The daily gazette., 1878-07-17
FOURTH EDITION
The Heat in st. | -ouis
A WELCOME BREEZE BRINGS RE
LIEF TO.THE SUFFERING
CITIZENS.

-Four Deaths Yesterdag-One Hundred in
the Shade at Three p. m.-Fdctory Operd-
tires and Ld5orers Cease Work ID istress-
ing Gases Of Prostrdt ion.
ST. LOUIS, No., July 16, 1873
When the sun rose this morning there
was a deep feeling of impending evil on
the minds of the inhabitants OF this city.
The grave apprehensions caused by the
mornful events of the past few days, the
terrible increase of mortality from day to
day and the suffering that, to greater
or less extent, exis ed in almost every
family, were intensified by the prophecy
of Professor Hce, the meteorologist, that
to-day would be the hottest day seen in
st. Louis for 100 years. 1t was also gen.
eral supposition that many who had here
tofore escaped with impunity would sue
cumb at last, debilitated and exhausted
by the previous hot weather Most peo-
pie passed an almost sl7epless night, and
turned their eyes first of all on the sun.
! Little hope was to be found iI its fiorid,
| puffy face as il arose above the horizon,
and when it ascended high its rays SEEM
ed TO have lost none OF their dlrectness
or intensity. Only one thing promised
relief On the horizon and III different
pats of the upper sky, great floating
banks of white could be seen, Shaded by
| a smoke-like gauZe, aud this was regard
ed as an indication OF rain. 1t was the
| first time for over week that the sky
had not been perfectly cloudless, and the
! change seemed to indicate that the hot
| spell was about coming TO an end at last
No wHIsKEY.
But the fear of conn ng disaster was too
strong to be easily adicatad. 1t was
this feeling, perhaps, which did most to
forestall the anticipated evil. Men be-
came to-day abstcmious and temperate
who have been addicted to e&cesSes for
years Probably less liquor was sold in
| st. Louis to-day than in the same space
of time for long period. The convic-
ton also arose from the largenumber of
| Germans Frustrated by the sun that lager
beer was hardly less dangerous, and sew
eral physicians expressed themselves to
the effect that it really was more heating
than whiskey. The favored drinks to-
day, as for several days past, were claret
punches, sangarees, cream punches, ,lemo-
nades; buttermilk, sour wines and miner.
al and soda waters, which were drunk
In enormous quantities. In their diet
100 men Decdme eq ually hDSt-inlOuSi lCeu
tomatoes, iced tea and similar nourish
ment became the favorites in the restau
rants, hotels aud eating HOUSES.
FOUR DEATHS.
, The cases of sunstroke have also de
creased, there being but twenty-five a
the City Dispensary, and but four deaths
, SCENES IN THE STREETS.
: 1t was not unusual to see men coming
: along wearing perforated hats, with ic
. and cabbage leaves on their heads, an
: carrying a fan in one hand and perfo
rated umbrella in the other. Boys sol
J, palm leaf fans on the streets by the thol
II sands. Pumps were surrounded by me
,r and horses-the latter anxious for
draught from the huge bucket, the TO
mer stopping to bathe their heads, rew'
their cabbage leaves or bathe their wris
? in the almost ice cold water. In fact evel
!, precaution was taken that human ing
a. a. nuity could devise.
ne tRECoRD OF THE THERMOMETER.
ic The thermometers record for the ds
is was as fellows