The 5 January 1992 flare around 13:16 UT was observed in H alpha, H ep
silon, and Ca II H with the imaging spectrographs at Locamo-Monti, Swi
tzerland and in soft and hard X-rays by the Yohkoh satellite. In this
paper we discuss the analysis of the temporal and spatial evolution of
this flare well observed at chromospheric and coronal layers. We find
that the strongest footpoint emission in the optical lines does not c
oincide with the sites of non-thermal electron injection and show that
these footpoints are mainly heated by thermal conduction. The chromos
pheric electron density, determined from the H epsilon line profiles,
shows several temporally well correlated rises with the hard X-ray int
ensity at the electron injection sites. Two of the flare loops clearly
are associated with strong chromospheric evaporation, while very weak
evaporation is observed in the loop with the strongest footpoint emis
sion in the optical lines.