The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-06-28

ALONG SEVENTH srREEr.

ALONG SEVENTH STREET,
however, matters were different. Com
mencing at the corner of Seventh and G.
streets, there were indications of the storm
observable on all sides.
sCHwING & CLARKE's
awning was torn into basting threads by
the wind, and their small awning sign was
whisked off and waited by the gale through
the platc-glass windows of
JIM GURLEY's CIGAR STORE,
next door, making hole large enough for
one of Knox's four-horsc express teams TO
drive through Gurley was mad when he
was so suddenly disturbed, but was made
good Datured later by Mr.. Clarke, who as
surcd him that Schwing & Clarke would be
responsible for the damage. The window
glass of the cooperative store was smashed
the roof of the Spencerian Business College
was wiped off, and the show windows of f..
Pructt's shoe store, 1923 Seventh street, were
shattered. The hail broke the windows of
11i3 Seventh street northwest, and Mt the
southeast corner of Seventh and q streets,
u pile of new buildings to-day looked as
though
A BATTERY OF GATLING GUNS
had been operating upon them for an hour
or so. Houses No 1912, 1914, 1916 Seventh
street northwest were unroofed. The lum-
Der ut Whcatley Bros. yard was whskcd
about like shavings, and the roof was skin
ned Off of II house at 105 Ninth street north
west as neatly as II professional butcher
could skin calf. number of houses in
the vicinity of Rhode Island avenue and
Ninth street were damaged more or less, and
houses No. 1906, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1514,
1916 and 1918 Ninth street northwest were
badly torn to pieces and to-day tenants
Were moving out rapidly. The cellar of
1i15 Ninth street was flooded. On both
sides of the street, at the corner of Ninth
and q streets, u scene of devastation was
presented when THE CRITIC man wandered
in that vicinity to-day. Houses were un-
rooted cellars were being baled out, and
mattresses and feather beds hanging out of
the windows told u tale in effect as thrill
ing as the narrative of
MIR. NoAH's VOYAGE ALONG THE COAST
OF ARAFAT.
roof was torn from house at the COR
ner of Ninth and N streets. A tree was up
rooted in front of the residence of DIR. Evans,
on Ninth street, Just above l.. The opera
ton of uprooting did not last long, but it
made a frightful noise.
IN THE NORTHWEST.
No part of our city suffered more from
the ravages of the storm than the north
western section. Several bay-windows, as
well as the roofs of some of the fine houses
in that section, were seriously damaged.
During the storm the tin-roofs of houses
Nos. 1919 and 1921 G street northwest were
blown Off
Back and front walls of unfinished houses
on New Hampshire avenue between NJ and
n streets northwest, blown down.
Two houses on the corner of Twenty
second and l. streets northwest had their
easements flooded to the depth of six feet.
The house of DIR. A. Z. Fardin, near
Dupont Circle, had the roof blown off and
the brick cornice badly damaged.
A cOlOred woman, named Ruth Butler,
living at the corner of Twentieth and l.
streets northwest, whose house is about five
feet below the level of the grades, lost all
her valuables by the flood.
THE NATIONAL TELEPHONE COMPANY
sustained considerable loss by their wires
being put out of order and being broken by
trees and telegraph poles falling across them
A large force was put to work Mt once, and
the wires will nearly all be again in work
ing order this evening and all of them by
tomorrow certainly.
MISCELLANEOUS LOSSES.
The plate glass window mt Harvey's, Sew
cnth and L streets, in Mockabee's store, cor
ner Twelfth and + streets, and Winners en-
craving and printing establishment, corner
Thirteenth and streets, were smashed.
| OlDSOu OihCc thC COutSIits
thereof were considerably damaged by wa
ter, the building being unroofed.
At Young's No. 736 Seventh street, the
front blew in, exposing quantity of silks,
&C., the damage to the same being given ut
5000.
Guinnip, Day & Co. suffered considerably
by the water getting into their stock of cot
tons and linens stored in their cellar.
The entire front Of Walters coach shop
and blacksmith shop, on ID, between Thir-
teenth-and-a half and Fourteenth streets,
was blown in, and the rail around the Pen
sion Office building was knocked off by the
lightning.
NJ. r. Woodward, 727 First street north.
west roof and rafters completely off; house
flooded.
Mrs. Wise, 725 First street northwest, roof
off and wall partly down.
At the corner of Second street and Massa-
chusctts avenue northwest, the roof of Il
building owned by Mr.. Tally and occupied
by Joseph Junhans as q store and dwelling,
was completely blown off and carried hall
a square down Second street. The water
poured into the building in a perfect stream,
causing great damage to furniture and goods
and compelling q vacation of the premises
A tree in front of the store of Jos. Har.
hour, on Second street, near G., was shat.
ttlcu Wy lSuthlIiS.
The skylight of the house occupied by Mr.
Hart III Second street northwest, was blown
off, and also that of house No. 715, just door
above it, 1t was II singular freak of the
wind that the skylights We're carried in
different directions.
The residence of Justice William Hell
mick, 1912 Ninth street, and five adjoining
houses were unroofed and their cellars
flooded. No estimate of the amount OF
damage could be furnished to-day.
The tower on the south side Of the
Franklin school building was blown down
and now hangs over the side. The Wallacl
school building, Eighth street and Pennsyl
vania avenue southeast was unroofed ant
the corner stove in
Chimneys blew down from the Census
Office buildings and did damage to the roof o
the Republican office. The loss to the lattcl
will be very great by reason of the damag,
to paper by water.
Lightning fcllcd large tree ut the corner
of Twelfth and + Streets one ut the corne
vania avenue, above Seventeenth street, nj
of which completely blocked up travel OF
the sidewalk.
DAMAGE TO THE TREES.
The young trees seem to have suilere,
severely all over the western section of tn,
city, especially so on Fourteenth, Fifteenth
Sixteenth, Seventeenth, ii, |, and X street.
and New York and Vermont avenues. Ii
fact, the damage to trees generally wa
great.
Lieut.. Guys officers report that fully fiv
hundred trees in his precinct were blown