Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-08-01
RECENT STORM
DAMAGE IS $4,000
Big Sum Required to Pay
Actual Expense of
Repairs.
ECHOES OF BIG BLOW.
Complete List of Houses and Build
ings Which Were Damaged by
Fierce Tornado.

The devastation caused by the
storns of Wednesday afternoon is still
the principal subject Of conversation.
Everyone has some thrilling expert
ence to relate, and further investiga-
ton shows that more houses were
Injured than was at first supposed,
but few structures, however, were
seriously damaged most of the prop
erty escaping with broken chimneys,
prostrated fences, etc. The worst
damage was done at the plant of the
Alexandria Fertilizer and Chemical
Co., where the loss is placed at $4,000.
The Gazette of Wednesday, in de-
scribing the storm referred to houses
which had suffered more seriously.
The roof was blown from the store
of E. Goldsmiths at the southeast
corner of King and Lee streets; the
residence of Benjamin Posey, on Lee
street, between King and Prince, was
badly damaged, the east end of the
residence of Mrs. J. w. Burke, on
Wilkes street, between Lee and Fair
fax was blown in, fencing leveled
and the property otherwise damaged;
the tin roof of the home of H. R..
Burke, on Lee street adjoining, was
carried away; the southern wall of the
nspeG story of the residence of VII.
liam Scott, on Lee street, between
Wilkes and Fairfax, was torn out;
two houses on the square below, oc-
cupisd by Kenneth Baggett and Char
les Devine, were more or less injur-
ed; the roof of the fertilizer plant
on Lee street, near Princess, was
torn off and thrown on the top of a
house occupied by Fannie Kimbail, on
the opposite side of the street; the
west wall of the building occupied by
Thomas c. Rawlett, on the south side
of King street, near Fairfax, was
blown out, and the falling bricks
badly damaged the upper story OF j.
NJ. Armstrong; house adjoining on
the west; the walls of the Kell House,
southeast corner of Fairfax and
Queen were blown I'M and the house
badly damaged; the house occupied by
Mrs. Mullin, northwest corner of
Cameron and Pitt streets, had the
west wall of the upper story crushed
(wsst wall of this house was blown
out by the tornado on September go
1866, the residence of G. VIM. Ram
say, on the northeast corner of Cam
eron and st. Asaph streets, was un-
rooted and otherwise badly damaged;
the home of R. E. knight, (the old
Lewis McKenzis residence) on the
north side of Prince street, near Lee
suffered seriously, the chimneys hav.
ing been blown off and the flying
bricks crashed through the residence
of William Wattles adjoining on the
west; the east and west walls of the
electric works at the foot of Wolfe
street were blown out; the plant o1
the Old Dominion Glass Co., in thu
northeastern section of the city hat
the roof, one end and one side Of tht
main building carried away. Thu
damage at the Old Dominion is abou
$4,000.
A big pile driver was torn from it
moorings, turned over and sunk a
w. A. Smoot & Co.'S wharf, foot o
Prince street; the metal roof was
stripped from the Colonial Apartment
house and deposited on the residenc
of the Misses Whiting on the oppo
site side of the street, causing consid
cradle damage.
The roofs of the three brick tene
ments at ia, TIC and 71s Queen st
ocupiei respectively by the famllle
of Mrs. Henderson,, Thomas Enni
and J. T. Mcintosh, were lifted an
dashed against the upper port OF tn
residence of Harry Hammond,
North Columbus street, knocking
huge hole in the side wall.
The homes of NJ. A. Quinn, 81
Oronoco street; Mrs. George Ha
low, All Prince street; ]. NJ. Hi
41O Prince street, and DR.. S.
Moore, AL Prince ST., were unroo
ed;a snial cupola was blown from Il
roof of the Alexandria Hospital, b