The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 27

THIS 15VKNINO CITIZICN, OTTAWA, CANADA Heavy Damage Caused en Violent Storm Strikes Ottawa wh i A Roof Is Ripped From Orleans Chin ch Ottawa, ir.d a narrow area along the scene supervising the laying the Ottawa river from Britannia. of tarpaulins on the roof estl- to Groans. Cr.t seven miles east mated that damages mould ex-cf the Capital, yesterday expert-I ceed $50,000. fiX5V Foately the water had not xfcZvv0-into the little library and ionly a small amount had seeped Hardest nit spot was Orleans i-to the sanctuarr of the ehdtvl JW fa A few hundred yards up the road, immediately opposite the tank testing grounds, the St. Joseph's farm, owned by th University of Ottawa, also suffered damage.

Two trees were blown down, carrying with them the telephone wires, and wrecking one of the ornate cement-and-brick gate posts leading over to a shrine ts caused to the Holy Rosary Novitiate and Scholasticate, by almost cyclonic wtnda. which blew the rocf kt th build ins. In Ottawa proper, most extensive damage resulted on Laurier avenue, where a falling tree disrupted street-car, telephone and power services fcr a considerable time. Damage at $2,500 was i vv caused to the Drive-In Theater I Percy Kenny, who lived on on the Ottawa-Pembrcke highway. the farm next to that owned by A three-car crash on the same the Holy Rosary novitiate also road accounted fcr another $1,000 I had his barn blown down.

Like in damage. i the former barn it was empty at Starting: about 3 m. the storm tiie time and no one was hurt, lasted two hours. I Mr- Kenny's house was alichtly All four of Ottawa's local sta- damaged by a section of a tall Uons. CFRA.

CKOY, CKCH and niaple tree, which was blown CBO were off the air yesterday against the house, afternoon fcr per.Gds varying from Chimney Blown Down a reported "one minute" to two A brick chimney was blown off hours, a5 a result cf power failures. the farm house owned by Mrs. due to the storm. Edward O'Connor just below the Neither Trsrrs-Canada Airlines hill from the Kenny farm. A small nor Colonial Air Lines reported machinery shed was blown over any schedule interruptions cr mis- but little further damage done, haps as a result cf the brief storm.

Gordon O'Connor told The Citi-TCA officials said. "Everything i zen that the storm center seemed was Jus; as usual." to pass Just through a small area The Uplands weather bureau encompassing the novitiate, on the told The Citizen that the total hill, the Kenny farm and their rainfall for the day was .68 inches, own. TWISTER TWISTS BRIDGE Sadly out of kilter is the foot bridge over the Rideau river leading to tne Rideau Tennis Club as a result of a violent wind and rain storm which hit Ottawa shortly after three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Damage throughout the Capital area was heavy. Fboto fcr -wn Brantwood Bench Playday Results in yesterday's Brantwood Beach Playday in which boys and girls from Plouffe, Chou-diere, and Laroche playgrounds participated: Boys' Events Running 5-6 Danny Mc-Stravick, Bill Routcliffe.

Bob Shields: 7-R Fred Hub Andre fVimvlt. Hoppinu 5-6 Bob Shields, Ron Nesrallah, Bill Routcliffe; 7-8 Fred Shields, Bill Tag-gart, Jtan Guy Lefebvre. Backward race 5-6 Bill Routcliffe, Bob Shields, Ron Nesrallah: 7-8 yrs Jean Guy Lefebvre, Fred Shields, Bill Taggart. Andre Scnnett. 75 yd.

dash fl-10 Jonn IVAmlro, Ollbrrt Clouthlrr. David Hi own: 11 yrs. and over, Rudolph Tremblay, Andre Villeneuve, Dick Defasio. Walking race 9-10 Jacques Sabourin, John D'Amico, David Brown; 11 and over Rudolph Tremblay. Andre Ville-neuve, Dick Defasio.

