Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1924, Page 5

RECORD GALE WHIPS CHESAPEAKE BEACH ‘Wrecks Homes, Lifts Auto, Up- roots Trees. Ends Picnics, Damages Nearby Crops. TOPS TORN FROM MACHINES Falling Timber Misses Infant and Mother by Inches. Ry 2 Staf Correspondent. CHESAPEAKYE BEACH, Md., June 9.—A cloudburst accompanied by a wind of tornado-like intensity struck Chesapeake Beach yesterday after- noon shortly before 4 o'clock and within ten minutes wrecked scores of homes and barns in the contigu- ous territory, uprooted thousands of trees and did damage which will run into thousands of dollar A dozen automobiles of Washing- ton motorists parked in the shady srove surrounding the Casino Hotel here cither were completely demol- ished or badly damaged by falling trees, and their occupants narrowly escaped serious injury as the timbers crashed though the tops of the ma- chines. No one was injured, as far as could be ascertained The terrific wind which blew at a velocity estimated at seventy to cighty miles an hour, tore the piles from under that portion of the board- walk which connects the main tion with a crabhouse on the north That section of the boardwalk w laid to the walcr's edge and a score of persons were marooned in the crabhouse. Roofs were ripped iro several concession houses on the boardwalk, and branches torn from trees hundreds of yard deposited on_the boardwalk and Chesapeake Bay District Automobiles Wrecked. The principal damage at the beach was done to the automobiles of Wash- ington motorists who _journeyed here to spend Sunday. which escaped the uprooted trees a they crashed to the carth, had their tops torn away by the terrific wind Virtually all cottages under con- struction at North Chesapeake Beaca were blown from their foundations. away were in Rafters and a large quantity of tim- | ber used in building the were blown out into the bay A number of farmhouses and barns Calvert and Anne Arundel Coun- which lay directly in the path he storm-—-the most severe that ever struck this section of southern Maryland-—were leveled to the ground. The houses destroyed W fr frame structures and occupicd negroes. Two large barns on George H. Boyd's farm, on the state road be- tween Mount Harmony and Chesa- peake Beach, containing his 1923 crop of tobacco, were demolished. A large harn on the farm of Harry OWwIngs, just south of Owings, Md.. about fiv miles from here. also was destroyed Picnics Hastily Ended. »rm approached the beach in tions and with such sudden swiftness that the several thousand picnickers here did not have time to reach shelter hefore the torrent of raln soaked them. One portion of the storm, which apparently had separated from the Tain section about twenty miles a following tae_ Patuxent River far as Lower Marlboro, into the beach from the The main portion came northwest and mergzed southwest section a few here For several cottages n th The s two s as southwest. from the with the les bevond hours after the storm, workmen were busy clearing fallen trees from the roads, and away e which had fallen on the automibiles 0 { the machines which was completely demolished by an uproot- ed tree was parked near the Chesa- peake Beach railroad terminus here. The tree feil directly across the cen- ter of the car, a coupe Infant Has Narrow Escape. A man, his wife 2nd an infant, were seated in a high-priced touring car in the rear of the Casino Hotel when two trees crashed down on it, wreck- ing the top of the machine. The oc- cupants suffered a severe shock, but were uninjured. A machine parked on the road bor- dering the hotel grove was lifted several feet from the ground by the wind and dropped into a nearby gul- “Every W. Be Beautiful” National This Week Every Afternoonat 2:30 Every One Invited. Some cars, | ¥ |had been blown from several build- | cutting | SIX DEAD IN STORM; FARM LOSS HEAVY; WIRES BLOWN DOWN (Continued from First Page) the capsized canoe. Motley, however, said the marine had a severe cut on his head and, apparently losing con- sciousness, slipped into the water again and never reappeared. Motley succeeded in swimming ashore. | Overtaken in Rowboat. Johnston and Trumpeter Lewis were in an ordinary flat bot- tom rowboat. So terrific was the force of the wind that it turned the boat over as though it had been a straw. Spectators on the shore never saw them come to the surface, al- though part of their clothing was washed up on the beach later. Divers are working to recover the bodies. Hurried roll calls after the storm showed almost twenty persons miss- ing, and terrified searching ~parties set out to locate them. All others were found, however, and related harrowing details of how their own boats were capsized and they were forced to swim to shore. Mayflower in Storm. Trivate President and Mrs. Coolidge rode out the storm in safety aboard the Mayflower, not far from the scene of the tragic deaths of the marines, all on board the presidential yacht be- Ing unaware of conditions near them. The storm struck the Mayflower about | twenty miles below Indian Head, and {officers estimated that the wind | howled through the ship's rigging at from seventy to eighty miles an hour. The stanch little yacht held her head well into the weathered it out safely | Reports from Che Upper Marlboro, Mount Harmo! Nokesville, Alexandrix, T. B. Cla |ton, and other places more or less | suburban to Washington, related sim- |ilar conditions, except _that no lives | were reported lost. The lightning. however, struck several houses, and morc | than a dozen persons were Shocked by the bolts. Nonc required | nospital attention, and were reported to have recovered from the shock by night. however, gale and apeake Beach, Harmony, Could Not Close Doors. Picnickers and fishermen returning from Chapel Point said the wind blew so strong there that doors blown open could not be closed, and much of the furniture in the rooms was wrecked. Mason's Beach suffered similar ex- periences. Telephone communication with Leonardtown. Great Mills. TLa | Plata, Mechanicsville and other Mary- {1and points still was halted at noon, |but repair crews hoped to have the |lines open later in the day. Melvin C. Hazen, the District sur- veyor, returning to Washington from | nis farm at Nokesville, Va., said roofs | ings on his place, and that among the trees felled were two of sreat age— one being more than 150 years old |and the other 175 vears old He said he drove past acres of wheat lying flat upon the ground, undoubtedly completely ruined. Some motorists said hailstones struck the | tops of their cars with such force |that they broke through. Passengers in Panic. The steamer Charles Macalester | was caught by the storm while en |route to Marshall Hall. Two hun- |drea and’ fifty passengers became | panic stricken when the blow, catch- ling the vessel on the starboard side, caused it to careen sharply to port. Ballast was hurriedly transferred to ! the starboard side, however, and| after her head had been brought | around into the wind she righted| | herseif and rode out the gale at reduced | | speed without further difficulty | The weather bureau announced to- | day that there was nothing extraordi- in vesterday's €torm, consider- | | ing the season, nor the cool weather that followed it today. Every spring, | | Forecaster Mitchell said, ordinarily has several such spells of weather, | and this season, in fact, has been re { markably free of them. He expect: | the cool, rainy weather to return again in the next thirty-six hours, but savs it will be only seasonal showers. | ley, upright. Its top was torn off and after the storm it was found clinging to the peak of a telegraph pole many feet away. | " The state road from here to Mount Zion, about eighteen miles distant, is covered with trees, limbs, porti of barns and the remnants of bill- boards which were destroyed by the strong wind. A number of telephone and telegraph poles also are down. oman Can Theater No Tickets Required. Auspices | By T WOMAN KILLED BY TREE. Man Electrocuted and Much Dam- age Done in Virginia Storm. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9.—Miss Elizabeth Buckley, seventy-four years old, of New Orleans. La., but visiting in Baltimore and on a mo- tor trip in Alexandria, was killed by a tree in yesterday's storm, which spread much damage in this section. Her party, in two automobiles, had stopped for lunch near Mount Ver- non and the storm arose while she was alone in one of the cars. Hear- ing a crash, others of the party rushed to her side, to find that she had been pinned by the tree. She was Tescued by United States ma- rines, who chopped the tree away, and was taken to an Alexandria hospithl, where she was found to be dead. Other members of the party, including Mrs. C. B. Boullemet, Mrs. S. C. Boullemet, her sisters; Isaac te Lycett and Misses Caroline and Jeanette Limerick, who suffered from the shock and exposure, were treated at the hospital. They were all frem Roland Park, Baltimore. The body will be sent to Baltimore this after- noon, where it will be held in a crypt for_some time prior to forwarding it to New Orleans for burial. Steps on Live Wire. J. William Dove. twenty-s old of Accotink, Va.. was killed by a live wire near Warwick, three miles south of Alexandria. With George Gibson and Everett Nelson, the live wire victim had started from the river, where his boat became beached in the storm. for Alexandria and it is believed he stepped on a rail of the Washington-Virginta road, and a fallen trolley wire at tho same time. His legs were marked by severe burns. Dr. W. L Robey, coroner, viewed the body in a morguc here and after talking with the fa ily decided to hold an inquest jury from Fairfax will view the body today and the inquest will be held at some subsequent Dove is sur- vived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs illiam Dove, Accotink: his wife, a shild and by several brothers and He was a member of Occo- quan Lodge, No. 310, A. F. and A. M He worked as 'an automobile mechanic at the District workhouse, Oceoquan. Much Property Damage. The old Snowden homestead, one of the most picturesque dwellings in the city, 619 South Lee street, was dam- aged by the storm when lightning struck on opposite sides. Damage was comparatively slight Plastering fell on the family of W. H. Gardner, occupants, and a rear porch was torn away from the house The Myrcha, jr.. C. F. Holden's boat, pride of the OId Dominion Boat Club flect, was stripped of its riggings by the high wind. Telephone communication with nearby