TERRIFIC STORM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 74, 1 August 1913, Page 5

TERRIFIC STORM.

WASHBNGTON PARALYSED

SENSATIONAL EXPERIENCES

[i t Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]

(Received 8.5 a.m.) Washington, July 31

Alter the temperature reached 100, a terrific thunder storm broke ovoi the city at midday, killing three people and injuring scores. The city was in darkness while the storm lasted, and all activities were suspended. Several buildings were wrecked and fifteen people were buried in the ruins. One or two were taken out dead.

President Wilson was seated in hi? office in White House when the windows crashed inwards and ho took refuge in an inner room. The sitting of the Senate was stop pod for fifteen minutes owing to the noise of the hail on the roof.

Thirty painters working on the roo* of the Capitol were caught in the storm and sheltered in the dome. Several were unable to escape, and spent an anxious half hour suspended on a swinging scaffold amid the blinding hail.

The wind carried off 1000 one-dob lar hills from the printing department, hut the officials chased aftei them and recovered them with the exception of seventy-five.