Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-13
Streets Washed Out and
Homes Are Flooded by
8.67-InCh Fall.
MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA
RAKEO BY 8-H0UR STORM
Tel End of Florida Hurricane
Carries Away Bridges and Ma.
rooms Hundreds of Motorists.

A rain-soGden and Storm-wcary Ma
tio0al Capital today began taking stock
G. @he' Damage il has suffered in two
csys of The heaviest rain ever expert
enco6 il The history Of this section OF
the country. Hundreds of flooded homes
washed out roads and bridges. shattered
communication systems and hundreds
o. stalled and abandoned automobiles
figured II the storm toll
A. least 10 bridges and culverts on
nearby highways were washed away.
leaving impossible gaps in some of the
principal highways leading out of this
city 10 the South. AT other places the
roads are under water or are so badly
c.. up as to be nearly impossible.
Fair Weather in Sight.
Absence Of food conditions on the
Potomac River and the assurance Of no
noro rain in the immediate future came
frcr. the Weather Bureau as the most
cheering news of the day. Fair weather
tonight and tomorrow. with not much
change IN temperature. was the forecast
Of + Hanson Weigftnan, the official
fcreCaster. this morning.
TlC 40-hOur rainfall which ended at
3 o'cl0ck last night sets a record for
al tine III this locality. with total
Of 3eT inches of solid water. The "a
hour period Of Saturday night and Sun
ca. when the storm was at its height.
shattered all records with a fall OF 6.64
inches The greatest previous 24-hour
rainfall occurred 30 years ago t0 the
day. on August u. 1898, when there
was q fall Of 496 inches. The heaviest
previous .2z-hour rain in this section of
the country fell in Alexandria. Va. and
yic.-i.y September 2. 1922. when SIS
in-a7s was recorded dring an eight
hcL- Storm.
No Flood Danger.
: {. Spencer, acting head of the
We hsr Bureaus division Of river and
food. declared there is no danger of
& 1ocd IN the Potomac River. as COM
paratively little rain fell in the rivers
heaGY1aters. The reading this morning
Al KEY Bridge gauge in Georgetown
EfoUe& that the water is only IL feet
above the average mean low tide, which
according 20 Mr. Spencer, is very low. :"
a Harpers Ferry the river is only
feet above normal which is Of no
importance as a food factor. The
Wc-:rer Bureau does rot feel any con-
ce~n until the Harpers Ferry readings
reach 10 or y feet above normal. In
ti.e Shenandoah Valley reports show
thai but to . inches Of rail fell
and al Riverton. Va. the gauge showed
reading Of 3 feet yesterday morn
1rg. since when the river has not risen
apDTeclably
Sixty motorists n1arooned at Malta
woman Swamp were brought TO WASH
tng1on early today in busses. The
motorists abandoned their cars, crossed
tE3e swamp on an irnprovised foot bridge
End entered the buses.
TO storm which wreaked so much
csmage IN this city and its immediate
vicinity was the taI-eud Of the hur-
Tscale which ravaged the coast Of Flor
TIA last week Il appeared to have
spent lis force in this vicinity. as towns
fe9 miles 70 the west report nothing
more than normal transforms.
Nearby Localities.
The lower Potomac River Valley and
So Errn Maryland suffered severely
Ec2gE damage 70 crops throughout the
storm area Is reported Watercraft on
1ae Tsrcr and Chesapeake Bay were
damaged or blown ashore TWO men
n1 z coal barge were reported missing
Fclr bridges In southern Maryland
vere washed away or inundated
sGd roads were considerably dam
aged Harry 3 Willar IT., assist
80 Calsf engineer Of the Maryland
state R0sds Commission said today
= = impossible a. present 70 give an
est.S ate on the damage. but crews are
q Tog6 and interruptions 70 traffic
E-1c viii be removed
TIA bridge On the Marlboro road fi.t
cG.s.de the town limits was badly wreck
81 a1c two other bridges in Prince
CORES County one over Mattawor7an
Greek and the other on the Allen
FTescn road are inundated and damage
cannot be estimated until the water
subsidies Another bridge on the south
err MARYLAND road. In Charles County.
a.so is under water and Is believed 70
be seriously damaged.
81 Street WaShouts.
There we're 81 street washouts in the
streets 81 the District, three Of them 50
serious - u biOcG tTafflc The Wash
4ngton- Baltimore boulevard still was
under water at BIadensburg this morn
3ag 88l .raflc 1as i0Tolna the gap.
SATURDAY night approximately l20
persons we're rescued by policemen and
frcmeE from flooded houses In the
Congress Heights area and at Fifty-Sec-
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