The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-10
ANOTHER HOT UNDIY.
The Rush Out of Town-Cnses of Sunstroke,
Fatal nnd Otherwise.

On Saturday night, while most New Workers
were trying to sleep Indoors, the Battery Park
was crowded With men, women, and children.
who enjoyed for hours the breeze that lszlly
swept ia from seaward. At o'clock yesterday
morning thore were, perhaps, 1900 on the sea-
wall promenade ana In the walks. Even on the
grass, which Is usually guarded so strictly by the
police, children lay sleeping while their tired
mothers slum bered on the benches hard by. 1t
was too hot for the roughs to indulge In their
customary rudeness, and the few officers who
patrollod the ground did not disturb the sleep
hSs b az n, S4s the
approached. one by one the babies were cuddlsd
In the arms Of their mothers, VINO strolled home
ward TO enter upon the duties Of the day. and
the men who bad homes 10 60 TO took their way
to the streets of the city.
The free baths were boon. Al four o'clock
In the morning a mass OF men and boys, VIII o
had passed hours on the pier foot OF Fifh street,
East river, made rush for the bath house as
ted. Upto eight o'clock two companies All hour
we're admitted, there being about four hundred
IL is estimated that between seven and eight
thousand hathed. Al the bath on the North
river the same scenes were witnessed, Though
the total number Of bathers was not SO large.
The baths In willamsourgh, Hoboken, and at
the Battery were crowded all day.
Excursions by water were many and large.
Steamer after steamer started from the " est
Tenth street pier, drawing heavily ladep barges,
and bound for various ports up the Hudson and
down the harbor Piers on the East river and
near the Battery were starting places for many
other excursions.
Gus, and those resulting IN death were MANI.
In hundreds of Instances severe attacks, likely
fatal and dd nSt SSme under ,Ss 3S.ee q
The public hospitals received a great number of
sufferers who fell In the streets. Ellen Mccarthy
died at l14 East Eighty-second street. An un-
known man, who mad been rescued from the
l East river at the foot Of Seventh street by Police
Captain Cherry, died from the heat. Lemuel
Johnson Harlan. IN "A N w
| found dead In a hallway at 1856 West Twenty
seventh street. Ann Connolly gIed at l3l Llber-
ty street. Edward Brown at 1i7lEast Ninth street.
| Frederick Hallman at the foot Of East Seventh
| street, and James X. Ardenourg In Madison
| Square. The police suffered intensely and sew
| eral we're overcome Their summer mats keep
| their heads hot aud Induce sunstroke In Brook
lyn Charles Koemyer and salyatoria Rinaldo
| OF the Twepty-third Reg iment Band, and OniceI
Henry Z. Hill fell while marching TO Oficer
| scott's funeral. Patrolmah Micnael Coohan
| d0d suddenly from the cfocts OF the heat. AZ
did Mary sheridan, OF 8l1 Franklin avenue
| Anton Andros was killed BY heat at First and
Adams streets, Anton seidler IN River street
| nobokon Jacob Zedler, In Guttenburg; John
| Sellers, IN Meehawken; and Adolph DeiRner In
Bnyonne. DR.. Helfer Of Hobokon said that he
| knew OF twelve Infants who were sick from
effects Of the heat four OF whom died yester-
| day. and three could not recover
John Edleman was overcome by tho beat at
| Eighth avenue and Ninety-sixtb street. He died
| In tho Ninety-nlnth Street Hospital.
bernard Gusielder was pr9'trated az sixth
| street aud Avenue C.; Edmund Kirk at 3t5 West
| Fourteenth street; Enoch smith At the foot OF
| bank street; Michael Gsfnsy on Eleventh ave-
| Woods near The Franklin street police station
| nue., near Thirty-thrd street, and Bridget
| Edward Byrner, watchman Of the pier al
| Ninth street, East river, was overcome by hea,
yesterday afternoon. lie died before he could
| be taken home.
| An unknown man, supposed to be a waiter In
| tho Fifth Avenue Hotel, was taken into the
| Thlrtieth street police station, having beer
Frustrated by heat. ho was borne ~ Bellevue
| Hospital.
Christian Schwartz and John Roeffier, em-
| ployed at Matthieson& * Weichers sugar refinery
| In Jersey CITY, were overcome by the heat.
| Martin HaZeton OF Pallsade avenue, Jersey
| City Heights, was prostrated Dy tue heat iu
| Academy street,
| James H. speyer OF Union Hl was overcome
| by the heat In kossuth street.
| The thermometer marked l0lo at 3k in the af-
| ternOon, aud v0' at l.. NJ.