Evening star., 1954-10-16
Full Power Service in Homes
Unlikely Until Late Tomorrow;
Hurricane Fading in Canada
Capital Cleans
Up Debris; Many
Trees FeIIed

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Hazel, Washington, Virginia and
Maryland began cleanup today
in the wake of gale winds and a
gust of SO miles an hour.
Still mad and called pretty
severe" by the Weather Bureau,
the storm was beating itself to
death in the Canadian wilds to-
day as clear, cool weather settled
over the battered areas around
here with a prospect OF frost and
a low of 80 in the suburbs
tonight.
There was some solace, all but
lost in the still unaSsessed dam
age. The storm brought almost
2 inches of badly needed rain.
Two Dead in Capital.
The toll:
Washington-Two dead, 80 in
jured; 500 phones out of service,
heavy damage from fallen trees,
shattered windows IN storefronts,
flooded areas along the Potomac
and Washington Channel.
Maryland-Eight known dead
scores injured; 41,000 tele-
phones temporarily out of serv-
ice; widely wrecked power sys-
tens, boats and aircraft de-
stroyed; trees and crops fiat
tened.
Virginia-Seven dead; many
injured; a lesser number OF tele-
phones knocked out. damaged
shipping and widespread power
blackout that still left large Sec
tions of Fairfax County without
electricity at mid-morning. r,
Open Spaces Lashed.
Washington's low-lying loca-
ton offered a difficult target to
the 75-mile winds, but open
spaces to the west and north
were lashed heavily. From gale
to gale on the fringes of Hazel's
wide girth, winds ranged from
the 98-mile gust registered at
National Airport to IS and so.
From the time she roared into
the continental United States at
Myrtle Beach, S. c., until she
swirled over the Canadian bor-
der, the hurricane spent but IL
hours over the area between the
Appalachians and the Coast.
What was left of the distorted
"eye"-a period of calm-appar-
emily moved through Fairfax
County well after dark. Hardly
a leaf stirred for a time; then
the roar began anew.
Electricity Big Problem.
Greatest problem in the Metro
politan area today-aside from
getting trees off blocked streets
and crushed autos-was un-
doubtedly getting electricity back
into homes.
Full restoration of service
wasn't expected until late to-
morrow.
A Pepco official said the storm
was the worst in his company's
history. Unwanted defrosting
was going on in many a refrig-
orator well-stocked with perish
ableS from Friday grocery shop
ping. Many an unshaven face
came to work because the owner
wouldn't risk a candle-light shave
this morning.
The official said Upper Mont
gomery County. Rockville, Sill
yer Spring and Chevy Chase ap-
peared to have suffered the most
with additional heavy power
damage reported in Riverdale,
Oxon Hill and Clinton in Prince
Georges.
$50 Work All Night.
Ray c. Hopkins, Northern Vir-
ginia district manager for the
Virginia Electric & Power Co.,
said $50 workmen were on duty
all night and that emergency
crews from the Appalachian
Power Co. of Roanoke are being
sent into Northern Virginia.
He expressed doubt that all
service could be restored before
tomorrow night.
Fairfax and Alexandria, as far
as could be determined, absorbed
most of Hazel's wrath. In Fair
fax, falling trees damaged many
houses.
In Alexandria, flood waters
brought new menace, but re-
ceded after the high tide before
midnight. The manager of the
Seaport Inn at the foot of King
street had to have police tele-
phone his wife. His phone on
(See HAZEL, Page A-3.)