Checkers David Armstrong, Bob Mitchell, David Brown. Clay modelling Ken Devine, Gerald Wilson, Alan Kenson. Girls' Everts Running race 5-6 Phyllis Routcliffe, Denise Lalonde, Denise Clusieu; 7-8 Jackie Landreville, Suzanne Lalonde, Carmen Charbonneau. Hopping 5-6 Phyllis Routcliffe, Denise Clusieu; 7-8 Jackie Landreville, Alice Thi-bault, Lorna Helmer. Backward race 5-6 Phyllis Routcliffe, Denise Clusieu, Denise Lalonde; 7-8 Alice Thibault, Jackie Landreville, Yolande Genereux.

75 yd. dash 9-10 Lorraine Devine, Annette Chaine, Joan Bourdeau: 11-12 Joyce Routcliffe, Kathleen Fulton. Ethel Egan; 13 yrs. and over, Doreen Marshall, Joan Wilson, Germaine Robillard. Walking race 9-10 Patsy Lalonde, Lorraine Devine, Helen Dupuis; 11-12 Kathleen Fulton, Erva Routcliffe, Germaine Robillard; 13 yrs.

and over, Joan Wilson, Therese Lalonde, Doreen Marshall. Jacks Joan Marshall. Phyllis Routliffe, Joyce Routliffe. Mixed Events Bean bags Therese Lalonde, Jack Defasio, Carniel Fortin, Bob Guzzo. Art Garry Angel, Joan Rawlins, Joan Bradeaux, Denise 4 innmn Will rin i iwii mi i ml im wrought on the roof of the Holy Rosary Schol-asticate at Orleans where a cross was overturned.

Below shows the Drive-In Theater on the Ottawa Pembroke Highway which was also hard hit. Photos by Newton SCHOLASTICATE, THEATER, DA3IAGED Yesterday's violent wind rain and electrical storm caused considerable damage in Ottawa and district as evidenced by the above layout. Top picture shows a priest examining the damage T3 "They've Off" Resounds A ConYiaught Today They'll be off and running at Cormaugnt Park this afternoon. Release of the entries for the opening day's program of the Connaught Park Jockey Club's fourteen-day meeting j-esterday found racina enthusiasts presented with an attractive card for the return of the sport here for 1949. When Secretary Jimmy Phelan had closed the entry wicket yesterday morning, there was an abundance of material with which Sammy chiappetta's period of to shape the card.

Eight events was concluded yes-are scheduled, and two of them terdav. He now loses the five-will be over a distance of ground. pound but horsemen rate The first five races will be at dis- the Louisiana youngster as a boy tances of six furlongs, and in all capaKe of goiEJr oa gat races there will be big fields. thinRS even thout advantage When the Inaugural Handicap of thg apprentlce allowance, failed to fill, the Inaugural Purse, the heaviest cay rainfall fcr a week and one cf the for July cf this year. The rainfall for two days ago was just over tn Temperature 92 -rn-e ee3." the I Capital" placed IT StHree degrees lower than the high mark on Thursday, which had made I Ottawa the hottest spot in Can- i ada for three successive days.

i Although ram is sorely needed by district farmers and track gardeners, tha fur? with which, it stnei yestercay damage it caused crcps. as viewed mocn and the ender garden I wrh disfavor oy agriculturist. tastview at rune clack. "Sure, we ncs-i said ere Storm's Severity M-Arthur road market garuener. Indication of the storm's we need something gentle I citywas the severing of telephone, and soothing.

Not something that Ottawa Electric, Ottawa Hydro, descends like a blow frcm a giant's Ottawa Fire Alarm and Ottawa fist and flattens everything cu: Transportation Commission elec-so that a crop is ruined." i trical supply cables on Laurier was written, and this event at tracted a field of eleven. This be the fifth race of the day, at six furlongs, and no less than ten of the eleven entered were winners at Montreal. Jim Holt's Blue Pebble should go well in this race. with the speedy Le Tourbillion, racing in Joe Monaghan's colors; and the Winfield Stable's Jumpsie given good chances uy be in the money division. Loma Mar Rogue, Hemrock.

Wise Advice. Big and Bad, Son O' Bosun. Northern Fox, Hyson and Lawandos all are contenders. Plenty Of Horses Yesterday's entries included eleven horses in the first race, twelve starters and six also-eligibles in the second, a like number in the third, nine in the fourth, eleven in the fifth, twelve in the sixth, twelve and one in the seventh, and twelve and four in set back in the field. "Tt ws-nprf ti- stin this rf restaurant half-a-mil rinu-n Ui a i S-3215 trees and crops were dam- aed ll0wever DUt n3 apparent caused to buildings oter mentioned.

