Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1928, Page 2

THE. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, c 1D MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1928. i FIND 31 WASHOUTS INWAKE OF STORM Police Check Damage in D. C. Trees and Limbs Biown to Street. check today the the District reve: the District were idered dangerous there were 47 trees blown down limbs scattered about the A police devastation ed 31 within 3 of many houts _were reported a and Minnesota av and Seventh and Quac! eported at For- northeast northea: 5036 Con- d. 5804 Con- second t. Forty rtheast. Thir- enue 3403 road ne: Milit Concord Legation ge at Forty- northeast syed in the 1200 northeast alk was washed out on near Albemarle riy hard was between e Beach establishing of & he block result- backing up and flooding and gardens. fronting Fifty lock and all suf- John H. Paynter,| o filed complaint at ict building this morning. t has been flooded to a depth ng to Paynter. Dis however, contended the sary, he said DAMAGE TO ROADS IN VIRGINIA HEAVY 0ficials Inspect Areas Where Five-Inch Rains Fell Friday and Saturday. he Star August 13.—State | Englwers’ today began th: of computing the damage done by nches of rain which fell in this | riday and Saturday, forcing i streams to the highest levels memory of many of the bitants. ighout the fifth district, more wlarly in the mountain section, roed damage is severe, and many have been opened up on ac- of bridgec being washed away in the approaches. Pigg 1klin County, reached the highsst point since 1877, and tore loose | nderground water tank maintained the Appalachian Power Co. This ed to curtail the drinking water Rocky 8 Carroll County streams became | g hours, spreading 0¥ fiel n it orchards. A arge truck garden near the banks of Franklin, was virtually vegetation and left deep and silt schedules were dis- near Jaffa and nd north of Danville, Dan River here 13 feet 5 inches above nor- ded some houses, menaced the and gave abundant evi- uitural damage. Masses d corn swirled downstream islands, and watermelons obbed freely ir. the currents. MRS. R. H. GRAVATT DIES. 1 se for Charity Worker. Foe Gravatt, 46 years after a long illness at 648 South Carolina ave- the wife of today s active in charitable , serving for many y as of the board of managers Florence Crittenton Home. She member of the Excelsior Lit- b and Bethlehem Chapter, the Eastern St will be Christian northeast, Wed- Burial will be in held at and, Mrs. Gravatt Robert H. Gravatt, SR LS BAND CONCERTS. ted Btates Navy Band, at ) o'clock tonight. Crown of India,” Elgar : | Tschaikowsky ade Rimpiantc JToselli 2 With Wings Hahn La Halevy from the opera The Bartered Smetana The Singing Girl Herbert Coleridge-Taylor ed Banner ack Marine Band 8:15 o'clock nl der Apostel# Wagner Wedding. Lotter mmerman: ged Godfre Delthes Wilcocke Morris Wagner of Monte- ngled Banner ited States Army Band, at near Poxall 7:30 o'clock vonight (United Humme! German Chile Mexico 4o Bor Demessene f the Slipper Herbert 1 Nationa) Defile Turl ngied Bannoer storm In ces to Be Wednesday | Church, | and Reissiger |ENERGIES OF FIRE DEPARTMENT TAXED BY STORM CALLS FOR AID Carry Marooned Persons to Safets. Pump; BUS ARE RESGUED Out Flooded Cellars and Tow Autos Ou short-circuit fires jand a s dist to say nothing | of uprooted trees and marooned auto- mobiles. combinad to_take the energies of the District Fire Department during the two-day storm. Scores of telephone calls jammed the fire switchboard at the District Building night and early Sunday morning The first of the storm calls came over the Fire Department's lincs a few mo- ments before 9 o'clock Sa and the last was received at 6:16 o'clock this morning, when a horse got stuck in the mud at Minnesota and Pennsyl- vanta avenues southeast The storm-call list at fire headquar- ters follows | Flooded cellars -Richard Gardner and his ty-second fe_Kenned 4 ond street ed to safety by E 7 and Truck Co 1g waters had flooded t r of their homes. driving t on the upper floor. pm.—Engine Co. No hed a blaze in the 3100 bi road. caused by the short of wires on the li m to 0 extin- Tun- law treuit- | ing apart- theast box no dered A large | { Mrs. Dorothy 3 augh { flooded home at 615 Di northeast, and rendering sin jance to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jenkins nd Nellie Perguson, 504 Fifiy-fourth ortheast { Sunday. 12:30 am—A “live | Thirty-sixth and Davis | ported and investigated for subseque | Tepair by the electrical company wire down strects was re- ALEYANDRIA LOSS IN STORMI IS LIGHT | Electric Wires Replaced and Flood Water Pumped From Houses. ! special Dispatch to The | ALEXANDRIA. Va.. August 13.— Alexandria today has freed itseli” from {the grip of the most severe rain and {wind storm of many years. Work of restoring electric light and power serv- ice to the arcas left withiput! electricity when wires were blown down Saturday inight had been completed, while the { task of replacing telephone wires which were destroyed is nearly completed. | With the exception of approximately 182,500 damage to the new gravel streets | which are being constructed in Rose- {mont Park No. 6 and Temple Park, {the city escaped with comparatively {little damage. Flooded cellars and | dampened walls constituted the only harm to buildings in and residential sections. Light Damage Reported. City Manager Paul Morton stated today that the damage to the Hooffs the mercantile | {Run sewer project, the new three-room annex to the Parker-Gray School for colored and the new public school buildings in Rosemont, all of which have just been started, is negligible. The Iloundation of the Park School annex was flooded, as was th sewer and new school in Rosemont, but city gangs were hustled out this morn- ing and were busy pumping 0wl water so that construction work on al three jobs might be continued. City em- ployes were busily engagsd in remo ing the branches of many trees which were blown off by the heav Traffic into southern Virginia by way | of ‘the Richmond-Washington highway was forced to detour yesterday mor: ling when the southern end of the Hunting Creek Bridge became covered with 2 feet of water, but th swollen creek receded this morning and the road is again open. While the bridg | was closed the Telegraph road detour [ was employed. | Electric Wires Replaced. | The last of the electric light lines {blown from their poles by the storm was replaced this morning at 3 o'clock ‘by the maintenance gang of the Vir. | ginia Public Service Co. which had | been working continuously since early | Baturday night when the first complaint wes received. Trains of the Richmond, Fredericks- | burg & Potomac Railroad are still being | rerouted by way of Orange as a result |of the 600 feet of tracks near Milford between Fredericksburg and Richmond being washed out by the storm. The | trains are branching off at Dozwell and | using the Chesapeake & Ohio tracks to Orange and then continuing to this ecity on the tracks of the Southern Rail- | way Co. | Several smaller washouts on the R ¥. & P. between Alexandria and Fred- | ericksburg have aiso been reported | Bus service from Washington to Rich- lmo‘nd by the Richmond-Washington | motor terday morning | River below ¥ {its banks nearl the bridge u | "The busses | their run fr { lonial Beac | ronds |WOMAN IS RESCUED FROM MAROONED CAR IN SWOLLEN CREEK First { | | cn the South Anna dericksburg overflowed and flooded the bus e also unable to m Fredericksburg to as a result of the | ke | Continued from Page. ) to reach another group of stopped before a washed-out {mud or maotori bridge ' One man_ volunteered | others out of the wildern another road. All ca and followed him b v tretch and all finally emerged onto the Waldorf plke. AL Waldorf, how- ever, they found two bridges out and & gang of workmen busy fxing a tem porary hridge of timbe It will cost southern Maryland thou sands of dollars (o repalr the damage done to highways and bridges, Mr | Stieg declared today. In many places along the ghways greal seclons of the paving have caved into holes un dermined by the water Water 3 and |4 feet deep was encountered in place while many tobacco and corn field were completely Inundated ly lead the by way of ed around the 8-mile o { $450,000 the lord mayor of Lond relieving distye ong miner 'South Walg Durham and Northum Nearly has becr .| tempor coaches was discontinued yes- | flooded 'GIRLS IN MAROONED 'D. C. Firemen Enter Mary- land to Save 19 Surrounded by Water. t of Water. Engine Co. No. 27 answer- ooned persons at Fifty- trect northeast, but were relieved waen it ar- 110 am ed call of fourth a found the rived 1:4 v i Rescued after having boen marooned I night in a Washington Railway & Blectric bus at Townshend, Md, 19 young women, members of the Sodality Union of Washington, were today gen- Engine Company No. to call at 1319 Minneso enue northeast, and finding no danger from reported collection of water on the roof, departed, 1.30 p.m.—Truck am re! e | gering property and lives after it had | ed over turing the wind. The fire- | men found no danger and returned to | len, dr their headquarte! {and clear thinking, 1 p.m.—Truck Company No. 13 il!}‘ri]'mln\h«: b answered call to take down swaying| Tho bus left Washingtc Hamboard which threatensd to fall at | afteraocn and carried the party to a 304 H street northeast I pienfe at St. Mary's Catholic Church, 1959 pm.—Engine Company No 10| Bryantown, Md Because of bad weath- responded to call that a “live” wire was | €%, they started ba_rk as soon as the down at 1940 Capitol avenue northeast. | picnic ended and reached Townshend 9°45 pm.