FIVE CHILDREN KILLED AS WIND WRECKS SCHOOL
Practically every child in the building was injured; the two teachers were preparing to dismiss their charges for the day when the storm struck and the frame building was crushed.
La PLATA, Md., Nov. 9. - At least five school children were killed, six or eight others were seriously injured and at least forty others were less seriously hurt when a windstorm wrecked a school house and four residences here today.
Practically every child in the school house was injured, as far as could be learned as the storm died down.
At 4:30 p. m. rescue workers believed all the children had been accounted for although it was considered possible more bodies might be found in the wreckage.
The two teachers in the little school house were just preparing to dismiss their charges for the day when the storm struck.
The frame building was crushed by the force of the wind and the bodies of children were blown with terrific force from the wreckage.
Some children were blown 300 feet by th wind, according to eye witnesses.
Reproduced unchanged from Imperial Valley Press, November 9, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
The school building at La Plata was destroyed outright by the tornado of November 9, 1926.
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FIVE CHILDREN KILLED AS WIND WRECKS SCHOOL
Practically every child in the building was injured; the two teachers were preparing to dismiss their charges for the day when the storm struck and the frame building was crushed.
La PLATA, Md., Nov. 9. - At least five school children were killed, six or eight others were seriously injured and at least forty others were less seriously hurt when a windstorm wrecked a school house and four residences here today.
Practically every child in the school house was injured, as far as could be learned as the storm died down.
At 4:30 p. m. rescue workers believed all the children had been accounted for although it was considered possible more bodies might be found in the wreckage.
The two teachers in the little school house were just preparing to dismiss their charges for the day when the storm struck.
The frame building was crushed by the force of the wind and the bodies of children were blown with terrific force from the wreckage.
Some children were blown 300 feet by th wind, according to eye witnesses.
Reproduced unchanged from Imperial Valley Press, November 9, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Imperial Valley Press, November 9, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
The school building at La Plata was destroyed outright by the tornado of November 9, 1926.
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FIVE CHILDREN KILLED AS WIND WRECKS SCHOOL
Practically every child in the building was injured; the two teachers were preparing to dismiss their charges for the day when the storm struck and the frame building was crushed.
La PLATA, Md., Nov. 9. - At least five school children were killed, six or eight others were seriously injured and at least forty others were less seriously hurt when a windstorm wrecked a school house and four residences here today.
Practically every child in the school house was injured, as far as could be learned as the storm died down.
At 4:30 p. m. rescue workers believed all the children had been accounted for although it was considered possible more bodies might be found in the wreckage.
The two teachers in the little school house were just preparing to dismiss their charges for the day when the storm struck.
The frame building was crushed by the force of the wind and the bodies of children were blown with terrific force from the wreckage.
Some children were blown 300 feet by th wind, according to eye witnesses.
Reproduced unchanged from Imperial Valley Press, November 9, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Imperial Valley Press, November 9, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
The school building at La Plata was destroyed outright by the tornado of November 9, 1926.
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FIVE CHILDREN KILLED AS WIND WRECKS SCHOOL
Practically every child in the building was injured; the two teachers were preparing to dismiss their charges for the day when the storm struck and the frame building was crushed.
La PLATA, Md., Nov. 9. - At least five school children were killed, six or eight others were seriously injured and at least forty others were less seriously hurt when a windstorm wrecked a school house and four residences here today.
Practically every child in the school house was injured, as far as could be learned as the storm died down.
At 4:30 p. m. rescue workers believed all the children had been accounted for although it was considered possible more bodies might be found in the wreckage.
The two teachers in the little school house were just preparing to dismiss their charges for the day when the storm struck.
The frame building was crushed by the force of the wind and the bodies of children were blown with terrific force from the wreckage.
Some children were blown 300 feet by th wind, according to eye witnesses.
Reproduced unchanged from Imperial Valley Press, November 9, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Imperial Valley Press, November 9, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
The school building at La Plata was destroyed outright by the tornado of November 9, 1926.
[Sources: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=251234, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Plata_High_School]
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FIVE CHILDREN KILLED AS WIND WRECKS SCHOOL
Practically every child in the building was injured; the two teachers were preparing to dismiss their charges for the day when the storm struck and the frame building was crushed.
La PLATA, Md., Nov. 9. - At least five school children were killed, six or eight others were seriously injured and at least forty others were less seriously hurt when a windstorm wrecked a school house and four residences here today.
Practically every child in the school house was injured, as far as could be learned as the storm died down.
At 4:30 p. m. rescue workers believed all the children had been accounted for although it was considered possible more bodies might be found in the wreckage.
The two teachers in the little school house were just preparing to dismiss their charges for the day when the storm struck.
The frame building was crushed by the force of the wind and the bodies of children were blown with terrific force from the wreckage.
Some children were blown 300 feet by th wind, according to eye witnesses.
Reproduced unchanged from Imperial Valley Press, November 9, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Imperial Valley Press, November 9, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
The school building at La Plata was destroyed outright by the tornado of November 9, 1926.
[Sources: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=251234, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Plata_High_School]
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