The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-08-06
Washington Visited BY a
CycIonic Storm
THREE MEN KILLED IN WRECK
Wind Created Havoc in the
Streets. Sweeping Every.
thing Before 1t.
sfAPER MONEY WAS SCATTERED


Washington, July 31.-The ma
tional capital awakened to-day to
begin a civic housekeeping, and
citizens and city employees alike
Joined hands in an effort to clean
up the litter and debris in the
streets, left in the wake of the cy-
clonic storm of yesterday.
No accurate estimate of the
monetary damage done by the tenn
pest is yet obtainable, the greatest
\ havoc having been occasioned
through the breaking and the level
ing of many of the finest trees,
which cannot be replaced Late re-
ports from outlying districts dis
closed damage to property greater
than was at first suspected.
The storm played many curious
pranks in it's brief career. A heavy
moving van, waiting in the rear of a
fashionable apartment house, was
caught by the wind and turned on
(being suspended in the aid by their
Icollars and nearly strangled before
they could be lowered to the
ground. A number of persons en-
deavoring to leave a street car had
a narrow escape from being run
down by a heavy automobile which
came tearing down the street i'm
PEELED by the wind and without.
chauffeur or other occupant.
Out of blazing sky, under
which the city was sweltering with
the temperature at the 100 point,
came the storm roaring from the
NORTH, driving a mass of clouds that
}cast a mantle of total darkness
over the town. The gale, reaching
a velocity of nearly seventy miles
an hour, swept the streets clear, un-
rooted houses, tore detached small
structures from their foundations,
wrecked one Office building, over
turned wagons and carriages in the
streets and swept Washington
hundred parks. tearing huge
branches from trees and even up
roofing old elms, the landmarks of
a century.
Washingtons well-kept streets,
with their wealth of trees, were
1littered with broken foliage, roofs,
debris and dead birds, as if a play
full giant had carelessly swished his
club up and down the city.
AS the wind wreaked its havoc
the rain came, and in five minutes
the temperature from the 100 mark
dropped to between 60 and 70.
Then the rain turned to hail, and
hail stones battered on roofs and
crashed through skylights and win
dows.
For half an hour the city cover
Jed. paralyZed, under the beating OF
the storm. every activity suspended.
Trolley lines were halted and the
Government departments suspend
ed operations.
The wind wrecked a three-story
brick Office building occupied by the
y. S. Saul Company, real estate
dealers, and fifteen persons were
carried down in the crash. w. E.
Hilton, vice president of the real
estate company; Thomas B. Fealey, |
-65 years old, a clerk, and an uni !
Identified man who entered the
building to try to rescue those
caught in the wreck were taken !
from the, ruins dead Half dozen
We're taken TO hospitals seriously |
injured and half dozen more were
treated for slight injuries.
The neatly-kept lawns of the |
White House were devasted. Three :
huge elm trees, uprooted by the |
wind. were thrown bodily across the !
lawn and up to the very portico of
the building, blocking the drives.
u President Wilson was seated in
the executiveJoffices when the wind
crashed through several windows in
the White House proper. Secretary
Tumulty hurried the President and
Representative Korbly. of Indiana.
with whom he was comforting. TO a