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Identifier

20137365

Description

Miss Lillie Matkin is well and shown watering her lawn. On May 12 Miss Matkin was rescued after 14 hours buried under 15 feet of brick and boards downtown Waco when the tornado heaped the building where Miss Matkin sat at her switchboard in the R. T. Dennis Furniture Building.

Archival Date

1953-07-11

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-895

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Disaster victims; Tornadoes

Names

Matkin, Lillie

Subjects

Disaster victims; Tornadoes

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