The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-08-01

mum lightning points on the head OF
the Goddess of Freedom that sur
mounts the structure When the
storm was over they crept shaken
and bruised to safety inside,
Here and there throughout the city
panic appeared. Horses, driven fran
tic by the wind and bail, dashed
through the streets in terror until
they were stopped by collision with
some other wind-strewn object In
some of the Office buildings and the
government buildings disastrous pan
les narrowly were averted. At the
bureau of printing and engraving,
where hundreds of women are en-
ployed, the wind, sweeping through
huge window, sent a storm Of broken
plate-glass hurtl7ng through the big
press room.
Women Faint, Panic Stricken.
Eight or ten women were cut by
falling glass, and one printer, John
Rhodes suffered severe scalp wounds.
The crash of glass swept panic
through the room. A hundred or
more of the girls working as printers
assistants, tainted and fell to the
floor and others dashed terror-strick-
en- 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
1000 one-dollar bills, half finished,
and swept it through the broken win
dow. The bundle was ripped to piec-
es and the bills scattered far and
wide,
Director Ralph hurried out a force
Of scouts, and after combing Potomac
Park and the grounds of the Washing
ton monument for miles, and fishing
in the tidal basin near by, all but
SIS worth of the bills were recover
ed.
Another panic threatened at the
pension Office, where the lightning
ripped a corner off the roof and
crashed in scores of windows Anoth-
er lightning bolt tore a hole in the
roof of the postofice building and rip
ped open one face Of the big clock in
the tower.
Stray Teams Rounded Up.
The wind ripped fifteen heavy pam
| els from the. floor of the historic old
aqueduct bridge, and q horse and
wagon crossing the structure was
blown into the river. The driver es-
capped. iTonight the police rounded UP
scores of strayed horses and wagons
which had been deserted in the
streets or had run away.
On the Potomac river water traffic
was demoralized. The tug Edith God
ldard Winshfp sank in the blow and
her crew was taken off by a barge
which she was towing. The excur-
sion steamer Charles H. Warner to-
night is aground several miles up the
river, with more than one hundred
excursionists aboard. She is report
Led in a safe position.
James Stoddard, regular soldier,
rescued three Washington physicians
from an overturned small boat in the
river
None of the men could swim, but
stoddard brought them all in safely
towing the three at one time. Launch
es and small crafts along the shores
were swept from their moorings ana
carried away down the river ahead
of the gale.
Representative Flood, of Virginia.
narrowly escaped death or serious IN
Jury when, in the height Of the Storm
he was driving in an automobile
through the white house grounds. A
huge uprooted elm was thrown by the
wind directly in the path, just missing
the automobile.
The weather bureau said tonight
that the storm was a purely local dis
turbance over the city, and that its
path covered only a few miles. The
official records gave the velocity OF
the wind at 81 miles, although at
times it reached so miles an hour.
During the brief storm 2.O2 inches
of rain fell.
To Our Sunday School Workers: