Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-09-30
THE STORM IN WASHINGTON

THE STORM IN WASHGNGT0N.
An eQuinoctial storm last night gaze
Washington the worst shaking up il
ever had. The wind blew in q rotary.
twisting, wrenching velocity of tr5m a
to 20 miles an hour. Rain was driven
in floods. Lightning pierced and III up
the black clouds. and sharp ciel- Of
thunder contributed to make nature @
weird caldron.
The car shed of the Metropo
Electric line, running from -Four and IS
half to Third streets and Q to Z street.
southwest, is in ruins. Two coio-et
car cleaners were in the shed the
time, one of whom was hurt There
were about 100 cars in the shed bgi
the damage cannot be estimated
The pension Office is unroofed, wiz
dows were blown in and the interior
damaged The roof is composed %
four layers of material, the outer Of.
which is copper. The wind cot under
that and tore the sections OF copper o.
as if they were sheets of silk.
The government printing Office c--
capped with slight damage.
Large sections of the roofing o. II.
Aloysius Church were blown oil. Tie
steeple of the New York Avenue Pr
byterian Church was blown oil. Tile
tower on the Grand Opera House was
hurled to the sidewalk. Trees Oh
every street were broken and uproo.-
ed, their branches and trunks being
strewn so thickly as TO form complete
blookades in many places. TeIegIapt
telephone and electric light wires were
snapped, and their ends dangIed t8i-
ously in the storm. A horse -tepp9.
on live wire at Seventh street aud lle
avenue and dropped dead Bea,l
Saloon and Kelley's lunch house We're
wrecked by a falling wall, burying tive
of the inmates, who were badly hurt
Aside from the tremendous amour
of damage to shipping along the r|eg
front, almost every building and wnar.
house along the Potomac from Iar.
street to Fourteenth was danget-
Every boat received terrible wreaaa
ing. The Mattano, an excur ion esq
err, had holes stove in It's side, ana 80
half sunk. The yachts were all tors
loose from Their moorings, and some q.
them went adrift down the stream of
were dashed against other boats an
the sea wall. The steamer GEORGE
Leary broke from her moorings ald
played havoc with the other steam@
at the wharves nearby-ha ing lore ..
less damaged the River queen Pen.
Noseley, Mary Wa
ington, Mattano, Macalllster az
Wakefield The hrm of Wnsaii
Uhler, lumber dealers, were among Tie
worst sufferers in this regard tart o.
the roof of their main building was
blown away.
Georgetown felt the blow most 81
--~-"'v Hundreds of roofs are in The
streets, fronts of houses, bricKwo5N'
caimneys. shutters, trees and an lnu''
Unable mass of WrcckGge, bIae
streets on every side.
The Washington Arsenal suuer"!
damage, and about 1890
o'clock the signal corps house Wa
picked up and carried for 800 feet in
northwesterly direction.
Among the places damaged IA
Saks & Co., Kings Palace, Lansburs
lry goods store, the Bijou Theatre.
Bo:eler's china store, the Sta office
Woodward and Lothrop's build.as'
slightly, the baseball park &c. me
,ity was cut of from outside communca-
ion by the general collapse OF wires.
IN BALTIMORE.
The storm did great deal Of dam,
ge to shipping and the roofs OF houstS
nd electric wires in Baltimore lhere