On a Single Kentucky Street, the Tornado Killed 7 Children

On a Single Kentucky Street, the Tornado Killed 7 Children
A Radio Flyer wagon lies among debris, after a tornado touched down, along Moss Creek Avenue, in Bowling Green, Ky., on Dec. 14, 2021. James Kenney/AP Photo
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BOWLING GREEN, KY.—The little red wagon was strewn upside down on a heap of rubble—a pile of boards and bricks, a mangled blue bicycle, a baby doll.

Behind it, there was little more than a hole in the ground where a house had stood. Across the street, the tidy homes on this cul-de-sac were reduced to mounds of lumber. Clothes hung from the branches of snapped trees. The walls of one house were gone, and the only thing left standing inside was a white Christmas tree.