Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-11
Slightly Higher Temperatures
Expected to Follow Respite
From Heat.
STORM BLINDS DRIVERS
AND FLOODS STREETS
Residents Complain as Inadequate
Sewers Fail to Garry
Off Water.

The cool wave which came out of
the northwest late yesterday to give
Washington its promised definite
break" in the long run of high tenn
peratures, win continue through to-
night, with a maximum forecast OF
scarcely over 70 degrees. The Weather
Bureau also forecast a somewhat
warmer" day tomorrow.
Washington's relief came in with a
violent thundershowers. Street floods in
two quarters, two automobile accidents
which involved serious injuries to one
man. and interrupted electrical service
to one or two suburban communities
occurred during the storm, which drove
the mercury down from "a degrees to
a minimum OF 81 degrees.
The bureau recorded 1903 inches of
rain.
More Rain Forecast.
At Z am today the official reading
was So degrees and at 8 1t stood at
50 degrees. Thanks to the lingering
clouds, which. the bureau believes, may
give slight additional rain today, the
mercury is not expected to go much
higher than 10 degrees.
The 1903 inches of rain which fell
during the storm yesterday and last
night followed a fall Of 90 OF an inch
early yesterday. This total of LOS
inchas. the bureau reported, leaves a
deficiency of about inches below the
normal rainfall since January !. Most
of this deficiency, however, is the
hangover" of the drought and was
carried over from January and Feb
ruary. Since March. the rainfall has
been practically normal" the bureau
said.
Weather TO Be SeasonabI
In predicting somewhat warmer"
weather for tomorrow the forecaster
said he did not mean another heat
wave was headed for Washington. The
outlook is merely for seasonably higher
temperatures than today.
Residents of Thirteenth street, Della
field place and Arkansas avenue, in the
blocks bordering that triple intersection,
we're perhaps the greatest sufferers from
Yesterdays ram. Inadequate sewers
caused water to rest 10 inches out OF
the clrbs to Aood cellars, ruin front
Yards and strand parked automobiles.
When the water subsidized, thick de-
post of mud covered sidewalks. lawns,
vehicles and cellar walls and floors.
According to Edward e. Caldwell OF
1882 Delafield place. floods in his neigh
borhood are regular consequences when
ever a heavy rain falls He has fire.
auently complained TO the District au-
thorities. who. he said today. explain
the sewers in the neighboThood are too
small. No s.eps have been taken, how
ever to replace them. he said. although
the condition has existed for about flve
wears. Yesterdays flood was the second
of the season, and It, like others, de-
posted sewage and slime for distance
Of a block north on Thirteenth street
and A half block from the intersection
on both Delafleld place and Arkansas
avenue.
Fifth and Ineraham streets suffered
similar food. but the damage was not
so great.
Autoist Is Injured.
Albert Smith. %. of Baltimore. was
the most seriously injured OF the
weather victims He received a severe
cut on he left arm and other cuts Oh
the face when an automobile driven by
William B. Powell. 40. of Glencarlyn,
Va. skidded into his machine in the
midst Of the downpour near the John
Paul Jones Statue at the foot Of Seven
tenth street Mr. Powell took the in
jured man TO Emergency Hospital. where
pied a severed nerve in Smiths arm.
Patrick Barnes, So, a Philadelphia
salesman. was overcome by the heat
lust before the storm broke while walk
ing on I street between Sixteenth and
Seventeenth streets. He was treated at
Emergency Hospital and transferred to
Galhnger Hospital.
Drives Into Excavation.
James A. West Of 1881 Park road
narrowly escaped injury. when. blinded
by the rain. he drove his automobile
into an excavation at Eleventh and
Girard streets. The machine hauled
out of the pit by the rescue squad, was
only slightly damaged.
Suburban communities also suffered
from the wind and rain. Bladensburg
was flooded Several automobiles were
stalled near the jail building. High
water at College Park also delayed
traffic Trees uprooted along the De-
Tense Highway slowed up traffic until
they were cleared away within two
hours.
Laurel was without electric power
last night following the disabling of its
power line during the height of the
storm. and telephone service at Damas-
Gus. Nd, was interrupted
Highway Bridge was damned for a
short time when several automobiles
we're forced to halt as water was blown
into their ignition systems
A lcng string Of automobiles stalled
a half hour or so along the Washing
ton Baltimore boulevard near johnson
avenue at Hysttsville. during the rain.
The street at boulevard and John
SON svenue was turned into a Yeritable