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1 he teachers had stuck to their posts like captains ol sinking vessels. The wind picked them up and dropped one in the cornfield and the other in the orchard with a boy pupil near one and a girl pupil near the other. The only outright fatality was that of Marshall Hawkins. He was struck by a door and his body was found within the foundation.
“Marshall’s brother, Felton, was blown in the cornfield and fell not far from Mrs. Browning. Both were rendered insensible, but Felton came to first. Nearby he saw a woman lying a short distance away. He made his way to her and succeeded in arousing her. Then he led her back over the hill into the village. Miss Starke and the little girl, remarkable as it may seem, did not seem to be so much hurt from their journey through the air and rough landing. Missing was Billie Pulliam, a pupil. He was found some distance off, his liver having been punctured by a splinter from the schoolhouse. The piano Was carried about 75 feet from the building and deposited - broken up. A large stove was blown over in the cornfield and fell about 50 feet from where Mrs. Browning lighted. The school clock was found nearby. It had stopped at 3:10.”
For a 1979 story in the Rappahannock News, former students recalled that Robert Reynolds told the teacher that clouds were beginning to fall into a tornado formation. Robert had lived somewhere else: the rest of the class had never seen or heard of a tornado. Mrs. Browning told the students that it was just a bad thunderstorm, like the many that pass through the Blue Ridge each spring and summer.
Desperate parents searching for their children after the storm abated found them in homes near the schoolyard, some with no knowledge of what had happened or how they had gotten there. Dorothy Kline’s mother found her at the home of Charlie Wallace, unhurt but sobbing. Also at the Wallace home was Louise Jenkins, who could not remember either leaving or being thrown from the school.
Elizabeth Browning came to surrounded by lumber and soaked by rain. Her arm was injured, but Elizabeth thought that her coat had gotten so wet that it was too heavy to move.
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