Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1932, Page 6

STORM HERE KLLS | " FNE INURES 10 Eastern High School Party of 12 Missing in Bus Is Found Safe. (Continued From First Page.) “immediately after breakfast day morning Hundreds of motorists, who had le the city Saturday on week end trips lured by the warm Spring weather, were trapped-by the blizzard on the roads to Washington yesterday and many suf- fered severely from exposure. Eighty motorists, rescued from nded cars south of Alexandria alone. uncerwent medical treatment for exposure at Alex- andria. The blizzard was followed by a plung- ing thermometer. wi reached 17 de- grees at 7 o'clock 1.79 inches of rain len. The cold wea day and tonight anticipates a mi approximately 15 de By heroic efforts t way systems W city lines open ward on nearly normal the night and today. except plows were “pulled” by be in slots c cted by the with ice MotoPi:ts, well, ar 100 mi ding keep their went for- les during re power mmed old or filled however, d ot the police li more colli resulting n are so than due to dshields Automo- emer- ation was hand from stormbound motorists | 100 an hour i struck yes- the night gency at a rate of approximately from the time the blizz: terday morning hout and into this mornir The storm began w yesterday morr soon ter 1 Tose steadily u miles per hour w Weather Bureau at 1 Ground velccities contin 30 to 35 miles per hour higher gusts througho up to noon today nd num velocities of 57 rec at 50 p.m. yesterday d steadily at with occasional the night and Barometric Pressure Falls. At higher levels the winds were blow- ing at terrific velocities, due to the recerd low barom ure. At 8 o'clock this mornir wind velocity at an altitude of feet was 124 miles per o the United States Airwa Station at ‘Washington-Hoov ‘The barometric p: height of the storm fell to 28.65, the lowest ever recorded at the Weather Bureau, and this pressure continued to fall as the storm d off to the northeast until this morning, with the storm centering off Nantucket, the pressure was down to 28.4 The forecast of the Weather Bureau at 10 am. is for fair and continued { cold weather tonight and Tuesday, with & minimum_temperature of 15 degrees tonight and with diminishing north- west winds. The American Automo- bile Association issued warning to all motorists to protect their cars against the extreme cold tonight. As far as amount of snowfall goes, yesterday's storm failed by far to set a new record for March. The famous “Taft inaugural blizzard” of March 4, 1909, measured 10 inches. Heavy Electric Storm. One of the unusual features of the blizzard was the heavy electrical dis- turbances which accompanied it. Roll- ing thunder and flashes of lightning occurred in the midst of the heaviest snowfall. The storm whipped the en- tire Atlantic seaboard, damaging ship- ]plnm disrupting communications and laying the entire countryside under its heaviest snow blanket of the year. Storm signals were flying from Sa- vannah to Maine. i 2,000 Power Lines Crash. The gales wrecked more than 2,000 telephone and power poles, and took | down more than 200 trees in and around Washington. including one in the White House grounds. A 40-foot flagpole on the Treasury was sent hur- tling into Fifteenth street, luckily striking no one in its fall Maryland and Virginia were States of isolated towns, many of them in | darkness and without communication with the outside world as power lines went down under weight of ice and pressure of wind. Roads in all direc- tlons were closed by ice and fallen trees and poles, oniy a few of the main highways being kept open at all and parts of even these being blocked at intervals. All roads out of Fred- erick, Md. were impassable Scores of District and railroad snow plows and sweepers went into action soon after the snowfall began and cc tinued in operation throughout the | night. They were augmented by hun- dreds of laborers, a force of 350 Dis- | trict workmen being set to work in the | downtown section, in addition to several hundred employed by the street rail- ways to keep switches and platforms cleared. Most of the storm damage was due to wet snow freezing to trees, poles and lines. The added weight and increased area exposed to the high winds resulted in breakage. Killed by Falling Tree. It was this feature of the storm | which killed Kligman and Reid, The Kligman boy, olde chil- dren, was returning hom was killed As he was about to crc section a tree about two feet eter snapped near diagonally across the upper limb broke off and struck the boy’s head Albert was knock ning him to squad took him iy where he was pronounced déad from a fractured skull and broken neck Funeral services will be held tomor- Tow in Bernard Danzansky's funeral parlor, 3501 Fourteenth street. Woman Electrocuted. Mrs. Reid, wife of Horatio Reid dairyman, was talking on the telephone at ut 10 o'clock last nig en & tree fell across the tel lines near her during the he its base the trunk limb pin- instantly electrocuted. It became neces- sary to cut away the tree befo tor could be summoned The worst storm suffer motorists who were stranded highways outside the city. T hundreds of cars stalled by snow ar fallen trees and poles, and ever swailable rescue vehicle in the Capital and nearby communities was pressed into service to assist them All roads out of Frederick, Md., were closed, and the city's unemployment problem ceased to exist Wwhen every available man was sent out the roads and assist in repairing broken poles and power lines The American Automobile Associa- tion reported that the emergency was the worst in two years. Belween the tme the snowfall started and mid- night, 600 calls for aid were received and, In the three hours béfore 9:30 this morhing, more thun 300 emergency calls were handled Among the missing vehicles reported to the association was & bus which had left Gettysburg for Frederick. and had failed to reach its destination. Lee Highway Closed. Falls Church, Va. reported during the middle of the morning. when tele- one service was restored, that the Highway to the west was com- pletely closed and that no traffic had come in from the West since the bliz- mard started. The Little River road to and Winchester also was Maryland the Balttmore Pike was on the re were from | ice and | to clear | | | HINGTON, D by way of Ellicott City was closed, as were the roads to the northwest of Washington. The District refuse department went into action at 1 p.m. yesterday and crews worked in the downtown section washing the slush into sewers with streams of water. This work was halted at 5 pm., when the slush and water began freezing. At this time 28 Dis- trict snowplows went to work, continu- ing in operation until 1 a.m. today Thre: hundred and fifty employes were set to work cleaning sidewalks and crossings in the downtown sectio Damage to the telephone systems Virginia and Maryland was exceeding| heavy. Within the District some 350 phores were put out Approxim 2,000 telephones were ont of con 2, 1,500 of number k s section. The goof was bl phone exchange at Cape Charle but no one was hurt. Telephon: service from Washington to the South was almost completely disrupted Park Roads Blocked. The power lines of the Potomac Elec- tric Power Co. cut of Washington also were ba € Vi Railwa repor & Electric operation bus and poles ngton t plow. plows Co ines i gomery unty otor-truck open on Co. had 11 vesterday afternoon, and crapers and 100 men to its received reports of 1 down in the city, aside from those in the parks and private grounds Streets and sidewalks in many parts of the city were blocked. In addition to the 149 trees which blew down there were hundreds of branches broken off Park roads were blocked by fallen trees and United States park police either had them removed or placed warning red lanterns on the obsiruc- he Fire Department as ¢ of the fallen tr of the right of way Trainmen Missing. A conductor and flagman on a Balti- more & Ohio live stock train, running from Cincinnati to Baltimore. were re- ported missing when the train arrived in Baltimore at 10 o'clock this morn- ing. They are believed to have been swept from the top of the train by the high wind near Prederick Junction, about 45 miles west of Baltimore Another stock train, from Connels- ville, Pa., was due at Union Stock Yards, Baltimore, last evening at 5 o'clock, but had not arrived at noon | today Oscar Wilde, colored, 53. of Pomon- key, Charles Ceunty, Md., injured in an | automobile sccident on the road near | his home last night, was brought to this city for treatment. He was pronounced | dead on arrival at Emergency Hospital | Suffering-from exposure, & man who | identified himself us James Martin | Greenville, S. C. was taken to Emer- gency Hospital this morning, Maryland Towns Cut Off. Trees and telephone poles blown down by the storm which swept the vicinity of Annapolis, Md. vesterday cut Annapolis off from telephonic com- munication with Washington, West River, Prince Frederick and North | Beach. Fallen trees, signs and wires crippled transportation in Prince Georges County 149 trees were in darkness when electric wires were downed. Telephone communiea~ kept open. but the road to Baltimore |tion to the rural section was crippled by fallen wires. There were many slippery roads State police blamed the icy surface of the Baltimore Boulevard for a col- iision at Contee in which three persons were injured. Louis Bright of Balti- more, Murray Cohen of Long Island, N. Y., and Edward Cohen of Brooklyn. N. Y., suffered bruises and sprains when a car driven by Bright collided with one operated by Edward Jacklowitz of Brooklyn, N. Y. The injured were treated by Dr. B. P. Warren of Laurel State Trooper John A. Klass investigat- ed the case. Scores of persons from Washington and Baltimore were reported stranded in the