Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-07
II lHlGne le Ids and RAIN MAY TOTAL $4,000 MEN
Torrential Downpours Late Yester-
day Afternoon and at an Early
Hour This Morning.

The heavens late yesterday becamt
overcast by the rise of dark clouds
in every quarter of the compass, ant
the wind changing to the northwest
blew with considerable force for d
shert time. A binding rain Storm
followed. About three o'clock tni'
morning another dark cloud passed
over this city and vicinity, during
which more copious showers tel
Both storms were accompanied by
thunder and lightning. During The
high wind yesterday evening a sie:
was blown down on Cameron st:eet
near St. Asaph, and a heavy branch
was torn from another close by.
While the disturbance yesterday
evening was not OF nature to cause
much alarm, it was severe north OF
Alexandria, where wind, hail and
lightning did much damage.
The storm gave reunion workers
in Washington an added worry by
wrecking two of the large tents that
have sheltered several hundred vet
erans in the last few nights.
Baltimore and the surrounding
counties were hit by the storm OF
yesterday afternoon that was one OF
the seyerest hail, rain and electrical
storms that has visited that section
of the state for sometime. Govans,
Owings Mills, Mount Washington,
Reistertown and other suburbs IN
and around Baltimore suffered thou
sands of dollars of damage as the re-
suit of the storm. Giant trees were
uprooted and blown against homes,
wrecking two houses in Govans ana
causing much damage to several 9TH
er buildings in other sections OF Bal
timore.
Hundreds of persons were injured,
nearly every window in the city was
smashed ,and vegetation was cut to
pieces by one of the worst hail
storms that ever visited Hagerstown.
Hail stones as large as baseballs fell
for fifteen minutes. All communlca-
tion with rural districts has been cut
off by the prostration of wires. The
citv was in complete darkness last
night Estimates of the damage done
bv the storm may reach a million
dollars.
Adyices from Baltimore say that
in one path, four miles wide and
fully twenty miles i'll length, every
thing was laid dow by the :. wind
Wheat aed rye crops were beaten to
the earth, thousands of chickens were
killed. greenhouses and shanties were
smashed to bits, while hundreds OF
trees were uprooted and carried great
distances away.
Every steam and electric railroad
within a radius Of 20 miles was put
out of commission by washouts ana
debris strewn along the tracks, while
lightning hit two street cars in Bal
t.more and destroyed several snah-
ties and houses in the rural sectlon'
Two trolley cars collided in Brook
lyn, injuring a number of passengers
a railroad locomotive struck a troll
lev car in Highlandtown, proDaDiy
fatally injuring one woman. AT a
beach resort. across the Chesapeake
Bay. big excursion steamer had TO
he sent drifting into the bay to pre-
Won't her from being smashed to bits
against her pier. Fortunately the
oycursionists were on the grounds at
the time.
The storm swept with great fury
throughout western Maryland. The
bail went through roofs like bullets
and the rain beat in and made many
of the houses look as though they
had been freswept. 2: