The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-13
SPANS
WATCHED BY
EXPERTS AS
FLOES BREAK
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lighthouses along the Georgetown
water front above and below the
Aqueduct Bridge were seriously dam
aged, and a number of small craft
were crushed, and some Of them sunk,
by the early ice movement.
Crews Of men have been busy on
all of the water front property NOV
ing materials and equipment to places
of safety.
Ch&ndIee Yacht Missing.
The big ls-fOot yacht OF Horace
Chandlee, patent attorney, was swept
eway from its pier near the Washington
Canoe Club this morning and has gone
down. according TO reports received at
Mr.. Chandlee's offSce today. At noon
he started out to learn what he could
of the missing boat II is said to be
valued at $1,000.
Six scows belonging to the Colum-
bia Granite and Dredging Company
were reported missing this afternoon,
: and are thought to have gone down
in the ice jam.
Dempsey's boathouse was damned
to one side; boats attached to their
moorings there were swept away, a
naphtha launch crushed into a form
less mass is lying between two big
chunks OF ice and held near the boat
house. A few feet beyond is the
Washington Canoe Club, Moore's
Boathouse. These properties were
{ dashed with the rising waters filled
With heavy ice floes that broke upon
them.
Two scows engaged in delivering
material TO the Key Bridge construc-
tors broke from their cables and
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ed by huge masses OF the flowing ice.
Fleet Of seows Lest.
The Columbia Granite and Dredging
Company lost a feet of scows. that
were located stuck in the ice several
miles below.
A huge -dredEe valued at $4,000,
the property Of the dredging company,
broke a one-inch steel cable and
caught in the flow around the river
bend on Potomac Park and employees
OF the company are making efforts to
lash IL in its present position. u
A diving bell, valued at $1,000. the
property Of Captain Wanner, capsized
and disappeared.
A holster barge, valued at $1,000, the
property OF the Columbia Granite anda
Dredging Company, went down. the
ice capsizing it as sixteeninch thick
chunks struck the holster.
Loosened by one of the earliest
winter thaws in history, the ice broke
almost without warning along the
entire length OF the Potomac from
Georgetown to Cumberland. Condi-
lions at all up-river points are re-
ported as serious, with the ice gorR-
ing at many places. II the ice piles
at any points in its flight to the sea
st will probably carry everything be
fore it
First Break ut Great FaIIa-
The first break that brought peril
to property along the river front
here came at Great Falls at / o'clock.
River men had been watching appre-
hensively for it for nearly a week,
and the warning was Immediately
sounded
Fifty residents in shacxs and boat
houses along the Potomac near the
Aqueduct bridge at 4 o'clock this
morning were warned by police that
the ice had broken and that their
lives were in danger. Then the ice
from Great Falls began moving and
crushed everything in its path.
Dempsey's boat house, containing
1000 canoes, the property of Wash.
ington sport lovers, was damned by
a tremendous impact OF sixteen-inch
ice that broke upon the supports of
the boat house at the west side OF
the north end OF the bridge.
War Department Warned.
Policeman P. S. Tormey, who was
busy at 4 o'clock this morning warn
ing residents along the water front.
notified the War Department that the
ice had started to flow and men i'm
mediately were put to work meas
urinR the rise OF the Potomac.
Fifty feet above Dempsey's is the
Washington Canoe Club. The rising
waters filled with massed ice affected |
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