Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 84 Page 85 Page 86 Page 87 Page 8844 • Between Turnrows Kevin Armstrong and Bruce Tarwater were both working that night. They got down in one of the grain pits right before it hit so it didn’t bother them. Everything was damaged in some way.” Linda Cullum remembers arriving at the seed company the next morning. “When I went to open the front door there was a rock stuck halfway through it,” she says. The building was severely damaged, but “the desks still had all their envelopes, papers and invoices on them just like they had been left. I had this old train car, a caboose, that Sherman had promised me I could move to our house and put out by my fish pond, and it was gone. I never found a piece of it. They lined the bodies of the people who were killed up on our scales out front. It was terrible.” The giant twister could not have hit at a worse time for a seed company. Cullum had almost its entire yearly inventory bagged and ready to move out to farmers. But for the Cullums, help was on the way. Sherman recalls, “We weren’t there very long before people started showing up. The phone still worked and people started calling, asking what they could do. People were walking around pick- ing stuff up and patching the roof on the office.” Grain broker Janie Boone remembers the way the seed industry responded to the disaster at Cullum Seeds. “That next morning, there were all kinds of trucks there,” she recalls. “They had Lawhon written on them, they had Cache River Valley writ- ten on them, they had Carter-Cox written on them, and had the men to go with them.”