The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-07-18
FIVE POLICEMEN FRUSTRATED.
Newspaper Editors and Reporters
Struck Down.
SCENES At THE HOSPITAL AND MORCUE.
Cases OF Sunstroke in Ontario. Iowa.
Wisconsin and Chic.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. I

at dawn to-day than had this city for week
past. The long dreaded Tuesday, predicted by Pro.
cssor rice to be tho hottest in ST. Louis for
u century, had passed, and although there had been
over thirty fatal cases and over one hundred OF
stricken OF greater less Intensity, people lett
grateful that II was no worse and looked
caceriully forward to change for tho
better to-day. These expectations were justified by
the that appeared IN this mornings papers, In
the announcement that change OF twenty degrees
was shown Sioux City. This brought relic 10 many
hearts WHO hoped mat this would bring some at
mosphcric change 10 St L'uis The fresh breeze
that prevailed in many parts OF tho city seemed
to confirm tho joyful expectation that tue
heated term had como to close for
the present at least. As tho morning
wore Cd, however, tho breeze began TO lull aud It
was discovered that tho mercury mounted h,uhor
than IL did ut the CORES poading hours yesterday.
The Thermometers perhaps never more anxiously
Consulted and the steady rise OF the mercurlal indi-
filled the minds OF people with grave apprehon-
SONS. The greatest precautions wero everywhere
used and 10 this is undoubtedly duo tho decrease in
tho mortality ratio
Sun PROTECTORS AND PALM LEAVES
Tho scenes the streets were much the same as
were witnessed yesterday. Iu tho thckly peopied
th0roughfares where tho popuaco necessarily moved
to and fro, the streets looked Ike sea OF moving
umbrellas. every pcdestrian bong provided with
Of tnosc sun protectors. as we'll palm leaf fan,
Tho elect business generally was more
inarKcd than yesterday. and threatened
10 become serious In tho highest degree.
Along the levcc Main ana Second streets and the por
tons Of tho CITY devoted TO wholesale business tho
streets were almost deserted aud business houses
Sabbath morn aspect But tow men wcro
be seen the streets, and those moved along with a
haste ana prompitude Business, always dull
| ut this season Of tho year, Is reduced
stasn.,ion Along SIKH aud Seventh s.rsOis
| und Morgan 10 Washington street the tenement
open, and the mon and women Sat on The door steps
and pavemen, SO as not TO mss tho cooling Oreczs
which vas waited 80 Delight uy along the scorcncd
| streets Nnuy OF the women wcro noticed With wet
| towels and hAndkerchieis on thcir heads Tho
groups sat metioniess aud issless; no conversation
| was INDUCED In, that would have been too
| great An effort. Numbers OF children wero
lying around IN tho shade noarly nude. rho stores
and shops this quarter wore entirely deserted and
the sat nj lhe door DOING engaged
| attempts to keep COO. AT nuariy every store
| ana women were sitting ondcavor,ng to calcn
tho refreshing breeze and business left take
| SUSPENSION or WORK
Az a matter Of Iact there business to take
OF. The scorchins. exhaustng heat drove every
subject ba. Inc idea OF Keeping cool out OF every
onois head. Your correspondent who called Ut
| the Mechauics' Exchange, was informed ny Mr..
stamps the secretary. that builders and contractors
were undertaking little work possible, and
oniy pusht ing those jobs forward which already
undcf contract Even In these cases they found
y,
risk their health this weather to lay brick
nigh distance from tho ground. Al these times Il Is
extremely dangerous AMI hod carriers and aborcrs
express great ropug nance 10 mounting LADDERS sx-
posed 10 the iuli Iorcc oil tho rays Of the sun
Tor fear OF being sansrue n,a "na falling from
| OF construction the iaborers did not appear
at all to-day, aud work IN consequences had 10 be
| pended. In somo the working half
time, equally distributed between tho morning and
afternoon Hardly any work at all was done Sa,ur
day and but ttIe to-day Mr Stamps had lived In ST.
Louis uity years and hud ouch weather us
| AT rng CITY DisPgxsARy.
