Video Report: Equine Family and Livelihood Lost in Oklahoma Tornado | Straight from the Horse's Heart
BARTOW COUNTY, GA (CBS ATLANTA) -Things just aren’t right at Jon Ellis’ stables.
“Now there is no one in here to take care of,” Ellis said.
Ellis and his wife Jennifer Short raised and trained eight race horses at their Bartow County horse farm. But seven of them were with Ellis in Oklahoma last month when a tornado ripped through the area.
“I was just praying as I ran, praying that it would miss our barn and it just went right down the middle of our barn,” Ellis said.
Ellis was on his way back to the barn when the tornado hit. He said he’ll never forget what he saw when he got back.
“Just dead horses laying everywhere. The most awful deaths you can imagine, I mean it wasn’t like walking in a pasture and finding one died of old age, they died horrific deaths,” said Ellis.
More than 100 horses died that day. Ellis and Short said it was like losing a family member.
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