Evening star., 1923-06-05
.2OFALL FROM HEAT
I'm LINE OF PARADE
None Seriously Affected;
Marchers and Spectators
Among Frustrated.

Twenty persons were taken to hos
pitals. during the parade, from heat
exhaustions today.
None of them, however. is believed
to be seriously affected. AS the morn
ing wore on and the sun went higher
the heat increased. until a noon am
balances and private cars were filing
one after another into Emergency,
Casualty and Providence Hospitals
with the men, women and children
who had been overcome.
At the Emergency Hospital Superin-
tendent Sandidge and Assistant Sup
erintendent Dalton were kept busy
directing the administration of n-st
aid to the thirteen patients brought
there. Five others were taken to Cas-
ualty Hospital, one to Sibley and one
TO Providence.
Only One Injury.
DR.. Daniel Borden, a police surgeon.
stated at noon that he had only been
called on to treat one accident case
along the line of the parade and that
vas man who dislocated his shoul-
der while lifting a chair to a bay
window
In addition to the persons who had
to be removed to the hospitals an un-
known number were forced to leave
the crowds along the. line of the pa
rade and seek drug store relief from
the heat
Many of the marchers. particularly
the musicians. who carried large in
struments; were all in" when they
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Only a few of them. however, needed
hospital treatment.
Thirteen at Emergency.
Up to nom today thirteen persons
had been brought to Emergency Hos
pital suffering from. heat prostra-
tions. Some were spectators and
some were marchers. Men and women
alike fell victims to the high tenn
persture.
The staff of nurses and doctors at
the hospital was ample. however, to
was given prompt attention as thev
were brought into the rest room from
private cars and ambulances
None of the cases treated up to
noon appeared to be serious. Prac-
tically all of them, the doctors said
would recover after a few hours of
rest. ~ -.
zAmong the heat victims were
the following: Mrs. Flora Smith, six
ty-five, of 1902 Columbia road: Mrs
Jennie Brown, fifty-five. of so Elm
dorf avenue, Rochester n. Y; Frank
p. Congdon, f1fty-two. a Shriner from
Boston; W. H. Boswell, fifty-two, a
Shriner from SummerviNe. Mass,
Wilfred Foster, thirty-six, a Shriner
from. Toronto, Canada; Charles A.
Charlton. sixty-six, & Shriner from
Los Angeles, Calf; p. e Young, thir-
ty-one, Shriner from Salina, Kan =;
Mary Ebhart, fourteen, of Alexandria
Va: Ruth Roe, nineteen, of Cherry
dale. Va; Lula Baker. twenty-four
of Chattanooga, Tenn; Martha P.
Russell, $50 street northeast; Rob-
ert H. Horne, sixty-two, of Alabama
apartments, and Leroy r. Webb,
Shriner from Atlanta. Ga.
Five were taken to Casualty Hospital.
They were: Annie Thomas seventy six,
2o3 E street. and Thomas Sissler,
thirty-flve, 661 Morton street, both
taken from Pennsylvania avenue and
7th street; Mrs. Julia Carter, Rosslyn,
Va, and Mary Darlington, 237 C
street. both removed from Pennsyl-
yania avenue and 3rd street, and
Mary Underwood, 1855 Maryland ave-
nue., taken from Peace Monument
Mrs. Lois Glover Of -Elkton,~ Tex,
was taken i'll from the excessive heat
while in a room and was taken to
Sibley Hospital.
A woman. whose name was not re-
corded. WAS treated at Providence
Hospital