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THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON. D. €. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER. 18. 192 U"“"ES SURVEY MAP SHOWING PATH OF TORNADO THROUGH WASHINGTON FIREMEN DELUGED WITH CALLS | SIDELICHTS OF TORNADO DUE TO DAMAGE BY TORNADO A year-old baby, Brainard Bursgi of the structure. An o0ld wicker chair I-BSSES BY S.[URM - ” - ~- — e awling on the floor at 123 was buried in the debris. 129 S 3 f A S % . . utheast, had an apparently | Mr. Smiraldo said he saw the dark- & i) v ¢ - ( culous escape from death when | ness approaching, but the tht it was , LS9 WAON \/ PAS O WA vl |OF 36 Trips Made in 24 Houts 26 Were in| piacims, uths Som s Nhes | vss asressching, s Socate s e ay. throwing debris ahout the | dust. but sparing the bahy. His| A ‘man who was being shaved in his i , \ S : / , o Response to Alarms Followin iterior, but rpaciag the baby. HiS| piman who was beine shaved n b Traction Companies Suffer ; A A Y o IS P ¢ When the Tromt ave way and she o5 | the chae with hia face. Wehered and caped inj His grandmother, Mrs. | went outdoors to see the sights dur- Little, but Telephone Serv- S e the legs and . She:was but | gtreet, 31, vears old, was knocked . Yesterday s Storm. ‘Agnes Beinburgh, 1340 B street south- | ing the storm 3 > | ea visiting in the house, was cut Henry Shadid of 1382 Fast Capitol ice Is Heavily Damaged. > 1 | \ i . M 2 DesrE Gy era wat ate LA e St W few feet from front window | qown four or five times by the foree S ? 9 Firemen loday wer 1 pm.—N street northwest, ¥ i sR6IE e 1 Y N X 1 breath back Ui v rwenty-third and Twenty- | When she suddeniy found herself gaz- | o the wind while attempting to cross ! 3 > it L st | A | ing into space, the front part of the | Utilities companies today were rap-| YAR 5 \ R % 3 dumage caised Sterday's tor- Ninth street and Rhode | '0U%€ borne away in the gate. 4dlv recovering from the storm that . LA ENTR Nt 5 e nado. OF 36 trips the Fire Depiartment | T n 3 S s . taxed the facilities of some of them | [ P A N O 3 / § ) ZREL | e Vel ivon: yestorday: mnd - o e Moving picture men were on hand | Six-year-old John Jaeschke, jr., to the utmost. A check of the damage | ¥ A < Y N2 " | noon 27 were minde as a result 17 street, two antos. | 84UV Lo get “shots™ of the result of { Ny gireet southeast, was sick yes- = % ahowed] : / ~ XN G \ 3 A streel the storm damage and sightseers afoot > done by vesterday’s tornado showed % D & ¢ 4 of the storin. 8 M street, i I e e e e e tle | terday, Iving in his bed, while his that the damare was unevenly 3 &N i o> ) - >N/ Most of the calls were to tear |t g \ 4§ X & \ aam—318 Kentucky avenue|Wreckage in the srea the “twister’| mother kept watch over him. tributed. The te! f P down pa « buildings damaged by | : d h ¢ P < okt e e aat: | bad smitten, Half a dozen men at the | qhe fury of the storm twisted a roof f £ : | ast Capitol street car barn were al tically no 2ol % 2 < ] G litio) ides 1k calls thy —— —_— - | Sntevouiition of wer 4 Y AV, N < | 5 D Aadi DC B BF Hgta C owed (0 go home to repair damage to | = i et e i g e p Yl 4 % / N 3 < Rt e At b their property, | whose, and flung it against the hed- gl A S idindn, 5 D& RSN N o LR L T L LR, RED CROSS TAKES i room window of the Jaeschke home, - b ik apor i AR N P AR L R TR s o | The barber shop of Sam Smirolde, | shattering the glass and strewing the Chezapeake & PPotoma W < / \ debris and eft in crous posi b VP 0 . e R fomme"OF these 534 . 3250 v : ~ S e : CHARGE OF RELIEF [ Vourioentn sireet mocinesot. whits | toom. with [ragments of giass. and O v itsell. undamaged, presented a gro- | splintered bits of window frame. The the sireet to hig home, and was slight. Iy injured. from somebody’s house, no one knows ndriz % » gf the 334 phenes out of service in Pk AN ‘N : 3 4 AN g % it el ook tin blown from adjoir roofs on top | but its occupant escaped unscathes the city 252 were in the Lincoln ex . 