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Show RECORD RAINFALL AT NATIONAL CAPITAL By International News Service. WASHINGTON. July 11. AH record for rainfall In the city of Washington were broken late this afternoon. During forty-five forty-five minutes between 6 and 6:45 o'clock the water fell In torrents all over the District of Columbia and when the official forecaster at tho weather bureau went to his rain guage he found thnt In that three-ouurters of an hour there hod fallen 2.5 Inches of water.. Maintained uniformly all over the sev-entv sev-entv sqUnre miles of the District of Columbia, Co-lumbia, this means that -121.11:1.333 cubic feet of water fell and that the amount of water thrust upon the Jaded nnd sweltering swelt-ering capital In less than on hour was something like 3,162,000,000 gallons. T3ut this was not all of the water full. It continued con-tinued to rain Into the night. The model sewer system of Washington Washing-ton refused to carry off the water and the streets were flooded above Hie curbing, curb-ing, while cellars were flooded a foot, something thai has not occurred In years. Todav was the warmest of the summer, sum-mer, offlclnl thermometers registering iH. |