[News Script: Storm] Part: 1 of 4
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Three men are in Dallas hospitals tonight with injuries
suffered in the collapse of a brick wall at Shiloh
Terrace Baptist Church on the east side of the city,
Pastor Neal T. Jones says he was told that a small
twister toppled the third-story wall of the unfinished
education building. He says that -- if his kindergarte:
had not been closed for the holidays -- at least part
of its 160 pupils might have been in the path of the
falling bricks. As it was -- two construction workers
were hit by flying masonry. A third was blown from a
scaffold and fell twenty feet to the bottom of an
elevator shaft. Forty-year-old James Steele of
Mesquite is listed in serious condition at Baylor
Hospital. Co-workers Dwight Bowman and J.C. Robertson,
both of Dallas, suffered lesser injuries. Damage to
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the Ig building~ not been estimated.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Storm], item, December 27, 1968; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1038276/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.