Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1927, Page 11

600 PUPILS UNHURT AT BRYAN SCHOOL 36 March Through Downpour After Portable Building Is Unroofed. The Bryan School, on B street he. tween Thirtesnth and Fourteent stresfs southeast, was directly in th Path of the tornado yesterday hundred puplls wers In the rooms. in the main buildi A substantial brick strueture, frame portables in the school yard on the east and west sides of the ma bullding. “We Miss w the storm coming.” sai M. 1. Sheads, the principal, “and It looked as if we were going|the storm says the wind reached its The shape of {maximum velocity with great sudden- to have a high wind. the_clouds, however, tornado. Suddenly was not like the wind struck nd almost instantly the roof was u ripped off the west portable. “There were 36 children of the 3-A {h _ (able, in charge of |crash in. Mur- | grade in the ps their teacher, Miss M ray, who quickly ma led then through th et 1 shaled them and | the school ads said there w b $ miss all of the cla Mothers Rush to Buildi A report neighborhood that the badly dam: i dren had aeveral mothers, one or two of whom were very much excited. to rush to| the building to learn what had | pened and inqu ahout the ¢ their children. As soon as thev | no one had been ]v\n’l} overjoved. | sent one of the bovs! ve was spread thr school had been been torn after the had pas A Sheads had telephoned to the rep: department of the District schools sq that no time would be lost in re fairing the two structures. It is not likely however. able will be ready for use aye, On the north reet south- east in the s block with the Bryvan School, an Atlantic & Pacific | grocery store was partly demolished The reof was ripped off and a portion of. the second story badly wrecked Bricks showered down to the sidewalk and into an alley next to the build ing. The alley was filled with debris to a depth of several feet. Several persons in the store escaped injury as if by a miracle. East Capitol axcept hetween Thirteenth and Four- teenth streets, where the wind played | havoe with houses on the south side. | One roof was lifted almost intact from | a house on the south side and carried | across the street, falling with a ter- rible crash on the sidewalk and in the front yards of the houses on the op- posite side, Entire Row Unrooled. The wind seemed to descend with particular violence on A street north- | east between Thirteenth and Four teenth streets. An entire row of; houses on the south side of A street was unroofed. The street was com- pletely blocked by crumpled tin, splin- | tered hoards, bricks and tangled wires. Fouses on Fourteenth street between A street and North Carolina avenue were wrecked. O’ Donneli's.drug store at the corner | of Fourteenth street and North Caro. lina avenue northeast was partly{ wreckefl. the front being blown in. James C. Malone. manager of the ! ators, =aid that the wind seemed to | have dekcended at this point with: great force, but to have confined its damage to a path scarcely more than one block wide. From that point the center of the storm traveled in a rection. A Sanitary Grocery store at the corner of Fifteenth sireet and North Carolina avenue northeast was partly demolished. Rows of houses on both sides of Fifteenth street morth- east northward to F street were un- roofed and many of the top stories were parily wrecked. Contimuing still In a northeasterly direction. the center of the storm passed over Rosedale street and Rosedale public plavground Houses in that vicinity were badly nazed and residents were thrown | e Automobiles in this whole &ection puffered mueh damage. Several cars were turned over and innumerable parked cars had their tops ripped off or blown completely away. The storm plaved many queer tricks. Many of the tall sycamore trees on Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets and on A and B streets northeast inter copted large sections of flying tin, which were left draped in fantastic shapes in the branches, Several rows of new houses in the vichnity of Fifteenth and E_streets northeast were badly wrecke after roof was ripped ries were hlown in i a row of Kk porci t the corner t= northeast sides wer Soft—Clinging— Unseen. MORET (Pronounced Mo-ray) MILLE AMOURS (MeLaMor) Face powder From the first caressing touch of your puff, vou will instantly recognize Moret as a face powder of unusual quality and charm. Be- cause: Jt iz =oft , .. Je elings . . . It i= almost invisible . . . A shade of “Moret” to meet your particular need, 75¢ The complete line of orel toi/et reguisires 12 on display an 20id exclusively at all PEOPLES DRUG STORBS rtheasterly di- | x |1t seem to he more than two squares which is | and two | wrecked and yard | the ‘air over \ into the main build- { Web! | tha 1| den {herland ‘et escaped damage | THE EVENING TWO HELD IN VIRGINIA SLAYING MYSTERY Salem Police Say Youths Have Confessed Killing John Hodges in Dispute Over Girl. wrocked and the streets blocked with debris. Friends and relatives of per- sons living in the vicinity were anx- jous to learn whether anybody had been hurt. Those living in the wrecked houses gathered on the front porches and on the streets while the rain was still coming down. About half an hour after the storm hit, po- licemen and_firemen arrived on the scene and efforts were made to keep curious persons away from the wrecked houses, Police Close Street. The police closed A street between | North Carolina avenue and Fourteenth street and firemen set about pulling down loose bricks and wooden beams that looked as if they might fall at November 18.— at Salem | alleged to have conf . local police tonight were convinced that a solu- any time and injure persons beneath. | tion had heen reached for the slaying o gt of John Hodges. 21 years old, whose A curious feature of the storm was ar : & narrow path in the northeastern | rock \\r))‘th(m] hody with two bullet T i ity ‘At mo point did | wounds in the head was found in a y “ednesday night | 9% a | ereek near here w and in some places only one £ | Franklin, et would hebadly hext street would not | said to have even have a tree blown down. On | st Capitol and A streets northeast he path of worst damage was s more than half a block wide. erybody who was in the path of ause of dis- he favor of a girl." other of the shooting. Police say they will be given a preliminary hea g at an early date. Blacksnake Killed in Yard. Special Dispatch to The Star. TOTOMAC, Va, November 18.—A large blacksnake killed in th back vard of the residence of I. T. | Raiford. Perton avenue, yesterday | afternoon by William Gerry of Poto | mac Mrs, Charles A. Webb, who lives Ames place northe went irs to close the windows on the | ond floor. While doipg this she rd the windows on the first floor “Then, as T looked out of the win- dow, 1 saw a tin roof flying through the street.” said Mrs b, “It all happened so quickly I did not have time to be frizht. | = the exception of several hroken | the \Webb home was not ENTERPRISE SERIAL Building Association 7th St. & La. Ave. NW, 59th Issue of Stock Now Open for Subseription Cumberland Collector Dies. to The Star. jal Diepateh ber 1 Money Loaned to Members on Easy Monthly Payments dames F. Connelly James F. Shea President Secretary most of the per of collector. He was a Democrat and Catholic. He was_secretary of Cum. 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