INTENSE HEAT WAVE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1818, 2 August 1913, Page 5

INTENSE HEAT WAVE.

TERRIFIC THUNDERSTORM AT WASHINGTON.

By Telegraph-Press Assoclation-Oopyrijht Chicago, July 31. The heat wave lias been renewed across tho middle West States.

Seven deaths have occurred in Chicago. ; Washington, July 31. After the temperature had reached 100 degrees, a terrific thunderstorm' broko over the city at midday, killing three and injuring scores of persons. Tho city was in darkpess whilo tho storm lasted, and all activities wero suspended.

Several buildings wero wrecked, and fifteen persons were buried in tho ruins, several of whom were taken out dead.

President Wilson was seated in his office in tho White House when the windows crashed inwards. Ho took refuge in an inner room.

The sitting of tho Scnato was stopped for fifteen minutes owing to the noise of hail on tho roof.

Thirty painters working on tho roof of tho Capitol wero caught in tine storm. They sheltered in tho dome. Several wero unablo to escape, and spent an anxious half-hour suspended swinging from a scaffold amid tho blinding hail. Tho wind carried off 1000 one-dollar bills from tho printing department. The officials chased tho bills, and recovered all excepting seventy-five. (Sydney "Sun" Special.) New York, July 31. There .is intense heat. IXundreds of peoplo are prostrated. Thousands are sleeping in tho streets and parks.

Tho severest storm for a generation was followed by a heat wavo in Washington.