The chapel looked like it [had] been in an air raid.
W. Curtis Worthington, Jr. M.D., Waring Historical Library
“[The Waring Historical Library] looked fine from the outside, and the door was stuck, it was hard to open. I fiddled with that for a while. I managed to get it open…When I came into the room, I saw this debris of everything and it took me sometime to figure out what it was. But it turned out to be the Toomer Porter window.”
“The chapel looked like it [had] been in an air raid. The roof had caved in, the south side of the roof fell into the main body, the church nave, and the other side, the northern side, had fallen into Bee Street, and the Toomer Porter window had fallen more or less into Ashley Avenue.”
“About all that was left that you could see was the boy’s head, part of his arm…”
...there was debris, a lot of debris, in the inside...
Victor E. Del Bene, M.D., Medical Center
“I remember there was debris, a lot of debris, in the inside because the roof came down inside and everything that was in there got destroyed. A lot of the windows were damaged. The thing that I remember very well was that the organ was crushed I guess -- dismembered in the middle by a beam that ran over the top of it.”
And Dr. Edwards said to me, “I don't see the roof.”
William H. Golod, Ph.D., College of Pharmacy
“Dr. Edwards, and Anne [Edwards] and Marsha [Golod] and I, decided to take a walk around the campus. That's when we went out…and saw all the debris all over the place. There were a few windows that were broken that you could see in the hospital. Then we started to walk up Ashley Avenue, and then we saw how badly devastated St. Luke's Chapel was. And Dr. Edwards said to me, “I don't see the roof.” He was right, we didn't see the roof. Then Anne Edwards saw up Ashley Avenue, about a block and a half, there was the roof.”
“[The roof] appeared to go off intact and then pieces broke off. And then other things broke off, pieces like a lot of the supporting columns and so on. But we looked down there and it was really just heart rendering to go and see.”