—Engine Company No. 18 about 8 o'clock. ~As they started ove inguished blaze caused by a short-|a bridge bey the to Millen no- circuited electric wire in the wmch‘llct‘d the roadway was blocked by house on the Eleventh street bridge | water. He backed from the bridge and over the Anacostia River | up a hill to a garage. Scarcely had he left the bridge when it was swept away Today. From the garage Millen saw that an 4 ¥ ther bridge which he crossed back of 1:51 am—Boat reported sinking at|othe i {he foot of Potomac ol b WiN | Townshend also hiad been carried away consin avenue. The land companies | which responded could render no aid 2:41 a.m.—" fireboat ponded to ges of t two-masted arter, which her cargo of rain wat abeth Carter is owned by L. A Clark & Son, lumber lers, Fifth and Water streets south- them to safety, and for Calvin E. r of the bus, whose calmness they believe, saved Washington urday | Fire Department for help. He also ar- ranged to have the families of the wom- len in the bus notified. Miss Irene Kelly, corresponding secre the Ur d today that “just sp and did ev sible to make his “guests during the long vigil More than 30 other automobiles we marooned with the bus and the occu- S A s etnek in | Pants of one of these called the Ana- BOXt SHRL 8 Hicrie I Pc‘l“",:;y‘l': costia air station in the hope of being e sast. "The animal |Tescued by plane. They were informed S hetore . thelr. arrival, | however, than an airplane could nof - - {1and where they were marooned. ey i ut the most thrilling moment of the B e "gflt{‘m::dilrm according to Miss Kelly, came p { when they heard the siren of the fire Hise s o Lietz, w & 5 D O L wiinight | tTuck. The firemen used two 50-foot turday until 8 o'clock yesterday ¢ 5 morning; William Jordan and Arthur |20d carry the girls to safety. Lieut James. from 8 o'clock yesterday morn- | C: L. Satterfleld directed the rescue ing until 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, | ¢ at which time Nairn. who handled the calls alone v, returned for an- | v other eight hou The final period at | by 0 b . | Mahler. Montgomery Apartments; M he boa: spen arbiso ho board was spent by Harbison and J..A. Hardie, 6 1 RtiRet ‘ot awst [ 1607 East Capitol str Elizabeth Milovich, the Atlantic A. R ,'Mhn\m‘ ear] _ {Mrs. Mary_Lipscomb, 200 A street Sheehan and Miss CNE MISSING. 100 SAVED, ’NEARBY ARYLAND | southeast: ~ Misses Cecelia and Annie |of the Government IN GALE WHICH SWEEPS M comfortable 6:16 am—Rescue squad responded | In addition to Miss Kelly, the pa consisted of her er. Miss Florence Kelly. both of 51 I street; Miss Minnic Miss Margaret Anna Clark, both Hotels: Miss Ge: Otis street; Mrs. 1fth street: Mis Ima’ Happ, 429 Kenyon str Miss Addie Wathen and Miss Ethel Baugh- | trude | 2 | Theresa Harrigan. 1701 T strest; Mi | Jessie man of Anacostia, Mi: Lang of Brookland and Miss CHECKSUPONLOSS =+ 2 Two Bridges. Damaged Crops and Disabled Autos To!l of Storm. Southern Maryvland today set about the work of reconstruction following the terrific rainstorm which swept away | o yovon of auantic G Rh x i nayor of Atlantic City, and his two bridges between Washington and | wife. It was feared the yacht, valued at Leonardtoyn, Md., marooned some 60 | $50,000. would be a total loss motorists in Mattawoman Swamp, near hi’";j[““’l" (it “‘"“E‘ Long I»‘lfli‘d “"g . e h v Jersey coast were subjecte Waldorf, and washed ‘out some 200 t5°a heavy podnding from the moun: yards of railroad track on the Popes tainous waves. a portion of the board- Creek the Pennsylvapia Rail- | Walk being washed away at Beach Ha- road. ven. N. J.. and the south end of the beach front at Bradley Beach swept Garages in the tidewater section of | Maryland did a land office business to- | | away, Guardsmen said the storm day, hauling machines that had be-| was the worst in 10 years. come disabled in the downpour and en- A dead whale, 35 feet long, was wa ed up on the beach at Mantalo! deavoring to put them In running order again. Cinders were being filled in the | . and viewed, from a distance, by where the raflroad track wa: ral hundred persons A woman was operated on for ap- washed out and reconstruction gangs | Baltimore General Hospital when the were at work on the State roads in an | electric lights failed just as the incision effort to put them back in traversible | was being made. The storm had blown 1 | down a tree severing wires feeding cur- > Tidewater Lines, Inc.|rent to the hospital. The operation, y at Twelfth street and | which required 33 minutes, was per- New York avent:. it was announced.|formed successfully continued their schedule with the aid of | The storm sent temperatures dropping ry bridges across the washout|all over the East, the thermometer go- areas at Mattawoman Swamp and about | ing to 59 degrees in Philadelphia, mak- a mile this side of Morganza, Md., on | ing it the coldest August 12 in 39 years. the road to Waldorf and Leonardtown. L TORM FEARED. (Continued from First Pa line of | W. A. Robey. a mechanic of the Tide- | water Lines, Inc., who was pressed into Isvr\m; as a dn\'r-;; hl‘: tdhr l‘l{l(‘f&?l".l‘lly‘ |said he crossed the bridge at Matta- : % e | woman Swamp about 7 o'clock Saturday Blowing From Cuba. night, shortly before it “went in” neari WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., August 13 midnight. He said he saw the bridge | (#).