Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-05
ONE DIES AS HEAT
SCORCHES CAPITAL
Or. Thomas D. Chapman
Succumbs: Three Others
Stricken Before Storm.

One man died and three we're pros
trated during the intense heat here
yesterday before the thunder shower,
which broke about pm, causing
slight damage to electrical power and
telephone lines, lowered the tempera-
ture from its official peak at 90 de-
grees to 7S degrees, where 1t hovered
throughout the evening At pm.
the kiosk on Pennsylvania avenue reg
istered l0l.
The Weather Bureau offered the
Capital promise of no relief for today,
forecasting continued warm with prob
able thundershowers this afternoon
This morning viii be fair. however
offering the mercury unchallenged op-
portunity to climb from the storm-in-
duced lwoer attitudes under which the
city slept last night.
Onlcial Is Victim.
The fatality yesterday was DR..
Thomas P. Chapman. chief of tne di-
vision of appointments in the Civil
Service Commission, who succumbed to
heart attack induced by the heat In
his ONCE.
The prostration casualties, none Of
which was seriously affected. were:
Joseph Redman, rs years old, of
Forest Glen, Md, who collapsed to
the sidewalk in front OF the Police
Court and was taken to Emergency
Hospital in private automobile for
treatment.
Henry wilkes, AZ years old, 1888
Georgia avenue, who collapsed In front
Of 4701 Connecticut avenue and was
taken In q passing automobile to
Emergency Hospital
William H. Diggs, colored. IS years
old, 2010 Eighteenth street, who was
stricken while aboard Capital Trac-
ton street car at Eighth and r streets
northeast He was removed to Casualty
Hospital in the patrol Of the ninth pre-
cinct police station.
Other Cities Hit.
Nine deaths from the heat we're re-
ported in other cities on the Atlantic
seaboard as they Sweltered in the grip
of the heat wave that established
new high temperature records for the
Summer at some places, according to
Associated Press dispatches. Mounting
here through the morning and after
noon until 1t reached 90 degrees, the
temperature began falling at o'clock
in the afternoon and by O'Clock it
had dropped to 70 degrees The tenn
perature remained in that vicinity and
at $50 O'Clock last night the Weather
Bureau reported an official recording
of rs degrees.
During the two hours required for
the mercury's drop of 18 degrees an
intense electrical storm played about
the District and metropolitan area OF
Maryland Little rain fell, according
to the Weather Bureau, but fairly ac-
tive lightning bursts wrought damage
to power and light lines and to tele-
phone cables In the northern sector
OF the city.
The Potomac Electric Power Co. re-
ported that lightning bolts struck two
power transformers mounted on poles
In the 6700 block of Connecticut ave-
nue., cutting off current to homes In
the vicinity from 30 minutes to 4
hours. Homes in sections OF Silver
Spring, Md, we're without current for
10 to Is minutes when a bolt burned
out TWO pole fuses In that community,
but we're quickly extinguished by the
repair crews
Power Line Blown Down.
One Of the power company's lines
was blown down at Forestville, Md, ON
the recently installed circuit TO Upper
Marlboro. interrupting the electric
service there for several hours. All
storm interruptions were corrected and
service restored by 0 pm.
Service on the Berwyu and Branch
Vile Md, trolley lines was slowed up
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