This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bensick, Peterson, Manes, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UNB.2ACI/1009 Message Board Post: Tornado Strikes Golden Center About nine o’clock last Thursday night, the Golden Center neighborhood, about three miles southwest of Crocker, was visited by a tornado. The storm was a regular twister and did considerable damage. On the Bensick farm the house was blown about fifty yards and completely demolished. The family lives in S. Louis and used the farm as a summer home, so no one was in the house when the storm struck. On the Edward Peterson farm, near Schlicht’s Mill, the house was moved from its foundation, chicken house and other outbuildings demolished and many chickens killed. Mr. And Mrs. John A. Manes were slightly injured when the storm destroyed their home. They had retired but at the approach of the storm had gotten up, which action undoubtedly saved their lives as the chimney fell upon their bed when the house was blown down. Several large trees were blown down and torn from the ground near the Dave Peterson home. Much other damage was done in the neighborhood but the above are the most serious. This is the first tornado that has ever visited this section of Missouri and was probably a combination of the one that did so much damage at Seymour. Published in The Crocker News, Pulaski County, Missouri on Thursday, April 15, 1915.