[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.7291]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Twin tornadoes joined forces to smash two properous Washita farming towns, left more than 100 homeless and caused property damage that mounted Saturday into thousands. Corn, a mennonite community of 600, fourteen miles southwest of Weatherford felt the heaviest force of the blow. the twister demolished 40 homes, the school gymniasum and damaged the town's most beautiful landmark, the newly constructed Mennonite Brethern church. At Colony, a town of about 300, about six miles southeast of Corn, 16 homes were destroyed and another dozen badly damaged. The Colony school and its new gymniasum were demolished by the twisting winds…..Three Oklahoma highway patrol troopers watched the storm strike and moved into Corn before the residents to emerge from their cellars. R.C. Alba and George Walker drove in Corn from Clinton, 20 miles to the northwest in one patrol unit. At the same time Carl Neunschwander, Hobart, trooper drove into corn from the southwest. When I got here stuff was still dropping out of the sky," The trooper said the first thoughts of the most deeply religious residents was of their handsome new church. "They looked first to see if they still had houses, and a lot of them didn't, then they came to see what happened to the church," Liut. Jack Rollins, of the highway patrol said......"There is no question He was with us last night," Rev. J. P. Klewer, minister of the Mennonite Brethren church said. "I had a sermon planned Sunday, but I won't use it. I will talk about the storm of life - and thankfulness. The homes for a block both east and west were literally wiped from the face of the earth. The two-block business district of Corn had comparatively broke windows in store fronts.