The evening times., 1896-09-30
IN THE NORTHEAST.
Fury OF the Gale Spent Upon Resi-
deEces and Streets.

l VI tic Spent 4 pun
deEces and Streets.
Tile gale swept through I X, and Myrtle
| streets, in the vicinity OF st. Atoyslus'
| Church, with tornado velocity, and when
| the sun arose this morning IT looked down
| upon scene OF devastation and ruin in that
| vicinity.
| They were piled high with tin roofs,
| drcken-off trees, tinibers, bricks, and other
| debris, rendering the car-iageways and
/ pavenients impossible. Cbimneys We're
| tUniblel down roofs ripped from the houses,
| and walls crushed in. The blockade at
the corner OF First and X streets northeast
| was complete.
Several roofs from / street, between
| North Capitol and First streets rortheast,
with the roof t'nibers adhering TO them.
were blown high into the air, descending
with n series OF deafening crashes int
| Myrtle street.
| The hay window of Mr.. Grant Radsh's
| Residence, No. 66 Myrtle street, was crushed
| in by flying fiInbers blown in the gale
| from street.
TOP STORY BLOWN DOWN
The eDtire top story OF the five-story,
| brick boarding house or MIR K. j. Appeby,
No. % street northeast, wis blown down
| While the storm was at its heigiith, and the
| maosard roof swcptaway. Attic same time
| the back wall fen in, and the big building
| is so badly injured from rCof TO cellar
| thatitwill have TO be torn down and rebuilt,
| IL is believed. Messrs. j. NJ Hall aud Ed
| ward Weaver, boarderS. who were asleep
in their room on the top floor, barely es
| capped. u
Mr. H. S. Murphy's residence, No. 81 X
| street, also had his top story stove in by
the gale, and his sons. Eddie ard Willie
Murphy, nearly lost their lives.
| Director OF the Mint Preston, who lives
| next door to the wrecked buildings, gave
| nt TT
l'iuto the night as the upper story col
| lapsed and the big structure swayed to
and fro as though In the midst OF AN
| ea rthquake. '''+
The entire row of brick dwellings, from
| No. 5i to No. ~ l street northeast, We're
unroofed. and the parapets OF the structures
| tunibled down into the third-story sleep
| ing apartments
| y bigtree near North Ca ptoi and streets
| was blown against No. l street injurinG
the house and blockading the inmates.
In the vicinity of the Government Print
ing Office and st. Aioysius Church thirty
big trees, hy actual count, Were snapped
| off, as though they Were pipe stems.
Several windows in Detective ]. ID. SE.-
| ton s residence. No. 134 Massachusetts ave
nue northeast. We're blown in, and his
| famil Y had narrow escapes from flying glass;
THE BEATTY DISASTER
| Police Lieut.. Amiss reported to head
qua rJerS IDlS tHdt W ME Ile
storm was at its height, about / o'clock
| last nj ght, the brick building, No. 1913
PENNSYLVANIA avenue northwest, occupied
| as liquor store by Charles l. Beatty,
and No. 1915, adjoining. occupied as
dairy iunchroom by 7. III. Kelley, We're
wrecked by terrific gust OF wind which
swept across the avenue and blew down
| the wall of the new building, No. 1911
| Pennsylvania avenue. The buildings We're
entirely demolished.
G. W. Mccormick and George Sutton
were in Kelley's lunchroom when the build
| ng tumbied down. Sutton leg was brok-
| Ell and Mccormick was badly cut about
| the face and head. They We're quickly re-
| NOV ed to tine Emergency Hospital for treat
ment.
RAZED TO THE GROUND.
Bladensburg road received especially Sc
we're handling by the wind From Strauss
hothouses to the District line it was en-
| tirely blocked with telegraph poles and
| wires, trees, and some houses in tn ecourse OF
| construction between Nineteenth and
| Twentieth streets, were razed to the ground
| ground.
The north wall of Burgess stable in the
| alley between Third and Fourth and
and f streets, was blown down.
Half q dozen houses are unroofsd in the
vicinity of Sixth and f streets. Two tele
grpah poles, one at Florida avenue and Thir-
teenth street, and one at Twelfth street
and Maryland avenue, were broken off, and
| lie in the street.
The tin roof and part of the upper story
of Maschaper's carriage storage building,
at No. 252 Eleventh street northeast. was
taken off, and a telegraph pole at the
same location was broken off and now
| swings from its wires.
Eleventh street northeast, with the eX-
ception of one or two blocks, is entirely
| impossible to traffic. The roofs of tie en-
| tire row of houses on the west side of
Eleventh street, between aud Ii north
east, were taken Off.
K street, between Third and Fourth
northeast, also has its quota of unroofed
dwellings, there being no less than seven
| in the block.
A stable in the rear of No. 304 X street
northeast was entirely demolished.
SNAPPED THE POLE.
About twenty feet or the telegraph pole
in front of No. 3O8 E street northeast was,
broken off, and is pow suspended over the
sidewalk by the wires, constant menace
| to the lives of passing pedestrians.
The patrol box at the corner of Second
street and Massachu setts avenue was top
pied over by the wind and will have to be
reset. = so -
Third street, between E and F. is also
closed by the branches of trees, tin ro6fs,
and other litter which lies in the drive
way, -
Two large limbs,t which have been al,
most torn off by the wind, on Second