counties was disrupted and trees ware blown across roads to the south and west of the city, taking wires with them in many instances. More than 200 phones were out of service in the city. Eleetric light service was crippled. Several poles were broken off. Car service. to Mount Vernon was halted for several hours. Branches from trees littered the streets here. The storm swept through lower Fairfax and Prince William counties, uprooting trees and hurling light farmhouses to the ground The schoolhouse at Lorton lost its roof. The Lorton telephone building was damaged. Many orchards were dam- aged, according to J. Sidney Wiley of Lorton, and straw stacks were scattered Trees in the x years ard of historic Pohick Church were blown dow Traflic from the south was halted many times, while axes were brought into use in removing obstructions from the roads. OHIO SWEPT BY STORM. Great Property Damage and Men- ace of Floods Reported. he Associated Press CLEVELAND, June 8.—A violent windstorm, accompanied by heavy rain, lightning and hail, swept this state early yesterday, leaving a path of fallen trees and wires and causing HE EVENING Fought Through’65, Voted at Will, But Finds He’s an Alien John McDonough, seventy-eight vears old, who has resided in America for sixty years, fought through the civil war, voted in Colorado “whenever he had a chance,” and now an inmate of the local Soldiers' Home, discovered teday that he is not a citizen of the United States. The informa- tion was imparted to the veteran when he applied to the Depart- ment of State for a passport to pay a visit to his native land, Ireland. McDonough immediately took steps to remedy the lack by nnplquk to the clerk of the Dis- trict Supreme Court for a final naturalization paper. The petitioner declared that he received a paper in 1865 from a Philadelphia court which he thought was a full citizenship certificate and has since acted as an American citizen, including the serving of five enlistments in the United States Army, from which he was honorably discharged. Mc- Donough was born in County Dare, Ireland, February %, 1346, and is unmarried He will have to wait ninety days before he can obtain a full citizenship. —_— property damage estimated at dreds of thousnds of dollars. Piqua and Springfield are in the throes of one of the worst floods since 1913. Two men were injured, fifteen houses were unroofed, the municipal light and water plants were put out of service for several hours and dam- age estimated at $60,000 was caused at Oxford, where a path 300 yards wide and a mile long was swept Three Miami University dormitories were damaged. . TOBACCO BARN BURNED. hun- Speefal Dispateh to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., June 9. Barns and trees were blown down and live stock killed in yesterday's storm, which cut a path two miles wide from here to Chesapeake Beach. Three horses were killed by light- ning at Strawberry Hill, the farm of Maj. I5. Brook Lee, occupied by Wes- ley Grison. Two cows and a calf were killed in a similar manner at the home of Charles Lovelace, south of here. A tree fell on the home of J. Don Bowlings here. A large to- bacco barn on the grounds of the Southern Marvland Agricultural Fair Association was destroyed by light- ning. There was slight damage at Bowle and many trees were felled at For- estville, where hailstones, according to George S. Dove of Seat Pleasant, penetrated the tops of automobiles at a base ball game. At Laurel, the home of Carroll Frost, merchant, was fired by lightning in a second storm which visited the place at 3 o'clock this morning. Firemen of Camp Meade assisted in extinguishing the blaze. The barn_and roof of the home of Frank Small, south of the Maryland pike below Trenton, Md., were blown off. TORNADO HITS INDIANA. Than $1,000,000 Damage Done by Violent “Twister."” More By the Associated Pross. INDIANAPOLIS, was killed and June 9.—One man mage estimated at more than a million dollars done by a tornado which originated in the southern part of the state and swept | west and north for about fifty miles | yesterday Edward H. Hillsert, | twent hree, was electrocuted when ! a high-voltage trunsmission wire was blown across an automobile in which he was riding near Connorsville. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. The tornado razed houses, out- MONDAY, bulldings, telephone and telegraph wires and uprooted trees in its path. Two persons were injured when the twister lifted a seven-room dwelling house near Rushville and dropped it upside down, fifty feet away. Mr. and Mrs. John Lucas, the occupants, were severely injured, but are ex- pected to recover. Thousands of acres of over the state are under STORM KILLS LIVE STOCK. lowlands water. Number of Trees Felled in Wind and Rain About Fredericksburg. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., June 9.