Evening star., 1929-06-22
Firemen Respond to is Calls,
but Only Two Blazes
Are Found.
STREETS AND EASEMENTS
FLOODED BY HIGH WATER
1.S2 Inches Of Rainfall in Less
Than Two Hours Is Record
for This Year.

The spectacular electrical storm
which swept Washington last midnight
inflicted more Inconvenience than
damage. Flooded streets, hundreds of
inundated cellars, leaking roofs and IRE
scares combined to work considerable
hardshipS over the District generally.
Although lightning started but two
fires. both Of minor consequence, the
electrical display prompted nervous
citizens to turn in an unusually large
number OF alarms. During the storm
period, for about an hour after 1920,
District f1remen responded to Is calls.
Fire touched of by a bolt Of light
ming partially consumed q connected
row OF four woodsheds in the rear of
123S-124l street norteaSt. Only
torrential rain prevented the flames
from spreading, since occupants Of
occasioned by the electrical storm, and
the fire had gained considerable head
way before the apparatus was sum-
moned.
Sehlessinger Home Struck.
Lightning also fell on the Schlessinger
home at IS Dupont circle, where Presi-
dent Coolidge lived while the White
House was under repair, igniting the
Gka
fore flremen arrived. They made
emergency repairs to the leaking roof.
The rainfall was by far the heaviest
this year, the Weather Bureau fore
caster announced this morning. Dur.
ing q period of less than two hours,
from 11:55 o'clock last night to 1850
o'clock this morning, 1872 inches were
recorded.
The nearest approach in 1929 to the
severity Of the rain last night was on
April Is and 16, when 2.39 inches Of
rain fell during q 24-hour period.
Several street intersections. in val
leys, were badly flooded when the gut
ters were unable to discharge the tor
rents sweeping down the pavements
from several directions.
Automobile Stuck.
AT Arkansas avenue and Delafield
place firemen were called out to ex-
tr1cate O partially submerged auto.
mobile. The water at this point was
more than 4 feet deep, and Benjamin
Brock, 53l3 Georgia avenue, with his
wife and son, was forced to abandon
his automobile asidss wade to high
ground.
Members Of the All boys and girls
clubs, camping IN Army tents on the
Department OF Agriculture grounds,
CaukS LAHOuSl tnG btOttn unSCMtNG0 GXs
cept when few Of the delegates were
drenched while tightening the haps to
their tents.
AT Nichols avenue and Sheridan road
southeast, police and firerinen were
called out, but found that the overflow
soon drained without damage, although
traffic was tied up for some time.
Streets were flooded again In the area
OF Fifth and Ingraham streets. where
q VT eYyEA Ia Anrws Avw.
hsavy rains last Summer and Fan.
Pavement Torn Up.
Water racing Down the hill west of
Georgia avenue to Sherman avenue
flooded several blocks on Sherman ave-
nue. and In some instances tore up the
pavement. The Street Cleaning Depart
to clear away mud and debris about the
catch basins in this vicinity.
No. % engine company turned out
three times during the storm. On each
occasion the call was found to have
originated from lightning scares Sew
eral times firenen assisted houSeholders
whose cellars had been flooded by the
gutter overfiowS, or leaking roofs. The
calls came from 1900 Eleventh street,
200l Fourteenth street and from the
vicinity Of Third street and Sheridan
road southeast, where yards and cellars
were flooded for several blocks.
High water was also reported In the
5I00 block Of Connecticut avenue. Street
cars were delayed, and at some points
the water was up to the fioor boards OF
automobiles. Flooded Easements were
reported from apartment houses ut I'LL
Columbia road, 1924 Seventeenth street
and 1913 Girard street.
At Fifteenth and H streets northeast
the water was 3 feet deep for q short
time, while street cars and automobiles
were halted by flooded streets ut Four
teenth. between c and B, and further
along Fourteenth, near Spring road.
Tranic Held Up for Hour.
The overflow on the Washington
Baltimore boulevard and Bladensburg
road delayed traffic for almost an hour,
the water coming to the floor boards
Of automobiles at several points.
Electric light service was interrupted
In the southwest and northeast, aS well
as q section Of Sixteenth street, from
Scott Circle northward. The Potomac
Electric Power Co.. however, had large
number Of linemen repairing the dam
age. and the service was restored early
today.
Although high winds attended the
rain and lightning. only one tree was
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