3% PN AN\ / 325 y R ke — | | " Mrs. Jaeschke was standing at her ehange, which covers the Northerst | 3 Qs v g {fpert™ N N th sterday they had 1 (Cantinued from Fourth Page) | | dressing table by the window when Stores cenered. Bightytwo R e el at a nearby dwellir telertiones in the section had | LG FCOLS qiling toward her. She tered amons the P 2 J &, \ g / > Y £ " single @ though many of the phones sang | d00ged as her window crashed in, es- B e N O SRS - 3 j 4 s U The I‘M "fu'..“ 1‘ .““T“::‘I:d«. Aliitle SIEHeResyEUit s wIin i N0l withOuthtrotinie¥dn incomiing ealls. | caping with a slight cut on the face. . some cases © < 3 DI % N2 \ [ ; St TUIHE (e 24 hos o Lol i% s0 mereiful, isn't he? That| Dr. W. C. Fow®r, Distriet health| A sobbing child taken from th G N\ 3 E o e and ven say the|0Mcer, was attending a meeting when | closet of a house which had its ent Noo e got word of the violence of the|front blown away by the gale just a8 i and rushed to the stricken area {an axions searching party had grown to see if he could aid, wing C|fearful that tke little girl had been street southeast hetween Twellth and | caught heneath the debris. Fhiirteenth streets, he expressed sur-| Firemen heard faint sobs coming prise that so few persons were m"h-»m hehind a closet door. The door med in view of the fact that such a|was opened and a terrified little girl veat number of the houses had been | was found crouching in the closet, un- lnmaged | harmed. Becoming frightened by the Tnjured. ¢ reports showed that several | vigrm, she had taken refuge in the , liouses In the vicinity of Kighteenth | cloget, pulling the door closed behind stiect northeast a Eenning road | jer. It locked, and she was impris- pm.—901-9 . Eighth street | i Idren Alice and | had been practically demolished, and | oned as the front of the house twisted bullitings @ a4 by | ine, were injured when steacl | Wires were torn down along Eenning | away, filling the room in front of the i t of [ | ikt | closet with shattered glass and splin- some ones / AP0 /D) Y% \ v E P —900-2 ehith street | w . 1ding ¢ Practically all police from the varl- | (€rs. commission ¢ all these in | PRV, . ;. 3 3 damaged by | dows were demolished al ons precincts In the section were call- | y houses which were so badly damaged | S \ / : ? | % them heing literally torn ont out and, with the firemen, aided| Tashed by the whip of a wintry wind, that occupaney will be impossible. | &7 B D> @I\ g i I8 ghih and 1 sireets! wind, leaving great gaps in the side | they could in securing hos-| little gronps of salvagers, armed with would have re- | NS ’ 4 i , store damaged by |of the building through which the in- | pital treatuient for the injured and |Laskets. invaded the area this morning not 57" PG ' ) tevior was readily seen from the | keeping order. | where the storm did the most damage, heen fr that NN p N 7 RS Y 700 Virginia enue | strcet. | Added to the difficulties of rescue| collecting bits of boards suitable for cent of the 3 PR / N R \ % g / o G building damaged by Althongh all the other Louses along | work was the pouring down rain, | firewood. On the 1200 block of C ¢ ; s “atreet between TFwslfth “Fhir-| which continued after the tornado | sireet southeast scores of colored men, sontheast, | teenth streels southeast had the win- | bad passed. Automobiles skidded | women and children were carrying torm 3 © roofs partly or | along over the wet streets, which had | s of debris home. Pelicemen pa- i Irvie 3 . most of the resi- | their slipperiness acce ed the damaged section. prevent- ihitcable, | dr ’ The situation. | thousands of leaves, many of which|ing looting, but did not attempt. to Newlon T, the residenis © blown from the trees during thel interfere with those who were gar- lisht pole. | looked ont from bebind a part of wall | storm. nering useless pieces of wond street south-|or a door partly torn from its hinges were 1 pan—Fourteenth and - Gira cacher Wasi't hurt sither ¥ ) ¢ 1 S | streets novthwest, auto. i 1t's like some of the Eo Alexanges o N NSNS i s M st \ sl there in that ditude Bowy, = ol 8 s N ¢ \ Q A { [ > 27 Twentieth X “street A plice list—why iUs just | 200 pho t mm . N AQ \ S northwest, g il . ¢ aze new, isa't it is, | Rharonid Ay S A 3 v, N o \ J 22 pan—alh Si trect sonth cdl Wl its awfully b about Damage in ) east, building damased Ly storia 8 e 182130 Benning road by i residence at 1225 C street Kosie Thoniss, colored, and her sontheast, buildings daniped me most of the wire sl & % ) 4 strects northe: nd and the storm put E ; N%i ! 