Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1927, Page 4

bolts of cloth and my stock of dry-| During the first hour or two after | of their anguish had 8ssured them OF STORM AREA RELIEF WORK goods in every direction. 1 feared|the storm struck residents of the|by telephone that they wer® harbor- every moment’that the house would|damaged areas were so thankful for | ing the children in satety Wil the Call in on me.” having escaped alive that they bore | storm abated, these mothers turned | : | § B PN Actoss the street, a touring car, be- | WIth [fortitude the sight of ruined | ther sympathies to the children ot - | s (Continued ] heads and bodies, while others had|longing to Henr 3 ‘“"\"r‘"h'fl" possessions. other women { &8 e e o Ths oF Jeys Whicl Bumg Hmp From | ieenth strst notthesst, wis blawh « | ANGr the exchtement began to sub-| Ty iy cantsstgiot the Wbige thres |in progress since Armistice day fractured bones or sprains. block away into a front yard. where it | :'.',lT :"vhd”n‘mhr h: .}n crept on. faihers | schools were teported demolished | will end Thanksgiving day. We v The city’s emergency vehicles swung | Stopped on the lawn undamaged. |30 biothers could be seen striving | Stories abounding with i | to exceed our quota of 40.000. into concerted action just as Presi: Other cars in the me block \\mt-’:;’m o l‘e rain from shattered win- | tail of large brick school | ought to have at least 50,000 members | dont Coolidge started for Union Sta. | turned over or blown upon the side- [dows and other gaps. while women | collapsing were paramoun in the District. Of course, anybody | {ion. on his way to Philadelphia, and | Walk and wrecked. comfortable Loo Mike the Interior 48| Newspaper men surveying the storin | who wants to give money for (he pres-| the White House cars, waiving tradi-| At 1220 C street southeast, a large o { | Loss Tentatively Put at Near Pedestria 1rea perhaps more completely | €300.000—Nine Planes Are | {ent storm sufferers in addition 1o the | tional prestige, were forced several |seltes was blown through the front | iefefinns - huresing alans 1he | tho residents' blizht weuld permi | 1 membership fee can do so. ‘The money | imes to puil to the side to let reseue | brick wall and other pieces of furni- | SIC%(s In the rain bad ta keen one | bominioesil e peiie Destroyed. | can be used to good advantage.” | care, ambulances and other emer.| turs were scattered in the yard: on D | 177 SKYWard every time they passed Sy g i c ¥ | | Gen. Barnctt sad the present survey | gency vehicles zip past. street, " between Tweltth and Thir. | . re were scores lof the stricken section would disclose i Motais centh southeast, the entire front of [¥he financinl status of families Whose | (hor v embrisel o the aisacen, of. | {W0 houses was blown off. ‘The storm homes have been damaged, so that | faraq to the city all available Federal W" l_""' ’Y”:m'm':l‘ '»f“'h“} l::‘l)":_ 7"”‘"‘\: Boiler Hung in Tree. the Red Cross can formulate defnite | ygencies in the reliet. work. [ undisturbed. "ana many other tric 1) ona trea® RenniPNETith ani L lia hoareel Tn N eEIE Tor P itemont - ot liousehold. fuenicure. | Seceetary of War Dwigne Davis | ever it had struck with cyclonic Turs. | o' yaiie "o "rrary boller hyng at |schocl, at Twel(th and G streets he ol LUre. | ordered ali troops in this -vicinity to A : « om an uppermost | Ane LD L D R R e AGAIAE ol xiveneningl Girl Blown For Block. | b ranch. where it had landed when | though s o aegs e householC sUPDRCS (ATE ) in putrolling. the wrecked zones, Here| Nineyenrold Daurn Beinkiey. wasl ipicom & nearby porch m . . and inAlexandria stomeyearold Laum Beinkles yoai Tinners working on voots men fy.| v + Red Cross yyuu.nx\y”‘, ond qu | Steree e o arninely e wle rae her | ing window t had heen Jarnett explained, only where it N e 0 GaleItR: Lo Alib (1ot iite i VI16AOALIE WIONN SEElic] s Do n Kk i Josp is nesded, but when it does belp 4 injured o b e confusion in money will be given outright. He saii |9 h When the con 3 YInE bun the aftermaih in the . | Ty e debris in and din of crashing tim 1 the Ited Cross is not in the business | vops Are Available. Jatitls, radn and din of lex glass and siate. today te - : of tonriing monev. 1 It appears hat | I bers and glass was over Laura found | Jamuge wronaht by the s | Sother Ts Ansions, RN AL NIt Eaa e TR At the same time, the Red Cross|herself abeut a block and a hall AWaY | vastendas afternoo y | | B e s bl | swiing ihto | ctionsEyim Both it from where she had been sianding b Slpulal il DA Lo SRl )N"”‘N throush mability to keep up |And national neadquarters. —Ixperi- She escaped miraculously with minor Tnzel of 1003 ¥ e e e s will Ty | eneed disaster oificials were dispatehed | cuts and bruises. i A shoemaker Mlimllein stanee with gifts of money. | 1o the scenes and Red Cross ambu- | he Blow School at first was report-had worked during the period o b Abg Co N & lances dashed across the city to the | o shed, but a b ed 1 storm and the: te A 3 e, b 4 (city ed demolished, but a hurried run to|storm and then hastened to cover his|put her own children in Financial Aid Offered. section east of Capitol Hill the scene by school and police officials, |raof, which had been stripped of tin, | 48 men : She Haa's ty Hospital Tt was learned today that financial | The Secretary of War stated today | to say nothing of newspaper men, dis- | with block tarpaper to make the house | that serious damage had been suf Loss Put at $300,000, ) Ll S 2 institutions in Washington are ready | that all available troops in the Wash- | closed that the only damage was to|dry last night. The building shook | by the Bryan School, on B street 5 e . | fo assist persons in the stricken area. | ington area will be held in readiness | the chimney, numerous windows and|and the plate glass in his shop win- | tween Thirteenth = and Fourte estimate ¢ e damaze ~ AT e ‘An instance of this was an announce. | for response to any call for their serv- | the electric fighting system. None of [dow was knocked out, he said, and | streetd southeast, and she wAs on it base Who's Who A y | ment this morning by J. W. Carr, sec. | ices. By his direction, Brig. Gen. | the children was hurt. |some of the lights went Lut. The|way there, she said 3 S 10 wWho Among | vetary of the Perpetual Building As. | Thomus Q. Donaldson, in command of | @ thinking by the principal, ! first he knew of the tornado was when TlanesiArcany ation, that the association woutd | local Regular troops, advised the Dis- | y 5. Kelsey, and other teachers | 1e saw leaves flving atound. and his| o\ the main building of the Brva dam [ Welp to finunee rebuildig of homes in | trict Commissioners that the forces | ierted a banic among the younssters, | OUrstory struct Mivered under | g o) withataod the toados v, mon | the devastated section, { under his command are available tor [y fire driil was ordered and the long | the stress of the zale. e | Y- {and how one of the two fran = 5 | The Police and Fire Departments | the protection of property or other|ipaining the boys and girls had ve. {12 on the fourth floor of the structures arected o National Grographie Soc we husy ol throush the storm rea | veliet service. Similar word was sent | cajved stood them in good stead. They [€0uld not sle there last A5 had sled roof ripped ope: 1 tha following statement today | today helping 1o clear the streets and | Mavor Smoot of - Alexandria. Troops | marshaled themselves into orderly | That part of the house was drenched. | Lol il pen and re stationed at Fort Myer and Fort { jines and filed from buildin: thel A wan Novemt n T down | 4 today on the nailed-up windows of M tin roofs tangled in the branches, Have you heen over to the Crar likely to fall with a puff of wind. chool ¥et? Yes? Then tell me, is is it really blown down™ a mothe Seventh and treets deman ) mothers “in the PHOMAS HARBAUGH, | Hit by a tin roof as he was getting info_an automobile. Picture made at ., to see for hersel But she heard it from the repo; from its on of various types of de- | remove portions of buildings which oy Hedds S A e in danzer of falling. | Washingion worst of the blow subsided. Later they | zathered beneath with ” kil | Miss Spray, who will have divect] Owners of property destroyed or dam- | returned to their classrooms. hut were . Miss Mirzamiot P. Mukea A gmale ix a strong, straight wind. | charge of emerzency relief work in | aged by the tornado probably will have | in such a nervous state that they were | Windows Blown Out. Wils Qe BBt it - ahatins Whirlwind—An eddy of air, which | the stricken section, played @ prom-|to siand the entive loss, it was said |allowed to go home in company with - | whisks up qQust: or a swonger whirl | Nent part in similar work at La Plat, [ today by Thomas M. Baldwin, r. | their ansicus parents, who had rushed .| whisks up dust; or a swonger whirlj vy, " Gicn “as visited by a tornado | superinténdent of insurance of the |in droves to the building. st windows were blown out, rain T “Two Clouds” Strike. gutters torn from the eaves and rail- ings were snatched by the wind from one of the porches. One of the most curious events of On the north side of L street south- " (Continued on Fifth Page) iland, helor : - y i & of air, such as that which strips leaves | just” Fall. The headquariers in Alex- | Distriet. He expressed the opinion that | of the =t N eut =i ) win H. from a cornficld and sends them hun- | gndeia will be in charge of Miss Sadic w’m\. if any, of the property owners Seon. photograp) faanid M Mar.ne Corps avia- | dreds of feet aloft. James. The worker who il ‘take | whose houses were in the path of the | Miss Kelsey said that “two clouds” | ha W Liteh, ¢ > on, viland also assisned for | Tornado—A violent. powerful whirl- | ch in flyattsville will be an-|twister carried any form of insurance | were scen to srike the enrth to the Bontewain OF. 1 exch se. and a Vought Cor. | wind. covering o small ares i ed Inter. : ‘i against wind. | southwest of the school. and the ,'-.\,hp PRI L o b el <t of the Navy's model ob- | sucks up heavy objects or twists them | The Associated Charities has placed | “Gpyigne o eane id a pushing | sults were plainly apparent on the | the tornado occurred at the hom plancs, wei ed more | from their moorings. Tts vertical | its entire staff at the service of the |y gnege 8 Vhie It seemed. Hait the | row ot frame Houses along E nning | “r" «“m]: Mrs, l-~|-\) Brown, colored, It is not necessary ously, hut it is thought | forces are more important than its| Red Cross. [Tis social workers Were | uiomobile population of Washington |road between Eighteenth and Nine. | of 630 Is street southeast. where one to have had an Ac- be saved horizontal ones 1sy Jast night in the devastate by Sl a4 % nth stree Here the roofs were | Side of the twostory brick structure : i sy 3 ol as concentrated in the tree-blocked | (eenth streets. re the roofs were | i » it b I count at th 3 autome longzing to | Jurricane— A violent_cireular [ tion, standinz by o vender any as | i (e wrecked region, here |11 and earried a block away, while | ¥2% (00 away. as it chopped with u | o this Bank to Jon the station, were bid: | tem of winds in the tropics and - | sistance Do e wais plenty of work for the {axicab|fhe front walls of some of the dwell. | FHI clEver. Eiower pots ".';,"|M—T-:h; & d b storin, Several of | tropies of the Atlantic and Carihhe: ionced in Work. |operators. By dinnertime it was almost | ings were torn off, exposing first and | 21SHS (he door were untouched. ' The - smaller \wulm] coverin: considerable area and mov-| ted (havities | impossible 1o reacl cab, as some | <econd story rooms full of drenched : & he rooms were ex- Iehd g with the | ine jong distanc These are the e . = it acrelo mer | posed to vie | 1 cliet under | ©f the companies had ordered ‘their [ furniture, I Frank b soloted 63 itveat trongest of the dominantly )}.