Waco Walks: Annual Tornado Remembrance
The Tornado Memorial Corner of 4th St and Austin AveOn May 11, 1953, at about 4:30 in the afternoon, a terrible tornado swept through downtown Waco with winds so strong that 114 lives were lost and almost 200 buildings were either destroyed outright or were damaged to the point that they later had to be torn down. Beginning at the Teardrop Memorial on Austin...