Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-04
out in the middle of the night and
forced to take shelter in a neighbor's 8

home
Sheriff Hardy of Prince Georges
county, Md, who lives on the Silver
Hill road not far from Surrattsville,
managed to reach this city in his auto
mobile this morning. He reported that
a number of trees were blown across
the road, but the distractions had been
removed by public-spirited resident
company him on his motor truck and
use his ak with telling. effect.
The corn looks as If steam roller
had gone over it," the sheriff re-
Marked" and other crops were dam
aged by the rain and wind.
Farmers will not complain, however,
If they save one-half their crops" he
added. "as present prices paid for
produce hardly does much more than
pay for the hauling"
Beach Damages.
Many cottagers and campers at
Chesapeake Beach and North Beach.
wind and rain struck there with great
er severity than in many other local
tiles. Several hundred feet of the
Chesapeake Beach Company's long pier
was washed away, sections of 1T being
driven as far as North Beach, mile
distant. Many trees in the park and
on the sloping lawns were uprooted.
The wide, fiat country lying between
Chesapeake Beach and North Beach
who usually use the connecting trolley
line between the beaches. had to take
shoes off and wade along the beach
roadway today. T. A. Wickersham' s
motor launch was driven from its
moorings and sank a mile from it's
wire fencing, some of the boardwalk
and guard rails were damaged.
The management of the Chesapeake
Beach railway sent its repair crew out
early this morning, and the commuters
train arrived In Washington on time,
of water lying along the roadway. Off
cials of the road say that the excursion
schedule will not be affected. t
Much Game Killed.
1t is feared the storm killed much
game in the surrounding country.
Rabbits and quail are said to be more
plentiful this year than usual, and the
drenching rain, it is thought, drowned
many of them. Hundreds of English
sparrows were drowned in this city.
Scores of dead birds were in the road
way and sidewalk in the vicinity of
Pennsylvania avenue and 7th street
this morning.
Attempts to communicate with CO.
lonial Beach from here today were met
with the response that telephone lines
to that point are down in several
places and that nothing definite could
be predicted as to when they would be
repaired.
One of Heaviest on River.
Rivermen describe the storm of last
night as one of the heaviest that have
Su ha ri in, rxrftI
the possible exception of the heavy
northeaster of the latter part of July
two years ago. That storm was only of
few hours duration, while the one
of yesterday started down river about
Z o'clock yesterday evening and con-
tinued through the night, reaching it's
greatest violence after 10 o'clock.
Officers of the steamer Wakefield.
which arrived here about daybreak, say
the wind reached hurricane force and
the rain was SO heavy that nothing
could be seen of lights or buoys. The
river and bay steamers all arrived here
steamer FrederiHk-s bcasd::
from this city to Mattox creek, was in
Upper Machodoc creek when the worst
of the storm developed, and she Is re-
ported to have remained there until it
About the river front little damage
was done. the harbor being well pro-
tected from the force Of easterly
storms. The storm caused the water
to back up In the river and the oyster
" harf and other low piers were COW
cred. but no damage resulted.
The Corinthian Yacht Club, on the
Virginia side Of the river at the south
end Of the Highway bridge. was ex-
posed to much of the force of the
gale, but comparatively little damage
was done there. A launch belonging
to Messrs. Popenoe and Pratt, a speed
boat belonging to Capt. Pratt and a
dinkey owned by Joseph Hill, lying at
the club berth. filled and sank, but
beyond the watersoaking they received
they are reported uninjured. Reports
received from Colonial Beach and vi
cinity state that pleasure craft were
damaged. but the buildings escaped.
Craft Reported Ashore.
L. A. Clarke & Sons received word
this morning that their launch Vir-
ginis and steam lighter Boo Hoo, had
gone ashore in Neabsco creek and that
their schooner Bush is ashore at High
Point.
The hulk of the old steamboat Capital
City foated up on the K street wharf
last night, but was showed back into
the river again this morning
Corn, Tobacco, Wheat Damaged.
UPPER MARLBORO. Md. August 4.