Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
END Of HEAT WAVE
TONIGHT PREDICTED
Moderate Temperatures Are
FOrecast-Lightning Kills
Three in New York.

Washington and the Eastern por-
| ton of the country today probably
| will experience it's last day of the
| present heat wave which has taken
| toll of 70 lives outside of the Dis
| trict Of Columbia since Tuesday. One
drowning and one case of heat pros.
| tration were reported here.
| Forecaster Mitchell state last night
| that better days are to come" ex-
planning that the spasmodic relief
which has come in the form Of local
| thundershoWers and cloudiness would
give way TO a genuine relief in nature
| or disturbance which was over
| wisconsin last night and was moving
Eastward. Also real cool air" from
the Canadian northwest is on the
way, and last night, the forecaster
SAID, 1t was centered over Rapid City,
S. Oak.
| showers probably will ocur this aft.
ernoon or evening, after which the
Wlno VIII shift to the northwest. the
skies will clear off and 1t will be fair
| with moderate temperature. Dry at.
mosphere also will take the place Of
the humidity of the past several
| days. al
Three Killed in New York.
Most OF the stations in the Ea ct
reported rain yesterday. OF all the
storms that broke, New York civ
received the biggest. Three nersons
were killed by lightning and damage
ran into thousands of dollars. accord.
ing to the Associated Press dispatch
last night. The storm broke shortly
after O'Clock daylight saving time.
and ragged for 2 hours. Traffic was de.
iayed and in some instances brought
to standstill when torrents of water
| poured into subways and flooded
streets, making them impossible for
| trolley cars and automobiles.
| Police reserves were called to handle
crowds at Coney Island when thou.
sands, who had been seeking rlieef
from the heat on the beach, stamped.
ed into subway and elevated stations
in a mad rush to escape the storm.
| Train movements out of the Grand
| Central Station were delayed for an
hour at the height of the storm when
a bolt of lightning paralyzed power
lines.
Louis Abinoliffi, So, and his wife, An.
toinette, 4S, were killed in the base.
ment of their home in Tompkinsville,
Staten Island, when lightning struck
the cord Of an extension light with
which they were seeking a gas leak.
Patrolman William Alchermes, 80, of
/ Brooklyn, was killed on the street
near his home when struck by bolt
of lightning.
PrOstratiOn at Minimum.
| Notwithstanding the continued high
temperatures here, heat prostrations
| have been at minimum. Only one
case was reported last night. That
| was John X. Moran, 20 years old
2523 Fourteenth street, who was
taken to Georgetown University Hos
pital suffering from a heart attack
caused by the heat. He was visiting
at the home of a friend, 1857 Thirty.
fifth place, when stricken. He is EN-
ployed in the District government
All other hospitals last night reported
no heat proStration cases. Charles
Poore of Clarendon, Va, was drowned
at rest camp up the Potomac.
Ten more deaths occurred yester.
day in the Eastern area. Four were
in New York City, two in Philadel
phia, and one each in Newark. N. j..
Ansonia, Conn; Buffalo, N. Y, and
| Woodsocket, X. I. Temperatures con
tinued to hover close to 80 degrees
and while in many sections, like New
York City, the temperature was some
what lower than Friday, the humidity
did it's part to make the combination
as unbearable as before.
The heat deaths'by sections for the
past five days follow: Greater New
York, IS; New Jersey, 16; Pennsyl.
vania, 16; upper New York, 10; Con
necticut, 5; Massachusetts,. 5; New
Hampshire, /, and Rhode Island, l.