Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-07-18
suNsrROKE.

A GREAT vail OF anguish is borne to US
from tho East. To the suiisrinss caused
BY want OF money and n scarcity Of iood
10 eat and clothing to wear. Ia now added
the scourss OF a terrible heat which
scorchss and shrivsls the growing crops.
and strikes down men and women and
children by the scores. This ia an aiiiie-
ton from the hand Of God himself. and
from its terrible ravages there Is no es-
ape. In all the great cities Of the
Northwest, the cry goes up to Heaven to
abate this evil. II presses more heavily
on the laboring classes. OF course. for II
10 they who are forced to brave the
weather in order to feed their families.
The sun Is piuless in its intensity and
strikes down the old and middle-aged.
the young and the beautiful. with an
awful exercise Of impartiality. In many
OF the larger cities employers have closed
their works. wisely refusing to risk the
precious lives OF their workmen. The
crops are being harvested by moonlight
in the country To escape the prostrating.
the destroying heat Of the midday sun.
Everywhere all precautions possible are
being taken to save life. human and
brute, but Notwithstanding all the care
exercised. the death roll for the past few
days has been ~lamsntably large.
To Us who are fortunate enough to
live ON the Pacific Coast. this tale OF
horror reads like a omanc Here.
perchsd upon the SUBMITS OF u noun
tains, or nestled costly in the valleys
and canyons Of the Sierra, We can
scarcely realize the existence Of such
fatal calamity rs suns,roke. We eI'
psrienee what We consider very warm
days at times. but compared to those
which eharacterizs the Atlantic ssaboard'
the Lake region. and the valleys Of th'
Mississippi. our days here are mild anc
delicious. To . sasping citizen Of st
Louis or Chicago. the warmest day oi
this Summer on the Comstock would bs
rslished o. the Autumn breszes are en-
joysd after a long heated season in thu
East. Our pure mountain air would b
drank In with q grateful sense Of relic
by the parched lungs Of u Easter
brethren. With all our hard times
then, we Of Nevada and California hav
this TO be thankful for. Our climate !
the h~ealthiest in the world. and we nee
never fear when our friends leave US Il
the morning. to see them brought bacl
to us. victims to the fatal effects OF sun
stroke.
That We never suffer from sunstrok,
Is probably due To the fact that howeve
warm our days may be. our nights ar
dsliciously cool and invigorating. an
nature, exhausted during the day. d
able TO thoroughly recupsraie at night
In the East and Northwest our noun
tain breezes are wanting. The intsns'
heat OF the day il succeeded by an op
pressive heat at night. which banishe
sleep, and serves to still further eI
haust the overtaIed body and worry tn
excited brain. A few days and night
OF this kind will eneryate the stronges
frame. and at length the fatal moment
comes whom the system can no longeI
resist the continual attacks Of the heat
We on the Pacific Coast may well bles'
God that he has given Us cool, healthy
slsep-inducing nights. They give u
the necessary strength TO battle with tn
rays OF the sun. however intense the.
may be. during the day. and make tn
defamation Of our ranks by sunstrok'
impossible.