Evening star., 1954-10-16
Third Of Free State
BIacked Out; Resorts
And Boats Hard Hit

of property damage and plunged
one-third of the State into night
long darkness.
The Eastern Shore and Chesa-
peake Bay resorts were particu-
larly hard hit by water damage.
Pleasure and commercial fishing
craft were scattered across
Chesapeake Bay. either sunk,
adrift or beached by winds OF
nearly 100 miles an hour.
The dead included:
Howard Ward. 54, Of Sails
bury, son of former Representa-
tive David w. Ward and brother
of Albert Ward, executive secre-
tary of the State Tax Commis-
sion.
Mr.. Ward died when his skat-
ing rink collapsed while he was
inside inspecting damage. He
was cruised under a 12-inch
brick wall.
Swept Into Greek.
Mrs. Helen Irving, "A. wife of
William c. Irving. vice presi-
dent of a Martinsburg CIV. Va)
trucking firm, is presumed to be
dead after she was swept off
a bridge across the flood
swollen Antietam Greek two
miles north of Keedysville, in
Washington County.
State Police said the Irving
car stalled about $50 pm. on
the bridge. After Is minutes. as
the torrent, bearing boulders and
other debris. washed against
their car, they attempted to
wade across the bridge to the
bank. While reaching for a
guard rail. Mrs. Irving tainted
and was swept away. A search
for her body was to be resumed
today.
Walter Aytch, 40-year-old
Negro caretaker at Highland
Beach near Annapolis, was
drowned when a boat he was
trying to save capsiZed.
Robert Cohen, II, colored, was
killed in northwest Baltimore by
q falling tree.
Hit By Tree, Girl Dies.
Vivian Wise. 13, colored. was
hit by a tree at Stockton on
the Eastern Shore. She died in
the hospital at Salisbury.
Timbers and debris hurled
from a building under construc-
ton on U. S. 13 near Salisbury
fell on a car, causing the death
of 35-year-old Wade Duer
BloodSworth of near Princess
Anne. His wife, Virginia, suffered
minor injuries. State Trooper
Everett Brown was hit by tim
ber while trying to rescue the
Bloodsworths and suffered
severe bruises.
The path of destruction was
as wide as the Eastern Shore
itself. and as wide as a 40-mile
swath from Annapolis through
Baltimore County to the Pennsyl-
Vania line.
The winds ranged from so
miles an hour in Baltimore's
metropolitan area to 80 miles at
Annapolis and 100 miles at Sails
bury.
Tobacco Barns Blown Down.
Southern Maryland tobacco
farmers were hard hit. This
was because scores of barns con-
tanning tobacco were blown down,
In some cases farmers thought
they could save some OF the
crop.
State police reported that tides
6 to IL feet above normal forced
evacuation of some families
from SolomonS Island and North
Beach in Calvert County; Cobb
Island in Charles County and
st. Georges Island in lower ST.
Marys County.
Washington area residents
who dock their pleasure craft
along Chesapeake Bay harbors
and Southern Maryland COM
mercial fishermen were search
ing for their vessels today. Many
piers and wharf buildings were
carried away.
Water flooded roads near
Benedict. Low-lying areas in
Charles County were evacuated
Tides covered the roads in the
North Beach area at Colton's
Point and at Point Lookout in
st. Marys County.
A state Of emergency was de-
clared for a time in Easton, di-
rectly in the path of the winds
Some residents of nearby bay
towns on the Eastern Shore left
their homes temporarily, the
Associated Press reported.
so Flee Kent Narrows.
Rescuers, working with Ian.
terms, hurried about so persons
away from Kent Narrows-neal
the big Chesapeake Bay Bridge
to the shelter of the high
school at Grasonville. The tide:
closed the Narrows, center of 6
busy seafood industry.
Hooper's Island, an isolated
fishing colony in the Chesapeake
Bay not far from Cambridge. wa:
isolated. A caravan of eigh'
emergency vehicles went ou
from Cambridge to see what hac
happened to the islands 20(
families.
Hooper's had not communica'
ton by telephone or radio, anc
the bridge to the island wa.
under water. The caravan
stopped at the edge of the main
land for while, then got acros:
and found plenty of water but
no suffering.
Not a community on the Shore
escaped damage. Cambridge
Easton, Salisbury. Elkton. Cen.
treville. Crisfield. Chestertown
Preston. Snow Hill, Berlin anc