Destructive Storm in Washington by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 7, 1913

Destructive Storm in Washington

By Editor

A DESTRUCTIVE wind-, rain-, and hailstorm visited Washington, D. C., on the afternoon of July 30. The storm broke with very little warning, almost out of a clear sky. The wind attained a velocity of nearly seventy miles an hour with cyclonic tendency. Three persons were killed, and more than a score injured. It is estimated that the loss to property through the unroofing of buildings, blowing in of plate-glass windows, etc., will amount to upward of one million dollars. The storm was not widely felt outside of the area of the District, ten miles square, but was probably the most destructive that has ever visited this section of the country. Although lasting only about one-half hour, it produced much consternation, and loss as indicated above. These disasters, great and small, will increase as time proceeds. They show the abnormal conditions which will exist in the earth. They are forerunners of the great day of destruction. Happy is the man who in the times before us, in the destruction that will come upon the world, has God for his trust and can say with the psalmist, "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea."