Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1926, Page 4

“ DISASTER SMITES - SCHOOL IN STORM La Plata Teacher Gives Graphic Description of Event. One Child Afraid. A brilllant bolt of lightning, a low fumbling thunderclap, followed by a sudden deafening roar, al lcoming in rapld sequence, was the prelude to the cyclonic storm that tore a narrow path through the lower portion of tha little southern Maryland town of La Plata yesterday aiternoon and lett disaster in its wake. The 60 puplls in the town's only public school, which was twisted into & splintered mass of debris, continued &t their studies oblivious of the im- pending tragedy. Only one little girl, Bertha Gamble, became frightened by the deafening roar of the wind and buried her eyes in her hands behind a portable slate blackboard. Hail Enters Room. As the storm broke, Mrs. Helen C. Hughes, the principal of the school, and her assistant, Miss Ethel Graves, the only teachers, paid little heed to it until &normous hailstones beat a tattoo on the window panes. A num- ber of the panes broke, and the wind drove hail into the classrooms. “Even then,” sald Mrs. Hughes, “I had no fear. The children, too, ap- peared to he unafraid, with the ex- ception of ertha. Miss Graves and I regarded the storm as just another electrical disturbance of which we had so many during the past Sum- mer. “When the hallstones began to shatter the panes, I looked out of the window momentarily. A vivid streak of lightning shot across the sky. Then came a deafening peal of thun- der, and I heard a terrific roar. It was all so sudden. In another sec- ond I saw a portion of a pine board fence from an adjoining farm hurling through the air. Two of the old 01k trees surrounding the school bent low toward the ground and snapped. One crashed against the rooi. Collapsed Like Tent. “The school building seemed to rock and then collapsed like a tent. Two timbers fell across my body and stunned me. I could not move. I was pinned face down, but the horri- fied screams of the children and thelr pitiful cries told me that something terrible had happened. “1 suppose I must have been in this position for fully half an hour until some men came and removed the tim- bers from my body. All this while the moans of the children became weaker and weaker. This terrified me. I knew that some of them were dying.” Still nervously excited from her ex- perience and suffering painful injuries gbout her limbs and body, Mrs. Hughes unfolded this story of the dis- aster in her room in the La Plata Hotel several hours after the wind had wrecked her school and taken the lives of some of her pupils. She regards her escape from death or se- rious injury as a miracle. School Almost Full. Mrs. Hughes sald thaf there were €3 pupils enrolled in the school, rang- ing in age from 5 to 13. There were 60 in attendance when the storm leveled the building, however. Two had been excused earlier in the after- noon and the third was recorded as &n absentee. ¢ , The school was a onestory frame structure of the bungalow type, with storeroom and belfrey above the regarded as a model county school and, Mrs. Hughes said, had been reconditioned and put into first- class condition during the Summer vacation period. e BUNDLE-DAY HOURS RUN THROUGH NIGHT Gifts for Armenian Relief to Be Received Until Dawn, It is Announced. Today is bundle day—and it's not over until tomorrow dawns. That is the last-minute announce- ment of Harold F. Pellegrin, Potomac division director of the Near East Re- let. this morning declared that nuy persons who had not vet sent in their bundles of clothing for the Ar- menians impoverished in that coun- try’s most recent earthquake should do so any time today. Every ~ firehouse in the District and those schools bearing the bundle day banner will receive all the bundies to them, Mr. Pellegrin said. tion to the regular stations Tou < the Near East | adquarters, 321 Bond Build- also ready for more packages of clothing. ancis Torndorf, head of partment of seismology of vn University, told the re- t once the earth reaches a condition of qulet following a heavy movement such as that experienced by Armenia recently, the reglon af- fected is “more than likely” to remain tmmune from further disturbances for some time. This statement was made to the workers by Father Torndorf in response to their query as to the tkelihood of another disaster which would render relief work in the im- te vicinity impossible. Thus on authorities’ of the Relief are confident that that Washington people - delivered directly to the area. The persons to receive the benefits of Washington's generosity will in- clude 35000 orphaned children who ere huddled together in temporary buildings without proper clothing. The weather in Armenia at present is more severe than Washington is ex- periencing. as that area is already buried under early of snow. ar East e e Aching Teeth Save Two From Death In Doomed School Two pupils of the fllfated La Plata public school owe their lives to aching teeth. ¥ Cooksey, sister of Mary Alice Cooksey, who was killed in the disaster, and Irene Bowie were ed_from the school by Mrs. Helen C. Hughes, the pri cipal, at 2:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon to go to the dentist— Just 20 minutes before the cyclonic storm leveled the building. o Both children were in the room at the school where the most cas- ualties occurred and would have met almost death or se- 10t aching teeth forced seek relief in a dentist's chair. i S About half of the feeble-minded owe their mental defect to accidental in- juries and to childhood diseases, such us scariet fever and sleeping sickness. \ Winter blankets | THE EVENING HOSPITAL'S STAFF IN HEROIC EFFORT TO SAVE LITTLE LIVES Providence Experts Work Valiantly Over| Wounded Children as Kindly Priest Comforts Fearful Hearts. Twenty-two torn, broken and bleed- ing little children found their way over storm-swept roads yesterday to Providence Hospital. They were brought out of the tornado-shattered little town of La Plata, Md., where they had been among the 62 fright- ened children who were crushed when their frail school building was ripped to debris. One by one and in pairs the pros- trate little forms were carrled into the waiting operating rooms of the hospital in a piteous stream, which began at 4:10 o'clock in the afternoon and lasted until 6:30 o'clock. As the escorting La Plata men who ran the storm’s gantlet surendered their burdens to the kindly Sisters of Char- ity of the hospital they retreated into little, wild-eyed groups, each to tell those who preceded him of the har- rowing scenes he had left bekind. Dis- tracted women who had somehow managed to restrain emotions on the long trip to Washington broke into hysteria when some pain-wracked child screamed under the surgeon’s instruments. The first victim to reach Washing- ton was Lucille Edwards, 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Ed- wards. She and 15 or more of the children who followed her reached the hospital just as they had been picked up from the ground, without having received first-aid treatment at La Plata. Many of these early arrivals were almost naked. The terrific winds had ripped their clothes from them as it hurled them distances of 200 feet and more from their shattered little schoolhouse into a bordering ravine. They were given temporary dressing for their injuries and wheeled away to operating rooms to await their turns upon the table. The less seri- ously injured gave way to the more grieviously hurt, but in mercitully short time all were transferred, band- aged and salved, to walting beds, where time and medical care will re- store them to their homes. Priest Consoles Little Ones. While surgeons and internes labored with nurses and the sisters for the physical relief of the victims, Father Charles Stouter, a priest of the hos- pital, walked quietly among the little sufferers, administering to their spir- itual comforts. Talking in kindly tones to each of the little survivors who could hear him, Father Stouter managed to change screams to con- tented whimpers. He anointed all of them and consoled them as their tiny fingers entwined themselves in security about his generous ones. Tales of horror swept through the hospital's corridors as little groups of parents, friends of parents and sym- pathetic rescue workers related their own experiences. C. O. Edwards, father of Lucille, the first victim to reach Washington, told of the finding of his child. was at work, he said, when he saw the gathering clouds sweep upon the little town of 400 souls. His first thought was for his daughter and her companions in the little frame school building, and he set out in his automobile to fetch her and the two little boys of his friend, Joe Gamble. As he was nearing the school site & tree suddenly fell across the road, barely missing his machine. Forced then to continue his journey on foot, Edwards was proceeding down the road when he met the littl Gamble boys, Billy and Chester, wit] their 13-year-old aunt, Bert Gamble, running along and crying that the school had blown down. Blood poured from a cut in Ches- ter's head, but the other boy and the girl had escaped unscathed, so taking Billy, Edwards hastened on- ward to the ruins of the school and started searching for his daughter. In a clump of bushes, yards from the spot where the building had stood, he came upon the child, semi- conscious, then, retracing his steps with the child, Edwards obtained the Gamble car, and with his wife and Joe Gamble raced for Providence. Their efforts were in vain, however, for Lucille died during the night. Says “Some Was Scared.” One of the slightly injured children was Richard Clark, 9 years old. He received a severe laceration of the head, and after he had been bandaged he was allowed to sit In the accident ward blanketed to the chin. Richard, or rather Dick, as he demanded others to call him, had his own story to tell, and he told it without nervous- ness. I was sitting at my desk—and I was sure scared—you see, Mrs, Hughes, that’s my teacher, told us to sit still, when all of a sudden some- thin’ busted right through the window and hit me in the head. Then I didn’t care what_the teacher said, 1 wa: leaving. I must 'a been knocked senseless, 1 guess, 'cause when I jumped out of the door and started running to my uncle’s house I put my hand up and pulled a big piece of rock out of my head. Just when I stopped to do that I remember a-hearin’ the school fall in and the roof sort-a bounced away.” Dick’s mother, who sent him to the He | th: hospital with some of the other little victims, had promised him that he| could return home right after the doc- tors had treated him, it seems, for when one of the Sisters suggested he remain at Providence all night he would not hear of it. When last seen! Dick was grinning through his tears | over the shoulder of a La Plata man who was carrying him to an automo- bile for the drive home. Dick’s brother Jack, who is 10 years old, was killed outright at the school. A tale of real heroism seeped out of one of the wards and down the cor- ridors. Edwin Clarence Turner, 11 years old, was in the schoolroom when the wind blast struck.. He darted to the door and was about to escape In safety when he suddenly thought of his little sister, Charlotte May Turner, who is 8. He halted abruptly on the doorsill and at that instant the building crashed and a beam plunged down upon his head. Saved Little Sister. Almost blinded by the blood from the resulting wound, Edwin groped back Into the debris that had an in- stant before been his school. He found his sister pinned beneath the furnace and he struggled to free her. As he fell stumbling away from the scene with the little sister in his arms, he was picked up by one of the first men to reach the scene—his father, James Turner—and both chil- dren were brought to Washington. Charlotte’s heel was crushed from her foot, but the children were said to be certain of recovery. James Turner, the father of Edwin and Charlotte. gave the story of his own timely arrival: “I was starding on the porch of my home just after lunch when the storm came up and I had a sort of premonition about those children. I first thought of golng to get them right away, but then I thought that surely they’d be all right—in the school, you know—and I walted a lit- tle while. The storm got worse and I was just starting when some little fellow came down the street crying that the school had blown away. Good God! I didn’t think he knew what he was talking about and I started running. I ‘got near the 8chool and saw it and then I ran up and found my little boy carrying my little girl.” Mr. Turner was talking in the ac- cldent ward on the ground floor of the hospital and as he stopped some little fellow on the operating table cried ou “I'll be all right if you'll just give me something to ea But the wise surgeons knew better what he needed and they proceeded to set a shattered leg that twister eerily with the lad’s writhing. Along with the children came ee grown-up victims of the storm's ravages. They were Mr. and Mrs. James L. Padgett and Mrs. Margaret Ann Jameson, 68 years old, whose homes, near the school building, had been demolished with it. They were treated along with the youngsters and assigned to rooms. In Mother’s Arms. As the evening at the hospital wore on parents began to arrive. While some mothers were permitted to gather in their arms the children they had not seen since they sent them to school in the morning, others were kept far away from the broken little bodies they loved—tiny life threads were being strained and were threat- ening to break at any moment. Some of those precious threads had parted, for off in a room apart lay three little bodles. Mary Ellen Bowie, 7-year-old daughter of Mrs. Claude Bowie, dled as she reached Washing- ton and her lifeless body was carried to the little morgue to awalt her mother, whose husband died one year ago today. Lillian Della, 11, died as she was placed upon the operating table, and she was sent away to join her little classmate in the morgue. Later in the evening Tilden Cooksey, 8, died in one of the wards. Then Lu- cille Edwards dled while her parents waited hopefully for some cheering word from her bedside. In all the confusion the Sisters ana nurses under the direction of Sister Mary Berchmann, director of Provi- dence Hospital, went quietly about their tasks. A corps of physiclans and surgeons under Drs. James Ca- hill and F. R. Sanderson performed all the operations known to them in their efforts to cheat the tornado. Dr. J. A. Talbott, bone specialist of the institution, was one of the buslest men there, for over half of the in-| juries sustained by the children are bone fracturas—legs, arms, shoulders and_combinations of them. With the presence of death and suf- fering there remained with those who watched and waited one thought which was voiced b one of the men from La Plata, who sobbed out con- vulsively: “Oh, God! If they were only men— and not little children!” Owen P. Grimes, a brakeman on the Washington, Brandywine and Point Lookout Raflway, heard screams coming from his own house at Cedar- ville just after the tornado yesterday | afterncon when his train was stop- | ped by a fallen tree. The house was only 50 yards away. Grimes and two other members of the train crew investigated. They found Mrs. Grimes pinned under an over- Brakeman on Train Halted by Storm Saves His Family From Burning Home turned stove, her dress afire and two of the three children injured. Dr. Harry Bowen of Brandywine, who was passing, brought the injured to his office here. He found that Mrs. Grimes' hips were crushed and her condition serious. Lester, 12 years old, was burned and bruised and Emily, 3 years old, suffered a broken knee. Sela, 18 months old, apparently was unhurt. The Grimes house was burned. Sweeping across the 15 miles of| | 1evel country that separates the coun- try town of La Plata from the Poto- | mac River, the tornado struck a half | mile from the town with a roar and | rumble that caused many of the in- habitants to believe an earthquake |had come. Windows rattled and | shook, pictures swung from walls and | emall houses shook and swayed as the twister struck the hilltop on which the schoolhouse stood, carrying death {and_destruction In its wak Walter Mitchell, La Plata attorney, and one of the first to arrive at the | wreckage-strewn hilltop, said he was dictating to his_stenographer in his office a half mile from the path of the twister. He said the big frame | office building actually shook as the cvclone hewed its path across the | countryside only a few hundred yards| | south. | “Ten minutes later little Muriel | Hardesty came in, sobbing and hold-| |ing her broken arm tightly against her side,” he said. “The schoolhouse has been blown away and the children all killed,” 13- year-old Muriel blurted out between sobs and gasps of pain. “As I rushed out of my office,” Mr. Townspeople Thought Earthquake Hit La Plata as Tornado Shook Buildings Mitchell said, “every man and woman in the town was running toward the site of the schoolhouse. The sight when we arrived at the school was un- bellevable. Mrs. Hughes lay beneath the wreckage, with a big timber hold- ing her down. Children lay strewn about down the hillside east of the school, some dead, some unconscious— all bleeding and cut from wounds as the school building was lifted off its foundations and crushed in by the wind. I picked up so many dead and wounded children my arms ached from the strain and the horror.” Maj. H. H. Landon Dead. NEW YORK, November 10 (#).— Maj. Henry Hutton Landon, military governor of Bayamo, Cuba, during the readjustment period following the war with Spain, died at his home here last night following a long illness. He also saw service in the campaigns against the Indians in Texas and against Mexican bandit forces. —_— Electric headlights are to be placed on all government railway locomotives in Indis. \} One of the Victims STAR, WASHINGTON, D. LA VEGA MARTIN, 10 years old. LAKE R STORN CAUSED TORNADD Weather Expert Declares La Plata Was at Edge of Big Disturbance Area. " The La Plata tornado was a result of a storm that was then centered somewhere over Lake Erie, Forecast- er Mitchell of the Weather Bureau sald today. Tornadoes invariably form in the southeast quadrant of a markedly defined disturbance of high intensity, and several hundred miles from the center of the storm, he said. A series of unusual circumstances put La Plata in the proper position for the manufacture of a twister. It was in the southeast extremity of the storm over Lake Erfe. In. addi- tion to this, the town was experienc- ing abnormally warm temperatures for November, another ingredient nec- essary to tornado making. The tem- perature several thousand feet up, however, was very cool. Everything was “ripe” for a tornado, and instant- ly the clouds began “boiling,” finally forming the atmospheric funnel com- mon to such storms and whose strength is immeasurable. As that cloud traveled along it dip- ped down now and then as a cork dips up and down on the water. Wherever it dipped to a point close to the earth nothing could withstand its force. Yet it may have hobbed up again in time to miss other com- munities by no more than two or three feet, offering them nothing more startling than a moderately hard wind. The demolition of the La Plata school is explained, the weather experts sald, by the fact that the tornado undoubtedly dipped down squarely over the school. A much stronger structure would have suffer- ed the same fate. Mr. Mitchell illustrated this process by describing a similar tornado that hit Elgin, 111, in 1920. He said the tor- nado raced down one street which was lined with trees. The funnel, how- ever, remained a few feet from the surface of the earth. As a result, in- stead of uprooting the trees, the twis ing wind snapped them off at the ex- act height from the ground that the end of the funnel passed. As to the future, Mr. Mitchell pre- dicted cold weather Thursday and Friday. He expects the thermometars to drop to about 30 degrees tonight. It will be fair, however, with a pos- sibility of rain Saturday. The temper- ature will begin to rise late Friday and Saturday will probably be warmer again. PASTOR SEES WIND HIT SCHOOL BUILDING First to Reach Scene, He Tells of Panic Among Children After Tornado. Rev. W. K. Heigham, pastor of the First Episcopal Church of La Plata, was standing at the window of his study just 200 yards out of the path of the cyclone as it swept through :.ihe lower portion of La Plata yester- ay. Dr. Heigham saw the wind twist and break the old oak trees surround- ing thc scheol and a second later de- molish the building itself. He was the first person to arrive at the school following the disaster and he said the scenes were horri- fving. “The little ones, who were fortunate enough not to be pinned beneath the debris,” he declared, “were running around, terrified and screaming. Most of them had been completely stripped of their clothing.” After assisting in removing the dead and injured from the wreckage, Dr. Heigham remained at the scene until late last night, searching through the debris for bodies thought to be buried under the splintered tim- bers. GEN. HARTS ARRIVES. Officer on Duty Here for Period Be- fore Going to Paris. Brig. Gen. William W. Harts, who has just completed a tour of duty with troops at Fort Amador, Panama Canal Zone, has reported at the War Department for temporary duty in the office of the chief of staff, prelimi- nary to assuming his newly assigned duti as y attache at the United States y at Paris. He will sail from New York for his new post about the first of December. Gen. Harts was chief military aide to President Wilson and in charge of the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds during his administration. | He was awarded the Distinguished | Service Medal for services with the ‘American Expeditionary forces during the World War. He was provost mar- shal general of American forces at Paris and vicinity during the final stages of the war. Gov. Ritchie Orders Immediate Relief Work at La Plata By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., November 10.—I can hardly imagine any- thing more tragic,” Gov. Albert C. Ritchie sald when told of the loss of life that resuited from the storm at La Plata. “I am simply shocked measure and profoundly affected by the loss and suffering I am assured that everything possible is being done for the immediate care and relief of the injured and of the afflicted families.” Immediately after learning of the bevond calamity the governor dispatched a detail of State police to aid in re- work, WASHINGTON QUICK INAIDING LA PLATA Hospitals and Medical Units Promptly Respond to Call for Relief. ‘Washington hospitals and medical units were quick to respond yester- day to La Plata’s call for medical as- sistance. From Walter Reed Hospital three ambulances were sent. These were in charge of Maj. T. S. Medane, Maj. A. W. Kenna and Maj. O. B. Bolibaugh. The Army nurses sent were Ruth Anderson, Johanna Peters and Emma Turner. There were also six Medical Corps privates, From Bolling Fleld the motor am- bulance was sent in charge of Capt. Henry M. Van Hook, Capt. Otto G. Trunk and Sergt. J. J. Jenkins. Lieut. Kellogg Sloane flew over the scene of the wreckage to determine if there n;ns any need of sending supplies by air. The Army general dispensary sent its ambulance in charge of Maj. B. L. Wilson, Capt. F. O. Stone and; Sergts. Max J. Horn and Ezell Barr. One ambulance was sent from Emergency Hospital in charge of Dr. Harold McNeil and Asst. Supt. Dalton. From Casualty Hospital an ambu. | lance was sent with two graduate| Margaret Cohill and Mary | nurses, Jane Hensley. The District Red Cross chapter sent its ambulance with Dr. Nimetz and Dr. Wainwright of Children's Hos- pital and four nurses, Myrtle Taylor, Madelena Havey, Mary Hawthorne and Mrs. Annie Humphrey. 0, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1926. LNIOS ¥30Y OL. CHILDREN HELPLESS AS WIND ‘ STRIKES SCHOOL DURING STUDY Broken Bodies Are Strewn About by Tor- nado as Wounded Child Flees Wreckage to Bring Aid to Companions. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. LA PLATA, Md., November 10.— Picture a two-room country school- house on a hill, well out from the pleasant town of La Plata, county seat of Charles County, Md. Chil- dren ranging in age from 5 to 13 years, droning out their lessons while a cold Fall rain drummed on the roof and hailstones beat at the windows. Suddenly a shock, as the lath and thin board structure rose from its light stone foundations, and, driven and twisted by a tornado of tremen- dous velocity, fell on its side and collapsed like a house of cards. A shambles, as children, twisted and pinned under the wreckage, fought to escape from the house of death, driven in about their heads by the resistless force, which demolished two houses in its path to vent and wreak its work on the lonely yellow schoolhouse on the hill top. Children scattered about down a hill, which runs to a pine woods 300 yards away, lying In every posture of sudden death; other unconsclous, others with broken bones, crying and wall- ing thelr distress to a sky which dripped a sodden heavy rain upon them. Some of the poor little bodles were picked up at the edge of the woods, where death had dropped them in the receding path of the twister. Others lay a few paces from the scattered debris of what had once been their pleasant country school- house on the hill. Under the wreck- age, flattened as If a glant hand had crushed it, more children lay, some of them dead, some still alive, to gasp out their little lives later on the way to Washington hospitals. ‘Wounded Girl Heroine. And from this scene emerged the heroine of the southern Maryland tragedy—13-year-old Muriel Har- des ho somehow got out of the wreckage of the school, ran the half mile up the winding road to the center of the town, holding her broken arm up to prevent shock, and burst into the office of Walter Mitchell, La Plata attorney, to gasp out the first warning to the town of the tragedy. Then there was a hurried gathering of local physiclans and men summoned from every busi- ness agency in the little town, rush- ing by foot and automobile down the little lane to the schoolhouse, to stand aghast at the scene which met their eyes. Hastily they organized themselves with the inspiration that comes in moments of sudden stre Hurrled calls were sent to India Head. the proving ground; to Washington and Baltimore, for ambulances and medical assistance, and at the same time, all the pri- vate cars available were pressed into service to start the trek of the vic- tims to the Capital, 35 miles away, where hope loomed for the most serfously hurt. La Plata at first didn’t realize what had befallen its children. The true realization came only when auto- mobiles bearing their tragic freight of dead and injured began to trickle back into the little town, to deposit their burdens in the Mitchell office and in homes surrounding fit. La Plata is stunned today. by the suddenness of it all. For it came—the twister—out of a sky that had never before produced such a phenomenon in the flat country of southern Mary- land. Almost its entire juvenile pop- ulation between the ages of five and 13 attended the little country school on the hill, trusting with childlike faith in man-made structures and the knowledge and fidelity of their teach- ers—Mrs. Helen C. Hughes, principal, and Miss FEthel Graves, teacher. Darkened homes in La Plata today garments clinging to their rain- soaked and pain-wracked bodies, Hardly a child escaped unscathed. None but had been shocked, while more than half the enrollment of 60 lay dead or unconscious down the hill- side, Mrs. Hughes tells of a child frightened by the beating hail that preceded the advent of the twister by a few moments, running behind the blackboard to hide its head in terror. There were few eyewitnesses to the La Plata tragedy, other than those in the devastated schoolhouse. None were out in the beating rain. But from the fragmentary descriptions of Miss Graves and Mrs. Hughes, given incoherently between memories of the horror, one pleces together the story of a resistless wind which twisted the little wooden house from its supports and crushed it In and tore It apart, to carry its human occupants on the wings of the gale far down the hill. For the wreckage of the schoolhouse lies today 20 feet from the concrete supports on which it stood in more pleasant days. Lifted From Foundations. 1t was literally lifted from its foun- dations and flung to the ground. Probably not the least of the contri- butions to the disaster—man made— was the air space between the floor and the ground—two feet of space which enabled the wind to grasp a firmer hold on the structure and overturn it. Few saw the twister approach. Those who did say it came out of the southwest—funnel shaped—its apex tailing off to an indefinite height, twisting high in air, to dip down and destroy the homes of James L. Padgett and Charles Jameson and then pick out the little schoolhouse on the hill for its work of death and destruction. Here it dipped down once again, completed its work and then rose again to disappear over the rolling country to the north- east of the town. It came with a rush and roar. hit the schoolhouse with untold momentum and passed on. Not the least of the odd phenomena which accompany such affairs was the blowing of Mrs. Charles Jameson out from her wrecked home onto the rail- road tracks, shocked, but unhurt, where she was picked up by Luther M. Hicks. ‘And again must be chronicled the ory of the men of medical science who give thelr all in such cases as this, gladly and freely, to save life. They rushed to La Plata from the west and north, converging from Casualty Hospital, Emergency IHospital, Waiter Reed Hospital and Indian Head. Naturally the men from Indian Head arrived first, for they had less than 20 miles to go. Aided by _two platoons of marines and ASEBONITE Strings toaSick SoitWinds.2Z= Around the Gears Get to know Ebonite. It prevents noise, fric- tion(wear to parts) and delivers long service. Just say “EBONITE” Be Sure You Get It. 20 Cents a Shot ITH EBONITE 500 MILES From the Checkerboard pump only, and in fivelpound cans. At All Good Dealers’ tell mutely of the tragedy that came in the wake of the cyclone. While upon the rain-swept hilltop even more poignant evidence of the fury and wrath of the elements speaks without words. Children’s Things in Debris. In the debris of the little school- house are pile after pile of rain-sod- den books, a shattered and broken blackboard, tiny shoes, twisted from little feet as the twister struck; fragments of clothes, torn from lit- tle bodles as the wind pulled and tugged; gayly colored lunch boxes, pencils and holders strewn about. A rubber overshoe torn from Miss Graves' foot as she lay pinned under tie scantling of the broken school- house until men removed the burden which held her to the rain-soaked ground, is there, a grim reminder. Three great oak trees, their branches twisted and torn, wrenched from the ground to lie prone, while another—a sentinel of the storm—stands. broken half way down its length: pieces of scantling driven three feet into the ground by the wind: smaller pieces scattered to and through the woods back of the schoolhouse. For so great was the force of the wind that the clothes were torn from the bodies of the children. Some of the dead were picked up nude. 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A score of them were in the human chain which worked its way foot by foot down the hillside and into the woods, searching for dead and ‘wounded. The townsfolk of La Plata, stunned by the suddenness of the tragedy, gave their all. Many of the wounded were rushed over the rolling, rain- swept road in private automobiles to ‘Washington. Private homes were thrown open to care for the casualties of the tragedy that shocked the peaceful Maryland town. PREMIER BRUCE DENIES BRITISH-U. S. PARLEY AIM Australian Made No Such Sug- gestion, He Declares, in Lon- don Interview. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 10.—Premier Stanley Bruce of Australia, who Is at- tending the imperial conference here, denied today having suggested a meet. ing between the American Senate’s foreign relations committee and a council of British premiers. The de- nial followed receipt of Washington dispatches saying President Coolidge did not look on the suggestion with particular favor. Mr. Bruce declared he had never uttered anything capable of the in- terpretation given in the Washington dispatches. e s The Reval Industrial Fair this year had one of the smallest attendances ever for such an event in Esthonia. Z i ‘ For each $50 ori fractionborrowed you agree to de- fom 31 per week "l' an Accdaunt], the fmcee s o, which may be used to cancel the note when to borrow. Iy a weekly, semi- monthly or monthly basis as you prefer. $6,950 $500 Cash $65 a Month look. 14th & K Owners and B $10,000 $200.00 PLANS ARE MADE T0BURY VICTIMS Pastors and Parents Confer on Sorrowful Task In Storm’s Aftermath. Arrangements went forward today for the interment of La Plata’s tor- nado dead. Little Mary Ellen Bowle, Edward Bean and Henry Clagett will be interred tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock, following funeral serv- ices at the Episcopal Church, con- ducted by . Rev. Dr. Willlam H Helgham. Rev. H. Q. Burr, pastor of the Southern Methodist Church, was conferring with the parents of Lucille Edwards and Lucilla Miles, both of whom were members of his church. Lillian Della, reported unidentified, also was a member of that church. Jack Clark and La Vaga Martin, who sat in the same seat at school, played together and attended miss Lo gether, probably will be burled at a joint funeral service from the Cath- olic Church. Mary and Lester Cooksey, close relatives, also will be buried in the Catholic Cemetery. Credit for originating the ides of one-way traffic is claimed by an Eng- lishman, who wrote to officials about 30 years ago suggesting one-way traffic past Buckingham Palace. For Sale | Service Station and Warehouse | A large brick build- ing with concrete floors, containing 36,000 feet of floor space, on a lot 100 feet front, located in downtown section near Penna. Ave. Well suit- ed for warehouse, serv. ice station or garage. Wide alley facilities. | Second Commercial | zone. 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