— Heavy rains and high winds late yes- terday caused damage to a number of farms in this section of Virginia, sev- eral cows and horses being killed and a number of trees felled. There was no loss of life nor se- rious injury to people, according to reports siffing in from surrounding communities. LIGHTNING SHOCKS THREE. Occupants of Suburban Home Hurled to Floor; Unhurt. Three persons were shocked by lightning yesterday afternoon when the home of Clayton Donaldson, on the Marlboro Pike, at Suitland road, was badly damaged during the storm The lightning struck the roof and tore a hole in the side of the house, smashing a telephone and knocking down Mr. Donaldson, Helen Donald- son and Robert Hitt, Other than nervousmess from the shock the residents at the house were not injured. They spent the night in Washington at the home of a rela- tive. LOSS IN SHENANDOAH. Storm Rages Five Minutes in Wide Area of Valley. Epecial Dispateh to The Stai HARRISONBURG, Va. June 9.—It is estimated that a $100,000 property loss was caused by a storm which | raged for five minutes in this section of the Shenandoah Valley vesterday afternoon. . Mrs. Thomas Warren of Harrison- burg was slightly hurt when struck by a falling trce. Hundreds of farm buildings were unroofed or otherwise damaged, while the wind played havoc in_ orchards and forests and with shade tre Four large barns were demolished and a score of houses unroofed Large trees were uprooted everywhere, in many cases blocking the roads. Much damage is believed to have been done in south ern Rockingham and north of Au gusta, over an area of ten square miles. At Mauzy, ten miles north of here. two barns were demolished, an- other unroofed, a house damaged and | orchards twisted and torn within one square mile.. From all reports, or- | chardists may suffer the grea [r«'! financial loss. In some sections haif of the trees were ruined OLD NEWSPAPER SOLD. | San Francisco Bulletin Bought by | California Syndicate. | SAN FRANCISCO, June 9.—-The San | Francisco Bulletin,'one of the oldest | papers in_the city, has been sold to a syndicate of San’ Francisco capital- | headed by Wallace M. Alexande shipping and sugar magnate, and A B. C. Dohermann, merchant. The new | publisher will be Charles Stanton, present publisher of the Examiner fo William Randolph Hearst. The pur. chase price was not announced. MAJOR H. ROBB OPTICIAN 2533 H STREET N.W. TRANSFORTATION BLDG, PHONE MAIN 7626 JUNE 9, 1924. Wisconsin’s Vote " ' For LaFollette To Be Informal By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, June 9.—Plans of the Wisconsin delegation were outlined last night by Robert M. La Follette, jr. son of the Wis- consin senator. The delegation will conduct itaelf here precisely as it did in Chicago in 1920, Mr. La Follette sald. ~ “The senator's name will not be presented to the conven- tion, but the delegation will cast its vote for him.” A more defi- nite statement #s to the delega- tion's plans, he added, would be made tomorrow, when it was planned to make public the plat- form proposals it will present to the convention and “fight for.” MRS. ELIZABETH SOMERS, SCHOOL FOUNDER, DIES Mre. Elizabeth J. Somers, eighty-six vears old, founder of Mount Vernon Seminary, died at her resigence. 3149 Newark ~ street, yesterday. Kuneral services will be conducted at the school, 3801 Nebraska avenue, to- morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. In- terment will be in Indianapolis. Ind Mrs Somers had been a resident of Washington for more than fifty years, during which time she took an active interest in xocial and philanthropic work here. Sho was the daughter of Augustus Methodist minister and pioneer “set- tler of Indiana. She was a graduate of Cincinnati Wesleyan College of Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 1917 an hon- orary docfor's degree was conferred on her by the American University of Washington, D. C. Shortly after her marriage to James W. Somers she came to Washington to live, and in 1875 she opened her private school for girls, Mount Vernon Seminary. still familiarly known as “Mrs. Som- ers’ School.” She retained the owner- ship of the school until it was incorporated under the leader- £hip of the late Adelia Gates Hensley and transferred to its new building, on Ncbraska avenue, from the old site ‘at 1100 M street, which, largely through her generosity, = became g Somers” home of the Y. A was a member of the Church of the Covenant, of the Fine Arts So- ciety, of the Archeological Society of Washington, of the Head Mis- tresses’ Association and a generous contributor to all municipal philan- thropic interests. S 1916, when | PINDLER 607 12th St. N.W.—M. 2704 DOVE OF PEACE HOVERS OVER CHIO DELEGATION Indications Point Willis as Chairman Despite Boom for Daugherty. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 9.—De- spite reports to the contrary, peace seemed to reign in_the Ohio delega- tion today, and the Buckeve delegates were prepared to acupi a harmony program when they caucus tonight Senator Frank B. Willis, according to the delegates here this mornins, probably will be chosen chairman o the Ohio delegation and Senator Simeon D. Fess will be given the place on the convention resolutions commitiee Friends of Harry M. Daugherty, former Attorney General, were boost- ing him for the chairmanship of the Ohio delegation, but the Ohio party Jeaders were determined that honors should be accorded to the two Ohif enators. There was some tabk yeA- to Selection of Specials v $25.00 $30.007 Salvatore Desio 926 F (Bet. 9%th and 10th) Ertablished 42 Years S Solid 14-k. gold, Feat's open face Waltham or Elgin. . 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