Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12

the Eastern Branch bridge, near
BladenSburg The Marlboro highway
was closed early in the evening two
bridges disappearing beneath flood
waters, The Washington Richmond
highway between Washington and Alex
andria was under water in several
places and traffic was tied up, Scores of
automobiles were marooned along the
highway Mount Vernon avenue. a sec
ond route of approach TO Alexandria
from Washington. was closed by the p0-
lice after 1t was flooded and traffic was
further menaced by live wires,
Alarmed by the waters surrounding
their houses about . O'Clock last night
two families living at Brook Station
on the w. b. & A. line, called 70 man
at tha Station to help them reach high
land r. II. ScroggS. 5506 Grant street
who was at the station. called the
eleventh precinct, which in turn called
No 81 fire engine and No. l fire truck
The firemen and detail Of police
from No. ii precinct waded through
Waist-deep waters and carried out
Richard Gardner. colored. 523 Fifty
second street northeast: his wife and
four children and Ewsil Kennedy also
colored $40 Fffty-Seeond street north
east and his two children, Dogs be-
longing to the two families swan TO
safety.
The persons rescued were not injured
All we're cared for by neighhors. About
an hour later No, % engine was again
sent . IN lokS Station 10 rescue families
In houses on Foote street
Street Roped on,
-Four blocks OF First street southwest,
between @ and u streets. were roped
off by the police when the street flooded,
filing excavations made for the laying
of water mains.
The garage of the Ourisman Chew
rolct Sales Co, $40 II street northeast,
was flooded and was pumped out by a
Fire Department engine company An
appeal for aid was sent to the Fire De-
partment from Tunlaw and Klingle
roads, where several overhead wires
were down across the roadway,
Leonard O. CrymeS, SO years old, 1888
Warder street. struck the base of the
viaduet at Seventh street and Rhode
Island avenue about $50 o'clock and
was carried by passing motorists to
Sibiey Hospital, where his condition
was said To be serious. His wife, Mrs,
Mary Crymes "a years old and Miss
Ethel H. Howard, 20. of 3iS Third street
southwest, passengers IN the ear, were
also taken To Sihley. but their injuries
arr not thought To be serious. The
front 1T CrymeS' car was reported by
police 10 be demolished.
nus Hits Street Car.
nr. M l.. Hedges, who treated CrymeS
when he was brought in the hospital,
said he had decorations on the fore
head, chest and hands Mrs. Crymes
was cut on the right arm and bruised
while Miss Howard was bruised about
the legs,
A collision last night at Seventh and
Rhode Island avenue between "A Wash
ington Railway & Electric Co, bus and
q Capital Traction street car resulted in
the serious injury Of one person and the
lesser injury OF three others
The more seriously injured was Marie
Garrett. colored, 36 years old, 1924 Six
and-a-half street, who was treated at
Emergency Hospital for cuts, bruises
and internal injuries, Charles III. Dove.
7l8 Tenth street northwest, driver of
the bus, Richard Leroy, lr,. eolored 81
years old lA09 First street and Re-
hecca Smallwood, colored, 40 years aid,
TOO II street southwest, were all in
jurad about the body.
With the exception Of Dove, all OF the
injured were occupants of the street
car.
The storm definitely brought 10
close the long period of successive heat
waves which have kept the tempera-
tursa we'll up IN the aos and DOS dur
ing the greater part OF the past month
To-day viii he cloudy. with the maxi
mum temperature probably somewhere
between 20 and "a degrees. and temor-
Vax Ia ifbafn 30 IA fatv al
rising temperature but nothing like
that Of the past week,
Streets and highways at number of
the lower points Ia the city and nearby
suburbs were flooded so deeply AZ 10 be-