419 pam phones out of commission and 3 A | streets ne cut off Washington from the rest of 5 % 4 . 4:22 pam e N L roof in tree or walked carefully over partly de- n of long- | = o J O 58 pan—Thirleenth and B streets molished porches inguiring . about | § N2 AY <t roof in tree. [ nest door neighiors. | NG, ) N N 3 2 22 Twellih street novtheast, roof | All of the windows were broken out | Fon Phone Oper: N B in tree, | of the front of Cyprian's Iigh | . . Operators were husier ever he. ! Thirteenth and C streets novtheast, | S ol in the s block, while fore. The average numbe: 1y > . rool in fr | pupils attended class there. No or ealls is 570,000 and there were £23.000 | S L 5% | Twelith and D streets northeast, | 'n the bui injured, however. | 1005 PA. AVE. yesterday, more than when Lindhergh | s o * S \ rool in tree. i | trmngely of the building e came here, which occasion set the = NAvaL Alm i 3 T3] | D strect hetween Twelfth and Thir- | mained practically intact, although a previous record. i % STATION ; N teenth, roof in tree. wWooden fence the vard adjoining | 1724 PA. AVE. The company reported one example | 40N h 718 Eleventh strect southeast, roof | wus demaolizhed. | of fait’ : sunting to hero- i | whe St Cyprian’s parish house next | fsm. Miss S in of 1511 King N o \ leventh street southeast, roof | door had the roof to windows street, Alexandria, after her home had | SO 4 S i i broken, including o uble win- = il been destroyed by the storm, walked | 2 A 7 Carolina” avenue between | dow, which left a larg e in the | & e e e e Zy T crsRe T BIEE LR R Bt GOR 0 HOME OF THE "2-PANTS” SUIT for extra work. “I thought you needed | b < e floor. The intervior of the room so| 0 Viegi 3 5iahe aatd . | { AN 7 C street soulheast, roof torn|exposed strangely seemed intact. The | Ho f h lrxm) Washington Rail - AR\ § \ down 4 churel, next door, apparently was | me of the OrEgan C'ty (“onl O Co“t in the northeast 714 Bleventh street southeast, cor- | littie dams althougl a more com nice torn down plete examination of the building is t not | 14 Eleventh street sontheast, tree | (o be made to determine what damage The | . oft the Capital | quirements of the perilous days of | ernment. This is our society. This is el OIS Sl O BIISHOE Dol eI Y n at the Navy Yard. [ the World War and the reconstrue-| our country. 1t is sc sound ad se Widespread Damage Reported. e . gton Railway & Blectric | tion period following. He recalled their | cure. It is for us to put forth suffi- "8:27 pm. oL Unth Auid A ubies On every corner reports were circu- We Inv1tc Your Charge Account in lines running through | remarkable nt and -self-con- | cient faith to keep it so. It is for us| VIENNA, N LR SO oy lating about a tree being blown down ctions suffered only | trol, refraini M exXCessgs to maintain inviolate that profound | N . -described on his Amer i u . Sebibast NGy . : o . sroblems of res | faith so grandly examplified by the {jcan pa a8 anactor, attempted ““’ I L Ll el Ll i s ';':'”,‘ I“,”"f Pay AS You Get pald and reconstruction. They hore und of the Union gue Club | quic st while S reer. Lo, S Ok S T ST suspension bf power di th k o k" fpd K{ V'i n \\"\ll .!l‘l I‘ "h phia.” | T Il s 104 Filteenth street northeast, tin|dents e section went hurriedl, spensio pwer during the peak | shock of deflatio i 1 phia ain en route here from Passau, |, f e Ao quiring. abo e damagi of the storm. : plaint, and have pressed steadily foi The I'resident’s speech followed the | puyapia, in ]‘}v"\‘« vttt balweanLE bR ’,""‘[{K‘l "": L"v( \ILI:‘:Nd:im‘l“lrl\}:x’m "“m;;; No Interest or Extra C}larges Gas in only ahout 10 or 15 houses | Ward with their faces toward dawn,|presentation on hehalf of this club) ",y was removed to the Linz Hos-| jeenth and Fifteenth, tin in tree. ¢ neighbors several blocks away had 8 of today, thh WasHingten Gas | he said. {of a gold medal for distinguished pub- | pital, where it was reported that his Fe S e s R i | Light Co. reported. This does not| He proudly recalled the successful |lic service, and the conferring of an|condition was favorable. smoke. T'o add to the tenseness of the situa- include houses where the damage was | manner in which the Nation is re.