Evening star., 1934-07-26
COOL AIR STARTS
SWEEPING EAST
Nations Heat Deaths Total
1,112-Capital Win Be
Warm Today.

Like q giant furnace, the Nation
today began a slow cooling process as
it counted deaths for the heat wave
at 1,l12, one Of which occurred In the
Capital yesterday.
Washington faced another warm
day before the effects of the cool air
will be felt here, although a welcome
respite came last night with a thun-
dershower which brought a great deal
of wind, a steep temperature drop
and heavy downpours in some sections
of the city. while others went without
enough moisture to wet the pavement.
The Weather Bureaus official measure
of the precipitation was 50 inches.
Yesterdays maximum here was 81
degrees, and the mercury still was
high-around 88-when the clouds
preceding the thundershower rolled
upon the city just before 8 pm. In
the next half hour, the thermometer
dropped 10 degrees to SO, one of the
lowest temperatures registered here in
days.
Damage Is Slight.
Wind and lightning damaged a few
trees and buildings in and near the
city, but the damage was slight.
Today's forecast Is for temperatures
in the COS, possibly relieved by thun-
derShowers, and tomorrows mercury
readings probably will be somewhat
lower. The cooler air now blanketing
the northern part of the West Is
scheduled to begin moving In tomor-
row night, and prospects are for a
normal week end. Mean normal tenn
perature for this part OF July Is
around n degrees.
Yesterdays heat victim was Mertti
Pella, 54, a iaborer of 802 F street
southwest, who was striker as he
worked on the new Federal ware
house. He was taken to Casualty
Hospital where he died.
North Central Cooler.
The North Central States. breathed
somewhat easier today as they began
to cool off gradually after weeks Of
weather which burned crops in the
fields, left pastures barren and forced
sale of that livestock which had not
perished from the drought. These
conditions convinced DR.. Elwood
Mead, reclamation commissioner. that
tens of thousands of persons must
be moved out of the western half of
the Dakotas and Eastern Montana
and Wyoming.
There is nothing left, no green
thing; it is gone" said DR.. Mead on
his return from a tour of the area.
Kansas City yesterday had a high
mark of 1903; Indianapolis. 104;
Omaha, 100: Chicago, 90; Springfield,
| H., 102: Pittsburgh. 90; Des Moines,
100; Cincinnati, 106, and Emporia,
Kans., lis.
Outlook More Favorable.
More relief was forecast for today
in parts of the Midwest, and the
Weather Bureau said the outlook was
more favorable than in weeks.
Unoficial tabulations showed the
following death figures by States for
the entire period Of the present torrid
blast:
Missouri, $50; Illinois, 800; Ohio,
1877; Nebraska, go; Iowa, 72; Mime
sofa, 81; Indiana, 54; Kansas, 49,;
Kentucky. So; Michigan, %; Wiseon-
sin, is; Pennsylvania. 18; Texas, 13;
Oklahoma, II; South Dakota, Z; West
Virginia, IL; New York, 4; Tennessee,
4; Massachusetts,, 3: Connecticut, A.;
District of Columbia, 8; Alabama, g.;
Maryland, 3; Arkansas. 8: Rhode
Island, 3; South Carolina, /; Vir-
ginia, l.
OF the Illinois dead, SO perished
yesterday in Chicago alone, including
IL aged wards of the county at the
Oak Forest Infirmary, where 81 have
died since Sunday.