The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-15
THE RECORD OF THE HEAT.
ONE MORE DAY OF FEARFUL NOR
TlLLTF IN TIE CITY,
AZ Many Cases Of Death on Monday. then
the LARGEST OF the seasou-iiow the Heat
was Borne by all Glasses Of New Workers..

Men, women, and children who dwell in
the mansions Of Fifth avenue, and those who
swelter In the tenements Of Baxter street, COM
| planned yesterday morning that they had been
| deprived OF nights rest. The shutters and
| doors were wide open. inviting every breath OF
stirring air. In the public squares the benches
were occupied as early as six o'clock, and many
wanderers stroiled around the Battery, but were
unable to secure seats. On the piers Of the
East and North rivers were many men and
| women, some Of whom slumbered on tho unin-
| wiling wood. Later In the morning every excur-
| sion boat from the city was loaded down to Its
| guards with human freight, and the upper bay
was alive with small boats and yachts, and the
bath houses at the Battery and on the rivers
| wero far too small to accom- m odato the appli-
| cants.
| The sky was clouded at in tho morning, and
everybody hoped for rain storm. The man
who asked for Is umbrella did so with Joy In
his couutenance, and whom shortly before noon
few rain drops fell, everybody fervently
| thanked heaven. But tho heated pavements
were sun dry, the shower having been OF few
minutes duration. Yet the sufferers from
heat were fewer than on tho previous heated
days, and the brute creation were not so much
was at So IT, @ oss at ns and az T. Ts
The sadAest Of scenes was In the Morgue.
woman lay on marble saSs e covered @ ed with % rubber
| cloths and water falling on their faces. 40 un-
known man who had staggered into sixth ave-
| nue. from Thirteth street. leaned against lamp
post and oIssped bis forehead with his hands,
and ssylnE My God, this is awful" fell to the
drug store and there he died. Another corpse
for the Moreus; In the Tombs the prisoner.
the foreer who weighs $50 pounds. throw me
| into the tank or Kill me-" and Warden Quin or
dered that the prisoner should be stripped for q
| bath. The Warden directed that the M actresses
| should bo nled with fresh straw, and this was
done, the prisoners executing the order with
The slight breeze Of the evening was welcomed
| by the million Inhabitants Of the city, and up to
| a late hour the public squares and parks were
nlled with men, women and children enjoying
The cases Of sudden death by heat reported
| at the Coronsr's ONCE Yesterday were as nu-
merogs AS on the previous Monday, whose
record was the largest OF the season. The list
~ OF n James street, Frank Murphy Of ~ East
avenue. Matthew % Harper Of ~ y West e. rSrty ra,n
| second street Elizabeth Schulsr OF ~ West
Sixth avenue, ottills Lauten Of 50 East Houston
street George Speidel Of 3l5 West Thirty eighth
street.. Annie Wells Of 70 second street, Philip
brown OF l,G stanton street, sarah Cummings Of
| 70 Essex street; the unknown man found at Fifty
the unknown man found at Rutgers and Henry
streets. Marsarst vim OF Sss Esst Thirty.
second s,rsSe' Sosn MSo0tlSsI Sb wess
Spring street, Cathsrins Mslvin OF is Chry.ts
street, Marv Battle OF seventh avenue and Fifty
street. John Kirschenheuter Of AZ West Forty.
ninth street, Ellen Donovan OF leo East Thirty
| sonic Temple; Mary Beam OF 259 seventh ave-
nue. Marcus Mendle. no home; Thomas Smith.
Hicks street; Henry Nelson. no home; Wm.