‘.n them havine | Men to cruise through the wrecked [ The Cranch School, at Twelith M‘,'wm”m‘ h”'k:;‘”! '.1.’1»1;”»':«1 I;w.‘x‘w omtal winds. One hundrved miles an | - Sorida in last Win- | neizhborhoods rather than wait for |G streets southeast, with its student | yacking fish when the fury of the .hm”- is ”.,.,,.» \.‘.,’!»'. aximum towaed b2l Se el G cantl (one: ¢ telephone calls hody, had a narrow escape from being | etorm broke. He grabbed his white | Easy to Pay i e €l {he conter of cireulation. having been on the permancnt st ’ crushed by a glant smokestack of | horae. 1o bl 2 Y y y Wwilo were DO BOOR A ianE Tnathedtrapl, | navh ' I | Unroofs Row of Homes, ) i horse, but the gates closed by the | two points ni 2 wecth of storm, was that | I\I aoon r-”[ - |orth Red Cross Yo el A . |Rice's bakery. The t c force ol force of the wind and the wall of the | Monthly nado pro- e > and steel buildings and han- | © RO v s : | mornine the Associated Char ’ veral blocks in the path | the wind pushed the tall etack off s Brown house fell, blocking off the Deposit v ! wit- | cary secure foundation and Cyclone — A continually misused "~ ervice ex m. the storm swept down | foundation and laid it down with | frizhtened hor: t'n\,” to the street For 12 sta-| sructure should replace the war-time | term. - In_popular ance, any de-| ., i o rn which of [#1d Dicked out a row of 10 houses, |thyd in the small play area between | Digge declared that the blackest eloud | Lo Moathe from | siryet that have housed the im. | Structive wind is a “cyclone.” Prop-| ipo iffected were or had pre. | 597 10 1375, in the center of the block | the sehool and the ery. he ever saw appeared to be on the | $120 $10.00 Do ctiv.ties of the station. Un- | OHY. & exvclone Is a circular svstem | vipusly Leen under its care, especially | 00 A strect nottheast, vipping off their | = As darkness bezan to deseend, fam- | ground. whirling round and round, | $180 $15.00 dor appropraitions. authorized. $230. | of Winds covering a great area (some-| 1nv of ji« clients who were repo roofs and crumbling’ in the walls of | jlies whose Tomes had been untoofed | Sng When 1 Rt the BEow hot e hel $240 $20.00 00 is od to the station for per. | 1imes 1000 miles across). and inclul-| .y peceiving hospital care. Al oth the third floors, {in the nity of Twelfth street and [<ajd, it raised up and then went on | % manent harracks of conerete and also | iNg gentle hreeze well as stff | Known ta the society, ax we those | Although every house was occupied|South Carolina avenue southeast and | ite way to rip 1up roofs. | $300 $25.00 for & permanent adminisiration build- | Winds, Cyclones ave beneficial rathe: | who may he referved to it, will belat'the time. no one was injured, |also_near Fourteenth and A stree!s | Whila wild yumors flew about among $360 $30.00 sheet metal crashing 8 s istruction is not authorized | than harmful. They give us most of " wiven cave and relief immediately in | At 1363 Mrs. 1. Miller and her | northeast were working feverishly 0 | (he w(picken groups survesing thers' $540 $45.00 denden ! v > the Fall of 1929 our weather changes. Each “low™ o0 cooneration with the ed Cro CTELolT Baby e injury when | Proteet their household helongings, (orn homes and business places yes y and men eme Inasmueh as a1l the telephone wires | the aily weather map has its evclonic | The storm broke about 230 o'clock. | (e ton floar o liouse " was | from the destructive effect of the rain | iinday, mothers queried. desperatoly | $1,200 $100.00 =it for protection t arious s about the | svstem uf winds eirculating avound It | fortunately for families Whose | wiecked. They had just come®down. | that continued | for truth concerning the weifare of | $6,000 $500.00 ive nspec ] n eit vere blown down When Nature dips her spoon in the houses were unvoofed and dain o0 {qiairs & few moments before the| Bottilings saved | the schools in_the storm area. Beset | 3 e cd ove sstroyed build- | weather brew and stirs, the result is the second floors. At that t T the ) storm strack. | Sl | with visions of the motor caval- | | s the argument was advanced that | a eyelone, jafternoon, mect of the housowives | x4 e corner of Fourteenth and A| _Some had procured closed moving | cade, which a year sped throv THE MORRIS s wites should he underground. - e e e 3 wi - streets northe mall dFyedois| Yons DOLlolliers wore SEMSING EUF | thelr eowmmunity b the PLAN BANK e e location of the air station ma J . e At work fitiee owned and operated by Mrs, niture and personal effects into the | jured children from the debris of the A A most ‘ot them |18 SRC RS TN torms el HEADS PHI GAMMA DELTA. and chitdren were in schio ey, Who ived with her children [ Bomes of more fortunate neighhors | tornado-wrecked Ta Pliia School. to in point of fiom ha southwest ‘the Usual AL | In the downtown 3 > storm | oy i i who had escaped the freakish course | Jocal hospitals and medical aid. scores Undes Sepervician U. £ Treasury feom on in which they emanate. wid 1. Backer, Wiltsms 18]} L il b s from a : af the storm. _Inspectors Tieadley end | of mothers vesterday fan through the 1408 H STREET, N. W. s o h steel dool " 1 f i o ree 2 « by by i ekt i ¢ o < 1 ) supervising police ctivity in | bl i 3 and ving del o th han s Sbiion e ".r s e s | anaEer nfitie forelgn feomimenas e { htning. intimation of the “that 1 y had time to | Rhochig 5 Boubicesi ain 4.’»‘]‘1’;2»;' hl‘xi‘l(‘;\‘nézlxx:‘ \K\”hLlr'Plx’hlIh:ir‘ ehi. | a|ea toor two e partment of the United States Cham i B o oy, “thi : i S TG D 2 n off and roof un : plane hanzars. and, as these doors | jop of Commerce, was elected D et e ronL e DI nm it 8 wits'all itol_streets, sent for flood | dren were housed. s e rar that nine airplanes | were locked when_ the storm struck, | dent. of the Washington Graduate | sover: 1utes. “After the havoe, test worry | HENS 10 wid several familics in m Their hyster med when - they he comparative sniail damage to thoge | chapter of the Phi Gamma Delta Fra- Vietims Seek Treatn: as for my two hoys, r, 10, and gome heyond repair and others less | e doors. The third hangar, des- | {pjve Club yester and hy means of the fire alaiim system, | ¥C¢INg what the storm had done to seriously. to have similar doors, w; Other officers chosen were: Wil- | Pelice and Fire Departments received MV house T did not know what might \d exposed. It wa ought at | jjam B. Willard, Dartmouth "6, vice | their first, mo: Simults ppened to them, but about Property Is Tabulated. he station that had the storm occur- | prosideat; ¢ G. Scarborough, ously there began to arrive 3 ) minutes later they both came run- Nowing is tabulation of p:u,-f red three months ail three“han- | Alabama vice sident: John J. ‘,4,.,,,,\ Casualty pey Hos. | ning home to me, sci but unhurt, as rey m|v\(m W would have been blown to the | Reinhard ana ‘07, vice pyesident: | s groups of some run. When the storm hit my store I lee ¢ P el'fect Dl l‘nol‘ds Tl‘ al 18 }(l‘)as roof partly torn | ground. aynard C. Burrell, Lehigh '10. sec-|ning on foot and some assisted from |Was alone. 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