Pike County AlArchives Photo place.....Brundidge After Cyclone April 8 1937
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 The Southern Star   Thursday April 8, 1937

Published every Thursday'in*
Ozark, "The Peanut Pork Bar-'
rel" of Alabama, in the heart
of the state's peanut section.

                                                           NUMBER 14 
1 Killed, 25 Hurt In Cyclone at Brundidge

Dickert's Mill Collapses On Workmen But
All Miraculously Escape; Damage Heavy 
In Rich Farm Section         


 One person was known to have been killed and at least ...
25 others injured,'some seriously, when a cyclone struck 
Brundidge in the vicinity of Dickert's Saw Mill on the out-
skirts of the city shortly after 8 a. m. this morning. The 
tornado levelled homes and buildings leaving the Dickert's 
Mill section virtually in ruins.       
  The Brundidge cyclone was another of a series of nature's quirks that 
this week have visited storms and a flood on scattered sections of the 
southland, with a death toll of 13 and inestimable property damage. 
  A part of Brundidge's residential section felt the effect of today's
storm although the major damage was in the Mill Village. Dickert's
Village is half'a mile from Brundidge.            
  The one death reported was that of Fred Crowley, 12.             
  A partial list of injured, most of whom were brought to Troy hospitals, 
follows:               
Mrs. Clarence Crowley* and baby boy.          
Mrs. W. L. Crowley, mother of Fred Crowley who was killed
  C. H. Patrick.         
  Mrs. C. H. Patrick and small child.                
  A. W. Wilhite.     
  Mrs. Brantley Owen and small child.         
  Mrs. Will Victory, her daughter, Willene, and a small child of the
Victory family.
  Quita Crowley, daughter of Mrs. W. L. Crowley.      
  Mrs. Maggie East.
  M..A. Beauchamp.      
  Mrs. J. C. Beauchamp.   
  Bell Stringer.                
  0. P. Thomas.  
  Early reports from the storm area, where Chief Walter K. McAdory of
the Alabama highway Patrol dispatched 20 patrolmen, said at least four 
were dead. With communication facilities crippled, however, thus number 
could not be checked.
  Only the edge of a Brundidge residential section was reported to have
felt the power of the storm. No serious casualties were listed there.
  The Injured were brought to Troy hospitals by trucks and ambulances,
and the hospitals filled rapidly. Estimates of the injured were from
25 to 30.        
  
          Crops Injured      
Justice of the Peace L.R. Ray at Troy said the rich South Alaama farming 
section, of which Brundidge is the center, apparently sUfered heavy damage. 
Newly planted crops were injured. .        
  M.N. Dodson, after a survey, said the storm came from the south striking 
the mill village and a fringe of Brundidge, wrecking at least two homes on 
Brundidge's North Main street. It continued northward, he said.
  Shingles were torn from scores of other homes and Dodson said it rained 
cats and dogs" after the storm.

  "Apparently," the publisher said, "there were many tenant houses outside 
the storm center that were wrecked or damaged.
  The wind cut a swath about 50 yards wide, but it did not scatter things all 
over Creation (did not get the rest )

* Mrs Clarence Crowley was Hazel Grimes born March 3,1919, Dau. of DeWitt & 
Jewell Stephens Grimes.


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