The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-07-04
THUNDER SHOWERS EXPECTED.
Temporary Relief From the Excess
sIve Heat Expected Tonight.

Many serious cases Of heat prostration
are being cared for at the various hospi-
tails. and the weeks death list will proba-
bly, be increased by night 1t has been
cooler today than vest erday by one OF two
degrees. but the Weather Bureau officials
say that the end Of the not wave is not
yet in sight There win be no respite for
an iudeterniuate period
Two deaths were reported up to noon
today The dead body OF samuel J. Wal
lace, a weII-knorvn patent attorney. was
found in his room at sos Fifth Street
northwest. He was last seen at il o'clock
on Tuesday morning From the condition
of the body it is believed that death oc-
CURED about that time
The infant child of George Morgan. col
ored, Of Scott Street. Georgetown. died
this MORNING as a result of the excessive
heat.
The following prostratioGs were record
ed at the hospitals
Thomas Johnson. coIored. forty years
Old, who lived AZ 81 Wilson Street north
west; found in an unconscious condition
in an alley between Sixth and Seventh
Streets and T Street and Florida Avenue
northwest; removed to Freedman-s Hos
pitai His condition is critical
An unknown cOIored woman about for
ty-five years old, found in an unconscious
condition in the doorway 1T s25 F Street
northwest; removed to the Emergency
Hospital
Mrs J. II. Kuehling who lives near
Mount Vernon, was nrostrated by the
heat yesterday while On a visit to this
city She was unable to return to her
home for several hours.
The only promise Of relief made this
morning by the officials at the Weather
Bureau was held out in a prediction of
possible slight thunder showers tonight
Should they occur, however, the relief
viii be only temporary. The Weather Bu-
reau insists that no permanent relief
viii occur. Hot weather prevails in the
entire section east of the Rocky Noun
tains today. as during the past week or
more and there viii be no improvement
in atmospheric conditions.
At Il clock TO-DAY the official tber-
nometer registered one degree lower than
a the same hour yesterday. when So de-
groes were scored by the mercury. Until
noon s. degrees was the maximum tenn
perature reached, when the quicksilver in
the bulb began to soar Upward. The 80
degree mark was soon cached and passed
The mercury, however, hovered in the vi
entity Of this mark At Z o'clock 81 de
grces was the mark attained. This IS
about / degrees lower than the tempeTa-
ture for the same hour yesterday.
The lowest point to which the ther-
mometer fell during the night was y de-
grees, at / o'clock shis morning. This
showed a difference Of only 2 degrees dur
ing the four hours from midnight when
the reading was Il degrees Gradually
during the four hours after o'clock ..
m the mercury made a slow move up
ward of 0 degrees, and at S O'Clock this
morning the 81 degrees point had been
reached. From O'Clock there was
steady rise in the temperature until noon
In the business postions of the city it
has been slightly hotter today than at
the Weather Bureau which is always
from one to two degr IS cooler than bust
ness places along the concrete streets.
Afieck's thermometer registered 90 de-
grees at I 2. II. At 5 a. n. 661z; II a. ~,
81. and at L noon. 81 degrees, were the
readings noted
Although actually cooler today by seY-
evaI degrees. sweItering Washington has
not been able to appreciate the difference
The actual heat experienced has been
nearly as great as that felt yesterday.
This is due 10 the fact that the humidity
is very great.
Banks Of clouds, holding forth promises
of thunder showers TO cone, protected the
city somewhat from the burning rays Of
the sun, and brought gusts of cooling
bceezes at intervals during the morning
and early afternoon, which relieved the
atmosphere Of its charge of heat Busi-
ness was entirely suspended throughout
the city almost all day, and thousands Of
Washingtonians flocked to the neighbor-
ing resorts to escape the heat of the tor
rid blasts from asphalt pavements Few
people ventured on the streets Today has
been cooler by nearly i've degrees than
the Fourth Of July last year. when 96 de-
SreeS was the record