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nothing left but the foundation. The Baptist Church brick is just flat on the ground, the Johnson house down across, the Silas Johnson house has been partially destroyed, and all the school building has been blown away. It’s all gone clear on across.’
“It was then only the elementary grades there. Miss Mary Stark and another teacher were teaching up in the elementary grades. Miss Mary Stark saw that thing, and she had never seen a tornado, but she knew from the records and pictures that’s what was coming. She got all those children down on the hill in front of it, flat on the ground, and they got them out of the other room flat on the ground.
“One boy, a Hawkins boy, about ten years old, went back in to get his books. Miss Mary says, ‘Don’t go back in there!’ He went back anyway. He went in and got his books and came out and that thing hit just as he got out on the front, and he was blown across a quarter of a mile away, killed him. Only one that was killed. The others had some scratches when the wind went across.
“Rhodes says, ‘Harold, Daddy’s down at the old Dennis place, down away from the school, with all these children that have been scratched up, windblown or cut. He says we need doctors and nurses. Will you get doctors and nurses and come to Woodville as fast as you can come?’ I stopped everything and tried to get a doctor. I couldn’t get a doctor in Culpeper. Everyone of them was out on a case or something else.
“I left word at the bank and got one man in the bank to drive me to Woodville. When we got to Scrabble, it was still raining, muddy rain. We had to stop the car for a while to get through it. And I got to Woodville and found all this destruction and all, and went on down to where it was. There was Daddy trying to minister to them. He had other people, some nurses and some men, that were helping him. Rhodes was there helping him. That’s what happened. That was May, 1929.”
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