AT seven O'Clock patients began TO arrive at tho City
| Dispen sary, where every case received quick and
scent nc treatment; inc arrivals however were not
near SO frequent Yesterday and the attendants had
an easy time until after two O'clock Alter that hour
tho city anbulances conveying victims oi the heat
rolled up quick succession and tho dispcnsary pre-
sontcd busy sccae. Al three o'clock eight patients
were brought IN ut one time, tho most OF them
or more to hold thom. great crowd was at tho
dispensary all day. Curious 10 ~itness tho singular
tight aud to gaze On the victims a. they were borne
Into the cool hallway to be douchcd with ics aud
otherwise restored.
| AT THE MoRGUE
At sunrise this morning there wero only i've bodies
In the Morgue the greater part OF the bodies there
yesterday having been removed during Tho night Tor
| burial Crowds or men, women aud children gath
erod TO look through the heavy slass windows
and gaze ut the stin, stark corpscs that lay tho
marble slabs before tacin The light IRON the BACK
ground, reflected IRON yellow painted wall sued u
golden usre over the inanimato masses OF bae kened
ieap covered with cotton Clothes exposed mere an
there IN ui their aad preserved from
cay only by chuGks OF Ice placed over their bodies
ma shouldors The NUM- Der OF tho dead ucd 10
Increase aud during tho day aud night as many us
| twonty bodies were exposed on the marble slabs.
Thcse viii DO buried tonight, nearly all OF thctn in
The Polters field, as they ate unknown or belong 10
POLICEMEN FRUSTRATED
So far as known pronucnt citizon was fatally
stricken during tue day but several wcro Frustrated
Pve policemen Tell upon their boats ana SIX letter
carriers succumbeu 20 the heat though mono are be-
| neycd 10 DO fatally afflicted.
| NEWSPAPER MIN STROKES DOWN
Many OF tho newspaper Offices have had their stalls
temporarily depleted by the prosiration OF rcportorai
abd editorial employ Is. Tho GO6s Democrof has hve
down; the Times, three; the Ecening Ios, two; tho
Rsfubiican two the Journal and Desfsttch. Two:
while u nuapcr OF reporters afflicted ny tho heat
| but continue to work
| FACTORIES AsD MACHINE sncPs.
Work at the factories ana machine shops continued
partially suspended durIng tho day; IN Tact u was
virtually possible for artisans who labor near ur
| naccs to prosecute their ordinary work. Work was
| suspended ON tho Carondcict braDch OF tho Iron
Mountain raroad tho iaborsrs refusing TO risk thoir
| FIVE CAR HORSES KILLED.
The street car horses suffered greatly during tho
and we're iAken IRON tho harness. Ga the a
| Lu Dor Of roustabous were Frustrated. Tho ALARM
| was SO great among the river hands that many OF
| Them could not be induced 10 work.
PROBABLE DgATn
Hon X. d. Lancaster, prominent real estate man.
who was Frustrated yesterday, Is sinking, and IL Is
said, cannot nvc. Joseph Schna,acr, ono OF tho
largest brewers IN tho CITY, was seriously prosratcd
to-day.
While the heat did not seem to he 30 oppross 70 as
| on yesterday tho temperature was highor beng At
! ono Y. ~ -. degrees higher, ana at three r. 81. =
degrees. lie ioIlosins viii show thcrmomotrical
changes during tho day
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! 10 A. M............ W l.. NJ ............l03
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Az Exopus FROM ST. LOUIS
There has been great exodus oi people IRON ST.
Louis during Tho past two days All the trains going
north last night were crowded with passengers bouna
Tor cooler climes The Chicago lightning express
which ieit tho city at haipas sovcn O'Clock last
| Lisht carried over two hundred persons who weio
going north IN starch OF cooler weather. Tue fast
| line tram ON the Vnndalis Rtiirond which lot the
Union depot at eight o'clock this morning had
halt dozen coaches nlicd with men
women ana chiidren all leaving tho city
| 10 escape the heat All nortb-bouBd trans,
leaving to-right, carried crowds oi passengers. All
the Upper Mississippi boats that have lett for the Ia