Training School For Negroes, Malakoff Damaged
By Storm
The hail, wind and rain storm which swept through
Henderson County Sunday afternoon was reported Tuesday to have
caused an estimated 42,000 damage to buildings and crops at the
St. Paul Industrial training School near Malakoff.
J. M. Smothers, superintendent, said that the
storm, the second to strike the school in less than five years,
shattered windows, damaged the roofs of buildings, destroyed
crops, particularly cotton, and killed fowl and a few farm
animals in the community.
The buildings were insured.
One youth, John L. White of Dallas, was slightly
injured when he became frightened when the windows were shattered
in one building and ran to another. He took a severe beating from
the hail, and suffered a lip injury.
The school was completely destroyed by a cyclone in the latter
part of December 1942. Since then, the school has been rebuilding
and has become a chartered benevolent institution for Negro
youth, Smothers said. He said that is the only institution of its
kind in the state.
The student body is now made up of children from every large city
in Texas and many smaller towns.
Athens Review
October 30 1947
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