Evening star., 1933-08-24
Destruction in Calvert and
Anne Arundel Greatest in
Their History.
MANY YACHTING PARTIES
ARE RESCUED FROM SEA
D. c. Motor Boat Captain Escapes
Death When Thrown Into
Bay by Huge Roller.

BY staff Correspondent Of The Star.
SOLOMONS ISLAND, Md, August
24.-The 52-mile gale that swept Calvert
and Ann Arundel Counties yesterday
subsidized this morning, leaving in its
wake a trail of destruction unparalleled
in the history of Southern Maryland
Peninsula
Lives Of many persons vacationing
aboard boats at anchor in the Chesd-
peake Bay and Patuxent River were
endangered for many hours when they
were marooned on the turbulent waters,
but reports available at noon today dis
closed no fatalities.
Yachting Parties Rescued.
Many of the yachting parties were
rescued from the high seas that were
running both in the bay and in the
river by heroic work on the part OF
Southern Maryland natives who rlskcd
their lives by putting out in small boats
and bringing vacationists ashore. TWO
of these Edward Bowen and Ruppert
Lore of Solomons Island, worked all
day and far into the night bringing the
maroored boat parties ashore and
rescuing boats which had torn loose
from their moorings and were pitching
around In the bay.
Robert M. Miller, As, captain Of the
motor boat Amerita OF washington,
D. c., narrowly escaped death when he
was thrown from his boat at ancho-
in the bay by huge roller and carried
200 yards away and washed upon the
shore at Marlays Island. -,
Bowen and Lore put out in small
notorboat and succeeded in bringing
Miller safely ashore after slx-hour
battle with the elements.
Party on Amerita.
With Miller aboard the Amerita was
a party that included Mrs G. w. Fors-
berg of 4907 Fourteenth street. her
daughter. Dorothy; Mrs. Carrie Oster-
maver, 5631 Colorado avenue: Mrs. G.
7 Severn. 5Oo3 Fourteenth street; Miss
M7ry Miller. 4907 Fourteenth street, ana
two members of his crew:
The Yachting party, fearing that Mil
Ter had lost his life, was left to its own
devices on the bucking boat for eight
hours Lore and Bowen finally reached
the stranded women and brought them
ashore, while a Turkish COOK, Tom
Siflcn. who had never before plioteo
a craft of any kind, brought the snip
safely into shore.
Miller the women and Simon were
brought ashore, given flrst-ald treat
ment for exposure and we're taken to
local inn. The storm, which natives OF
Southern Maryland said had been
brewing several days, broke early yes
terdsv morning off Solomon's Island
and swept northward, destroying VIZ
tually everything in its path.
Battle Waves So Hours.
Three unidentified Baltimore men,
one of whom said to be policeman IN
the Southern District station. battleo
the huge rollers, running from 10
feet high in Chesapeake Bay, LOT
az hours before reaching shore here
this morning.
The men put out in 14-foot row.
boat late Tuesday night on a fishing
trip and were trapped when the storm
broke. They managed, however, TO
make their way to the four Shipping
Board vessels that have been tied up
here for several years and made last
under the stern. of the George Wash
ington. where they rode out the storm
They came to the island this morn
ing and returned to their homes IN
Baltimore Immediately. The trio were
equipped with provisions when they lett
on the trip and escaped suffering from
hunger.
Damage Runs Into Thousands.
Striking at this island community.
Plum Point. Calvert Beach, Kenwood
Beach. Dares Beach, Fairhaven. Chesa-
peake Beach, Broome Island and Drum
Point the storm destroyed thousands
a dollars worth of property at those
resorts.
Sweeping in with unbroken force,
the gale also wreaked havoc among the
tobacco and corn crops on farms IN
the heart of the peninsula that
stretches from Prince Georges County
to Solomons. Thousands OF acres OF
tobacco constituting the best crop IN
the history of the peninsula, were torn
to shreds.
The main highway from Washing
ton, to SolomonS Island was covered
with several feet of water at many
points, while miles of telephone lines
were torn down by the high wind, COM
pletely isolating the peninsula COM
munities. Electric power lines also were
disabled throwing the peninsula into
darkness and disabling electric water
pumps and oil burners in many sectors.
The island was completely Isolated
from the mainland for several hours
Yesterday by heavy waves which washed
over the bridge and made the passage
of motor vehicles and pedestrians I'M
possible.
Road Washed Away.
Solomons Island, unprotected from
storms. was caught in the teeth of the
gale and suffered the worst damage.
Virtually all of local wharves. mum.
ber of oyster houses, warehouse OF
the Standard Oil Co.. in which $4,000
worth of supplies were stored, quar-
ter of a mile of State highway on the
front of the island were washed away.
The huge. waves tore many motor.
boats from their moorings and dashed
them, demolished, upon the shore. The
rollers also beat down high hill 'front.'
ing the bay and pounded at the doors OF
homes 60 feet from the beach. Several
trees towering more than 100 feet IN
the air were uprooted, one OF them
wrecking a home owned by M. w.
Davis, local shipbuilder.
All the guests at Rekars Hotel were
forced to evacuate the building when
the water reached that hostelry. They
were transferred in a skif to higher
land. They spent the night at Abells
Inn.
Boat Owner Loses.
Probably the heaviest loser was Peter
A. Dorsey. grizzled "old salt" who lost
II boats in the storm.
At Chesapeake Beach two crab houses
were battered to pieces by the waves
and washed away.
At Fairhaven nine cottages owned by
Washington residents were torn to
pieces by the rollers. Two of the build
ings. in which the furnishings we're de-
stroyed with the structures, were owned
by Charles Whittlesey and John G:
webster. The names Of the owners OF
the other buildings could not be learned
today.
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