—Just recovering from the effects caving in on the return trip. It will |of a tropical storm which struck this be necessary to build an entirely new |area last Tuesday, West Paim Beach structure, he said. as both sides col- | residents were fearful last night that lapsed under the weight of the waters|a second storm, last reported south of and the supports have been hed | Clenfuegos, Cuba, might sweep the sec- away. | tion. Bus service is being maintained into| A barometer which h southern Maryland by a bus from | to its normal figure of about 30.10 gives Washington to Mattawoman Swamp, | reason for the fear. Yesterday the in- across which a temporary bridge has|strument on the beach here dropped been (hrown. Women, too nervous tol from 29.96 at 1 o'clock in the afternoon walk the planks bridging the swamp. | to 20.54 at 5 o'clock, recovered 4 points are being caried bodily. At the other |and dropped again fo stand at 20.5¢ at side of the temporary bridge, which is| 10 o’clock about three miles from Waldorf, another | below its normal figure since last Mon- | bus of the concern trausports passen- | day. | gers between Mattawoman Swamp ,,,.d| Local observers point to the fact a {the vicinity of Morganza, where the | quick return of the instrument to nor- other bridge has been demolished | mal is usual, following tropical ds There, too. a temporary bridge serves, | turbances and passengers walk across t where the shuttle service is again taken | up by & bus which transports travelers | between that point and Leonardtown. | Florida River, Swelled by Flood Waters, The company is thus using four Buigeasss 45 Metovin, | e e bt Yestorday "0 | . OKEECHOBEE, Pla., August 12 (P) risen Yesterday 30 | i | persons, many of whom were marooned | The Kissimmee River has 17 autolsts in the Mattawoman Swamp | inches during the past 24 hours, to a area, were brought to Washington in a | Delght never before reached by the | first load and about 25 were transport- | Stream. The river is now more than {wo ed to the Capital in a second load Corn and tobacco crops of the Wal- dorf region have been beaten to the ground by the rain. Today the roads drying out rapidly, but at the height of the storm there was about a | foot of water in the strects of Waldorf HOOVER CHALLENGE TO SMITH IS SEEN | ON “NULLIFICATION" | from First West Palm Beach Prepares for Gale w refused to rise Additional heavy rains here during continue, may cause an additional rise rent into Lake Okeechobee | A heavy wind today which lasted 10 | minutes blew a house from its founda- | tions into the river. AROLINAS EMERGE FROM STORM Damage Placed at $1,000,000, Prin- cipally at Spartanburg. CHARLOTTE, N. C.. August 13 (® Bright sunshine throughout the por- tions of the Carolinas stricken by floods and windstorms today had restored weather conditions to normal with ef- forts being made to estimate the dam- age and make repairs. The death list | still stood at five (Continued Page.) },m-upuv-um as not being a complete solution of the farmers’ position is cor- {rect To give the farmer the full bene- | fit of our historic tariff system will put | more money into the hands of the pro- | ducers and, with sound business and| Unofficial estimates placed the dam- banking, will giye the entire country age at approximately $1,000,000, with an era of general prosperity under a|ahout half of this in the immediate Hoover administration. As a publica- | vicinity of Spartanburg. Three cotton {ton we do not participate in political | mill villages on the outskirts of Spar- | affalrs except in so far as economic| tanburg were flooded and damage to | principles may be concerned. As an | machinery and supplies in two cotton | individual, I am for Herbert Hoover| mills which the water entersd was fig- and his program of construction.” ured at $200,000. Besides this, several | Awmong the speakers whom the Repub- | buildings were undermined in the city | lican national committee will have on!und many basements flooded. A dozen | the stump in the farm reglons of the | or more highway bridges were destroy- { country, suporting Mr. Hoover and his| ed, one of them @ big concrete struc- | farm program, are Senator Capper of | ture over the Pacolet River, being dam- | Kansas, head of the farm bloc in the | nged approximately $50,000. A cotton Benate, and Gov. Sorlie of North Da- kota | dollars damage from floods Besides the heavy damage done at | Spartanburg, several homes and other | buildings were destroyed at Batesburg, | 8. C; Newberry, . near Union, and | near Greenviile, In Pitt County, N. C. AL Hickory, N C.. the city still was without the use of its waterworks pumping station. The station was flooded "when & 10-inch rain caused the Catawba River to rise so vapidly that. warkmen could not prevent