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“Lord, What Will I Do
With These Poor
Little Children?”
Students at the Woodville school remember loud claps of thunder, followed by bright flashes of lightning which caused them to shield their eyes as it grew more intense. By two o’clock the drizzling had become a downpour. Clouds hid the afternoon sun.
Miss Mary Starks decided to release her first through fourth grade students early. She knew that many of the students would be walking home and the wind was now furious.
Five-year-old Dorothy Kline usually waited on the school porch for her aunt, Elizabeth Browning, to walk home with her. This day, Miss Mary pushed little Dorothy through the gate, telling her, “Dorothy, run and run for your life.” Others from Miss Mary’s class were blown and scattered by the wind.
When the lower grade students were out of the building, Mrs. Browning had her students line up to march out. Leading the column, the teacher and 13year-old Elizabeth had reached the landing that separated the two flights of stairs going to the upper classroom. Marshall Hawkins, breaking the line, had reached the bottom of the stairway. While most of the children were still on the upper stairs, Louise Jenkins remembers the window lights in the school breaking and the wind roaring.
Mrs. Browning grabbed Elizabeth’s left wrist, crying, “Lord, what will I do with these poor little children?” Hearing this, Elizabeth looked up and saw the walls of the school going up. That was the last of the Woodville school.
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