Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-06-14
THEELEMENTS CONSP|RE
IN TERRIFIC STORM
BOreas and Jupiter PIuvius Do Their
Worst in and About City.
LARGE TREES UPROOTED.
The Town Clock Put Out of Com
mission Electric Lights and Tele-
phone Wires Down.

Old Boreas and Jupiter Pluvius
did their derndest" yesterday after
noon the elements conspiring to send
off the most terrific storm that has
visited these parts in, 10, these many
years.
All nature seemed determined that
Annapolis and vicinity should have the
greatest blowout of any June Week in
its history and should be wet through
and through, and literally soaked. And
It was. The day started out one of the
most humid and the hottest of the sum-
mer. The mercury crept up higher
and higher in the tube, until the tenn
perature reached 80 degrees before
the storm swooped down upon this
community, and-What A Storm
There was plenty of warning to get
under cover, for at least an hour and a
half before the storm broke clouds
begun to gather and the heavens SEEM
ed to cover themselves with dark
gray mantle that soon took on deeper
and darker gray until it was almost
black.
Rain fell in sheets. Everything
leakable, leaked. Some streets were
impossible for floods of water, and on
other streets boat could have been
easily rowed across the stream.
The wind blew at a mighty rate of
speed. 1t whistled like tornado and
came swooping down West street until
its force drove in the face. of the St.
Anne's Town Clock about a foot. The
Town Clock stopped at exactly five
minutes of five O'Clock, thus indicating
that the Storm was at its height at
this hour. The damage to the town
clock cannot be estimated at this time,
but the Knockout blow of old Boreas
on the clocks face is a grim reminder
of Sunday afternoons awful storm.
The damage to the trees, however,
done by the windstorm that swept
around Church Circle, down Glouces-
ter steet, and around the College
Campus and down Maryland Ave is to
be deplored in the loss of grand old
rees, many of which, in some cases
were uprooted and in others were
broken off just above the ground.
st. Johns College campus was strewn
with broken limbs, parts of trees and
during the storm. The campus present
cd pathetic sight to lovers of beau
tiful trees.
A large locust tree in Randall Court
on Maryland Ave. was blown down,
falling across a heavy cable of the
Postal Telegraph Company. and dam
aging it. Some of the electric light
wires and telephone wires were put
out of commission by falling trees and
limbs of trees. A large locust tree
in the yard of the Rectory was snap
ped off ten inches from the ground,
devastating the beautiful garden of
Dr. McComas, the rector.
Perhaps the greatest damage done
during the storm was to the old gas
plant on St. Johns street, the top of
which was torn off by the wind and
the wall caved in; making the wreck
ed gas plant look like "Germany's
Busy Bertha" had struck it.
During the storm Main street looked
like the rapids of Niagara Falls. The
Naval Academy trees also suffered. the
grounds being strewed with broken
limbs. Much damage was done at the
Marine Barracks and the Golf Links
where trees were uprooted and limbs
blowing off other trees.
In the city and suburbs chairs were
blown off porches. ferns in large pots
and jardinieres blown over and demol-
ished and in some places parts of Chin
neys were blown off.
Automobile parties on the boulevard
stopped on the side of the road and
waited until the storm subsidized.
The storm lasted less than an hour,
but was the fiercest wind and rain
storm Annapolis has suffered for some
years.