the water entering the pump room. It will Held for Aiding Rebels PASO, Tex., August 13 (A DL o El Continental say that po- ut Gundal rin, Mexico, have dis- vered a private hospital where wound- rebels exclusively were treated. The tion wa believed Lo have been ced and financed bygsoetely wom- om were ar- El patche lice en of the cily, several of | extension ladders to bridge the waters | ty ss Ethel Ammon, | ALONG ATLANTIC COAST! | pendicitis by flashlight in the South | The barometer has been | | [ vicinity, but no records were broken. | |miles wide, flooding lands over a wide | area. It 1s normally about 50 feet wide. | the day, with indications that they will | in the stream, now flowing like a tor- | mill at Whitney suffered thousands of | COMMERCE EXCAVATION TAKES ON / Company No. 2 re- | erous in their praise for the firemen | ay night, | sponded to call that a tree was endan- | or No. 8 Truck Company, who carried | Mil- | Millen appealed to the Washington | The 8.67 inches of rain which fol vation inte a veritable lake. shows area reflec FLODD N VIRGINIA - CLAINS ONE LIFE { |Railroads and Farms Suffer Heavy Damage and High- ways Are Blocked. By the Associated Press RICHMOND, life and great damage (o railroads, high- wa nds and farm crops was the i toll of flood waters in various sections of Virginia following heavy and in some cases record-breaking s of and Saturday ggon, Zv vears old, a Rich: plutioer, was arowned I th kaver a short disiance beiow ti. oy while aliempung w Tescue prop- erty carriea away oy the high water. ‘the bog acciaentaily overturned in midstream. Liggon's companion, ka Craig. 22, o Ricumond, swam to the Dank. Washouts cn both railroads and high- aisrupted tramc. ‘The city waer reservoir at Newmans Mill on the Washington-Richmond highway was reporiea to be threatenea because of ligh water, while the municipal light and power plant and pumping station at Farmville, Va., was put out of com- mission by overflow water from the Liitle Bufiaio River. Traffic Delays Numerous. Delayed traffic was reported from a number of cities and towns. The oaly open highway from Richmond to the north last might was the Mechanics- ville turnpike. Both the Richmond- Washington and the Richmond-Char- lottesville highways were reported closed. of 5 feet by overflow waters from the South Anna River. A concrete abutment on the new bridge near Farmville washed out, caus- ing traffic to be diverted to the Cum- berland Highway. Water in Cherry- stone Creek, on the outskirts of Chat- ham, rose several feet above the bridge floor, rendering the highway impassabie, August 13.—One Several buildings near the stream were | flooded. Washouts on railroads cau:>d trains to be held up on the James River di. vision of the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail road and the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road. Washouts also disrupted schedules on the Richmond, Fredericksburg & | Potomac Railroad. | Dan River Recedes. The Dan River at Danville reached {a high mark of 13.5 feet, but receded some yessrday afternoon. The Ap pomatox River, in the section around rarmville, overtiowed and did consider- able damage to crops, but it is thought that it has reached its crest ‘The heaviest rain was reported in the | Pledmont section of southern Virginia. Crops are reported badly damaged in that section. At Lynchburg Weather ords were broken when the rainfall reached 7.52 inches for a 24-hour period. Heavy rains visited Richmond and Bureau rec- At Columbia, 47 miles north of Rich | mond, the James River rose more than | 8 feet. |be several days before the damage is | repaired. | Besides the damage to buildings and | machinery, farmers in the storm zone |and in lowlands along flooded creeks | lost heavily in damaged crops. The storm today had passed north: | ward and blown itself out in the moun- | tains of North Carolina and Virginia, or at sca along the coas! FLOODGAT! DANGER. Closed to Check Waters Sweeping Through Florida Marshland. INGLIS, Fla., August 13 (#..—Threats | of serious damage from floods in this vicinity had passed today with floodgates of the Florida Power { poration’s huge hydro-electric dam on | the Withlacochee River closed and of marshland rapidly passing out to sea | The floodgates through which torrent | coursed, causing a feeling of uneasin | for the safety of this town and Yankee- | town, were closed late Saturday night when the lake level behind the big concrete structure had dropped more than a foot to normal The small amount of water that swept Into the streets here as the watel gushed through the emergency opening in the dam to relleve the stratn on it | had drained off vesterday and cifizens went about their normal Sunday unhampered The floodgates were opened when water behind the dam reached a record high mark, due to torrential rains that West Indian hurricane in central Florida, and power company officials became apprehensive for the safety