Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-01-03
TERRIFIC VINO STORM
PASSES OVER THE CITY
Gale From Southwest Leaves
Damage in Its Wake.
TELEPHONE LINES OUT OF ORDER
Huge Limb Also Carries Down Trolley
Wires on King George Street
Much Colder Tomorrow.

The city and surrounding country
side was in the grip Of terrific wind
storm for several hours today that
left more or less destruction in its
wake.
Principal among the items of dam.
ages reported that by the Chesapeake
and Potomac Tel sphone Company All
of the trunk lines between Annapolis.
Baltimore and Washington were put
out of commission by the heavy blow,
and much Inconvenience as well as
INC netary loss was suffered in conse-
quence. In addition. many Of the
lines in the city and the outlying sec
tions Of the county as well, were put
in the "out Of order" class.
A large limb from tree standing
in the yard Of the Chase Home on the
King George street side was snapped
off at the trunk. 1t fell directly
across King George street near the
intersection of Maryland avenue.
carrying with it the cable of the Tel
ephone Company, as we'll as the troll
ley wires of the Washington, Balti-
more and Annapolis Electric Line.
One of the iron stay pests of the troll
ley line was also loosened from it's
position. While the wires were
weighted down, none Of them were
broken.
Traffic over the Electric Line,
however, was delayed 20 some extent.
Instead of the outgoing cars leaving
the city by the regular route up Col
lege avenue, they were run up Mair
street The limb fell shortly after IL
O'Clock. An element of much danger
was the result as the limb was heavily
charged by the current and IL was
dangerous for pedestrians TO venture
near il. A Waterman was immediate
ly dispatched to the scene, 20 give
warning of the danger. A couple of
hours later the current on the city
circuit was shut Oft entirely, while
force of workmen destroyed the big
branch entirely, and repaired the
other resultant damage.
The wind reached its highest veloc-
ity at about ii 80 o'clock. For a
time authorities at the Naval Acad-
emy feared that they would lose the
main flag staff that stands in frCnt Of
the Administration Building. Ii pull
ed and tugged at the stay wires that
became much loosened by the heavy
blow until iC was thought that the top
mast would be snapped of, or that the
pole would be blown down entire ly.
The flag that had been hoisted as usual
during the early morning was reduced
to shreds.
All over the city shade trees suffered
the loss of large and small branches.
and it was a case of "heads up" as
pedestrians passed around the circle
of st. Anne's Church, and other places
OF the like. The blow was a great
menace to navigation. So far, how
ever, no damages to shipping have
been reported. Many of the smaller
bay vessels that were caught by the
blw, however, experienced much diff
Guilty in reaching harbor safely. Yes
sells in the local harbor dragged their
anchors considerably.
Persons along the streets had
hard tim keeping track Of their head
gear. In many cases the top pieces
were lifted and carried high into the
air by the wind. In some instances
they landed on housetops or in second
story windows Of residences, or were
carried far dowa the streets. The
blow began about 9 o'clock this morn
ing, following a night of intermit-
tent, but aeavy showers Of rain. The
velocity of the wind increased with
the minutes.
Shortly after noon the wind haul
ed around to due west and lessened in
force. The weather experts forecast
that it will get around to the north
west tonight, and that the storm that
has been hanging over the East dur
ing the last few days will be blown
out to sea. Incidentally, the indica-
tions are that it will be bitter cold
for the next twenty-four hours, much
colder" being the forecast.