Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
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CYCLONIC WIND
RAKES CAPITAL
City Streets Blocked
by Trees Ripped
Up by Roots.

TwiSters tearing their way
through the night up from South
west took toll Of II lives in near
by Virginia and Maryland, injured
10 persons and left trails of devas-
tation, evidenced by ruined farm
houses, uprooted orchards. dead
stock, flooded roads, one railroad
WaShout and other damage eX-
pected to run into many thou
sands of dollars.
Trees uprooted, houses unroofed
and streets Strewn with tree limbs
today we're mute evidence of the
storms visit to Washington last
night. There were no fatalities
in the Capital and only a few
minor injuries reported.
The storms centered at Wood
vile and Catlett, Va, where the
death toll was five, with nine
seriously injured; between Lay
louisville and Olney, in Montgom-
cry County, Md, where three per-
sons were killed; at Frederick.
Md, where two lives we're lost, and
near Brookeville, Md, where one
person was Killed.
The twister which struck the home of
r Bowie Childs between $50 and 10
o'clock last night dropped unheralded
from the sky to crush the big frame
farmhouse to bits and scatter it for a
radius Of half mile about the country
side.
Home Torn From Foundations.
All of the occupants of the house
81 fIo
Florence ChildS and her grandmother,
who were lying on couch on the first
floor.
The twister tore the Childs' home
from its foundation and carried it about
so feet before it began to disintegrate.
The main portion of the house was
dropped about 40 feet from the fo1nda-
tions but timbers were strewn for yards
around.
James Leizear, who lives in the
Childs home, extricated himself from
the wreckage and, although injured
himself, walked half mile to another
farm house. where he put in calls to
Rockville and Sandy Spring for assist
ance.
Fire Departments Answer.
The Rockville. Sandy Spring and
Gaithersburg Fire Departments re-
sponded and, hampered by lack of light
and a heavy rain, were almost three
hours finding the bodies of Florence
Childs and her grandmother. The bod
les were found still on couch, under
tons of bricks from the chimney OF the
house.
The unconscious form of Hampton
Childs was found about 800 yards from
the foundations of the house. He was
rushed to the Montgomery County Cen
eral Hospital with his father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. F. Bowie Childs,
and his brother, Fielder Childs, who
were suffering from minor injuries.
Hampton died early this morning. fall
ing to regain consciousness. He had a
fractured skull
The same twister Is believed to have
caused the death of Mrs. Amelia Knapp,
SO, who lived with her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles K.
Haight, near Brookville, Md.
Mrs. Knapp was in bed on the second
floor of the 200-year-old stone dwelling
on the Patuxent River, when the storm
struck The roof of the house was torn
on and the walls of the house caved in,
killing Mrs. Knapp instantly in her bed.
Two Thrown Through Wall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Haight. who were down.
stairs reading, heard the ripping of the
roof and ran to the outside wall OF the
living room. AS the upstairs walls fell
inward. the downstairs walls fell out
ward, and Mr. and Mrs. Haight were
thrown through hole in their living
room wall to the lawn outside. They
were uninjured.
Mr. Haight, finding one of his horses
dashing wildly about the lawn, frighten-
cd by the storm, secured the animal
mounted it and rode into town, mile
and a half away, to get aid.
Mr.. Haight reported the loss OF sew
eral valuable foXhoundS and horses
Many of the animals on the Haight
farm were killed. All Of the outbulld-
ings were demolished.
Highways Are Flooded.
Mr.. and Mrs. John j. Shank were
killed, six other persons were injured
four homes were demolished, barns
leVeled, orchards damaged, telephone
and power service disrupted and high
ways flooded by the twister which, ac-
C0mplished by cloudburstS, visited the
flowed their banks in many sections
mobile traffic and inundating hundreds
of acres of valuable farm lands.
The injured in that section were:
Mrs. John w. Fout, near Harmony
Grove. cut and bruised, at Frederick
City Hospital.
John w. Fout, bruised and suffer
ing from shock, at Frederick City Hos
pital
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