Trees an aIoas the Montreal road were sawn aad removed from telephone wires and front lawns at Emergency telephone crews aided local People worked top to clear all the lines before nightfall, several 06 noted at work between th; storm area and the outskirts avenue at the corner of Marlboro avenue. A giant elm, close to 100 feet in height and with a girth at the bottom of nearly ten feet, swayed and rocked under the force of the driving wind and rain and finally crashed across the cables directly in the center of Marlboro avenue. Bedded on the north side of Laurier avenue, its base almost completely surrounded by cement, the tree was one of the many stately p'Tn shading Laurier avenue, condemned by the Ottawa Tree Committee as unsafe and a distinct public hazard. Although a suggestion that the elms be cut down was debated for several weeks in city council, the issue was finally shelved and forgotten. Yesterday's storm and uprooting of the Laurier avenue elm, is expected to re-open the issue and add strength to Aid.

William Newton's suggestion that the ancient elms be removed from the street. Mr. Newton is chairman of the tree committee. Severs Electric Cable As the tree crasned across Laurier avenue and onto Marl- 1. i 1 boro, its ponderous weight severed a 4,000 volt consumers electrical supply cable as well as a trolley cable carrying 2,000 volts of electricity.

Wires crackled and snapped across the wet pavement and sparked against the soaking sides of nearby trees as a comoined force of OTC, Ottawa Hydro and Ottawa electric workmen strived to remove the danger. In falling, the gigantic tree strained at guy wires and other electrical and telephone cables upheld by stout and succeeded in tearing two poles loose from their beds and leaving them dangerously suspended by slim, unsafe wires across the roadway. The poles were later jacked up by workmen who are planning to replace them at daylight today. A 20-foot metal standard, used to support the trolley cables, was bent into a 45-degree angle by the falling tree. Although the sidewalk and roadway where the tree was bedded was comparatively undamaged, it was obrious that its exposed roots had long since decayed and become weakened with age.

Tree experts who were at the scene intimated that had the tree's roots been it would never have fallen victim to the wind. Similar Situation A somewhat similar situation was created in a yard at the rear 121 Dalhousie street, a residence occupied by Mrs. Grace Corbeil. A large beech tree, growing close to a wooden shed, was uprooted by the terrific wind and caused to fall across a picket fence out onto the Dalhousie street sidewalk. The tree ripped up the shed in falling and its roots, growing well below the base of the flimsy shed, tore away the floor and raised it more than a foot from i its original bedding.

The shed was nulled away from the house Jit 9 f'Jt: at B.ue Boimets when Wise Po Heiat re" covertd and arrived from his home in Rhode Island. New Arrivals Jockey F. K. Lee, from Reno. Nev- also took out license to ric here, having previously rid- cera at sunshine Park in Florida season and more recently at i Omaha, where he won his last race with Deck Hand.

An apprantice rider will make his local debut in the person of Anthony Ferraiuolo, who arrived from New York to join the stable trained by F. Forrestiere. Ferraiuolo, who scales at 101 pounds, is under contract to A. Jcanfreur. of New York, and has been leased to Forrestiere for the balance of the season.

Two other apprentice boys are races. ru.e Wli prevail throughout the meeting. Distinguished guests will be present today for the opening of the local racing season, and Mayor E. A. Bourque, of Ottawa; Mayor Alphonse Moussette, of Hull, and Mayor J.

Therien, of Aylmer. are expected to attend. A special program of music will be provided by the Governor General's Foot Guards band, and plans have been completed for the ren- lost to Sandy Somerviile, of London. in 1S37. Until yesterday Riddell has never been pait the quarter-finals It was a thrilling experience for Roland, a Vancouver High School boy, to advance to the semi-fmal round in his first crack at the Canadian amateur title.

