The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-10
WASHINGTON CITY

cyclone WHICH struck Washington be-
tween II p. II. and midnight Tuesday
night respected neither official nor
diplomatic proprieties. 1t ripped OFF
some of the coping of the White House
and laid low most of the historic trees
in the White House grounds, including
the elm tree which Lincoln planted
land this gave the relic fanatics a
fruitful field for their Operations). 1t
carried away part of the roof OF the
state department, where the official
documents are stored, but fortunately
left the latter uninjured. The costly
roof of the patent office, constructed
after the fire there some years ago,
was rolled up and distributed all
around the neighborhood, and sky
lights, half an inch thick, were re-
morselessly beaten in. The naval OBJ
~servatory and, in fact, pretty well
every other public building was NOR G
or less damaged.
Diplomatic residences were mol
spared. That of the French minister
was left rootless, and even the su b.
stantielly-built embassy of Great
] DTlIdlA SuICICO ~ lSSo Va YIN BO
tico.
Churches and theaters suffered
alike. The slate roof of the Church OF
the Covenant, where President Harri-
son used to worship, was blown down
and each square slate, by a curious
freak, planted itself upright in the
grass parking which surrounds the
editice.
Still more disastrous WAS the fate OF
..he New York Presbyterian church,
which Mr.. Bryan recently attended,
sitting in Lincoln's pew. The whole
tower of that editice was reduced tC
matchwood and persons in search of
souvenirs had no difficulty in obtain
ing them.
Nearly every other church in the
city suffered more or less, and their
antipodes, the theaters, were equally
visited. The tower of the Grand
opera house, formerly Albaughs, was
blown down, fortunately without
hurting anybody, though the debris
still obstructs the whole width of one
of the broad east streets i'll Washing.
ton.
The new A~lbaugh's opera house,
built on the site of Blaine's old resi-
dence, where the Seward assassination
was attempted, escaped injury, but
the watchman's box at the orn
where, through several winery weeks
newspaper men awaited the progress
of the last illness of the great secre-
tary, was caught up by the storm and
crushed into splinters.
The devastation wrought among the
beautiful trees of the capitol park IS
heartrcnding. For years the park
commission which controls this part
of the national capitol decoration had
been implored to have the redundant
foliage of these trees trimmed. The
reply has always been hat there has
not been a sufficient appropriation
made by congress. Now thousands OF
trees which would probably have
weathered this storm if reduced to
less redundant shape, have been
blown up by the roots or hopelessly
dismembered, and the damage done
By Tuesday nights storm cannot be
replaced by an appropriation five
times as large as that usually made
by congress for any II years tree
culture.
There was no loss OF life, as far as
known, in Washington, though a list
of "A persons seriously injured by fall
ing branches and crumbling walls IS
given cut by the hospitals.
In Alexandria two persons were
killed, and in other suburbs of WASH
ington personal injuries were almost
as numerous as property losses.
The total destruction of property in
Washington city by the storm is esti-
mated at nearly half Il million dollars.
President CIeveIand's WoodIey Residence
Wrecked.
WASHINGTON, Oct. President
Cleveland's suburban home at Wood
ley, near this city, which has been left
in charge of servants since the presi-
dent and his family went away to
Massachusetts, caught the full fury of
Tuesday nights gale. Roof and raft
ers were carried away and landed 800
yards distant where they were inter-
mingled with the ruins of a windmill
which had supplied water to the coun-
LTV seat Ol ON n LhCLCdi, diJOlLlbS
the presidents property. Portions of
Mr.. McLean's stables, which stood on
a slight bluff adjoining the presidents
grounds, were intermingled in the
general mix up. Worknen are en-
gagged in repairing the ruin.
Alexandria, Va, Badly Torn by a Storm.
WASHINGTON, Oct. LIN Alexan-
dria, the Virginian suburb of WASH
ington, just across the Potomac river,
the damage lone by the storm is esti-
mated at not less than 500, 600, and at
least two lives are known to have been
lost. The killed are: Mrs. Louisa Hol-
land and William d. Stewart, crushed
to death by falling walls. Nearly2O0
houses were badly damaged by the
tornado in it's course.
Fatally Crushed,
READING, Pa, Oct. by the col
lapse of the roof of the casting house
of the Temple furnace, caused by the
high winds Wednesday morning, Ed
ward Rissmiller and Samuel Trout
were killed. and VIM. G.. Collar, Joseph