of the big concrete structure and the $2.000,000 power plant at its base. Only untenanted marshland was seri- over the valley when the opened, W. B, Howalton | superintendent, said LINER MUNAMAR FLOATED. gates were assistant NEW YORK. August 13 (. -The Munson liner Munamar, forced aground yesterday off Hole-in-the-Wall, Great Abaco, Bahamas has been floated. it was announced this afternoon by Mer- itt, Chapman & Scott, marine engineers The liner wag out of Miami and Nas- au for New Yhik with two score pas- sengers, Pumps we ing the Washington Monument. Bridges were flooded to a depth | | waters that spread over 10 square mum: ously affected by the flood sent coursing | PECT OF A LAKE RAIN-SWEPT ROADS I hers vesterday e nd inned there this turday transform 0 buildi STO (Continued from First Page ond street and Division avenue north- east and Forty-fourth street and Deane avenue northeast. In other sections of the city hundreds of homeowners re- ported flooded cellars, flooded drains or leaky roofs. Utility Companies Suffer. shington's utility companies suf- and repair ganzs were today in every section of the city Stalled street . _broken telephone ines and cables and short-circuited con- duits were reported from all parts of the city and its suburb: The storm created the geney in the history of t Automobile Association. Between 8 o'clock Saturday night and midnight last night the association gave e gency road service to 744 stalled auto- mobiles, practically all of which were stopped because of water in their igni- tion systems. The association kept 100 emergency road service trucks dut | in the District and 50 outside the Dis trict on continuous duty throughout the storm handling the troubles of mem- bers of the Washington section. Many of the association’s emergency me- | chanics were without sleep for more than 30 hours. Yesterday these me- chanics answered 384 calls from owners of stalled machines because of the rain Saturday night six telephone opera- tors worked frantically to handle t thousands of calls received over the motor association's swithchboard and yesterday 10 operators were on duty from early morning to midnight to | answer emergency calls and supply in- |- {romation about the condition of roads and highways. Electric Service Restored. The Potomac Electric Power Co. fo- day reported its service had been re- | stored. From Saturday afternoon at 4 { o'clock until midnight last night, how- ever, the company handled 2.600 emer- | gency phone calls and made 537 emer- gency repairs to its power lines, The Ir s of its working crews show that wires were down in 52 cases, four poles were blown down, six poles were set on fire by lightning, 33 high-tension cables were put out of commission, 18 service | wires into houses were blown down. and | five_transformers were thrown out. Washington would have been in dark- ness, in all probability, but for the ef- | forts of pumping crews sent out by the power company at 7 o'clock Saturday night_to keep flooded conduits pumped {out. These crews worked continuously | for 31 hours, hurrying from point to { point where the flooding of the conduits | threatened to disrupt service by short- circuiting the power lines. Power Cut Off. At the Hyattsville, Md., pumping sta- tion the power was cut off at 11 o'cloc turday night and an emergency call brought a_“trouble shooter” crew to the scene. The erew was halted by high water and it was found that a feeder | to Eastern Branch had backed up 10 | feet of water around the power line | poles. At 10 o'clock this morning, when | the water had subsided to about 8 feet Thomas Chartters, a momber of ti crew, bullt a raft on which he piled his | tools’ and equipment and swam and Wi fered Te: e America | waded with it to the power line, where | | he replaced a broken cable and restored the service to the pumping station The Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- phone Co. was working today to restore | 355 lines which were broken by the | storm; 1,500 phones in the Washington uburban area were reported out Scattered cables were broken all over the city and the toll trunk lines were broken between this city and Manassas. | Va.. Winchester, Va. Leonardtown, Md.; Salisbury, Md.: Great Mills, Md. | and Fort Humphreys, Va. There were | 122 lines out in Alexandria, Va. and 217 out in Clarendon, Va. Street Car Traflic Hampered. The most serious delay to street service occurred on the Takoma Ps {line of the Capital Traction Co. when i mud and debris were washed in great piles over the track by a flood at Under- wood and Third streets. Service was halted at 8 o'clock Saturday night and a track crew worked all night clearing the obstructions. Service was not re- | stored until 5 am. yesterday. Servic was maintained by busses while the line was closed. For the first time in a storm of the severity of that Saturday night, the Capital Traction Co. had no trouble with “pulled plov on its street cars