Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
s. STUDENTS FLEE.
AS WIND DAMAGES
PORTABLE SCHOOL
Pupils in Orderly March
From Building as Gust
Wrecks Roof.
MERCURY BEATEN DOWN
is DEGREES IN IS MINUTES
Police Rushed to Construction Job
as Tower Swaps Dangerously.
Phone Service Crippled.

Thrity-f1ve boys and girls of an
eighth-grade art class marched out
side in an orderly manner today after
a portion of tar paper roof was blown
off portable school on the grounds of
the Jefferson Junior High School at
Sixth and School streets southwest in
a sudden thunderstorm, during which
the storm reached a velocity OF so miles.
The damaged portable was one Of
four on the school ground 1t was the
only one In the direct path of the
storm.
j. T. Gallahorn. instructor in charge
Of the class, said the students showed
no signs of alarm when a l2-foot hole
vas ripped in the roof. The class was
marched outside Immediately. School
officials soon removed pupils from the
other three portables as precaution
against further damage.
Building Tower Mtnaced.
Police from the first precinct were
dispatched to the new Garfinckel store
at Fourteenth and F streets when it
was reported that tower on the store
was swaying in the heavy wind. Guy
lines were attached to the tower to
steady it.
Police also we're called to the Govern
ment Printing once, when boom on
derrick on the roof of the building
extension swayed high above the street,
threatening to fall. Guy ropes held
the boom until after the storm.
The wind reached velocity Of so
miles an hour, Weather Bureau ON
Gals said. The barometer touched 1924
at sea level
The barrage of thunder that rolled
across the Capital shortly after noon
was accompanied by l6-degree drop
in temperature within Is minutes, a
change the Weather Bureau described
as remarkable.
The temperature was beaten down by
wind that shifted suddenly from SOUTH
west to northwest
A brick chimney was Embossed from
at 3O02 NJ street; a plate glass win
dow was driven in on the fourth door
OF the District Building and numerous
trees we're reported blown down in
the fourth precinct.
Man Injured in FAN.
George Edward Smith. So, colored, of
1919 Third street, was blown down by
the wind at the Washington Monument
and was taken to the Emergency Hos
pital for treatment of badly lacerated
knee.
Hyattsville telephone service was dis
rupted in a section of the town when
a telephone pole and a tree in the
Wine avenue. Spencer street and Avon
and Franklin streets block were blown
down, cutting of 50-pair cable. The
block is that on which the Pinkney
Memorial Episcopal Church is located.
Cherry blossoms were blown from the
Japanese trees lining the Tidal Basin
and the wind squall whipped flags
parallel with buildings.
The wind blew IL telephone poles
down from Western avenue in Chevy
Chase to Silver Spring, Md, but line
men replaced them with slight inter-
ruption to service The telephone serv-
ice room in the District Building lost a
window in the storm and young women
were driven from their instruments for
few minutes until makeshift win
dow was provided.
Undismayed by the phenomenon, the
Weather Bureau forecast that tonight
it will be fair, although slightly colder.
The rainfall yesterday was 2.17 inches.
More than 800 telephone lines in the
vicinity of Washington Sanitarium in
Takoma Park were put out of commits
sion during the storm, it was reported
by the Shepherd exchange.
The wind at Louisiana avenue and
Sixth street tipped over pie wagon,
police were informed, and scattered
the pastry along the pavements for
almost block. No one was reported
! injured.
A roof of the abandoned building of
| the j. T. Springman g. Sons Carriage
Works, at Seventh and streets south
west, also was blown of. Large strips
of tin sailed down into Seventh street.
One piece flew across the street and
shattered window In the home of Mrs.
Richard Written, at COS Seventh street.
nana0e was estimated at $50