The Forrest City times., 1913-08-01
STORM STRIKES
 WASHINGTON, ,. [.
DEATH FOLLOWS IN WAke-cApI. Iol BEARS BRUNT-OEBRIs
 LETTERS THE STREETS.
PRESIDENT WILSON UNHURT
Secretary Hurries Executive Out of Reach of Harm-Disturbance
 Caused by Heat.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
 Washlngton.-Lik a giant fail a cyclone storm of wind, rain and hail whipped back and forth across the nations capital leaving death and ruin in its wake.
 Three dead, scores injured and hun. dreds of thousands of dollars worth of property destroyed was the toll record cd ln the hurried canvass made when the city aroused itself from half an hour of helpiessness in the grasp of the elements.
 out Of a blazing sky, under which the city was sweltering with the tenn. ierature at 100 degrees came the storm roaring from the north driving a mass of clouds that cast a mantle of darkness over the rity The gale, reaching velocity of almost 70 miles an hour swept the streets clear. un. rCofed houses, tore detached small structures from their foundations. wrecked one office building, oVerturn, ed wagons and carriages ill the streets 'Ai4H S"Npt WdS4AlhSlCu HuHuFtu tarks, tearing huge branches from trees and even uprooting sturdy old elms, landmakrs of century.
 AS the wind wrecked its havoc. the rain cante and in five minutes the tenn perature dropped from the 100 mark to between 60 and 70. Then the rain turned to hail and hail stones battered on roofs and crashed through skylights and windows.
 Fer half hour the city covered under the beating of the storm, every activity suspended Trolley lines street traffic and telephone service were halted and government depart ments suspended operations.
 The wind wrecked a three-story trick office building occupied by the B. s. Saul company, real estate deal CTS, and Is persons were carried down in the crash, w. F. Hilton, vice presi dent of the real estate company, Thomas B. Fealey, 65 years old, and an unidentified man who entered the building to try to rescue those caught in the wreck, were taken from the ruins dead. Many were taken to hos pitals seriously injured.
 The neatly kept lawns of the White House were devastated. Three huge elm trees uprooted by the wind were thrown bodily across the lawn and up to the very portico of the building, hp ri ont NNtlcnn vas seated in the executive offices when the wind crashed through sev- eIal windows in the White House prop CT Secretary Tumulty hurried the president and Representative Korbley of Indiana, with whom he was con ferring, 10 sheltered inner room. away from the searching lightning flashes.
 The capitol. set high above the city caught the brunt of the wind and rain. hail and lightning. The Senate was in session when the hail swept down with a deafening roar, beating on the glass roof of the chamber The tu- rlut made further business impossi ble, and hurrying to the vice presi- dents desk. Senator Kern, megaphon- ed with his hands, motion to recess. The motion was put and although the senators could hear nothing, the Sen ate quit work for 15 minutes in con fusion.
 Representive Flood of Virginia mar rowly escaped death or serious injury when. in the height of the storm. he was driving in an automobile through the White House grounds. huge up rooted elm was thrown by the wind di- rectly in the path, just missing the machine The Weather Bureau said the storm was a pureh local heat dis turbance over the city and that it's path covered only a few miles.