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Show TERRIFIC STORM I i HITS WASHINGTON -Hi .'."ft itional Capital Is the Scene of One of the orst Winds in Years Kills Many, Injures ores and Demolishes Many Buildings :operty Loss Will Be Heavy 81 V DIE IN COLLAPSING OF A BUILDING ghtning Tears Holes in the Roofs of Govern-ent Govern-ent Buildings Four Painters on National j ome Have Narrow Escape An Immense rowd at Baseball Game on Verge of Becom-g Becom-g Panic-stricken by the Storm Rescue 'arties Begin Work at Once m I ishmgton, July 30 Svera pel -Hiaro known to ha-e been injured - ' n, small buildings were demolished a? large property loss was caused 15ertH T terrific wind, rain and hail storm wh swept Washington late toda. his w Twind blew T: miles an hour and i Ptgrt if than one and one-half inches ipticul o"n fell in an hour fetlflf alter K Hilton n.-c president of tie ft acal real estate compan. and oik illtytf ilcntifieil man. were killed during y Pi tionn here loday in the collapse $ huildmg. oflfci our painter? working on a swing-i swing-i scaffold atop the dome of the (jlol were caucht there in the pale. ' than IVi fret above the ground. j the storm abated rescue parties mi tit to their assistance. The four I fi cauchi on th dome of the capiat capi-at t weathered the cale safely an I niv. re taken from the:r perilous posi s the storm cleared, reports of iises unroofed and demolished came ,the police but without definite in- rmation of loss of life or injury. trt An inimcii-r crowd galhered at ih It i nierican league park for the Wash-iVM Wash-iVM gton - Detroit came, was caught in 10ft -lilf btii Telephone operators abandoned irt eir sw ih hboards in panic ate Cool head': kept the crowd at the HsebaH uai'k from starting a panic o one was hurl there. The water t as rwo feet deep ill the held, off' DUr- imiiso wai- v recked in the It brthwest section of the city A wom-H wom-H n and ihiee children took refugee In , large refrigerator and escaped in- I Arv In the ruins Several persons were reported Ightlj injured in the wreck of an-Zmi an-Zmi ther demolished building The pen-lon pen-lon otfice. postofflce and other gov-S gov-S rnment buildings had large holes orn in their roofs bj lightning Wnni Hie thunderous hail Storm truck, the noise In the senate chani-rr, chani-rr, pt was so great Hat a recess was Lu rd.Tfii li v as in the midst, of a roll all for a quorum. So loud was the lid lfV,.-e that Senator Kern, with his t: land- to his mouth, ian to the ros-rum ros-rum and had to -houi his motion fot Vm l recess ice President Marshall, shouting to if a croup of senators standing near the li rk is, asked i "Is there any precedent for senate roof falling in " " The temperature almost instantly h dropped forty degrees. of Porfulo Diaz and Bpoke at length of the downfall of Madero and the rise I of Huerta The committee was disposed dis-posed to let the ambassador tell his I story In his own va and for more than two hours he continued an almost al-most unbroken narrative' Interrupted only occasionally by a question from some senator Extraordinary injunctions injunc-tions of secrecy were placed on all senators In the conference, but it was evident that the committee was listening lis-tening attentively and that no dispo-siiion dispo-siiion to croev-examine the amba dor developed, at least during the tirst pari of the conference Later, and atler the luncheon con ! ference. the committee decided no; I to continue the hearing tomorrow Senator Bacon said Ambassador I Wilson would not be heard further for 'the public It is understood the coin-I coin-I mittee may not recall him, but ma accept his statement as made today. Ambassador v ilson advocated a restricted re-stricted recognition of the Muerta government, hut the senators took no 'action. The details of his plans were j not divulged at the time, but sonic I of the Republican senators said the ambassador had made a tavorable im-; im-; pression. not necessarily as to his j plan, but as to his whole story of the I events tn Mexico. Chairman Bacon announced at th conclusion or the meeting thai tb--I committee had been unable to finish ' with Ambassador Wilson and that he , would be heard again tomorrow. Senator Hitchcock. Democrat, said he had been ' very favorably impressed impress-ed ." Senator Shively said the ambassador am-bassador had made an interesting statement of his connection with Mexican affairs. Senator William Al-den Al-den Smith .said be had been highly impressed with the 'candor, thoroughness thor-oughness and character " of the statement Ambassador W ilson cie. imeu io make an statement, declaring he was j under an oath of secrecy with the I committee. He turned over a mass of; documents to an employe of the Btate department and went to lunch with' members of the senate committee , i the conclusion of a three-hour examination, members of the com mil too said the ambassador had been asked in detail as lo his own connection connec-tion with the downfall of Madero. but they insisted his presentation of tacts and his connection With them had been "favorably received ' The ambassador expressed his own opinion in favor of rcoRiiltion or the Huprta government, but the pro-I pro-I posal did not meet approval from the majority of the committee Before Mr Wilson finished his story. Sena tors led him through a rigid cross ex amlnation Republican senators d-clared d-clared the ambassador had made a "favorable impression " The committee took no formal ac tion on any phases of the Mexican situation. No program of American action was outlined, further than the suggestions of Amhassador Wilson lor la restricted recognition of the llu-r government On this, the committee did not act. Diaz En Route to Japan San Diego. Cal . .lulv JO -Before his departure this afternoon for Los Angeles. (General Felix Diaz, special envoy of Mexico to Japan, announce d that he would visit other Pacific coas'. cities on his way north to Vancouver. IB. C whence he will sail for Yoko-: Yoko-: hama August 13. |