The Brady Standard and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 24, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 19, 1945 Page: 4 of 8
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STORM HITS BUSINESS AREA
AT 12:20 TUESDAT MORNING
pounded with rocks, one of them (lower left), puncturing the floor,
which Walter, Jr., inspects; the old Dutton warehouse on East Main
Street (lower right) was leveled, and considerable damage was done
to groceries stored therein by Piggly Wiggly, and wool stored by
Roddie & Co.
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WITNESSED BRADY TORNADO—O. N. Whitfield,
ticket agent for the Kerrville Bus Company, witnessed
the tornado, and was present wnen Sgt. Paul McDonald
was fatally injured, and two other soldiers were injured.
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from being hit by flying pieces of
galvanized iron from the grand-
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RUBBLE AND RUIN—Striking in the dead of night, a tornado lash-
ed at the city of Brady shortly past midnight Monday, doing damage
estimated at more than $500,000. The porch awning of Hotel Brady
was ripped off (upper left) and dumped into the streets, part of it
on cars like the one in the lower right of the picture. The southeast
corner of the Mann Building (upper right) was ripped out, and the
were undoubtedly the worst damaged business firms
in the city, each feeling the full fury of the tornado
that struck at about 12:20 a. m. Tuesday. What such
a storm could have done to human lives during work-
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IN THE PATH OF THE TWISTER—This used to be
the nice home of Home Lumber Co. on West Lockhart
Street, a block off the Brady plaza. Now it is a giant
pile of twisted wreckage and scattered lumber. The
lumber yard and Brady Motor Co., across the street,
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I- loaded and coming down the high*
way.” said Walter Dodeon, Jr.,
who had shattered window glue
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Overseas Veteran Stationed At Brady
Prisoner Of War Camp Is Killed At
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demolished, all plate glass win-
dows being broken out, and the
walls on the west and east sides
being blown down. Ed Gutierrez’
Store suffered considerable dam-
age with the family narrowly es-
caping injury.
The bus terminal was also
heavily damaged, as was the cor-
nice to the adjoining building oc-
cupied by Smith Tractor Co., and
also the building occupied by the
FSA office. It was at the bus sta-
tion that the three soldiers from
the Brady Prisoner of War Ckmp
who were on duty sought refuge
from the storm, with falling brick
and debris killing Sgt. McL-----
and injuring Pvt. Napoli and Pfc.
Vitagliano.
A block north of th* bus sta-
tion, Feeder Supply Store *uffer-
1, and next door,
Co. suffered hea-
vy damage nnd an adjoining garage
was leveled. Other buildings in
that a
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north of the Plasa,
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Mrs. Ennis
her home Id
honoring her
thirteenthMJ
At Brady Hotel there is the case
of the missing door. The door op-
ened on a fire escape. The outer
screen door was untorn and still
locked, but the inside and heavier
door was torn from its hinges
gone.
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Th* east wall of Brady Motor
Co. was demolished, but left
standing intact were shelveo of
paints, tiro patches and parte, all
undamaged.
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interis Gin, two blocka
norui ox ice was badly
wrecked, as were numerous other
buildings aloag the north edge of
the bMtMsa dMriog along Brady
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dy and ripped it off, tearing down ,
brick and other debris.
Home Lumber Company, suf-
fering damage from three Goods
during the past 15 years, felt the
full wrath of (he tornado, and
was almost leveled.
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The most freakish "freak” is
the story by H O. Broad, who
swears the tornado turned on his
front-yard hydrair. It was run-
ning full force when he arose that
morning.
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sub'-oanti Jy constructed
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on almost every
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Why
down a
bnild'ng and
shack, is also
thai happen<xf
block in ’/e
The old ‘Carmichael Hotel for
colored people is one exampe. It is
Standxig intact, while all around
it i& seen destruction Incidentally
t*'s old landmark has weathered
three floocs and two fires in ad-
dition to the turuado.
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"The tornado looked Just like
a big ball of smoke up in the air
with a funnel-shaped tail on it,"
said O. N. Whitefield, ticket agent
at the bus station. The lashing
tail of the sky monstor covered at
times perhaps 10g yards, he
To other persons, the
was "Just balls of fire—
lightning—and lot* of
How several person* kept from
being electrocuted by live wires
blown down by the storm is an-
other mystery, in the opinion of
fest. Allan Schwarz. He and Sgt
Henry Newstead had sp»>nt the
fore part of the night visiting
friends in the city, and had start-
ed walking toward the taxi sta-
tion when the storm blew up.
They made it to the lobby of the
Brady Theatre when the tornado
hit. There was a pandemonium of
noise, said Sgt. Schwars. The
light* went out, glass, galvanised
iron, automobile fenders and all
•ort* of debris and rubble were
flying through the air. When the
wind subsided. .Schwarz and New-
*t«ad finally made their way to
th* taxi station, despite high
water, downed electric wires, bro-
ken limbs and debris.
Is one time when Brady
firms will cash in on
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a
home had the roof jerked
and rocks—one of them
200 pounds—were
on the hardwood floor
living room. Rocks torn
front of
a bed and dresser
I their insurance. Most every firm rock
wgs well protected from damage off,
by windstorm. Adjusters were a- 1 weighing
mong the busiest people in town | bounced
Tuesday. J | of the
from the front of the house
shattered a bed and dresser in
the bedroom, occupied by a cadet
and his wife until 10 days ago.
A lengthy window transom in
Smith Tractor Co. Building
West Lockhart street was
blown to the concrete floor, but
not a glass was broken.
