Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-23
MORE FOG IS LIKELY
Warm and Unsettled Condi-
tons Predicted.
REAL SUMMER IN TEXAS
Street Cars Here Figure in Sew
eral Collisions.
MIST BANK UNUSUALLY HEAVY
Traffic on the River Almost Entirely
Suspended-Watermen Ex-
pect Heavy Rain.
REAL SUMMER IN TEXAS
list BANK UNUSUALLY HEAVY

More fog. more warmth and more un.
settled conditions is, in effect, the out.
look statement handed out today at Uncle
Sans weather bureau.
Down in Texas and Oklahoma" Prof
Harry Frankenfield said this afternoon
the folks are having real summer wealth
er. AS a sample of the tropical wave that
has set In there the thermometers at San
Antonio, Tex. gave a reading today OF
So degrees Fahrenheit.
"It will be quite warm here and unset
tied for several days." the forecaster con-
tinued, with prospect of showers, but
the Texas temperature will not be reached.
The heavy fog We have been experiencing
is due to the cold air rising from the
snow and ice-covered ground and coming
in contact with the warmer air above.
Street Cars in Collision.
Owing to the heavy fog this morning
several street car collisions occurred, but
fortunately none resulted in fatalities
Two cars of the Brookland line were in
collision about s:35 O'Clock this morning
at Michigan avenue and North Capitol
street, both being slightly damaged. No
one was injured. The first car had left
the Brookland terminal and was proceed
ing to 18th and G streets, and had stopped
at North Capitol street. The second car
suddenly doomed up out of the fog and
crashed into the rear Of the first.
Car No. 235 of the Capital Traction
railway and a wagon Of the Chris. Heur-
lch Brewing Company, driven by George
Hyson, collided while on G street near
2lst street this morning. The fender and
gates of the car were broken.
A coal wagon owned by W. w. Griffith
of LIST and N streets northeast, and driv-
en- by Lewis Lundy, was struck by car
No. 594 of the City and Suburban line
while on New York avenue near LIST
street this morning. The headlight of the
car and the front of the wagon were
damaged. and mule attached to the
coal wagon was injured.
Two Accidents at Same Place.
Car 142. on the Georgetown division of
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company, had a hard time about $50
o'clock this morning getting through the
dense fog. Near the intersection of 31st
and streets the car collded with a
wagon belonging to the Arlington Brew
Ing Company, both vehicles being badly
damaged. The driver of the team and the
motorman of the car escaped injury. A
few minutes later the same car figured in
a rear-end collision near seth street and
Prospect avenue. When the second coli-
sion occurred the fender Of car 101 was
broken.
Shortly before 10 O'Clock this morning
car 11S and a wagon belonging to the
Connecticut Pie Company collided on
the crossing where the first accident oc-
Cured. The car was slightly damaged.
but nobody was injured.
A few minutes after the car and pie
wagon met collision occurred at 31st
street and Dumbarton avenue between
a car and an ash wagon. The fender of
the car was broken, but the wagon was
not damaged.
While riding a horse along 7th street |
between NJ and N streets this morning
Thomas c. Taylor of 14O4 Park avenue |
was struck by car No. 321 of the Capital |
Traction railway, receiving slight in |
juries. He was removed to his home by |
friends.
Mist Banks Thick Over River.
This, the third day of foggy conditions |
IN the river. was the worst. At daylight |
he mist banks were so thick that moth |
ns could be seen on the river, but gray |
haze. Objects twenty feet from the pier
heads could not be made out and only |
hose vessels that were obliged to sail |
eft their docks. Unlike the fogs of pre-
,ious days, the run rays did not cause
he mist to disappear about noon, and at |
O'Clock 1t was almost as thick on the |
larbOr as 1t was in the morning.
Watermen have saying that three
ogs bring a rain If such be true and
he heaviness of the rainstorm Is in pro-
portion to the thickness Of the fog fhen