Beaver County News | 1927-08-26 | Page 2 | Kansas City Man Builds a Tornado-Proof Room

i Kansas City Man Builds a Tornado-Proof Room Kansas City, Mo. C. Edwin Overly has been expecting a tornado more than 40 years. Now he has built a storm-proof bedroom and bath in one section of his basement. The walls and ceilings ceil-ings are of eight-inch concrete, reinforced rein-forced with half-inch iron bars. A ten-foot passage, also of reinforced concrete, connects with a tornado cellar, cel-lar, 10 by 10 feet and 1's feet high, also of reinforced concrete. Mr. Overly intends to keep a sledge hammer and shovel in the cave so that he can knock out some concrete in one wall and dig his way to the surface if he needs.