Evening star., 1942-10-20
Park Areas DAMAGE
In Flood 100000,
Official Reports
Titunic Memorial Suffers:
Work on z Underposses
Set Back Two Weeks

Flood damage to the Washington
park areas, including the old c. g. O.
canal in Georgetown, was set at
$200, 900 today by Irving c. Root,
superintendent of National Capital
Parks, who announced that surveys
were continuing on the work to be
done in the wake of the record
breaking !nundation here last week.
Estimates of damage to the canal
towpath and embankment, hardest
hit of any section in the city, ran
as high as $180,000. Mr.. Root said
there was little damage to the locks
or equipment of the canal. The
100000 figure does not include dam
age suffered by the B. g. o. Rail-
road whose freight roadbed was
washed out for several hundred feet.
Mr.. Root said several hundred dol
lars damage was suffered at the
Titanic Memorial on Potomac Park
way when-fagstone walks and land
scaping were washed away. Park
workmen were busy cleaning up
Rock Creek Park roads and bride
paths which had been covered in
places with landslides.
East Potomac Still Closed.
East Potomac Park and the river
around the polo field remained
closed today, but were expected to
be reopened in few days.
Police officials yesterday estimated
property damage in their precincts
at $388, $3.50. This figure, however,
included their own estimate of the
canal washouts.
Capt. H. c. Whitehurst, District
highway director, said today that
work on the new roadway and over
passes at Fourteenth street and
Maine avenue and at independence
avenue and the Tidal Basin would
be- delayed two weeks because of the
heavy rainfall. The Maine avenue
overpass leading to the Highway
Bridge and Virginia was scheduled
to be completed December /.
Virginia Losses Heavy.
Virginia State officials estimated
today following surveys through
areas stricken by floods that damage
to highways and bridges would total
$1,000,000 and that the States apple
crop would suffer to the extent of
s500,000. These figures did not in
clude the high loss suffered at
Fredericksburg, where life was re-
turning slowly to normal.
State Highway Commissioner
James A. Anderson reported a total
of 928 feet in steelwork was ripped
from IL Albemarle County bridges
alone, and three large spans were
carried away in Shenandoah County
He reported three principual State
highways still blocked; Route 2
between Fredericksburg and Rich
mond, Route Is south of Culpeper,
and Route 80 across the Blue Ridge
between Harrisonburg and Gordons-
vile.
Fredericksburg Cancelled its famed
dog mart which was to have been
held Friday.
Approximately 100000 bushels of
apples dropped to the ground in
Virginia orchards during last weeks
heavy rains, w. S. Campfield, secre-
tary of the Virginia State Horticul-
tural Society, estimated yesterday.
Apple pickers resumed work yester-
day, saivaging much of the fruit for
use by by-product plants, he said.
5000 Inoculated.
Gasoline and fuel oil which ex-
ploded and threatened the Freder-
icksburg water front over the week
end was valued at 100000. Approx
mately 5000 of the city's 10000 popu-
lation have been given typhoid in
oculation as the city warned the
water supply was contaminated.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
said the break in its main line tracks
on Alton Mountain in Virginia
might be mended so as to permit
resumption of traffic today. C. g. o.
trains have been rerouted between
Charlottesville and Clifton Forge by
way of Lynchburg.