SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – This weekend marks the ... The deadliest tornado to ever hit New England was the Worcester tornado on June 9, 1953. A total of 94 people were killed and over 1,200 ...

LATE in the afternoon of June 9, 1953, Worcester was bringing to a close ... nature wrapped all its fury into one cataclysmic vortex. A tornado was born. Like . . . Dr. Ward and I are indebted ...

My grandmother was pregnant with my mom during the destructive 1953 EF-5 tornado that destroyed Worcester City Hospital, among many other buildings in central Massachusetts. The Globe is expanding ...

IN the late afternoon of June 9, 1953, a tornado unexpectedly struck a section of Worcester County, Massachusetts, and in about twenty minutes created a major disaster. The problems that arose as ...