Pike County AlArchives News.....Brundidge Storm Life Toll Four April 14 1937
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The Southern Star
The Southern Star  April 14, 1937    

Brundidge Storm Life Toll Four; Others Critical

More Relatives of boy Killed Outright Die; 2 Others Critical

  BRUNDIDGE, April 10-Brundidge's windstorm dead reached three today and at 
least two of seventeen injured in Thursday's blow were in critical conditions 
at hospitals in nearby Troy.
  Mrs. W. L. Crowley, forty-eight year old mother of Fred Crowley, thirteesn, 
who was killed outright in the storm, died today of multiple injuries.          
Mrs. Clarence Crowley, eighteen year old daughter-in-law of Mrs.
W. L. Crowley, succumbed to injuries yesterday, leaving an eightteen months old 
child who suffered a broken leg.
  A triple funeral is planned for the three victims here tomorrow afternoon.
  Ouida Crowley, fourteen, who developed pneumonia due to her injuries, and 
Mrs. J. C. Beauchamp, twenty-five, who suffered severe chest and liver 
injuries, were those remaining in critical conditions.
  A score of homes were wrecked by the sudden storm. Property damage was 
counted in thousands of dollars, but rehabilitation was begun immediately 
wherever salvage was not more feasible.
  BRUNDIDGE, April 12- A.M. Beauchamp, seventy-one died at a Troy hospital last 
night, the fourth victim of a tornado that struck a lumber mill section of 
Brundidge,last Thursday.
  Beauchamp received multiple injuries when his home along with more than a 
score others was demolished by the swirling wind.
  Fred Crowley, twelve, was killed as the tornado struck. His mother Mrs. W. L. 
Crowley, forty-eight, and his sister-in-law, ** Mrs.  Clarence Crowley, died 
later.
  Nineteen persons were carried to Troy hospitals after the tornado
Conditions of several including Ouida Crowley fourteen, and Mrs. J. C. 
Beauchamp, twenty-five were described today as critical.
 
 ** Mrs Clarence Crowley was Hazel Grimes born March 3,1919, Dau. of DeWitt & 
Jewell Stephens Grimes.


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