Chapman, an alternate on th United States Walker Cup team this year, is making his first bid for the title Stranahan has held two years in a row. Roland took his defeat philosophically. He had a three-up leal at the lunch intermission, gained largely through miserable putting lapses by On the first nine Roland had a four-up lead at the ninth and went five-up at the 11th. Chapman's icy putter became warm and he cut the lead by two holes, winning the 14th and Kinking a birdie two at the 18th. Consolation Champ SAINT JOHN, NB Me Pyke, of Montreal Country Club, yesterday won the match play consolation, run off with the Canadian Amateur Golf Championship, by defeating Wally Keep, of WmnJ-i peg St.

Boniface, one up, at the I 20th hole. Players eliminated in early rounds of the Canadian amateur could enter the consolation flight. one mile west of Britannia on the Carling avenue highway. Jack Adams, Woodroffe contractor and operator of the workshop, who was in the building when the twister struck, escaped without injury. Photo by Newton THE TWISTER'S FURY AT BRITANNIA The cyclonic wind and rain storm which created havoc throughout Ottawa and the district for two hours yesterday afternoon, ripped away this 70 feet by 25 feet roof of a cement block workshop on the Albert Quesnel lumber property, the final event.

This is an indi- cue in toaay rsew i ore, w-mcn cation of the quantity of racing offset the departure for Ear-material available here, and a tog a of Gil Roser, apprentice augurs well for the success of the er who pressed Chlappetta for fourteen-day session. priding honors at the second meet- Harold O'Connor, custodian of ig Blue Bonnets, the jockeys' room, expects that at Betting Features least thirty riders will be seen in Post time for the opening ract action here, with the following i today will be 3 o'clock, and One-already reported: Sammy Chiap- Two betting features will be petta, Teddy Amer. Harold Yongs- vogue on the second and final ma. Jimmy Lynn. Irvin Payne, i Walter Gruber, Ray Belanger.

Ken Davidson, Johnny Lauer, Maurice Chevalier, Herberlto Suarez, Emilio Rodriguez, Lou Pafundi, Esteban Ortiz, Raul Maldonado, Johnny Mann, Vince Bracciale, Sol Magath, Timmy Moore, Bruce Templeton, Jimmy Schell, Gilbert Lafleur, Joe Thomas, Maurice Viger, Bo Courtney, Frank Mc-Tague, Paul Trepanier and Milt Briggs. I i Trees Uprooted In Ottawa, trees were uprooted and thrown across telephone, electric and trolley cables by the 50-rnile-an-hour northwest gale, and east and westbound OTC street cars on Laurier avenue east and other parts cf the city were brought to a dead standstill b7 a power break. Motorists travelling to an from the city on suburban highways were forced to pull into the side cf the road, when the torrential rainfall diminished visibility to -an absolute Largest amount cf damage i done by the storm was at Orleans on the Montreal Road, where the Holy Rosary Novitiate and Scho- lasticate suffered severely from the effects of the almost cyclonic wind. In seven seconds, the flat roof cf the large one -storey building, which had weathered many a storm since it was built in 1330, was a mass of tern backs and i boards. Half the rocf of the 300- foot-lcng building was strewn I over the yard at the back of the Water damage to the interior of the building was ccnsiderahle and at nine o'clock last night the plaster in the kitchen, dining hall, dormitories and hallways had begun to falL Narrowly Escape Injury Two brothers narrowly escaped possible death cr serious injury, when they were leaving a large bam owned by the brothers 300 yards away from the main novitiate building, just a few seconds before it was blown to the ground.

Brother Kayley and Brother Pouliot were driving a tractor out cf the building just as the storm struck- They managed to get clear of the building as it collapsed and enly the exlraust pipe cf the tractor ffered any damage. Father Brown was in the main building when the storm hit. He told The Citizen that- "it all happened in about seven seconds." "I was in the center of the building when it happened," he said "and was busy closing the windows cn the north side. The wind was blowing frcm slightly north cf northwest at the time. The noise cf the rain pounding on the windows was deafening.

