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STORM AT BAXTON.At 9:30 y.hterday morning. ^ ae-vore storm amounting almost to a cyclone struck the little town bf Braxton on the Gulf 8hip Island, In Simpson county. It had been raining and thundering and lightning all the morning. Suddenly It turned dark and the wind began to blow, though no funnel-sha|/ed cloud sphered.The School children 200 In number were all In the class rooma when the storm appeared. Professor Cranberry was in the large room upatAlrs wltn hla class, but as soon as It turned to dark he carried the children down stairs where there were several class rooma. jThe wind raised the building Into the air and the teachers and pujHit. who by this thne had assembled In the lower hall, were all thrown to the floor, but fortune tly, no one was seriously hurt. The building was i thrown from Its foundation■ and was ao badly damaged that It 1* feared that a new structure will have to be bum. School cloeed probably for term.The BapUet church, near the school building, was lifted from Its foundation and eel down on the ground and the walls were so badly spread that
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Hattiesburg Daily News
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US
Sat, Apr 25, 1908
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