Year’s Hottest Day ‘Bakes’ City, Kills 2
Camden Courier-Post - June 9, 1933
Year’s Hottest Day ‘Bakes’ City, Kills 2
Edward T. McAllister, Veteran at Esterbrook’s, Dies on Way Home
The hottest day of the year brought death to two persons in Camden and Philadelphia yesterday and caused general discomfort from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Coast. No relief is expected today, except possible showers.
Edward T. McAllister, 67, of 633 Bailey Street, collapsed late yesterday in an alley at the rear of 914 North Sixth Street. Neighbors called police who took him to Cooper Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Coroner Benjamin R. Denny said death was due to heart attack, induced by the heat.
Veteran at Esterbrook’s
McAllister was returning home from the Esterbrook Pen Company plant where he was employed 20 years. He was in ill health recently. His widow, Lottie, survives. Funeral services will be held at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow at the Denny funeral home, 736 Market Street. Burial will be in Arlington cemetery.
The Philadelphia victim was William Barchmaier, 42, of 4059 Teesdale Street, who collapsed at Keystone and Cottman Streets, Tacony. He was pronounced dead at Frankford Hospital.
92 at 4.30 P.M.
The mercury reached a high of 92 degrees at 4.30 p.m., two degrees below the record for the date set in 1914. The hourly temperatures follow:
- 9 a.m.: 73 | 4 p.m.: 91
- 10 a.m.: 77 | 4:30 p.m.: 92
- 11 a.m.: 79 | 5 p.m.: 91
- 12 noon: 83 | 6 p.m.: 91
- 1 p.m.: 87 | 7 p.m.: 90
- 2 p.m.: 88 | 8 p.m.: 89
- 3 p.m.: 88 | 9 p.m.: 88
The weather bureau does not hold out much hope for a change today. Continued warm weather, with possible thundershowers in the afternoon is forecast.