|honorary membership in the club. o great that they cannot be occupied. | storing its national finances. Although | _Preceding these ceremonies the | i As 500n as news of the storm reached | he was happy to say that one-third | President was one of a company of % % S o \ 3 X A F IL the gas company men were sent into|of the debt has been wiped out, he |#bout 300 at dinner. The auditorium |. > ? \ i o/ks— the Southeast and Northeast to cut|considered the remaininz debt, which | “'(,‘"{’"",‘\Renf('.‘.‘f'.h'l’"m :;’::“gfr_' “”»:'l"‘ B : off the gas so that there would be no|is now over $18000.000,000, a menace | beople, b e tha thers wer i o’ . danger of an explosion. Most of the | to our credit and des : j : 3 3 . : Here's sound advice—dress warm and lines were turned on again tod greatest weakne: Little interruption of power ser was experienced by the Potomac Elec. | as the largest obstacle in the path of | M c 4 rie Power Co. T o1y economic development and expressed | her husban . , s r < A the hope that it will be retired as fast Hh'!IM':". )_H 5 cc rn;nflmvd \ arx an s i i « possible under a system of reason. [NV by ; N o 3 Mo i S who is visiting at the White House: S street and Columbia cre. These ation. Thix, he declarved, can R 1 e e o B e e ved Dy, | be done only by continving the policy | his secretary, Kverett Sanders: Coli i i A - roofs falling across the lines | of rigid Government economy. | the lential 3% is our annual Thanksgiving or water in the cabl In forecasting recommendations to | ' kb, > 2 Combinaton Offer, providing a Joseph L. Kaufman The company deciared it was fortu- | Congress for.an expansion o the |/ - o skl SN fine spread for your table on this 43 = mate in having so little trouble at | Navy. the President said it ix the wish | {1¢ ) ISR oty b great occasion. And, as usual, our | where its power plant is! ion to promote peace, but R P liberal i $10 A ol oy . i i X - pow 0 | tivee and orie Hatt Houe iheral terms of $100 a* week prevail! bout B Sl [ Jame tme he uentioned that by caiiing buclc 1o Wi ‘g |\ I vou pass up this opportunity you Pieces for i ] tion of the main current, D | it I st Do brotscted, | ure a8% | u¢ the White House before 12:30. §, have only vourself 1o blame, as you . a It must be protected. = ation|. Despite the:downpour of 1 don't meed reasy cash at MAKX !! $49_75 A re o ’ a high winds the streets over which th, COOLIDGE SUPPORT in more concerned than ever with its | Sl arty traveled going 1o SEEN IN RECEPTION v, Coolidge, in appealing for more | werg well lined with cheering people. Pay $1 a Week stay well. Better put your “Kale” in warm, stylish clothes—than in doctors’ bills and drug store pills. £ wese and from the station in Philadelphia | & faith in America. said there | | should be less criticism and more com- | £ §_ Pay Next Year _ BY PHILADELPHIANS | merxion. influence of a strong tarift it would | GROSNER’S 1328 F STREET never have heen possible for thix | ('numl';: 1;. -hlil.k present N(d;:le (vf: E . diversified development, its igh | distribution of wealth aund its high standards of living. To strengthen his tariff argument b ,\‘45 and 850 Mr. Coolidge reminded his auditors | 'y that under the present system our foreign commerce hax reached the highest peace-time record and onr | ’ ‘ Z \ al income has steadily | | . i creased to the enormous j pmmm-i I — = .,mmm g ©f $30.000,000,000 for the last calen- | i anil .le | 3 I dar yvear. In !"“mflvp‘n’l‘nn '3:::.: _{a,‘;p“m’ thj 1 ; i B | brings the price down to || ¥ 34-Pc. Set Wm. Rogers Ware vas quite natural that the ! | 5 . T e e 34 pieces of Wm. Rogers Tableware, Including awnership and his demand | 8§ R 8 hollow handle, stainless steel knives, 8 forks, § continuation of a_protection | teaspoons, 8 tablespoons, hutter spreader and y should h p ; % )yt e ] I o4 I A sugar spoon, togethek with heautiful serving tray. & State rock-ribbed in its hel | / | You may buy this set individually for $25.60. the principles of tariff protection and ° i S iihe el S | | -Pc. Carving Set _Ise_el) Warm and WellM! 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