Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-06-23
AFTERMATH OF STORM
MORE DAMAGE REPORTED
Hail Breaks Window Glass All
Over the City--ROofs Demolished.
THE COUNTY SUFFERS, TOO.
Mr.. RevelI Has $4,000 Watermelon
Vines Destroyed---Great Damage
to Fruit Trees---No Such Hail
Ever Seen Here by Oldest
Inhabitant.

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Residents of the city and adjacent
sections of the county are today figur-
ing on the damages inflicted by the
bombardment of hail in yesterday afS
ternoon's storm. +
Hailstones, many of which were As
large as ones clenched fists, feIl DIR
ing the storm that passed 0Ter An
napolis between 2 and 3 o'glocK yes
terday afternoon The storm, which
formed as of an ordinary Bquall, was
accompanied by a little r3in and high
gust Of wind. but reached proportions
unparalleled in the histoE of the city.
The shower of hail continued for
over FIFTEEN minutes. being first rain
of the larger stones with showers of
smaller ones and rain. and then an
other downpour of the larger pellets
II was a storm, the like of which was
never before witnessed by the oldest
residents of the city Inestimable
damage was left in its wake In the
city the principal damage resulted
from the shattered window panes. and
plate glass display windows in front of
many Of the stores. There was scarce
ly dwelling in the city where win
dows ranging upwards OF five We're
not broken.
The Naval Academy Chapel prob
ably suffered the greatest damage in
this respect. Large and small win
dows suffered by the drive of the
heavy pellets, and a heavy glass sky
light in the department of electrical
engineering and physics. the dimen-
sions of which were 25xl5 feet. was
smashed to smithereens. But thedam-
age to the Chapel was probably the
greatest. IL will reach into hun
dreds of dollars.
All along Maryland avenue. Main
and West streets. and other principal
thoroughfares of the city, heavy dam
age was inflicted by the rain of hail
by the smashing of large and small
windows Horses hitched to deliv-
cry wagons of several of the mer-
chants, almost succumbed to the beat
ing of the big stones on their heads
and backs. A number of instances,
where the animals simply fell in a
The storm was a peculiar one and
from all reports il was almost entire
ly local. 1t covered a radius of about
| fourteen miles, extending from Arm
olds Station, five miles north of this
city, to about nine miles to the south
ard. but the greater force of it was
felt within a stretch of nine miles
Avn
1t seemed to form over in the West
but soon moved over toward the
northeast. Suddenly. however, the
wind again hauled around and swept
il across Severn river and the CITY
| and the rural sections In the mean
time. the wind again changed, this
time blowing a gale from the north
west, but il was of short duration.
| Farmers in the vicinity Of st. Mar
garet's and Arnold's, report heavy
damage to wheat,oa and other crops
| In that section there was much
heavier rain than prevailed in this
| city In addition 10 the damage enum-
Grated above, the skylight in Bancroft
| Hall, the dormitory building of the
midshipmen at the Naval Academy, as
| we'll as that of Luce Hall, or gym.
nasium. were wrecked, and many
window panes in both of these build
ings and also the large building Of
the naval experiment station. across
the river. were battered. Horses
and other live stock on several farm.
were severely bruised by the rain o
heavy pellets.
One trucker of NorthSevern said hii
horses ran like mad until the caugh
the shelter of trees. An idea of tn,
quantity of hail that fell may be bette
gained from the fact that the pro
4 prietors of number Or saloons gath
cred it by bucketfuls and used it eth
er in icing their coils or serving it I,
their customers in highballs.
-tNNinaeS-s-in the dome of the Stat
House were damsgea- similarly L
those of other buildings about tn
city. II is alcost impossible TO esti
mate the damage done by the storm
Asbury (coloredJ Church, on Wes
street. had nearly every window bro
ken; St Anne's Chapel, East stree
/
ruined. Hundreds of pieces of tn
red tiling, an expensive kind ,strew tn
street about the Chapel
The tin roof of DR. F. Fl. Thompson
house on Main street. was dented b
the hail. Mr.. Revel. of the Thir
district. says $4,000 of his watermel
on vines. some from one to two fee
long. were ruined by the hail MI
Revell also said his peach and pea
trees have been badly damaged
The public school building at Easi
} port had it's slate roof bbadly damag
ed and many windows broken. Their
were over 100 panes Of glass broke
in the Grammar and High School wiz
dows on Green street
Carvel Hall had It's window pane
broken; Mr.. Hart's property had 20
windows broken
Scarcely a house in town escape,
In some instances shutters were hrr