Rumors spread thick and fast
after the storm, reminding the
flood veterans of past disasters
in Brady when rumors came of
‘ The creek's rising at Whiteland,
but falling at Melvin.” This time
it was a little different. This re- outhouses and about 80 chickens,
porter was asked no less than
fifty times: "Was Menard really
blown off the map; did Richland
Springs catch it worse tharf we
did?"
The Ed Gutierrez family on W.
Lockhart street feels very fortun-
ate. When it became excessively
hot Monday night, U
couldn’t sleep in the hack room,
so moved in the front of the
store, next to a big plate window.
The window was smashed to bit*,
and the awning caved in, but not
a scratch did any member get.
The entire store building, inci-
dentally, was badly damaged.
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The first question
person asks when
wreckage scattered
town, is how such a
strike a city and take only ono ;
life and Injure onl'- five. The resi-
dents of Brady undoubtedly were 1
very lucky in this r» spect Had th* I
storm struck in the daytime whea i
businessmen and their employees *
were at work, no doubt many lives j
would have been lost and hun-
dreds crippb d Or. on the other
hand, had the tornado struck aj"
residential section instead »t
dipping down into the bus/iexi
area, dea’h and injuries yfould 1
numerous. / I
TORNADO TALES
Every tornado has its freaks,
and the one which struck Brady :n
the wee small hours of the morn-
ing Tuesday was no exception.
There were many so-called funr.v
things that happened, many
which will never be recorded.
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At the Brady Municipal Air-
port, the hangar was virtually de-
2 1 of nine civfl-
was almost leveled. The entire *an airplanes parked therein were
block for that matter, was badly dafnaged, one of them beyond re-
torn up. Across the street < -
from Home Lumber Company,
Brady Motor Company, occupying story affair on the highest hill in
a quarter of a block was virtually; town, and which had just bean
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as if the roof had been sliced «tf
with a giant knife.
A number of limbs off tra** on
the plaza were blown off, and
one large sycamore tree was bro-
ken off, with dead birds littering
th* ground underneath th* trsaa.
A peculiarity of the storm was
that many of the smaller frank*
structure* survived, and that reek
and brick buildings suffered th^
heavier damage. Strangely snfltf^
the old Carmiche^l colored hoeL^
on East Lockhart street wee left
standing intact, having prevfoee-
!g brick ly survived two fire* end three
eDonald floods. Nearby, th* Planter*
suffered heavy damage and
yond the old Dutton home tad
Dutton warehouse were deetroyed.
Some damage wae done to WMF
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The J. M Doyle residence Just
northeast of the grandstand at
Richards Park escaped undamag-
ed, but the family had the scare
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June 15 Issue of The Brady Standard-News
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One person was killed, at least five were injured and
property damage will run into approximately half a million
dollars as a result of a tornado that struck the business dis-
trict of Brady early Tuesday morning. A soldier was fatally
injured at the Brady Bus Station by falling debris, two
other soldiers were hurt there, and three civilians received
treatment for injuries in this city’s worst disaster since the
flood of 1938 did property damage estimated at half a mil-
lion dollars.
The dead soldier, stationed at the Brady Prisoner of
War Camp, was listed as Sgt. Paul H. McDonald, Pacific
War Theatre hero with several decorations.
The two injured soldiers were Pvt. Carmen Napoli and
Pfc. Louis Vitagliano, also stationed at the Brady Prisoner
of War Camp. The three injured civilians were Solia Cortez
and Sebera Bara, who were hospitalized here and Mrs. Ber-
nice Creech. None was seriously hurt.
The storm struck here shortly after midnight,
buildings, trees, glass and electric wires cluttering we*’
streets of the business district. The tornado, coming from
the west, was accompanied by considerable lightning and
thunder, and about one-half inch of rain. It was th^ third
straight night that this section had been visited by rain and
an electrical display.
Just what it will take to replace the damage wrought
by the tornado could not be estimated, but some have said
it will take more than half a million dollars to rebuild the
property destroyed. *
The storm came from the west, striking the Richards
Park grandstand first, and then heading down Brady Creek
towards the business district. The grandstand was
‘wrung out” like a wet towel, with the sheetiron roof being
scattered for hundreds of yards. Some of the race track
fence was blown down, and roofs on some of the stables
were blown off. ,
The tornado blew down trees a-, -—11 • —••••«• —i—
lonp Brady Creek, then dipped' „ , .
down and smashed Dave Freeze’s C re®k- Mayhew-Jordan Co. suf-
new galvanized highway g-arage, I , P an®rj
recently completed, and scattered ®ck°n-yist®d Motor Co. suffered
it over the highway at the bridge ,0’s °* P,atc «rla«s windows and
on West Commerce street. Higgin- i0 ,er <?an}a*?e» an<^ Roddie & Co.,
botham’s, the station east of the and W,g*’y; Yho ----
McCulloch County jail, and several ° <. Put^.®n
buildings in that block were vir- ^ast Mam Street suffered
tually destroyed, before the wind maF®, w, n ®u,^,ng was
caught the awning of Hotel Bra- mo,lshed-
dy and ripped it off, tearing down, A block east of the plaza, the
the sign atop the structure, and; Mann Bros, building was damag-
damaging the roof and upper1 ed» with the southeast corner of
story considerably. Several cars the third story being blown out
parked underneath the awning and plate glass windows being
were caved in by falling awning, broken. Across the street, Gil-
breath’s Grocery suffered loss of
five plate gla«s windows.
At the Brady Municipal
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molished, and seven
entire , i*n airplanes parked therein
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completed, was deroofed. It looked
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Smith, L. B. The Brady Standard and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 24, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 19, 1945, newspaper, June 19, 1945; Brady, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1357261/m1/4/?q=Cadet+Nurse+Corps: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting FM Buck Richards Library.