land had no power trouble. The car { line_at Connecticut avenue and Aibe- night but service was maintained, the cars splashing their way through the flooded section. its been used at this point, however service would have been impossible, i | was stated. The Washington Railway & Electric Co. had several such tle-ups during the storm period. Cars of th | Washington-Virginia Railway Co | held up when the tracks in Potomac | Park were flooded | l The Chesapeake Beach Railroad was ! accompanied and followed last week's! forced to abandon operations when alcern on the landslide covered the track at Chesa- peake Beach, Md. during the last | downpour of the storm, at 11 o'clock | last night Teains Are Held Up. Trains were tied up this morning on the Richmond. Frederfcksburg & Potomac Rallroad below Widewater, Va | as far as Quinea, 15 miles south of | Predericksburg T excessive rains | weakened the (re and south-bound { tralus were stopped. Passengers were | either held up or conveved by busse: and automobiles to other points More than 150 passengers were taken from Fredericksburg to Culpeper to board the ! Bouthern Railrn | Three throuzh cnger tralns were tied up I the o+ between Widewater and Guinea At Chevry HI the tracks were damaged. Repalr work was in RM-SWEPT D. HEAVILY FROM RECORD RAIN marle street was under water Saturday | Had underground con- | were | ENERALLY OPE! (Some Highways, However, Are Closed and Detours Necessary on Others. | Though ‘Ou' of Washir st were cu aturday nigk esterday, traffic is possible tod: most of the highways in this se | the country, according to field report | the American Automobile Associa | The main highway to the Sout tween Fredericksburg and Va., is entirely closed ot betv cit burg. though traffic a temporary bridg five to een thi Marlboro Road Closed. Southern Maryland road is com- impassable at Mattawoman Creek, whera the bridge was wa: away. The Marlboro road is closed | the ‘Patuxent River | The Wachington. |vard at Bladensbur under water able, with careful driving The complete field report the America! temobile here this mor of the mai tion as follo ingto passable to slow o way of Warrer recommended. One | out 15 miles this side of A temporars den | installed_in place of the wrec The Fredericksburg-Richmon is impassable, being under water eral places. A detour is possibl way of Tappahannock betwee Virginia cities. The highwa Richmond to Petersburg and t | progress this morning. The bridge at | is open to traflic Austins Run in Stafford County and 8 i another in Prince William County were bbb o washed out and new bridges are being | _The Tidewater Trail. from Ric constructed. Only one mail delivery ' to Norfolk. is passable, though has been made at Fredericksburg since | and covered with water in some pla Saturday night From Richmond to Danville. V The storm caused havoc among the | Fegular route U. S. No. 504. is i Summer cottage settlements along | condition. and a detour by way of Chesapeake Bay, particularly on a |13 to Farmville and south to Kevs stretch of shore along West River, fac- | Mmust be used. Route 504 is com ing the bay. Many Washingtonians, | blocked by a severe wash spending their week ends there, were | mobiles cannot storm bound. The West River section A Keysville s swept by the storm and portions |t of the bank were carried away. stone breakwaters leveled, trees uprooted and boats washed ashore. On the shore a clubhouse and recreation grounds of the Nat sonic Fishing and Country ained by members of Na- No 12, F. A. A. M., of this vere badly damaged which had been up the coast from Florida 3 ady Side and the four p: ined life-belts and swam ashore. that section has bzen cut off be- of impassable roads and the of the four have not been The pletely At Baltimore boule- i ) Commerce exca- resumed. Photo aff Photo. d the Department of © operations could be C. SUFFERS road. terday tod 1 several bad!y rough, water flooded pe Va open hester, W he United passable- but is very ction gangs are at Middleburg, Va. and a way of -Harpers Ferry is d. The Ashlend-Staunton, Va. road ix in good condition and the Shenandoah ley pike is in good condition through- Route highway system, bad w work west detour by recoramende cau; names learned The former Arundel House property, recently purchased and improved by Howard McKinley of this city, near Shady Side. was badly damaged. Many boats were blown ashore dn this beach, | i among them a handsome motor-cruiser | aatL owned by Willlam A. Park of this city, Passengers Carried by Boats. and a motor boat owned by Kirke Simp- | 1y y ; son of the Washington office of tite | r a4 is closed b Associated Press. The wharf in front of | ; pridee a 1 » H bridge at Mat! the cottags of F Frank Kimmel. 