Disaster Strikes

ID: 1697 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University

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This image shows a tornado-damaged First Methodist Church, at 403 S. 5th Street, Waco, Texas. The high winds of the twister ripped off the steeple, crushing vehicles parked below it.

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First United Methodist Church

By Terri Jo Ryan

First United Methodist Church marks its founding year as 1850, when the Rev. Joseph Perkins Sneed, a circuit-riding Methodist minister, preached to the inhabitants of Waco Village at the foot of Jackson Street on the banks of the Brazos River.…