Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-30
HEAVY RAIN AND ELECTRIC STORM
HITS CITY, PARALYZING BUSINESS
AND GREATLY DAMAGING PROPERTY

the show window where 1t was sitting.
A piano in its wooden shipping case.
which was sitting outside of piano store
just opposite Droop's, on G street, was
blown part way down G street.
street, under the interstate commerce
commission, also was broken, as was q
skyiight on the building adjoining
Awnings all around the business section
were destroyed.
Roof Falls in Street.
The roof of the house at 1881 G street
was blown off and landed in g street
and a plate glass window at 1885 G
street was destroyed, as also was the
two plate glass windows on the 14th
and G street side of the United States
Cigar Stores Company. A roof on 18th
street between and E streets also
was blown off.
The glass windows in the concourse
of the Union station were blown out.
Roofs of two houses on E street north
east, very near the station, were twisted
off and dashed to the street
Runaway Horse Halted.
When the storm was at it's height a
horse ran away down 18th street and
started to cross Pennsylvania avenue
but when it saw that the car tracks
were torn up he stopped abruptly and
turned down D street. An automobile
was blown across 18th street from the
curb on The Star office side, and in few
minutes another current of air caught
it and returned it to almost the same
Identical place
Horse on Aqueduct Bridge Killed.
Lightning struck the Aqueduct bridge,
killing q horse which was drawing
wagon across the bridge. The driver
Of the wagon was uninjured. The entire
bridge shook. causing the fear that it
was going to be carried away.
The building of the Metropolis Build
ing Association, at I'd and Pennsylvania
avenue southeast, was unroofed.
Mrs. McCauley's Marrow Escape.
Another narrow escape from death was
the experience Of Mrs. J. M. McCauley
of 1850 University place northwest, who
was struck by falling plaster and pieces
of tin and wood while she was asleep
in her bed as the storm burst.
The roof of the house was torn of,
turned around in the air, and deposited
on the street in front of the house.
1.-The rain, hail and wind seemed to
come from every quarter of heaven"
Mrs. McCauley said this afternoon,
land 1 thought an earthquake had
taken place. The rain and big pieces of
hail beat down into the house as soon
as the roof flew off with a crash, and
the whole place was flooded"
White House Trees Fall.
Four of the five great trees which have
for many years been landscape orna-
ments to the White House grounds, were
uprooted by the storm and thrown prone
upon the ground. Great branches of
trees were torn from the parent trunk
and scattered wide. Many trees were
almost denuded of branches. While it
Is not certain that lightning struck in
the grounds, the SuddenneSs of the
thunder after the flash made it seem
probable that some of the trees came
to their fall through stroke from the
clouds
Within the White House the cellar was
flooded. Hail beat upon the roofs and
made a defamation like the spluttering
shots from a rapid-fire gun. The build
ing shook under the shock of the ire
mendous wind.
Legislator Escapes.
An automobile. conveying Representa-
tive Flood to the executive offices. just
escaped the stroke of a big branch
broken from a tree over the roadside.
Representative Flood found shelter in the
executive offices.
His chauffeur stayed without through
all the storm, baling out the machine
when the rain threatened to fill it. The
automobile is likely to remain all night
in the grounds, as every road is choked
with fallen branches.
Great streams of water flowing
through the roadways made walking
impossible.