"The roof just lifted up. Then the walls fell out and the roof fell in," said William C. Shaw, the superintendent. "It sounded like dynamite," said a boy named Barber on the football team. ''It blew up like a tin can with a firecracker inside it," said an oil field worker. Across the plains for miles around, horrified observers on shanty porches, at oil derricks, in automobiles, thought of a hurricane, an earthquake, a battle, as at 3:05 last Thursday afternoon the high-school wing of the Consolidated School at New London, Tex.,...
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