Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-01

blown the doors off the hearse. They
were carried a quarter Of mile away.
The funeral party reported tnat Tres
were falling about them throughout their
disagreeable experience Ihe party ! Ton
George Miller, Mrs. G. Torrie, Mrs NJ.
c. Hartman and Masters Garland Spros-
ser. William Miller and John Miller
Launch Nearly Sunk.
Capt. Otto Most, superintendent OF the
Dorsey & Miller Co, dredging plant had
q narrow escape from having his launch
sink under him in the gale. ABOARD the
power boat DIANA a small tender used
in going to and from the working
dredges Capt. Most with colored man
was on his way to this city from flscat-
away creek when the gale struck MN:
The Diana is a little craft. but she did
nobly until the seas began to break over
her and she started to fill. To Keep the
glass in the windows in the forward part
of the boat from being broken by the
seas and the vessel flooded, Capt Nost
had to keep his back pressed asanst the
and held life preserver against the
other, while the colored man bai!ed the
water out of the boat with bucket
Conditions became so bad that lie pre-
servers were put on and II looked as IL
the launch would surely sink when the
mi came in the storm and Capt. Most
and his man were able to free her OF
water. AS the storm was abatlng he
stopped by the wreck of the tug Wlnshlp
to bring the engineer, Lewis carter, 10
this city for aid.
Cant. Most states that he has been go
ing to sea for thirty years and has seen
some severe storms, but that of Wednes-
day was the most severe ne ever ex-
perienced AS result of the bunetings
she received from the waves ON the river,
pairs.
The sloop Harriet Smith, which brought
q load of oyster shells from river point
to Alexandria, parted her lines and drlfted
on submerged piling at the mouth OF the ne
old canal, a short distance north OF
Alexandria. during the storm. The sharp
end of a pile broke planks in her bot
tom and she filed and sank. The smith
had Just been launched from Deans rail-
way, where she had repaired damage
ing the same piles. The vessel is thought
to be badly damaged, but to what ex-
tent will not be known until she Is
fioated.
Schooner Is Dismastea.
Capt. Matt Kendrick, owner of the
schooner May, which was dismasted
while lying at Benefits boatyard under
repairs, has arranged for the installing of
be finished as rapidly as possible. but it
will be two or three weeks before she
will be ready for service. Plans are also
being perfected for the raising and re-
pairing of the schooners Margaret and
F. Moore and the Mary Francis, which
were sunk at Alexandria.
Clarke & Winston Company yesterday
sent a piledriver and other outfit to
Shoots wharf, Alexandria, to raise the
piledriver sunk there. The driver, 1t is
said. is badly damaged and considerable
work will have to be done to her before
she is ready for service.
The house has floated off the sunken
tug Edith Goddard Winship, lying almost
submerged in the river near the stee
plant wharf. 1t is understood that the
Consolidation Coal Company, the owner
of the tug, will arrange with a Baltimore
or Norfolk wrecking firm to come to this
city and raise the sunken boat. 1t will
| be several weeks before she will be ready
| to resume service. Meanwhile the tu&
James O. Carter will look after her work
| on the river in the vicinity of this city.
Owners of power boats damaged in the
storm are arranging to have them re
paired i'm order to get them in condition
! for cruising on the river as soon as pos
sible While many of the pleasure Graf
| had awnings blown away and other mino
damage done them. none OF them wa:
sunk or seriously injured.