for sharing!

[ohio1221]

Thanks for sharing this video.

[KimLovesElvis65]

Thank you for posting this. I remember it well, I was nine and lived in Dayton. I remember driving 35 to church right after it. It was total devastation, I have never seen anything like it to this day. Just the feeling of that time and that happening has never left me.

[seamusdog420]

Thank you for sharing this. I remember this storm. I was 11 years old in northeastern Indiana. We had a few towns near us hit but nothing like Xenia. The footage of the damage terrified us all and probably served to save a few a few lifes, as for years we were all paranoid of storms.