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By BECKY BURKE Rappahannock News Special Writer
Part II
Coming Upon the Scene
Pauline Hawkins (now Mrs. Jack Bruce) was attending Sperryville High School, and had ridden home with friends in a brown, 4door Ford sedan that day. “We were not at all disturbed by the terrible thunderstorm. Kids don’t pay much attention to such things,” she said. A large tree had blown across the road creating “p wall of foliage”. They were forced to stop.
When they maneuvered around the tree, Mrs. Bruce recalls, “It looked as though the town had been blown away. Houses and buildings I passed on my way to school that morning were missing. I looked for the school—it was gone. I think what impressed me most when I came upon that scene was the absolute stillness—not a creature, human or animal, was moving.” When Mrs. Bruce’s mind registered motion, she saw a man scurrying across the road.
Next she saw her brother, Thurman, walking toward her. As he reached the car, Mrs. Bruce realized that his ears were “coated with mud and his clothes tattered.” He told her about the school being blown apart. Not seriously injured, Thurman had landed in the orchard behind the school. Soon after Thurman’s appearance, Mrs. Hawkins arrived and ordered her son and daughter to go straight home.
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