mountains of Western Maryland when fallen trees and telegraph poles made the highways north and west of Frederick impassable. Electric light and power lines were crippled, telegraph and telephone service disrupted in many sections and bus communication sus- pended. The Eastern Shore of Maryland was hard hit. The blizzard put transport operations ing the gales and icy W. L. Jamieson, night took the regular second northhound Enstern Air Transport mail _plane through Washington last night. Taking off from Richmond with the mail from Florida, he landed safely at Washing- ton-Hoover Airport 3 o'clock this morning and left a few minutes ) being reported later from his destir tion. Newark Aurport, the New York termir Passenger planes began moving this morning on the coastal run through Washington. Bolling Field was in without heat during the night when power s were blown down. The field heating plant depends on elec- trically driven blowers, which stopped when the power lines broke. Flying operations yesterday and today were canceled. Among storm damages listed by the police were 22 windows brcken and the roof blown off a house at 3920 Ingo- mar street. There were 129 emergency calls received. chiefly due to fires, minor coflisions and other mishaps due in part to the storm. “Unemployed” at Work. Employes of the park division of the office of public buildings and public parks were routed out of their beds about midnight last night to clear away the traffic hazards in the parks caused by many fallen trees geged in removing snow collisions due to a stop to all air yesterday. Dety- flelds, however, airmail pilot darkness and from the exposure were They were en- | walks in the parks and cutting up and | removing timber that blocked the road- ways. Frank T. Gartside, chief of the park division, and David Saunders, head of | the horticultural section, made a tour | of inspection by automobile yesterday | afternoon during the height of the storm to estimate the situation and get ready for the clean-up work. Mr Gartside’'s name is on the Weather Bureau list of those to be notified when unusugl weather conditions are brew- ing. Saturday night he wus summoned out Of bed by the Weather Bureau uews st the temperature would fall 10 20 degrees and @ blizzard was suc- lnumpanvluu the drop. FEarly today about 400 of the regular workers of the | borhood were ds park division were at work in the parks | same as elsewhere ppiemented by some | poles were down in every direction and and these were | — Upper: Winter’s blasts and the icy streets mads impromptu Sir Walter Raleighs of several of Washington traf- fic policemen this morning at Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Traf- fic Officer C. L. Smith is shown pilot- ing a Government worker across the stretch of ice at Washington's windiest Another has just been “ferried s" in a police motor cycle sidecar ater: A big elm on Twelith street just off Constitution avenue was blown down last night and blocked the street ‘The low branches were cut away and cars are passing thiough a ngtural tunnel Lower: Another elm. blown down in the 1700 block of F street automobile of Thomas G. White, 1741 F street to Alexandria from their stalled automobiles in emer- gency vehicles from as far south as Pohick, 14 miles down the Richmond Highway. Two ambulances, an A. A A, service truck and an A, B. & W. bus carried the people cver the roads jammed with fallen trees, poles and wires and up and down hills covered with ice. They were treated by Dr. Lewis Schafer, city health officer, and an interne at the Alexandria Hospital, while a lunch room gave sand- wiches and coffee Two of those brought in had to be reated at Alexandria Hospital. Mrs. Catherine Crawford of 500 King street, marooned in her husband's Snake Hill until 3 am. today, was brought in unconscious suffering from exposure, but responded to hospital treatement. C. L. Flaterby of Balti- more received knee injurics when his automobile overturned near Gunston Hall The principal jam occurred at Snake Hill, on the Richmond Highway about four miles south of this city. Automo- oiles could neither get up nor down the hill and were stalled in ditches and across the road Fourteen trolley poles down between Alexandria ax Junction on the Alexandria street car lie and the cars were hope- lessly tied up. Poles also were down on 1e unused . portion of this trolley line near Washington Airport, lying across the trocks, while an entire section of poles was bJown over on the Alexandria- yashington Highway north of Virginia Hignlands. brought were blown Arlington Washington Trains Late From South. Bus service in_op: Trains from the ith were all reported late, but con- tinued to run throughout the night No serious accidents were reported any of the police stations in M ery County, but conditions, espe- in the upper sections of the were described by the oldest residents as the worst in their memory. All