Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-08
IN TRACK OF STORM
Workmen Employed in Clear
ing Streets of Wreckage.
TREES SHORN OF BRANCHES
Four Workmen ct Columbia hospital
Injured and Building Damaged.
STREET CAR TRAFFIC IMPEDED
Lightning Strikes Several Buildings.
Rainfall L. Limited to Com
paratively Small Area.
TREES SHORN OF BRANCHES
STREET CAR TRAFFIC IMPEDED

Members Of the police force and EN-
ployes Of the District parking commission
are busy today looking over the area
visited by the storm yesterday afternoon
In order to get a complete list Of the
trees, buildings and other property dam
aged. The parking commission and street
cleaning departments were on the job
early this morning to clear the streets Of
obstructions and move the debris to the
city dumps.
The storm centered in the area south Of
NJ street north and north Of Virginia ave-
nue. south, from 10th street west to and
including Georgetown. Fully fifty trees
were uprooted, several hundred were
stripped Of branches. number Of houses
were nroofed, wagons damaged, one
horse killed and several men injured.
Probably tho most exciting episode Of
the storm was the damage done to the
building at Columbia Hospital where
Ohio Selmon. colored, and three other
workmen were injured. Selmon was the
only one who required hospital treatment
Washington Circle Hard Hit.
Washington Circle was hard hit by the
storm. the big trees suffering much dam
others we're stripped Of their branches.
Tops Of several trees on Goth street,
near the circle. were broken and some
OF them were blown distance Of two
blocks.
were at work on oath street between l.
and u streets removing trees that had
been killed by gas, and the storm took
down more trees in Ave minutes than
the workmen could have removed in q
week None of the dead trees was at
fected by the storm. however the wind
taking down only the good ones
A great many trees on l. X, l. and NJ
streets were blown down or broken. while
on 26th street, south Of Pennsylvania ave-
car traff1c was impeded. On NJ street
between Oath and 26th streets a horse
was killed by falling tree and a dairy
wagon was demolished.
One of the tall sycamore trees at 18th
and F streets northwest was blown down.
A team of horses belonging to the firm
of ". B. Moses & Sons became fright
ened at the crash and ran away, and
on OF the firms automobile trucks was
damaged.
Hole Torn In Roof.
Simmons. Ills LIST street northwest, tear
iH6 q uOAc III Tic IOOl anu Causing ABOUT
$S damage. None Of the occupants of
the house was hurt. House 1922 H street
was partially unroofed. while a brick
chimney of the adjoining building was
wrecked.
Lightning also struck the Dresden
apartment house and the Curtis School
building. but the damage was slight A
small structure on the roof Of the Toron-
to apartment house at Goth and P streets
was blown down and lamp post on
Volta place was struck by lightning and
demolished.
Today the street cleaning department
found it almost impossible to make the
regular schedule effective. So many streets
were obseructed by trees and branches
that the sweeping had to be partially
abandoned.
1t is the duty Of the parking commits
sion to remove the trees and larger
branches from the streets, while the
street sweeping force removed the small
er branches and twigs from the dead
trees. increasing the material to be haul
ed to the dumps.
The storm did not reach the excursion
resorts down the river or on the Chesa-
peake bay and very little rain fell in
East Washington. There was no rainfall
in many nearby country sections.