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MILLSAP STORM - 1 1:30
The little Parker Ucounty town of Millsap, 30-miles"MILLSAP"
;LS SCHOOLHOUSE
east of Fort Worth, is stung by what apparently is a
small twister , pawned" K . e oon by a severe
squall line that raced throgh parts of North Texas.
Directly in the yath of the storm was the MillsapHigh Schools U350 pupils were having lunch in the
school cafeteria when high winds began to bowl over
small buildings and break windows#. Not a personiwas
reported insured, even though the building's metal
Yroof was literally rolled up and thrown to the ground
by the high winds. The students, and their 17
teachers, crowded into a storage room to wait out theNOTHER BLDG..
storm, which dumped an inch# and a half of rai
Millsap.
The Agriculture building on the school campus loses a
portion of one wall and part of the roof. Much of
the damage done is caused by the driving rain, which\.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Millsap storm], script, September 3, 1959; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc861008/m1/1/: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.