Reed, "a Madison street; August MUNICH: Will
Dslahanty. 1893 Second avenue Martin Lynch,
| W Thomas street. An unknown man. about
pi.s xssm MinbSTs.r ;s ia :" wes, Sss'F Forssh MS
street Mary K. DAILY. OF +as East Thirteenth
| The number of prostrations not fatal was
| smaller than on the preceding day They
were; Nichols Mnsen Of A7 seventh ave-
street, q Hospissl '' Henry @ kssey % % Isl x8.S%:
street, Dr., simon J. Leo, sI-deputy Coroner,
OF ae West Firty-second street; PrahE
shay OF Columbia street, BROOKLYN. was pros
| trated at % Fletcher street; William Mangin OF
Mott and Houston streets ShaTle. n Coolidge
| william Honig OF .sDO Third avenue.
| In the Post Once the atmosphere during the
and carriers have been prosrrsted so as to be
| unable TO work, On Thursday night James r.
Haye., collector OF letters. who had served
| collection trip, staggered and iel with hts bag
o. of letters and dled two hours af,erwsrd 10 the
| Beall porter employed In the bag department
In the basement, was overcome and had to be
taken away. Mr Mead, letter carrera a, station q,
and stephen G. Dsnbsrt, OF Station c, were both
sunstruck, and It was feare that they could not
carriers who wers pros,rated yesterday. Post
master James has suspended the midday deiv-
| cries down town, and will not resume them un-
III the weather Is cooler. He has also had addi-
| tionhl yentiators constructed for the main story
the therm omster ranges nftesn degrees higher
than In the street. At night the place Ia al oven
pGdds Esps:s GS"Psny rs mEes ,t transport.
roads. has lost four drivers by tho beat.
BROOKLYN Thermometers Yesterday were on
the warmer side OF so during tho greater part
| OF the day. The suffering In the sugar rehneree
IN the oil works, foundries. and other centres Of
the street car lines believe that another week
Of sucn torrid weather will cripple their force
stroke Was reported from South Brooklyn.
Charles HcnuG, a German, aged IS, while deliv-
Frustrated by the heat. lie fell from his seat on
| the wagon to the street, and died before any IA
sistancs could reacn him HIS body was taken
| to his home at Bergen street and Third aveuue.
| An unknown man, aged ~ nyo feet eight inches
high, dressed Ia nlue flannel shirt, blue ovsrails.
| and dark sack coat, tell insensible ut Aeserole
| avenue and Orchard street.
Adam scnultz, of Flushing and rhroop ave.
| nues, Brooklyn. who was taken home on Thurs
| day suffering from the heat, died Yesterday
The heat was most intense in Jersey Clty-the
Gavin, an employee OF Matlhicssen s Welohers's
sugar refinery; iie died two hours after being
| removed to his home on Essex street, Charles
| Gruntmor, gardener Of Greenyilie, WIS pros-
| tr.tod Oh Avenue A, and died shortly after.
thir,y9nve. of Greenyilie Michael Dane, Of Es.
| srx street, srrlouslyi John Knight, Of Bergen
| Point, on Avenue ~ baNoHnei Robert Craig, on
| Washington street, HObokcn, and Wm. Dwyer,
| on Morgan street, Jerrey CitY
In Hoboken, NJ ergaret Gossler a Young mar
| ried woman residing at Iii First street was
| overcome by heat while sitting at her front door
yesterday. and WAS taken into the house where
| sue died IN a lew minutes.
Passengers In the steamer Columbus. from
| Havana say that when they sailed, four days
| ago, the weather was several degrees cooler Tn IN
| what they have experienced since their arrival
| here.
| A woman named Hanlon, while walking on
the Richmond turnpike, Staten Island, yestsr-
day, was overcome by the heat, and died soon
| afterward,
The heat In Lowell, Mass, Is Intense. Nicho-
! las 7. Brown, whQ WAS sunstruck on THURSDAY,
died yesterday. John " Burns fell dead while
| at work In neld yesterday forenoon.
| Thomas Connor, one Of tho most prominent
| citizens Of Bratteboro, W., died from o sun
| stroke on Thursday night.
Robert Carroll, an employee OF the town Of
| Medford, Mass, was sun struck while at work
ON the road on Thursday afternoon, and died
| yesterday morning.
| AsBURY, N. j., July M-Nathan Castner,
| working near this village. was prostrated by the
| heat yesterday anu died within an hour.
| Suicide In the ElysiaA Fields.