Evening star., 1943-01-20
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Forecast Here in
Wake Of Gale
Wind Blows Four
OFF Their Feet;
Windows Smashed

A temperature drop to IL degrees
was forecast for tonight in the wake
Of q 70-mile gale that sent The
thermometer to IS degrees thi:
morning and resulted in injuries t
four persons and property damage ir
many sections of the city late yes.
terdsy.
Three persons blown off their feet
by the force of the wind while
walking in the downtown section
of the city were treated at Emer-
gency Hospital, and a fourth was
given first aid in the Commerce
Building.
Trees. traffic signs and stree
lights were blown down and nu.
merous windows were broken as the
gale reached q maximum force of II
miles an hour around pm. Police
said property damage would rur
into several thousands of dollars.
The Potomac Electric Power Co
estimated damage to street lights al
nearly $1,000. approximately 7;
lamps we're reported blown off o.
damaged. OF these 80 had been re.
placed this morning. A crew of 13:
trouble shooters worked through the
afternoon and evening repairing
damage.
81 Below in Minnesota.
Three members of a. tugbOat crew
were drowned in Baltimore harbor
yesterday when the high wind cap
sized the vessel. The dead were
Sam johnson, engineer; Frank Sem
rod, and Clarence Wilson. The
captain of the tug, Newton Coster,
was rescued by another tug and
treated for exposure at a Baltimore
hospital.
The cold wave, which was ex-
pected to continue here. was wide
spread in the Middle West, where
at least eight deaths were attributed
TO the weather. In one area in
Minnesota, the thermometer dropped
to 81 degrees below zero.
In Kansas City it was u below,
the coolest in 18 years, while in Chi
cago the thermometer fell to 8
below. Other low readings included
Bismarck, N. Oak, % below; Des
MoineS, II below; Minneapolis, 19
below, and st. Louis, 5 below.
Many rural schools were forced
TO close in Iowa. School attendance
was off SO per cent at Hastings, Nebr.
Wind Fells Pedestrians.
The three pedestrians bowled over
by the wind and treated at Emer-
Eency were:
Mrs. Hazel Grahm, A, of 1133
Twenty-fourth street NV, arm in
jury received at Constitution and
Pennsylvania avenues NV, Richard
Schmidt, 81, of 524 Twenty third
street NV, leg injury received at
Twenty-fifth street and Virginia
avenue NV, and Mamie Baker, 80,
of 825 Twenty first street NV, hip
injury suffered at Twenty fifth and
Pennsylvania avenue.
An unidentified woman was picked
up bodily by the wind and carried
several feet. She was taken to a
first-aid station in the Commerce
Building and treated for injuries to
the arm and knee.
Residents of the HyattSville and
Riverdale areas were without cleo
tricity for nearly half an hour yes
terday afternoon when power lines
were blown down by flying tree
limbs. In several scattered areas
in Prince Georges County the power
was off for more than an hour.
A large tree in front of the Fill
more School, Thirty-fifth and s
streets NV, was blown over, tear
ing up a portion of sidewalk and
over the school fence
Glasses had ended some time before
and there was no one in the vicinity
At the Brightwood School, Thir-
teenth and Nicholson streets NV.
the wind tore flag pole from the
school roof.
The wind broke a window in the
Office of Commissioner John Russell
Young at the District Building anc
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Office of Geoffrey M. Thornett, sec
retary to the Board of Commis-
Sioners.
The wind cost Mary K. Bolton Of
1915 Kalorama road NV. $65. She
reported to police that her purse
containing that amount was blowr
from her hand at Ninth street anc
Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Mrs Vesta Hartzog, 1716 Abing-
don drive, Alexandria, received 6
possible shoulder fracture wher
struck by metal sign, which wa;
blown off store at King and Wash
ington streets. Alexandria. She was
admitted to the Alexandria Hospital
AT Lincoln, Va, near Leesburg, the
roof of the HiskSite Friends meeting
house was blown off and one side Of
its brick wall toppled over. The
church was built in 1919. A large
frame packing house at High Point
Orchard was demolished and truck
damaged in the Wreckage.