Coroner identifies 13 people killed in Dawson Springs, KY

DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. (LEX 18) — The Hopkins County Coroner's Office identified the 13 radical who died aft a tornado swept done the tiny municipality of Dawson Springs, Kentucky.

The deceased men and women, ranging successful property from 34 to 86 years old.

Almost thing was spared successful Dawson Springs.

“It’s heart-wrenching to spot conscionable full devastation. Homes, 5 to 700 homes are conscionable leveled. They’re not there. All of their industries are gone. Their restaurants are damaged, truthful this is immense deed for this community.” Kevin Cotton, politician of Madisonville

On the outskirts of Dawson Springs, homes were reduced to rubble and trees toppled, littering the scenery for a span of astatine slightest a mile.

“It looks similar a weaponry went off. It’s conscionable wholly destroyed successful areas,” said Jack Whitfield Jr., the Hopkins County judge-executive.

He estimated that much than 60% of the town, including hundreds of homes, was “beyond repair.”

“A afloat recovering is going to instrumentality years,” helium said.

Tim Morgan, a unpaid chaplain for the Hopkins County Sheriff’s Department, said he’s seen the aftermath of tornadoes and hurricanes before, but thing similar this.

“Just implicit decimation. There is an full hillside of houses that are 3 feet gangly now,” helium said.

This communicative was primitively reported by Jordan Mickle connected lex18.com.