The Washington times., 1914-03-02

"Sdincf bufSau as lNe "OISi SlRCc
1855, though there are few Washing
ronians who will concede that there
over was worse one. FROM dusk
yesterday until dawn the city..s popu-
>ation was in terror as the gale
lowlue, carrying debris before it.
a drop in the temperature Of moro
than twenty-five degrees from p. n.
yesterday to a. m. today was recorded
Jy the United States Weather Bureau.
Many persons were injured by flying
class and tin, bricks and other art:c.es
hurled about by the wind. One woman,
5iown down IN the street suffered z
fractured arm, while others hurled to
he pavement by the gale suffered minor
INJURIES.
All trains were reported hours late at
he Union Station. Even the Congress
limited, the pride of the roads, we're
Gours overdue, their progress having
Oeen impeded by fallen telegraph and
telephone poles.
he city is ordinarily linked with the
rest OF the word, only 4 few are il
operation. The Western Union Tele-
graph Company reported shortly be-
fore noon that it had ali Of ITS wires
out OF commission with the exception
Of one TO Richmond. one 10 Baltimore
and one to Norfolk.
Tre Postal Telegraph Company re-
ported similar conditions. 1t vas stated
chat ali of the wires of this concern,
Nth the exception of three, one to
Baltimore, one to Philadelphia and one
20 Richmond, We're out os operation.
A survey OF its lines in and about
Washington by the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company shows
that I64 stations in the city and twenty
toll and lonG-Gistance lines are oct Of
operation as the result of the storm.
ssost serious danger to the telephone
service III the vicinity of this city has
been done along the line to Marlboro
and down through central Virginia.
Early yesterday morning the storm
vas reported off Cape Ha,teras. Warn
iags sent out oy the Weather Bureau
told ships not TO put out during the
ietia. issued yesterday morning, also
1orewarned the people OF Washington
and the neighboring States that the
ctorm probably would strike here dur
New York state is the center of the
storms, fury today. according to the
Weather Bureau, although reports from
parts Of the country affected by the
gale are meager owing to the crippling
If communications Officials at the bu-
reau said this morning that, the disturb
apce was working its way northwest
rom New York State, but would prob
IDLY linger there throughout the day.
REPORTS made by the police show that
larFe plate glass windows were broken
IN the following business places: White
House Lunch. Ninth street just north
Of g street: F. H. KraneL florist. sl6
and glass. 724 Thirteenth street north
west: Julius Garfnkle & Co. Thir-
ceenth and streets: Baltimore and
Ohio ticket office. Fifteenth street and
New York avenue: J. NJ. Stein & Co,
store SW H street northeast
big window of the F. T. V. Lunch
room. 11S Pennsylvania avenue. was
blown in ABOUT s O'Clock last night. and
tent OF $500 Show cases in front OF
Itores at 9S9 and $50 Louisiana avenue
northwest were smashed. Windows in
chs stores Of S. kann. Sons & CO. and
streets. were smashed. Awnings of the
Gtores at aa Ninth street and 204ts Ninth
street northwest were blown down.
he awning over. the carriage en-
Gence OF the Ebbitt House. on the
Fourteenth street side, was torn from
its fastenings and thrown against the
building.
A tin roof was torn from a nearby
ouading and dropped on the sidewalk
IN front of Harris & Ewing's photo
5rsphic establishment, at 1871 F street
nogthwest.
fhe basement Of the building at 1903
2 street northwest was filled with a
section of q tin roof, tightly wedged
Fences Blown Down.
4 portion of the fence surrounding
the new office building in course of
erection at Thirteenth and F streets
northwest, was torn down and reduced
20 kindling wood.
An awning at the Brentano book store,
Twelfth and F streets northwest. was
torn down, but the plate glass windows
we're not broken. The force of the wind
vas SO strong at this point that dust
vea forced under the edges of the plate
glass and deposited in thin layer on
be books and pictures of the window.
The Steinmetz fur and hat establish
-aent at Twelfth and F streets also lost
!ts awning.
The roofs Of eight adjoining houses
II Twenty-second street between N
and n streets northwest were strip
ped off by the storm during the night
and deposited in the middle of Twen-
Cy-seconG street, blocking traffic dur
.ng the morning One Of the sections
of tin lodged in tree.
Business Places Damaged.
Other business establishments dam (.
aged by the storm were: The Hub" !
furnishing shop. Fourteenth and New |,
Pennsylvania avenue: Washington A.,
auto Company, Fourteenth and W |
streets northwest.
Il would be difficult to find one
awning at any store on fennsyiVaElS- q
avenue between First and Fifteenth ,
streets, which has not been torn into !
ribbons by the wind.
At OgraIn's drug store, Thirteenth +;
arc the Avenue. the awning Was torn !
off and the poles were twisted ard I
hSnt downward so as to block the
entl aIce to the store. (,
4 large circular window in the tow |
sr of the Hutchins building at Tenth |
ND ID streets northwest, was blown !!
out. and the huge wooden frame in /
which the glass was set was torn ,
oose from its fastenings. The police |
-oped off the corner this morning, as ,
he frame was liable to fall any mo- |
-Gent.
-'hree frame houses in Anacostia
ere partial : demolished by the storm. /
Th6y we're the buildings at :, :. and > :
fiuaesOtd avenue, which were uEroofed :
@Oout s o'clock last night and their /
fronts blown away. Each building was ,
-c:-oied and the persons living in them
E-re terrorized, but all ESCAPED with
3ic injury.
Mrs. Harvey Townsend and three
s-sil children. and Mrs. SaGsbury and
ore litue child were the occupants
Ct 20. I. Ernest Allen. wife, and two
chTGrc" livsd in No. 2. Mrs. Williams !
ccc1Ir!e. promises No. g.
Telephone ard ~1e trio light wires
s,.- DOWN in a number or PLACES II
and about Anacostia
tree Ers rIDrOoted at Al1hrml ave