Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-31

blown in and the slate roof damaged, as
was also the roof of the adjoining house
900 Prince street occupied by William
Wattles.
Other Places Damaged.
The launch Edna Earle. belonging tc
Harry Fleischmann, and the Ultra. be-
longing to Frank Kast. sank. A large
smokestack at the planning mill of Smoot
& Co, Columbus and LIST streets, was
blown down. The clubhouse Of the Old
Dominion Boat Club was twisted and the
interior damaged.
Other damage reported was as follows:
Warehouse of Henry X. Field d Co.,
river front, unroofed; engine room OF
Field & Co. damaged, west wall of plant
of Alexandria County Lighting Com
pany blown in, and brick house opposite
used by Herfurth Bros. concrete manu-
facturerS, blown in: Emerson Engine
Company's plant. Prince and Fairfax
streets. unroofed; Alexandria Fertilizer
and Chemical Companys plant, and also
acid plant. unroofed and Otherwise dam
III. Harlow. All Prince street blown off
roof of residence of J. NJ. Hill, 40
Prince street blown off: residence OF
G. William Ramsay. 517 Cameron street
S. b. Moore, Sl1 Prince street. blown
off, roof of $40 Cameron street, unoc-
cupied. blown off. badly damaging roof
of 81 Cameron street. occupied by T..
roof of store OF f. Goldsmith, clothier.
King and Lee. blown off; wall of resi-
dence of Benjamin Posey. lib South Lee
street. blown out, and wall OF adjoining
residence. III South Lee, occupied by
Samuel Zones, also damaged; front of
residence occupied by l.. Harrison kell,
southeast corner of Fairfax and Queen
streets. blown in: rear of residence OF
Misses Whiting, 2OS North Fairfax street,
blown in; roof Of Colonial apartment I'll
North Fairfax, blown off: west wall OF
apartment on south side of Duke between
Pitt and Royal streets. blown in; west
wall of residence of Thomas {. Rawlett.
BOG King street, blown in; residence of
Mrs. Hubert Snowden, corner of Lee and
Franklin streets considerably damaged !;
roof of Roberts Chapel. colored. Wash
tngton street between Gibbon and Frank
lin streets. damaged.
Residence of William Scott. South Lee
street. considerably damaged; residence
of NJ Matthews, 213 North rairfax
street, badly damaged: rear roof OF resi-
dence of NJ. A. Quinn, 511 Oronoco street.
blown off: roof of old Potomac Hall. BOG
North Fairfax street, partially taken off
plant of Mutual Ice Company damaged
to extent of $500: skylight of store of N.
Lindsey & Co, wholesale grocers, blown
away and stock damaged; trap door of
Paff Shoe Company. Washington and
Gibbon streets. blown off and stock dam
aged: large plate glass window of john
A. Cogan. King street, destroyed; cornice
work of McBurney Hall building, Wash
ington and King streets, dam
aged; house at northwest corner
of Fairfax and Oronoco streets blown in;
house on Oronoco street betweeen Royal
and Fairfax streets blown in: chimney
of Relief hook and ladder house blown
off. damaging roof of adjoining house;
chimney of residence of Charles Baggett.
upper King street, blown off; new fire
engine house at Rosemont partially de-
stroyed weather vane of market house
steeple blown off hot houses of ]. Louis
Loose and Grilbortzer Brothers, Hunt
ing Creek road. badly damaged. several
small houses on outskirts also damaged
residence of Mrs. John w. Burke. 20s
Wilkes street. damaged roof of resi-
dence of w. A. Carter, COG South Wash
ington street. damaged.
Phone Service Crippled.
J. T. Worthington, manager of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company. stated today that $50 local
telephones were put out of commission
as a result Of the storm. The service
was greatly improved today, and early
here and Washington was resumed
service since the storm
The roof of the large new warehouse
of the Potomac Brick Company, Alex
andria county, was blown off. Two
large water tanks at the plant of West
Brothers Brick Company. Alexandria
county, were destroyed.
Many families whose houses were
unroofed spent last night with neigh
bors. Those who remained in the
unroofed houses suffered greatly as 6
result of the heavy rains early thi:
morning and most of them We're com
houses
A horse belonging to the Mutual Ic'
Company was instantly killed by com
ing in contact with live wire while
on Duke street between Fairfax ant
Lee streets this morning.
A horse belonging to ]. w. Deevers
contractor, had it's leg injured by be
ing struck by flying slate while OIL
the street during the storm. A mum
Der of other horses were injured b!
during the storm. Several wagon
caught in the storm were overturned
and badly damaged.
Mrs. E. o. Cation Dies.
| Mrs E. o. Cation, widow of Samuel +
Cation and mother Of James r. Cation o.
this city, died at 10 o'clock today at tn
| home of her daughter. Mrs. Arthur Da
Wis, Ida, Fairfax county. Mrs. Gator
| had for the past two years made he
| home in this city with her son. She hat
| been i'll for the past two months. Sh'
| was in her eightieth year and was ma
| tive of Fauquier county. Just before he
husbands death. two years ago, she cele
brated the fiftieth anniversary of thei
marriage. Mrs. Cation is survived by
daughter and two sons. Funeral serv
i ices will be held Saturday morning from
the home of Mrs Davis, and burial will
| be made in Bethel cemetery.
| The plant Of the Alexandra Glass Com
pany has been purchased by j. w. Mon
roe for $4,000. The plant will RESUME
operations in September under new man
agement.