communications from Rockville to the north and west paris of the county were out. Roads were also d scribed as impassable, filled with t poles and wires blown down by the northwest gale. Electric lights were out for @ time at Rockville Jast night and the upper sections of the county are still reported without lights or power. Snowplows of the State Roads Cof mission and county road forces worked all night keeping highways in the lower sections of the county open. A tem- perature of 12 degrees was reported in a sheltered spot outside of the Silver Spring police station, while lower tem- Seratures were reported from points further northwest. silver Spring police reported that a car driven by Bernard C. Nicholson of 1456 Euclid street, Washington, over- turned into Sligo Branch, on the Coles- ville pike, last night. Nicholson escaped unhurt. Orchards in the Colesvills neighborhood were reported damaged Stalled automobiles lined every high- way, many being in ditches. Tree Falls on Home. The Silver Spring Pire Department this morning removed & tree, which blew over on the home of Arthur Blakely, on Highland Drive, Woodside Park. Last night the department re- moved two trees from & house on Gist avenue and put out a fire in another tree which caught from a live wire At Takoma Park firemen in relays were on guard near the elementary schiool, where 8 live wire lay in the path of the school children. The firemen there removed a tree which blew cruss the hotme of Monroe Shipley, 34 Alle- gany svenue, and another that fell on & lLouse st Baltimore uud Cleveland avenues Conditions e in the Bethesda neign- scribed as about the Wires, trees and 145 “unemployed” supplied by the Dis- | many residents in outlying sections | trict Employment Committee as part | of the- customary weekly .quota. ~Al- though 275 were asked for this week's | work. some of the “unemployed” failed ing park sections were sent home again to show up today and others in outly- | | off at the height of the blizzard. were without telephone service or lights Street.car and bus service continued throughout the storm, police report Lights in the Montgomery County General Hospital at Sandy Spring went mps | as the snow was too deep in these un- | and candles were substituted and the Hyattsville, Laurel and other towns | improved areas for them to make much | hospital force continued its work with- headway. - The out cai ny excitement or disturb- patients, No emergency across the | r below | lowed up, but con- ¢ MONDAY | cases were in the hospital at the time and no operations were scheduled. v cLS LOST AT SE Coast Guard and Fishing Craft Suffer | in Storm. NEW YORK Mairch T () —Wind| howling on land and sea churned up waters along Eastern seaboard, en- dangered small vesse's, disrupted tele- | phcne and telel ph communication ! and halted motor traffic Two members of the crew of a Coast Guard patrol boat which capsized off Atlantic City were reported drowned. The crews of two other vessels reached shore safely when their vessel was beached at Ventncr, N. J. The auxil- iary fishing sloop Arna, with a crew of five, was missing. The schooner Firelight | be liquor-laden, sank after with the Coast Guard vessel lerew of the fishin, | abandoned 10 miles {con Light. A 28-foot boat : | Bayhead for Seaside Park in New lzx: sey was reported missing in Barnegat Bay. i All fiying, both commercial and mail, | came to a standstill ENTIRE SOUTH STRICKEN. | Even Colder Weather Due From Virginia Is Feared. AWANTA. March 7 | high winds swept the South and last night. causing damage from Virginia to Florida. where the wind sent seas crashing into coastal points, wrecking small boats. g Dixie prepared today for even colder weather when forecasters said the teim peratures would drop to freezing and below. In Florida a storm struck Cedar Key. isolating the town. Many boats of the sponge fleet were at sea and there were fears for their safey | Four shrimp boats sank at Fernan- ! dina, Fla., and others were damaged to the extent of $15,000 The strong winds were general, rang- ing from 50 miles an hour at Jackson- ville, Fla, and Cape Henry. Ve. to around 10 miles in Mississippi and West Tennessee Savannah had a 48- mile wind and Richmond 40. Rich- mond and Norfolk had the lowest barometer readings on record. Snow was general throughout Virginia. The snow continued down through the | Carolinas. but did not reach Georgia. ALEXANTDRIA %OWN CLOCK IS FROZEN IN BLIZZARD! Put Out of Com- reported to a collislon Eagle. The 1-5538 was cf Abse- which left &) —Snow and | Huge Timepiece mission for First Time Since 1909. Special Dispatch to The Star ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 7—For the first time since the blizzard of 1909, the weather put the famous town clock, | atop city hell, out of commission yes- terday. The hands of the great clock | froze at 5:30 o'clock yesterday afterncon | and have not budged sirice. The clock, which