Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-09-25


Omcials estimated the damage in
Rhode Island. New Hampshire and
Massachusetts, at more than $780,
100000.
1900 Families Homeless.
State and Federal authorities rushed
tons of food, blankets and medical
supplies to the widespread stricken
areas, where $4,000 families were
homeless.
Growing the three-day ordeal of
stunned tragedy and desolation, fears
of possible disease epidemic led to
emergency measures in many COM
munities.
Relief workers inoculated 700 per-
sons against typhoid fever at Adams,
Mass, and town officials at Ware,
Mass, where drinking water reser-
voirs gave way, asked for 200 walls of
anti-tetanus vaccine.
Slowly ebbing flood waters gave the
"mop-up" legions chance to bury
the dead and sift through mountains
of debris for the bodies of scores still
missing.
Tree-clogged highways and wrecked
lines of communication prevented a
final accurate assessment of the life
and property loss, but many ofdcials
agreed it was the areas worst storm
disaster-striking with appalling sud-
denness Wednesday as it howled out of
the tropics and ragged along the Allan
tic Seaboard-in more than a CEN
fury.
Many Wires Are Down.
In New England alone, telephone
company officials said 100000 miles of
wire would have to be replaced.
Airplane observers reported New
Hampshire'S tall pines and birch trees
were leveled by the hundreds.
The little community of Peterboro,
N. H., still isolated, reported by radio
that its losses by fire, flood and hurri-
cane totaled more than 100000.
New tales of horror came almost
hourly as survivors emerged into the
world of communication once more
from silent ghost towns" of the storm.
Near Providence, r. l.. Mrs. Kath-
crime Burchill lived through the ter
rible- experience of having her A.
month-old baby torn from her arms
as her cottage was blown into a pond.
She never saw the child again.
Kenneth and Stanley Igginbottom,
brothers, told of digging frantically
for hours in the wreckage OF the
bungalow home for their mother
.,l AoS;,n bar orolravo Nfelocs form a
the bottom.
Mrs. Samuel VIM of Providence
was huddled in her cottage when it
suddenly lifted, slithered across the
surface of a nearby pond and landed
on the opposite shore. She climbed
out unhurt.
Out along the l25-mile stretch of
Long Island, where the hurricane
struck with devastating fury, motorists
reported that trees on countless duck
farms, where the famous Long Island
ducklings are raised, were still white
IS snow" with gale-blown feathers.
The two great rivers Of New Eng
land, the Connecticut and the Mer-
rimac, were reported past their dan
ger-point crests and receding, but
fresh alarm developed in Eastern
Connecticut when the Dyer Dam.
south of Danielson, burst and started
q river swell.
Authorities on Martha's Vineyard.
off Cape Cod. said the total island
loss would amount to 100000. Boat
service was restored to the mainland,
assuring supplies of food and ice.
Sufferers on Long Island heard
cheering news for the week end when
Commissioner David c. Adie of the
Department Of Social Welfare at
Albany announced $4,000 pounds of
food was being shipped to the dis
tress area-also 10 carloads Of fresh
vegetables and one carload Of oranges.