Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-07

The Thermometer ODeT One Hundred De-
grees in The Shade OUer Twenty Persons
Sun-Struck Yesterddy-Horses Frustrated
in the Street.-The Reign Of Tophet on
Earth.
For some days past Cincinnati has been
| suffering from an intense and oppressive
| heat rarely experienced outside of the Equato-
rial region, the thermometer raging from 81
| to 100 and 1929 in the shade, and suffering
| humanity barely able to escape suffocation.
The nights have been as hot as the days, and
poor roasted mortals who retired TO their
couches even at late hour, lay there gasping
| like piscatorial creatures removed from the
aqueous element. Rest or sleep was ont of
| the question, and even bathrooms were
visited in vain. The water was hot and
grew hotter as burning bodies were plunged
| therein.
The grey dawn came, and the reddening
| East, and again the crimson sun, and dis
covered the fevered beings exhausted and
nearly breathless, tossing upon their anxious,
| fiery couches.
| A hurried toilette, with strange sounds like
| oaths, and an appeal to ices, and cobblers
| and iuleps, and a total emancipation from
| every superfluous garment-all for the great
| and sole purpose of becoming cool visions
of icebergs and polar seas meanwhile crossing
/
i designed TO torture man.
Business not TO be thought of but voted
large bore-great as he that killed the fair
| Adons in the woodland every thing but
| frigidity not only undesirable, but hateful
in the extreme. The streets, the houses, the
rooms, the furniture, the people were hot.
The atmosphere danced with torridity; q
million suns seemed blazing in the sky; a
billion furnaces raging in the earth; every
| yhara 4Io- nf MI
where were victims of its ire
SO our citizens have felt and suffered for
the last week, until they have become re-
signed and desperate; desirous of going where
| Eneas and Dante did by way of improve
ment in temperature. They have grown
salamanders, and desirous Of seeing the
thermometer go up in q balloon, if il likes,
so high that it can never come down again.
Yesterday was, in the expressive language
of Grecian bard-yet untranslated-a reg
ular snorterp-it was weather in the superla-
tive sense, of the Tartarusan sort, of the old
Calvanistic fire and birthstone kind only vatsly
hotter and more disagreeable. The mercury
went out of sight and persons ascended the
watch-tower and Cathedral spireto determine
whittier the thermometer had risen, but with.
out however, success crowning their he
| roic efforts.
Certain literalists and obsolete material.
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little above 1902; but no one with blood in
his veins or marrow in his bones believed
them. How could they, when they were
like victims at the auto dG fe, surrounded on
ali sides by flames; waiting every moment
for enervation through the content that fol-
lows oblivion and death.
To ascend or descend, as the case may be
to Gradgrindisms-yeste was a scorch
ing Monday. AT the hour Of sunrise, all tn,
air was still and heavy, and the atmospher,
!. growing like furnace. Respiration wa
difficult, and cool spot the dream of mad
man. Horses went moping along as if they
would drop each moment; pedestrians bort
large umbrellas, and hugged the little
shadows of the sidewalk as if death were
beyond them.
Accidents from the heat reached us every
minute, as it seemed. Horses fell exhausted
dying and dead on the Landing and at the
railway depots. Men grew faint and sicl
and reeled beneath the fierce sunbeams
speeding like fatal arrows to the earth. Th,
summer grew delirious and leagued with thu
king of terrors to do his work, and yet bu
few perished, though we wonder hundreds
did not die on so torrid day.
The sun-strokes with which we were mad,
acquainted numbered seventeen or eighteen
though doubtless there were many more tha
J did not reach our ears.
James Murtel, an employe of O lumber firm
was sun-struck on Third-street, near the Ga
| Works, about noon, and at two o'clock wa
reported dying.
! Pierce OGormley, a butcher, fell from hi
: wagon near the Brighton House, and was il
dangerous condition when last heard from
A German, name unknown, left Moore
Garden, corner of Main and Liberty-street
after drinking freely of lager-beer and fell il
the street, before he had walked square
He died last evening, at his residence, ol
Buckeye-street.
: Richard Harris, OF Maysville, KY, sank Oh
the sidewalk, near the Little Miami Railroa,
Depot, about eleven o'clock in the morning
, He was carried into an adjacent coffee-house
: and was still there at late hour last night
) Warren Mulroy and John Livesley, dray
| men, were overpowered by the heat at tn
! Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Depot; bu
recovered on application of the proper re
| storatives.
Patrick Coyne, a laborer, was fatally sun
, | struck at noon, while digginga new cellar o
1 Central-avenue, near York. He was carrie
to his residence, and expired about thre
G o'clock in the afternoon.
|, A boy, while driving sand-cart, was tn
a recipient of coup de soLeiI, and fell at tn
! corner of Pearl and Race-streets, receiving
] severe confusion on the head. He was suffi
| GENTLY restored, however, an hour after tn
i | accident to resume his labors.
s Mrs. Frenzy, on Sixth-street, near Ston,
s Aaron Mumford, on the Observatory-roat
Q near the reservoir; an elderly woman, Mr.
Mary Hitchler, in the Seventh Ward job
Williams, an old man, near the junction
D the Madisonville ana Reading Turnpik,
A Michael Hoole, a hod-carrier near the col
: ner of New-street and Broadway.
r Daniel Lyons, an express-driver, at th
$ corner of Main and Abigail; painter in tn
. employ of John German, No. 243 Main-stree
t at the corner of Fourth and Walnut; and
y hack-driver, on Race opposite Burnet-stree
were all sun-struck; but the most of them, s
d far as we can learn, are likely to recover.
= A clerk in Bissell 4 CO.. grocery, on MAR
street, fell at the corner of Hunt and Broad
: way, and last evening was in a critical COZ
$ dition.
}, We heard of three or four more cases. br
}, could learn no particulars. Enough, how
o ever, has already been said of the burnin
day of August which will long be remen
9 bered as one of the hottest of the terrib
II summer days of the Queen City.
d The RECENT WALNUT-sTREET DEFALCI
e TIoN.--A telegram was received in this cit
9 yesterday, 10 the effect that Charles McDol
d gal, the Walnut-street defaulter, had le
S Detroit on the Great Western Railroad, pu
i sued by the police of that city. It was n