Mrs. Frederick H. Koch took her baby and went down to Beaufort for rest and quiet, and a tornado came and blew off the roof and porches of the house where she was living.
The windows of her room were shattered, and the broken glass fell all over the baby’s bed. But a nurse girl snatched up the boy in time and got it out of the room to safety.
This happened in the furious storm that swept the North Carolina coast last week.
“All the night before, it blew a terrific gale,” Mrs. Koch writes her husband, “and when I went down to breakfast this morning Mr. Mebane, the editor, said: ‘Go out and look at the water—it’s a great sight.’ I stood out on the porch a few minutes and then went to the breakfast table. I had left the nurse sitting by the baby upstairs.
“Half way through breakfast a tornado 50 feet wide hit the house and, believe me, we all called on God for protection. The roof was lifted off the whole front veranda, and part of the lower was demolished and the windows broken.
“When I jumped up from the table to run upstairs a traveling man in the next seat tried to stop me, but I shoved him aside and went on. Glass when all over the bed where the baby lay, but the nurse had got him out of danger.
“The little summer house nearby, where we were last year, blew into a million pieces. The old cedar tree was splintered into kindling wood. Two automobiles standing in front of the house were partly wrecked. I am at the Manson house, and all is calm now.”
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, October 9, 1924
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