The evening times., 1900-09-12
The HEATED TERMS END
Passing Of the lHarrieane Brings
Cooler Weather.
Fringe of the Great storm Which
Devastated Galveston Reaches
Washington in the Form OF strong
Breezes-Drop ia the Temperature
Expected to Take Place Tonight.

The taii-end of the same hurricane that
killed thousands in Texas reached Wash
ington rather quietly today The wind
blew with some force. but there were few
storm indications. Some alarm was ere
ated by an announcement that not sin
gle telegraph line out of Chicago was left
standing. but the weather officials say
that far from being source of danger,
the high winds rrill prove q positive bene-
fit TO Washington people.
The little gale from the West marks
the end of the worst hot spell known here
in years. There will be no more Of the
blazing days anG torrid nights from now
on until next summer
There Will be more of the high winds
tonight The breeze is likely TO keep up
until merning The hurricane which
started in The Caribbean Sea on the first
of the month has proven the most danger
Gus lAown in many years. 1t mas been
doing business now for twelve days, and
this morning it had its centre in Montreal,
after a wild race across the continent
from the Gulf 1t is expected to pass out
into the Atlantic Ocean again across New
fouDdland, but the edges OF the storm VIII
reach clear down into New England, ana
the fringe is already affecting Washing
ton
After iniicting the most terrible losses
of the generation upon Galveston, the tor
nado swept on north into Iowa Its track
across Kansas was not particularly danger
GUS and there was nothing in the way Oh
cyclonic features in the progress oI the
wind. 1t had apparently spent us nISt
violence on the hapless towns along the
| Gulf After reaching Iowa, however, the
| hurricane renewed its violence. 1t swept
| on past Peoria and Chicago with the speed
| of an express train and up TO the present
| time it is impossible 70 say how much
| damage was done. All the wires into that
| section are down Last night, however.
! the wind was blowing from the southwest
at Chicago with a speed OF seventy si3
miles an hour. That was only eight miles
! less than the highest force registered at
| Galveston before the weather instruments
We're swpt away.
This morning the tornado continued its
| path toward the Atlantic coast II roar
| ed down Lakes Erie and Ontario 10 Mon
| treal and IL is expected TO pas out into
| the Atlantic Ocean tonight by way of New
foundland. Its course will have been near
| Iy {, 600 miles in extent Few hurricanes IN
| history have such a record as that Only
| the most favorable conditions at every
point have made its progress possible. II
has met a series of inciDient storms at
many points along it's course, and they
ume that has stricken the whole nation
| with fear.
Washington people have cause fol
thankfulness, however, in the fact that
the gale now passing over the coast vii
| end the hot weather For two months
and q half the Capital has sweltered anG
| broiled beneath a pitiless sun. The Tor
| rid spell commenced on July / and II has
| kept up without rest ever since. Tht
hottest time vas about August L, wheI
| even the Weather Bureau admitted tha
I0l degrees in the shade was reached, auc
| everybody knows how conservative tht
| Government mercury is.
During a stretch of two whole weeks il
| August the heat was above 50 degrees ev'
cry day Indeed, in the whole course o
seventy-ive days since the torrid spell
set in a temperature of from 80 TO 90 ha:
| been of almost daily occurrence Wash
| ington has not in years suffered with sucl
| a siege, for the humidity made life OFT
long nightmare of discomfort. But thu
end at last is in sight. Tonight drop o
IL degrees may be expected, and that com
fort giving state is promised 10 keep up