The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-31

was over they crept shaken and bruised to
safety inside the dome
panic appeared. Horses driven frantic by
the wind and hail dashed through the
| by collision with some other wind-strewn
object. In some of the office buildings
trous panics were narrowly averted At
the bureau of printing and engraving,
waere hundreds of women are employed,
dow. sent a storm of broken plate glass
hurting through the big press room.
Women Cut by Flying Glass.
Eight or ten women We're cut by flying
glass and one printer. John Rhoades, re
ceived severe scalp wounds The storm
of glass caused panic throughout the
as printers assistants and others dashed
terror-stricken for the exits For two
hours the office was in an uproar
While the excitement was at its height
the wind caught a bundle of 1.o0O dollar
bills, half finished. and swept it through
ripped to pieces and the bills scattered
far and wide. Director Ralph hurried out
a force of scouts and after comblnS Po-
tomaC park and the grounds of the Wash
ington monument for miles and fishing in
the tidal basin nearby. all but $40 worth
of the bills We're recovered
Another panic was created at the PEN
corner off the roof and crashed in scores
of windows. Another lightning bolt
smashed a hole in the roof of the post
office building and ripped out the face OF
the big clock in the tower.
The wind carried fifteen heavy panels
from the floor of the historic old aque-
duct bridge and horse ana wagon cross
ing the structure were blown into the
river The driver escaped.
The police rounded up scores of horses
and wagons which had been deserted In
the street or had run away a.
moralized. The tug Edith Goddard WIN
ship sank in the blow and her crew was
ing. The excursion steamer. Charles y.
Warner is aground several miles down inc
river with more than one rf nundfed in eN
safe position
The Hayes Tree Is Down.
The White House lawn was piled
with heaps of fallen limbs and uproot-
ed trees today as a result of the storm
Twenty trees were down. or the 'alny
historic trees there, the giant elm
planted by President Hayes, torn from
its roots, lay across the presidential
drive near the porticO. The Mckinley
oak and the Harrison sweet gum
weathered the storm, as did the CleVe-
land elm. 1t was estimated that fully
/ 900 cords of wood were obtainable
from the damaged trees and the White
House gardener was instructed to oHer
the wood to the poor.
The storm played many curious
pranks in its brief career. A heavy
moving van waiting in the rear of
apartment house was
the three horses attached to it being
strangled before they could be lowered
to the ground. A number of persons
to leave street car mad
narrow escape from being run down By
a heavy automobile which came tearing
down the street impelled by the wind
and without a chauffeur or other &C.
cupant.
Lightning, like the wind, played many
freak tricks. 1t struck a house IN
a suburb, passed through
three bedrooms and in each room the
only damage done was the breaking of
the looking glasses in the bureaus.
number of similar queer exhibitions
were given by the bolts. Search is be-
ing made both the Maryland and
Virginia shores of the Potomac river
for countless launches and small crafts
that were scattered from their moor
ings like chaff. 1t is feared. number
of these have been sunk although so far
as known no loss of life was entailed.