works by weights which drop from the tower, has been in the steeple of the old town hall since the hall was reconstructed after the fire of 1873. It can be seen from almost {any point in town and in times of | emergency it is used to sound a general alarm. THREE_PERS(iNS HURT FALLING ON ICE HERE Capital Woman Slips and Breaks Leg—Girl and Man, 71, Treated for Back Injuries. Three persons were injured this morn- | ing when they slipped and fell on the ' ice. Mrs. Florence Neitzey, 42, of the 3100 | block of Monroe street, slipped and fell | to the sidewalk during a sudden gust of | | wind while on the corner of Fifteenth and G streets, receiving a broken leg. | She was taken to Emergency Hospital Frances Rice, 14, of- the 600 block of | I street southwest, was treated at Emer- | gency Hospital for an injury to her back, received when she slipped and fell | after alighting from a street car at Seventh street and Rhode Island ave- | nue. William T. Milstead, 71. of the 1500 block of Thirtieth street, was treated at Emergency Hospital for an injury to the back received when he slipped and fell from a loading platform near Seven- teenth and H streets. ] PART OF ROOF RIPPED FROM MARLBORO SCHOOL Pupils There and at Suitland Sent Home When Usual Attendance. Storm Prevents BY a Staff Correspondent of The Star. MARLBORO, Md.. March 7.—About 100 square feet of the Toof of the Marihoro High School was blown off by the storm last night. | The Board of Education at noon to- | day ord-red the Marlboro, Suitland | and sevagal other schools to dismiss the | students because of the small attend- jance. At the Suitland School there ! were but 18 students in attendance out of an enrollment of 118. TWO UNHURT IN ACCIDENT Special Dispatch to The Star j HYATTSVILLE, Md., March T—An | automobile occupied by ‘two men skidded {on the Washington-Baltimore Boule- vard here this morning near Franklin street, and though it plunged backward down a 25-foot embankment and | turned completely around. did not turn | over. " Neither of the occupants was hu They declined to give police their names. The car bore a New York license. BUY or RENT Office Furniture | H. Baum & Son 616 E St. N.W. Nat. 9136 SHIP AND TRAVEL VIA THE ROUTE OF THE SunSHINE ARIZONA SOUTHERN MISSOURI\ | PACIFIC | _LINES / . £ PENNINGTON Mavl tomm Washingt D."€ “A SERVICE INSTITUTION™ MISSOURI PACIFI STAGES to Missol Pacific | where there wasn't any ic MARCH DRIVES 16 HOURS 10 REACK CAPITAL Motorist Describes Storm’s Fury Returning From Harrishurg. route. many as aw 250 or we more before e . : upants of the machines—ab sons in all, including about a dozen en—were given refuge. hile the women and ¢ ed in the two houses, t to clear a way through t My automobile is big and heavy after a littie digging I was a through, with the others f “Things improved as we I timore. Highway worker: b there, and the route. ery and treacherous, was Altogether, it was just about the tou est night Ive ever experienced. “The road between here and Balti- more was pretty good compar th some we had passed over.” GALE STRIKES MIDWEST. CHICAGO, March 7 (P).—A subzer blast_from out of the Arctic swept ¢ he Northern States yesterday n a score of States te hovered near the zero mark A first-hand account of ties encountered by motorists caught im yesterday’s storm was g today Seth E. Gordon, 3715 Livingston s who, with his wife t spent the night t Washington after Harrisburg. Pa Pennsylvania cit terday, but snowdri telephone poles block often and forced t many detours that the: the National Capital am today—I6 ho “We hadn’t gone very far" ne difficul- reet, in left the 30 p.m len trees and their path so to make so id not reach about 9:30 d sald Mr. ding orchards and sprout- we cold wave brought 18 williston, N. Dak.; 4 below Minn, and 8 below at Pierre, S. Dak. Drops of 0] degrees within & few were gent from the Rockies 5 e Appalach! Fruit growers in Midwest State anxious for the safety Chicago's two- r weather was dropped to forecast of abo TWO KILLED IN FLORIDA w was iss mar Die. Four Homes Deme Near Wauchula, WAUCHULA, Fla, March 7 (#).— ports of in a windstorm 5 miles east of Wauchula reached here and Son ished wo deaths 1 str nd demolished = late Saturday night home of Mrs. Drew 5-year-old son so seriously r homes were demolished range grove were uprooted were damaged, particularly omatoes in an crops icumbers and Gordon. “when we ran into trouble The road was covered with ice, and here wer snowdrifts. EC weke “We made several started on the route but conditions we: instead of better give it up. Tt a snowdrift and yards before we enough to turn around and star toward the tow “We tried s none of them v got started on figuring on heading for there. “All along tr there were fallen trees and t the sieet ’ Season your \ LENTEN- DISHES LEA PERRINS SAUCE lly had to d to back about to a place ¢ repair bills. 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