Yoakum Daily Herald (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. [40], No. [291], Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1937 Page: 1 of 4
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TOUBNIMBT ffibSED
Director Moray Brandstetter of
the South Texas Debate Tourna-
ment held st Yoakum each year,
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following letter from E. G Barks- ♦w-*~
dale, debate eeaoh- at the Geo.
W. Brackenridge High School at
San Antonio:
‘ “T’anks to youse guys for the .
courtesies extended and for al- sinned aginst the Holy Spirit.
lowing us to enter (he most
smoothly run and best touranment
it has been my privilege to at-
tend in many, many moons.
“Seriously, the benefits, values
and pleasant experiences received
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b to all famnediato relatives
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new Lo^oT^rcb 1# W | Terrific Explosion Blows Roof Into
—At 10:45 a. m. a torrential rain-!
storm continued, seriously imped-
ing the rescue work of dead esti-
mated at or in excess of five
i seventy five. The missing believed j ONE OF NATIONS MAJOR CATASTROPHI
to be dead, was near one hun-
dred. Sixty-three-year-old George
Hardy, fell dead yesterday as
he watched the mangled bodies
being removed. Military authorit-
ies called a court of inquiry
fix the cause of the explosion.
yr. C. Shaw,
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ring Friday night is “Will-
Ready and Able” a musical
j Ruby Keller and Lee
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TEXAS WEA1NER FOREGlt
.&™n RAST TEXAS-P.rtl, .toady, to.
fttop bait thundershowers east, cooler to- *
sight) Saturday partly cloudy.
| WEST TEXAS— Fair, cooler
tonight. Saturday fair, warmer
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were in the ruins.
STxfeen-hundred men worked frani
OF EXPLOSION t*ir11 the ni^ht in recovering bodies from the d
mas^ of concrete, brick and steel. Z
NKW LONDON, March 19 (^*1—Rain slowed rescue work ','fE
at the explosion wrecked school this morning, from wreck- 9
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age of which bodies estimated to number four hundred fifty
The inquiry will be conducted children had been brought.
by a committee of three _frt»m Seven additional bodies had been taken from wreckage 1
since dawn, Col. E. C. Parker, National Guard commander, >
said. But sudden rain, after a violent electrical storm ham-
Also’ »tM*o dallars fifty cents pered the work. An emergency hospital was set up in the
of each members pay, aside for > rear of the building preparing, nurses said to care far
■ “about seventy-five more bodies” expected to be exhv
from the basement in the south wing.
i Tons of debris remained to be moved on the ground
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ditions were satisfactory. Senate basement floors was feared the tomb of scores of In
resoluted to send a 1
the scene to see what the legis- bits late Thursday.
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hum ritisena reqpMMd by their
donation of rooms for the vfaritora ■ ■
was one of the big reasons the Smith, forme.- star Alabama ath-
partimpanta wanted to oome to tete, bag named eooch and
Yealmm oMh year. He expressed athletic director at Spring Hill
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According to a radio flash this afternoon,^
610 bodies had been recovered from the ruins
' of the New London school building up to
.up.nnt.nde..., ’ today. «
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>d gw in nearby field ha i Qf ^js number 510 had been identified and
dated in baaement eran-1
and exploded. He said the ]()o had not been identified and remained M l
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weeks. Information agAjef* temporary
Htahed at Overton city hall, wrrep^
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youngsters.
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Teachers. Countryside Is Rocked
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LVE8TQN, Texas. (A»)
At seven o’clock tonight there
will be a m<*eting of young peo-
ple t in-
teresting program will be had
and every young person in the
city is urged to attend. There
will be no service at all on Sat-
urday, but Sunday will be a full
and great day in the revival ser-
vice beginning with the Sunday
School. •**•
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ita waateTto mnm to lete, ha« 1>an named coach and
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debBters
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people going
to be lost in hell! guardsmen only permitting passage of emergency traffic /
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thirty. | director, of St. Louis. Welders pushed electric torches cut-
On Sunday night he will preach
on “The Unpardonable Sin and
Who May Commit This Sin.’’ How
one can tell if he had already
AUSTIN, March 19 (A>)_The
House adopted a resolution call-
ing for a legislative investigation
to find the cause of the explosion
at London.
a committee of three frinn
House and Senate. The House
also adopted a resolution of sym-
pathy to the bereaved parents.
Also set . two I
relief.
Dr. George Cox, state health 1
head, said there was no danger.
of epidemic, as sanitary con-1
committee to buried when the explosion ripped the imposing structure to
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J Walter Elliott, Texas Highway Patrol Captain, notified^
authorities at Austin this afternoon that approximately five
hundred bodies, including seventeen teachers had been re-
covered. EUiott said no additional doctors, nurses or eqirip'
to ment was needed and that traffic was under control. The
of examination of the building will be completed today with J
hoisted slabs of wreckage and dragged it hundred yards
from the building. Wock stopped in oil fields and schools
were closed tonight. Dance haMs. skating rinks,
hotels hospitals and morgues in six nearby tbwna
filled with the dead.
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NEW LONDON, March 19.—Mero than 5R0 hel^
dren and their teachers were killed ThantMx in an expi
at the London consolidated school here.
Many were buried alive. Many died an frantic renew ’
ers dug in the debris to pull them to safety.
The disaster, the greatest of its kinfe An the history a«
the state and one of the nation's major ratarif l i oramrii
Governor James V. ABred at Austin to
in thio vicinity. Troops were rushed to
Frenxied parente and their rotetfrM
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Morgan, Cena S. Yoakum Daily Herald (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. [40], No. [291], Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1937, newspaper, March 19, 1937; Yoakum, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1295253/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carl and Mary Welhausen Library.