Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-11
BIG STORM LEAVES
TRAIL OF DAMAGE
THROUGHOUT CITY
Three Injured, Streets Lit
tered With Fallen Trees
and Windows Blown In.
HEAT WAVE IS BROKEN;
MERCURY DROPS FAST
Police Called Out to Clear Avenues
Of Debris-Violence Centers
Near Washington Circle.


while washington sweltered and
swore in the heat, then came tumbling
down on the wings Of a short but
furious thunderstorm, which broke the
heat wave of the last two days, In
jured one person seriously, caused
slight injuries to two more and left
the streets of the Capital filled with
debris from fallen trees and broken
branches. When the storm had.
passed the temperature had fallen
24.9 degrees in less than that many
minutes. and cooling breezes brought
the forecast for pleasant weather to-
day and tomorrow.
Before the backbone of the heat
wave had been broken yesterday, how
ever, two persons had fallen victims
and were being cared for in hospitals
last night.
Many windows were blown in by
the gusts which heralded the storm;
police reported scores of automobiles
damaged by falling limbs and tele-
phone and telegraph service was In
terrupted for short time.
Police Called Out.
When the storms fury had passed
every police precinct in Washington
was sending out men to count the
damage and decorate the limbs Of
trees blown down with red lanterns.
Their estimate Of the list Of trees went
into the hundreds, but when Clifford
Lanham, superintendent of trees and
parkings, had completed a hurried
check-up, he placed the number of
trees actually blown down at IS, while
hundreds had been badly damaged
IA oeA hos s1~z TN.
nue., Pennsylvania avenue, Washing
ton Circle and New Jersey avenue suf-
fered most, the storm concentrating
It's fury there. While the wind was
short. it was fierce, but the Weather
Bureau put q damper on enthusiastic
estimates Of its speed by giving its
rate as 80 miles an hour. The wind
was accompanied by a heavy down.
pour Of rain, which covered the al
ready Uttered streets with dead leaves.
Thomas Roth, 1926 Massachusetts,
avenue, was the most seriously in
jured of those hurt in the storm. He
stepped out of his machine in front
Of 1902 Euclid street to put up his
curtains when a large limb crashed
down on him from an overhanging
tree, pinning him to his automobile
Residents rushed from their homes
to rescue him and he was taken to
Emergency Hospital, where he was
found to be suffering from internal
injuries.
Two Hurt at Windows.
Mathew Mcdonald, colored, a door,
man at the Metropolitan Club, was
cut about the head and body when
the wind blew one of the club win.
dows in on him when he was clos
ing 1t.
Mrs. Marie Brozinski, 253 Fifteenth
street southeast. severed an artery In
her arm as she was closing a window
blown in by the storm. She was
treated at Casualty Hospital.
Leslie Walker. 20 years old, Of 1928
NJ street, owes a lot to his saxophone
and his desire to practice on it. Out
side his house his car was waiting
for him. He was about to go out and
get into 1t to go for his mother, who
was visiting friends, when he de-
cided to try a few notes on his saxo-
phone before leaving. He had been
practicing only a. few minutes when
q tree limb crashed down on the ma
chine, burying it beneath its branches.
The tree blocked traffic between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets on M.
Witnesses told OF seeing man in an
automobile at Seventeenth and L.
streets do more than Good Samari-
tan turn in picking up a young man
and woman, who had been sheltering
themselves beneath a tree, and whisk
them of in his machine just as the
tree split and a portion Of it toppled
down on the very spot where they
had been standing.
Taxi Escapes Tree.
At Fourth and f streets, entering
Pension Park, taxicab, with man
and boy riding in it, just escaped be-
ing hit by falling tree.
Another freak stunt of the storm
was played on r. F. Grifiin Of Takoma
Park, Md. With his wife AMI two chill
dren he was riding in his automobile
near the intersection of Thirteenth
and X streets, when tree came crash
Ing down in front Of him. He stopped
suddenly. just then another tree came
down in back of his car. The two
trees hemmed the machine In COM
pletely holding the occupants prison
ers until the wind abated.
The wind and rain tried to wash
away q house under construction on
California street near Twenty.fourth
not vet firmly set in the mortar, were
carried away when the storm hit them.
Reports from police precincts
throughout the northwest and north
east sections OF the city indicated that
scores OF automobiles, which had been
left standing in the streets. had been
damaged severely by falling limbs.
Prostrated BY Heat.
The last stroke Of the heat spell
which had gripped Washington just
before the storm was delivered
when an unidentified man was pros
trated late yesterday afternoon e