Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-08
Comparatively Few Buildings
in Winchester Section Es-
cape Hurricane.
MOVEMENT TO CREATE
INSPECTOR OF OILS
Charles Mullikin Receivers From
Two Strokes of Paralysis-Freeze
Kills Peach Tree Buds.
Special Correspondence Of The star.

Special Correspondence of The Star
WINCHESTER. Va. March a. 1914.
Rei&ted reports received from every
section Of Frederick county and the adj
joining portions of Shenandoah Clarke,
Berkeley and jefferson counties tell of
friGhtful havoc wrought by the hurricane
OF the early part of the week. and they
also show that the first measer reports.
placing the property damage at about
Slt0.0D. We're by no means exaggerated.
The storm came from the west and hit
miles from Winche ster without mo-
ments warning. and for more than eight
cen hours the velocity Of the wind was
between seventy and seventy-five miles
per hour. Comparatively few buildings
escaped without suffering some DANA ge.
The wire service was put out of commits
sion rendering il well-nigh impossible to
communicate with people at distance,
and the electric light and power service
was very irregular. The storm was the
most disastrous of which there is any
record in the Shenandoah valley
An effort is being made to get a bill
through the Virginia legislature empow-
ering cities. towns and counties to create
and explosives III general. The matter
was brought up as a result of so many
coal oil explosions occurring in WincheS-
ter and vicinity within the past few
weeks. No less than twenty-five people
have been burned by these explosions.
and ten OF them have died. all within a
radius of thirty miles of this city.
George H. kinzei. until recently city
treasurer. whose nomination for post
master at Winchester was confirmed last
month by the senate. has received his
commission. and arrangements are now
heing made fer him to begin his new
duties. 1t is expected he will take charge
of the local oflic early next week
Two new cases of smallpox We're dis
covered at Strasburg this week just as
the board of health was about to raise
the quarantine. which had been in eff
now i'll force again. Practically all of
the twenty-five cases have been isolated
in the western section of the town and
no death has occurred.
Mrs Bridget Custy. seventy eight
years old. who for more than thirty
years kept the first tollgatc southeast Of
Winchester on the Wildwood pike, and
who WAS always on duty day and night
to collect toll from those who used the
road died this week. She leaves one son
and one daughter. She was the widow
of Thomas CuSty.
LloperS Finally Wed.
Clarence L. Lewis of White Hail. this
county, and Miss Virginia Shirley of
week in Hagerstown Nd after their
original plans had been frustrated by
the father of the bride, who caught the
young lovers last Thursday in the act
of boarding a train at Martinsburg. He
took his daughter home and kept close
pt,,I, he mic Int on
her sweetheart crept up under her win
dow and gave a whistling signal, which
she recognized. The girl hurriedly
dressed herself and jumped out of the
window. An automobile whiSked them
away to Hagerstown, where the mar
riage ceremony was performed before
daybreak by a minister with whom ar
rangements had been made in advance.
The bride and groom summoned up cour-
age and returned home the following day,
receiving the parental blessing.
Rev. ]. Horace Mann, pastor of the
Thinking Springs Presbyterian Church at
Baskerville. Augusta county accidentally
shot himself in the thigh "A few days
since while out hunting rabbits near his
home. He continues to suffer much pain.
and it is feared blood poison may de-
velop.
The Cumberland Valley railroad placed
several passenger trains with all-steel
equipment in service yesterday between
Winchester and Harrisburg. Ai the
cars are of the latest patterns and are
lighted with electricity
Charles Mullikin of Washington. former
president of the Virginia Horse Show
Association, who suffered a stroke of
paralysis last Saturday night while re-
turning on a train from Washington to
his country place in Wildwood. CLARKE
county, Va. and whose life was de-
SPARED of for several days. now has a
good chance to recover. He suffered an
other stroke Sunday night. but has re-
gained the use of his limbs and his vi
tally Is returning. The physicians at
tending him are very hopeful.
Weems Home Damaged.
Members of the family of E. V. weems
returning this week from Washington,
where they have beea spending the win
ter, found their Iar-e and handsome home
here damaged by the great windstorm
earlier in the week. One tall chimney
had been blown over, crashing through
the roof and falling upon the floor of
one of the most extensively furnished
apartments of the mansion.
Mortimer Corsen. a widely known far
mer of the western section of Frederick
county, was found dead in bed one morn
ing this week by his son, Arthur Crosen,
He had attended dinner at the home of
a relative the previous evening, and it is
thought his death was caused by acute
Indigestion.
The zero weather of last week, it is re-
ported. killed millions of tender peach
tree buds in the West Virginia border
counties. principally those planted in low
places. but it is stated that the upland or
chards escaped serious injury.
Arrangements are being made by local
educators to hold the first school fair
here early next month, when, it is plan
ned, every school in Winchester and the
surrounding country will make exhibits.