Arizona republican., 1913-07-31
Wind, Rain, Hail and Light ming Paralyzed Washing ton for Half An Hour Killing at Least Three Persons.
PROPERTY DAMAGE
 IS TREMENDOUS
White House Lawn Devas- tated by the Wind. Sen ate Session Adjourned. More Wind Outside. Many Carried Off.
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 WASHINGTON, July 30.-Like a giant flail 9 cyclonic storm of wind rain and hail whipped back and forth across the nations capital today, leaving death and ruin in it's wake
 Three were killed, scores were in jured. and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth property was ruined, according to a hurried canvass, made when the city aroused itself from half hour of helplessness in the grasp of the elements.
 Out of a blazing sky, under which the city was sWeltering at the one hundred point, came the storm, roar
 ing 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, unroofed houses, tore small struc
 lures from their foundations, wreck ed one office building, overturned wagons and carriages in the streets. and swept Washington's hundred parks. tearing huge branches from the trees, even uprooting sturdy old elms. the landmarks of a century.
 As the wind wrought havoc, the rain came and in five minutes the temperature from the hundred mark dropped to between sixty and sev enty. Then the rain turned to hail, and the hailstones crashed through skylight5 and windows.
 For a half hour the city covered, I paralyzed, under the beating of the storm, and every activity was sus- pended.
 The wind wrecked the three-story brick office building Occupied by the B. $. Saul company, real estate deal l CTS. and fifteen persons were carried down in the crash. w. E. Hilton, 1 vice president of the real estate com pany; Thomas B. Fealey, a clerk, and an unidentified man who entered the building to rescue those caught in the wreck, were taken from the debris dead. A half dozen were talk en to the hospital seriously injured, and a half dozen more were treated for slight injuries. Tonight the po- lice are still digging in the ruins for other bodies it is feared might be there.
 The neatly kept lawns of the White House were devastated. Three huge elm trees were uprooted by the wind, and were thrown bodily across the lawn and up to the very portico of the building, blocking the drives.
 The president was seated in the executive offices when the wind crashed through several windows of the White House. Secretary Tumulty 1 hurried the president and Repre- | sentative Korbley, of Indiana. with whom he was conferring, to the a sheltered interior room.
 The capitol, set high above the city, caught the brunt of the wind, | 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 tumult made further business 1 impossible, and hurrying to the vice | presidents desk, Senator Kern mega phoned with his hands a motion to recess. The motion was put and all though the senators heard nothing. the senate quit work for fifteen l minutes in the confusion.
 While the excitement was at it's height, the wind caught a bundle of one thousand one-dollar bills. half finished, swept it through a broken window of the engraving plant. The bundle was ripped to pieces and bills were scattered far and wide. Direct or Ralph hurried out with a force of scouts. After combing Potomac Park ana the STOunQS or the " dSnlnSIOn monument for a mile, and fishing the tidal basin nearby, all but seventy five dollars worth of the bills were ; recovered.
 When the storm broke. thirty-five painters were at work on the dome of the capitol swarming over the curving surface or swinging high on the shaky scaffolding. Most of these men got to shelter inside the big in verted bowl, but Jim Boyle, John Ford, Noble Bailey and Bruce Jones were too late. Bailey and Jones sue ceeded in scaling the dome in the wind and rain. and gained a shelter I ed ledge where they weathered the storm after trying in vain to get inside. Boyle and Ford were caught on a swinging scaffold just under the caves of the dome and there they swung, buffeted by the wind, beaten by hail and soaked by rain, while big flashes of blue lightning trickled around the dome. down from the platinum lightning points in the head of the Goddess of Freedom that sur mounts the structure. When the storm was over, they crept, bruised, to safety inside the dome.
 At the bureau of printing and en- graving, where hundreds of women