Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-07
STORM BREAKS HEAT
Wind Blows Down FIaqstaffs
and Sheds.
AN INCH OF RAIN FALLS
Within Hour Mercury Takes Drop
of Twenty-Eight Degrees.
STABLE ROOF rs SENT FLYING
Colored Man Receives Injury-The
Weather Prophets Made Ac-
curate Prediction.
Weather Bureau Records.

P.Ah.s ~. 90
Out OF the north came a storm this
afternoon. blowing seventy eight miles an
hour. carrying hail and even snow blow
ing down fiagstaffs and sheds. and put
ting to rout the terrific record breaking
heat which has scourged the entire coun-
try and left a trail of sickness and death.
At / O'Clock. when the temperature on
the streets was 101 and when the Official
thermometer high above the earth at the
weather bureau read 90. the forecaster
told Star reporter over the telephone
that there would surely be a thunder
storm this afternoon to make things
pleasanter.
Within one hour the mercury had
raced down 2s degrees and an inch Of
rain had fallen. 1t is presumed at the
weather bureau that the hot wave Is
now matter OF history
The freaks of weather were well dis
played during the brief little hurricane
which played tricks over the city. While
Georgetown and the northwest were be-
ing drenched and blown. the northeast
was barely getting its streets wet. The
southeast was not severely visited
| either
Looking out Of the window at the
weather bureau where forecasters were
smiling with pleasure over the correct
ness Of their prophesies. the entire 1orce
| of weather experts saw the Coiumoia
Hospital stable roof lifted of by the
gale and carried down the street.
Cut About Head.
| otho Seimon. colored, who lives at 1874
Iineer's court had gone into the stable
\ to get out OF the wet.
The crashing timbers cut his head. ana
| he thereupon started to run as fast as ne
| could. Instead Of running into the hos
| pital he ran all the way to 212l Nj street.
| where someone caught him. and from
there he was sent TO Emergency HOS
pital Lightning struck the hagpole on
| the Curtis School. and knocked II wnoie
block down the street.
lust what a freak wind can DO was
very well illustrated at the Dlstr1c.
| building where one OF the three pairs OF
double doors in the front was blown COM
nletelv off it's hinges and into the hall.
| The doors were slamming wildly, ana
watchman named Ingram arrived just In
time to save the other doors. He was
| badly stunned. -
Star building was another freak or the
| storm With the Thermometers stiii IN
| the eighties the cold storm rushed DOWN
| around the open windows OF the com
building The warm air from melting
| lead and linotype machines floating out
| into the storm produced good little
shower OF snow, which melted. however.
before the flakes fell to the street:
| During the hour between ] and O'Clock
| this afternoon the thermometer fell tWen-
| ty-eight degrees. After the storm had
passed. however. the mercury In the
| thermometer went up two degrees
Coming From Lake Region.
People who read about the promise OF
cool weather yesterday evidently expect
| ed the heat to break early today. As
matter of fact, the weather bureau fore
cast yesterday promised lower tempera-
ture for tonight. Today's forecast Is
Just as positive that the weather will be
cooler tonight and tomorrow.
Not COOL you know" remarked the
forecaster over the telephone. but
lower temperature
The center of the big cool wave that Is
driving off the record-breaking hot spell
is now over the great lakes. and Will
some day be around washington
Marked reductions in temperatures are
reported from New England. New York.
Pennsylyania and the lake regions. and Il
Is somewhat cooler in the lower Ohio ana
upper Mississippi valleys. II 10 slightly
warmer over the northern plains ana IN
the Rocky mountain region out TINS WIN
cooler already has set In along the north
ern Pacific coast.
Still Hot in New York.
In New York this morning at 8 O'Clock
the thermometer registered az. four de-
grees warmer than at the same hour
Yesterday However. the weather ex-
perts say that a twenty-mile breese ID
sweeping over Manhattan from the At
lantic and that there will be no appre-
ciable rise in temperature during the
day Washington's temperature at
o'clock was 50. as II has been at the
same hour for the past four mornings,
and the day promised to be another
scorcher with the mercury climbing
The number of heat prostrations re-
ported to the police today have been
lower than for several days past
the G heat saTii in fi his office in in the Colorado
building this morning. He was taken to
the George Washington University Hos
pital. where it was said this afternoon
he was out of danger.
Mrs, Lena Sanders, fifty-one years old.
927 d street northwest, suffered an at
tack OF heat prostration last night
John Pyle, thirty-seven years old, lO7l
31st street. was overcome by the heat
Yesterday afternoon about O'Clock while
at Louisiana avenue and lotn street
northwest.
Walter Spriggs. coioreo' thi y-t"o
wears old, 1890 Nolan court southwest.
was taken to the Casualty Hospital about
O'Clock yesterday afternoon and treated
for heat prostration. He was at Massa-
chusetts avenue and 4th street northeast
when he was stricken.
Prisoner q Heat Victim.
Ernest Hunt. a prisoner at the eleventh
precinct police station. fell Ill with the
heat while behind the bars last night.
Arthur D. Mayo. fifty years old. 1889
Rhode Island avenue northwest. was
treated at the Emergency Hospital today
for heat prostration.
Archer Bryan, colored, twenty-five
wears old, 621 Brown court. suffered an
attack of heat prostration about o'clock
yesterday afternoon In Kramer's gresn-
house. Good Hope road