The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-12
THE OPPREsSIVE NEAT.
The Highest Record of the Th~rmometer In
New York since 1913.

At Q o'clock yesterday morning the
thermometer marked 7ss, at IL. el'. and at 2 g5s
Shortly after two rain fell. and at o clock the
thermometer marked So. Mr.. o. w. Morris
Librarian Of the Cooper lnstitute. who since 1854
has furnished the Smithsonian Institution with
monthly meteorological returns, says that ne
thermometer IN the shade Of the liDrary regis
tered w on Saturday and lOio on Sunday, ON
the same days, thermometer suspended on
the balcony and exposed to the sun rose to
1859 and l2s' respectively This is the hisn est
Dr. John + Nsgle, Deputy Registrar Of Rec
ora reports Hs cases Of death IN the city in' he
week ending July (. all incTea-e OF 2s2 over toe
record OF the preceding week Inc cases OF
sunstroke are reported at 10 for the week.
The cases OF fatal sunstruke reported vester-
day we're those of John Roddy, of l9s First ay-
enue; Mary Ann NcGann, Of II Washington
street; Patrick Lynch. OF 5l3 last Fifteenth
street Alice Dowd. OF II Spring street; William
Marshall, OF rs Eighth avenue, and Bridget
Lyons. OF nB Mott street.
The cases OF sudden death reported at the
CoroD~rs once Yesterday, the result OF heat,
but not classified a. sunstroke, were those oi
Ellen wnslen. Of "a West rhfty-s coI.d street
enue HATTIE Bell, OF l46 Chrystio street Mary
Walsh. no home Bridget Mccarthy, Of 81
CathhIine street; Sarah kerner, OF aB Avenue
A, and Aice Dowd, OF II Spring street.
The sunstrokes that did not re ult fatally re
reported thus Elizabeth Harvey. OF l3S East
Fifty-seventh street; Isaac Van line. of III Av-
enue ID George Hanson, OF Newark in Green
wien stret; Charles Jordan, of ~ Avenue c;
Henry Dyaer, OF Twenty-nfth street; Albert
Porter, OF Hoboken. in Ferry street; James
Smith, of 6T sixth street. and Andrew Cooney,
OF Cherry street.
George thompson OF New York, who was sun
struck at the HoDoken ferry on lhursday last
and has since been In -. Mays Hosplt |, JERSEY
CitN yesterday was ravlng maniac. and the
physicians found IL necessary To cause his re-
movsl TO the county Jail
Morris Curtin, plumber, aged 81. OF Smith
street, near Baltic. brooklyn. WAS overcome by
the heat In buchanan & Lyall's tobacco factory
yesterday afternoon. lie Is not expected to live.
In brooklyn, August GILL; aged SO of53 Schoes
street, was overcome 10y neat AT 81 Moore street.
and there Is no nope OF mis- recovery. and Ann
Mcclure, aged ~, was pTostrated In Grand
bly, dressed, was overcome by heat Ia Lawrence
street.
In jersey City John Rheinhsrdt, OF 1T Seventh
street, died from the effects OF the heat yester-
kossuth street, Union Hill and Is IN precArious
condition. Baggage Master Grinstesd, OF the
Pennrylvania Railroad, was overcome by tho
heat on MONTGOMERY street.
For the FIRST time in the history OF W Washington,
building operations have been discontinued, ,
twelve persons have died and many others are In
a dangerous condition from the effects OF sun
stroke and various diseases superinduced by the
nigh temperature. some twenty horses, mostly
belonging To the street railway companies, have
died from the same cause.
In Pine bush, N. y, on MondSy, Janson
Hunter died from the effects OF sunstroke, and
in Hopewell. Crawford township, Robert NJ
Thompson, farmer and prominent citizen, was
overcome by the heat whls at work on a hay
gerous, II not fatal injuries
Twsnty-seven cases OF sunstrOke and prOstra-
tion from heat occurred in Baltimore on Mon
day, of which fourteen were fatal.
There were two fatal cases OF sunstrOke In
West Troy on Monday. The Victims were both
lAborinR men.