All at once I heard a sound like nothing I could compare it to much like thunder, in fact." The wind got under the flat surface and lifted huge sections of the room, throwing them as much as 50 feet away. A large five-foot cross, mounted atop the main entrance to the building was thrown ten feet across the roof with a large segment of mortar and brick. Baildinr Cracked The sandstone and brick con- structed building was cracked in several places and it locked as if the structure was badly 1 Now A Jockey ovated racing plant to accom- The riding sensation of the i modate one of the largest open-Montreal meetings dons silks to- i ins -cay crowds in recent history day as a full-fledged jockey, as I of racing in this district. Chapman And Farley Qualify For Canadian Amateur Final the man a pretty bad scare, so I hear," he said. However the man was not hurt and the car suffered no appreciable damage as the current was grounded immediately.

An OTC repair crew repaired the break and by 5.45 p.m. street car service had been resumed. The Laurier avenue line, however, was still out of operation late last evening due to the con-iderable amount of damage caused by the fall of the huge elm, which tore down everything in its path as it fell at the height of the wind and rain storm. Little Damage Jack Egan, the only Bell Telephone official who could be reached for comment on the damage done by the storm told The Citizen that "there was not a great deal of damage done." There were 25 "drops" around the city, he stated and two cases of cable trouble. The "drops" he spoke about involved individual cases of broken wires leading into homes.

The cable damage done interrupted some service in the Slater street and Laurier street areas. Power and telephone interruptions, intermittent and brief, constituted the storm damage in Ottawa districts like Wakefield, Prescott, Manotick, and other points south, east and west. In Carlsbad Springs, however, one farmer, Moise Riche lost his barn doors and a section of tin roofing from his barn as a result of a violent gust of wind, which also blew down several trees in the area. There was no crop damage reported, and no other damage of any kind from wind, rain or lightning in the storm, which lasted there about 20 minutes. Renfrew, Casselman, Prescott, Alexandria and Metcalfe all reported "light to medium rain, but no severe electrical storm and no damage whatever." Smiths Falls somehow missed the storm completely.

A few drop; of rain fell there, but no lightning or thunder was experienced. Not Affected Cardinal, too, reported "a little rain, but no storm." The storm must have gone right around this little village, for the residents could hear rumblings of thunder and seq, flashes of lightning only in the distance. Shawville, Wakefield and Manotick all had power interruptions and telephone cut-offs, but these were quickly taken care of by crews of "trouble-shooters." Of the three, only Manotick had long distance telephone lines down, and this was for about an hour. The town of Aylmer escaped unscathed, but several trees were blown down along the Aylmer road, one of which blocked the highway for a few minutes, before it was removed by motorists, who were being held vp by it. the district.

Fire department officials reported that throughout the entire storm only three alarms were sounded or telephoned into the central alarm station on By-ward Market, and those for short circuits in street wiring, which gave rise to sparks, which threatened to fire the walls of the homes the cables supplied with electricity. In every case, the threat was overcome and the electrical circuits discontinued until the breaks had been repaired by electric company workmen. Many Wires Down "There are an awful lot of wires down," a spokesman for the Ottawa Light Heat and Power company said. "Most of them are what we consider superficial damage and should be repaired early in the evening," he continued. "The damage is pretty general around the outskirts of the city, particularly in RockclifTe, East-view and the Billings Bridge area, most of it done by trees which were blown over," he explained.

"The storm was of the cyclone type, but fortunately for all of us it was one of those very high heat storms and we had little damage by lightning itself," he told The Citizen. Sussex Out The Sussex and St. Patrick street lines were out of service during most of the storm, but repair crews did not take long to get them operating. Perhaps the biggest tie-up resulted from the fact that all the cars along the Laurier avenue line had to be backed up and re-routed along other live" lines. The OTC spokesman said that service was back to normal about 5.45 except for Laurier avenue.

Out For Hour Street car service was held up for over an hour during the busiest hour of the day. The main break occurred at the corner of Albert and Lyon streets where lightning apparently hit an Ottawa Light and Power transformer and a street car power line was broken. The broken wire hit a passing car, according to a spokesman for the OTC. "It touched the car and gave completely overturned the wooden trestle foot bridge connecting the Rideau Tennis Club in Overbrook; with Strathcona Park on the west bank of the river. The entire bridge, from shore to shore, was ripped away from its moorings and turned completely on its back, the four -legged trestles pointing skyward like units of carefully placed toothpicks.