10 4de of Wi which his boat 0 | side of Waldorf, Md. was tied has disap- ! ey g passenge: Matta- peared with the boat. A 30-foot boat, | NS.CU are carying passengers to Mattes owned by Col. C. Fred Cook, weatlrered | carried across by boats or over a tem- the storm and was riding at anchor this | porars bridge, and picked up by busses morning on the othor side, which continues to Southern Maryland The State | Highway Commission has a large crew work and it is hoped temporary Washingtonians spend th | g= over the creek may be in place the boardwalk was badly damaged and | by tomerrov the piles on which water-front hotels s and boarding houses stand, were under- | ington to Annapo mined. Repair work is in’ progress to- | and i day. | tien cannot recomme: housands of dol- | leading off the I 1ars to growing crops in Prince Georges | day. howev County. Md. was disclosed by a_sur-| badly washo vey today. Many corn fields were level-| Route No ed tured tobacco crops, however | Solomons Isl aped with but littl> damage in many | dition ar | places. The N A temporary bridge was being built | Marlboro ca today across Sligo branch at Riggs by way of the : road. where a bridge was washed out | Friest Bridge and then by vesterday. Traffic is being detoured Crain Highway to Marlboro. over Brookland and Chillum roads The road to Marshall Hall. At Seat Pleasant, Md., 48 colored per- | been closed by the washing out o driven from their homes by the | bridges. slept last night in the engi of the Seat Pleasant fire depa: Damaged. At Ocean City, Md. from Wash- pen to traffic The associa- nage of man; to- many of them are Highway to way of the Md.. has = ma storm, hou m Baltimore Boulevard Open. hington-Baltimore bon uck on the head by a piece of r: aked plaster in her home, 35 H street, Mrs. Eva Lee West, 37 years old, was | taken to Emergency Hospital today and treated for severe inuries to the head and back. Her condition has determined. She was on the floor of the house when the plaster. | hazards” very loosened by the two days of rain, feli atiempt to spe A heavy retaining wall supporting the | by water s lawn in_front of: the home of Raymond | wiring of C. Goochard, 2913 Twentieth street, was | out. This diffi washed cut by the heavy rainfall slow driving IEN PUMPS US[D 325 WEEK-ENDERS, AT BUILDING SITE MAROONED, BROUGHT TO CAPITAL BY BOAT Draining Water From Internal, sehedule and entered the Poto Revenue Excavation—Pool | Butting & - o o Putting in at on 20 Feet Deep. The American 'en | urged motc sscond | places in the ro e these “water Many motorists h and are stalled it was pointed n be avoided (Continued from First navigation guides were obliterated wharves opposite F Bohannon picked up fishing party of Potomac | Co. officials. They 1 when the storm A huge electric pump from the Poto- | it impossioie mac Electric Power Co. was called into | Shelt camp operation at the water-filled excava- | Virginia. tion for the Bureau of Internal Revenue | selves s today, to supplement the nine other smaller water pumps which had been struggling to reduce the level of the flood waters in the hole. so construetion camp at | work could be resumed mniles from B3 With the help of the big pump, it was | 3¢cording to ted that work, which had been| G- Neal, vic rreupted since Friday night by the | cOmpany, and J rains. could be resumed in some of its | together wi phases today names he did Several of the smaller pumps worked | Company | steadily at the excavation day and night day that since Saturday, but had been unable to | Van Dyki | keep ahead of the downpour and the! | The deepest pool of water in the th avation was more than 20 feet report n an elevator shaft hole today at I On the site for the Department At Piney Po | Commerce a lake two blocks I the wharves w block wide was formed, causing cl.,..‘amun boats had part of the District Health | At Colonial Beg X u {Department, as work has been tem- | Showed heavy storm dama | Porarily suspended there unti! the letting | _The steamer at one time |0f foundation contracts, the next step|two hours behind schedule. i the building prograim. Officials of the | Gade up some of this ti { Health Department who called at the | storm abated Capt. Boha { office of the supervising architect at the | Traces of story we Treasury today were assured that an|many points {electric pump already was working, and | Washington, by sradually would lower and pump out | trip were made by @.\\ the water in the excavation, to pre- | out incident vent it becoming a menace to health | was anded chester from wh and deep. of and a v bee X ‘ Manufacturer Sentenced 1 “m‘:::ld :ll"“‘ R SHIAToN i 2 ANAPC S | NEW YORK 13 P Louis | Phillp Smith, sough Taback J. w stk tex- | the slaying of Terre \lll manufacturer, was sentenced to- | was Killed last we jday to serve a vear and a day in|Mill Dance Gardeq {the Federal penitentiary at Auanta on | rendered today by his atto {8 eharge of conspiring o conceal as- | E. Deery, King was killed sets in the'bankruptey of the Franklin | followmg & quarrel witn Silk Mil the attentions of a gitl en August of Paterson. 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