Evening star., 1936-09-20
FIFTY HOMELESS
AT0CEANC|TY,M
Hurricane Wreckage Shows
Damage Is Nearly
S250,000.
BY the Associated Press.

by tnc AsSCCidtcu EIcSs.
OCEAN CITY, Md. September 10.
The hurricane rendered so persons
homeless here and did damage of
nearly a quarter of q million dollars,
a survey of the storm dashed town
showed today.
Mayor w. Thomas Elliott said the
damage to city property would amount
to s50,000. The boardwalk suffered
the greatest damage. he said. 1t was
completely destroyed from Fifth street
to Fourteenth street. The section
from Division street to Fifth street
may have to be replaced, he added.
Elliott, proprietor of q commercial
fish business, said the loss to the three
than 100000. Twelve fish ponds.
which cost about $4,000 each, were
destroyed. he said. These were ar
rangements OF nets and piles offshore,
and the heavy sea whipped them to
pieces.
Damage TO Boats $4,000.
Capt. T. T. Moore Of the Coast
Guard estimated the damage to boats
which take out sport fishermen at
$4,000. Three Of them were de-
stroyed. These were L. J. Bunting's
Evelyn, Dodd Shuster's Dodjim, and
Curley Matison's Mousie. A boat
owned by Frank Parker was damaged.
Harry J. Cropper, a contractor and
member Of the city council, said the
loss to houses and hotels would
amount to about $4,000. This in
cludes the injury to foundations, fur
niture and roofs. Chief Boatswain's
Mate William Massey of the Coast
Guard said the damage to the Coast
Guard station would cost about s400
to repair. Hugh A. Cropper, who
operates poultry farm near here,
said that 10000 of his chickens were
drowned.
The so homeless persons were most
ly fishermen who lived along the
beach Of sinepuxent Bay, opposite
Ocean City. The Red Cross, the city
and volunteers are caring for these.
All persons reported missing were
accounted for and Mayor Elliott said
1t was definitely established the storm
had caused no loss Of life in this area.
Inlet Not Damaged.
e. ]. Monaghan, resident engineer
for the War Department, said the
storm had not damaged the inlet,
which was cut by a storm in 1888 and
later improved for purposes Of navi-
CATION. ]. N. Byrd said that Q new
type Of road being constructed around
the harbor had not been harmed, al
though 1t had been under water all
day. Roads Commission engineers
said the bridge from the mainland to
the city was undamaged.
About $50 men from a nearby Civil
ian Conservation Corps camp were
clearing sand and debris from the
streets. Light service was restored
last night and telephone and tele-
graph lines restored.
Sections Of the boardwalk were
wrenched from supporting piles and
jammed against buildings or carried
through connecting streets almost to
Baltimore street.
Residents Of the town busted them
selves digging their autos out Of the
sand and taking rowboats out Of the
streets. The cars were buried to the
running boards in the sand swept in.
land by the heavy seas. Rowboats
which had been used for navigation
through the flooded streets were
moored to telephone poles and hy-
drants.
Front porches, where they remained
In place, were Uttered with soaked be-
longings brought into the open to dry.
Water had filled the cellars and crept |
into first floors. A few roofs, ripped
OF by the force Of the wind, rested |
in the sand-choked streets. The larger |
hotels at the north end Of town suf-
fered little damage except from water
which filled cellars with sand,