Extent of damage to the bridge, however, is comparatively negligible, only a few boards having been splintered. Another large tree near Rideau street at the corner of Augusta was also ripped from its roots by the terrific wind. It fell across Augusta street, scant seconds before a passenger laden taxi had pulled away from the exact spot where it finally landed. The westerly boundaries of the Britannia district caught the fury of the storm some 30 minutes before it swept into Ottawa and created damage. The Drive-In-Theater past Britannia sustained damage estimated at more than $2,500, when an actual "twister" swept southwards across the Bay, up Birch street, and smashed flat an estimated 900 square feet of a high asbestos board fence enclosing the theater grounds.

G. F. White, the theater manager, told The Citizen that the twister struck shortly after three o'clock in the afternoon. "It was totally unexpected and from what my wife tells me it must have been something pretty terrific' She says it came across the lake, swept up Birch street and then crashed into the wing wall at the entrance to the car grounds. It carried away the well and ripped downseveral of my he said.

Show Goes On However, the damage did not interfere with the evening performance. Workmen, assisted by Mr. White, hastily erected a canvas tarpaulin drop in place of the shattered fence and re-wired speakers to carry the sound to all portions of the car-park area. Immediately to the east of the theater, a large workshop and lumber storage shed on the Albert Quesnel lumber company property operated by Jack Adams of Woodroffe. was badly battered and damaged by the cyclone.

The twisting wind ripped away the roof of the building, roughly 70 feet long by 20 feet wide, and tossed it to the rear and atop an old shed. Mr. Adams was In the workshop at the time, checking over his tools and supplies before locking up for the night. "No, I wasn't hurt, but brother I sure was scared," said the Woodroffe building contractor. Previous to striking the theater and workshop, the "twister" battered at the north breakwater of the Britannia bathing pier.

Little or no damage was caused, except to one or two loose flooring planks, which were ripped away and toss-el into the bay. Terrific Force The terrific driving force of the wind was clearly indicated by the damage sustained by the wall of the Quesnel Bowling Alley between the lumber yard and the Drive-In theater. The wind failed to snatch two flimsily erected bowling pin signs from their perch above the door of the establishment but succeeded in shoving back the top of the cement wall of the building near the roof, a distance of some three inches. In the Capital several sections were left entirely without lights and telephone communication services for a time. Ottawa General Hospital faced a serious handicap, when every light in the institution flickered weakly and went out.

Fortunately, no serious operations were being performed at the time, but in the event of an emergency a battery lighting system for operating theaters and clinical rooms could have immediately been pushed into operation. Could Have Been Bad The Laurier avenue break might have been considerably more serious than residents of that section of Sandy Hill realize. The falling tree, in addition to cutting off electrical and communication services, wiped out the Ottawa fire department fire alarm cables in that area, thereby making it totally impossible for a fire-threatened householder to either telephone the department or turn in ah alarm had a blaze occurred. It so happened that no fires, elth.erlajge or threatened By W. R.

Wheatley Canadian Press Staff Writer SAINT JOHN, NB Two veterans of many a golf course came through yesterday in the semifinals of the Canadian Amateur Golf Championship and today's final will pit a Canadian against an American. Phil Farley. 37-year-old manager of a textile firm in Toronto, won from 33-year-old Tommy Riddell, of Montreal, '2 and 1. Dick Chapman, who won the United States amateur championship in 1940 and now is 39, struggled from behind to overcome 16-year-old Laurie Roland, of Vancouver, one up. The closely-waged 36-hole semifinals were fought out under a broiling sun over Riverside's peril-packed course.

Farley played steady, consistent golf, and once he moved in front of Riddell, was unbeatable. Youngster Loses Lead Young Roland, British Columbia junior champion, saw a three-hole lead disappear when Chapman suddenly regained a deft putting touch and made his wealth of experience count. None of the semi-finalists shot spectacular golf and no match finished behind the 35th green. Farley moved into the finals for the second time in his eareer. He strained, and will have to be completely Another priest told The Citi- torn down owing to the fact that, yen that while considerable dam- repairs are impossible.

ase had beer, done it would be in spite of its terrific power, impossible to estimate damages the wind was inclined to be capri-until an insurance adjuster ar- cious. Sweeping southwards along rived. A contractor who vat cn the Rideaa river, it caught aad.