Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-07-18
The Northwest Experiencing "A
Heat of 90 lOllO
Degrees
Sad News from st. Louis Unprecedented
Death of Little Children
A Cool Breeze Promised Us by a sioux
City Dispatch.
sCoRcHED TO DEATH.

CHICAGO, July 16.-Reports from
points throughout the Northwest give
accounts of the terrible effects of the
heat. In De Witt, Iowa, Charles
Heeker and III. Rolf, Germans, died
from the effects OF the heat. At
Galesburg, Illinois, several deaths
and many cases of sunstroke are re-
ported. At Des Moines, Capt. James
May, of Rock Island, we'll known in
political circles there and at Washing
ton, lies in critical condition from
the effects of sunstroke, yesterday.
At Bloomington, Michael O'Neil,
Mollie Hogan, James Passwater, and
an unknown laborer, were struck by
the sun and died soon after. Several
other cases, but none fatal, are re.
ported to-day, and horses suffered
terribly. These are but isolated cases
taken at random, for nearly every
town in this section has one or more
cases to report. The thermometer
has ranged generally from 90 to ITO.
The 1ribune's Sioux City special says
that at $50 this evening the weather
suddenly changed, the wind began
blowing from the north, and the Their
mometer dropped 90 degrees in two
hours.
COUNCIL BLUFFS AND GLENwooD.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, July 15.-One
case of sunstroke occurred in this clty
to-day and one in Glenwood, Iowa.
twenty miles south. Neither has re-
suited fatally yet.
MILWAUKEE, TAKING IT IN.
MILWAUKEE,, July 16.-The ther-
mometer was 90 at the Signal Office
this afternoon. The southwest breeze
which prevailed during tie day died
out at sundown this evening. The
weather is very hot and oppressive.
About twenty cases of sunstroke were
reported, three Of which proved fatal.
STILL RED HOT AT ST. LOUIS.
ST.. LOUIS, July 16.-The heat is
still increasing, but up to noon there
were fewer cases of sunstroke than
for the three days past. Only fifteen
cases were reported at the dispensary
this morning, and only three deaths.
The total number of deaths Yesterday
from the heat were 81. The effects
of the prolonged heat is felt now by
different class of people than at
first. Scores of merchants and pro-
fessional men, clerks, statesmen, etc,
and many women, are becoming suf-
ferers, and prostrations of greater or
less degree are numerous in all parts
OF the city. Even children are falling
victims, and the mortality among in.
fants is greater than ever known ex.
cept in time of epidemics.
There has been a slight diminution
OF heat this afternoon, caused by a
fine breeze, yet the mercury has rang
ed high, reaching 100 in many places.
Cases of sunstroke have also decreas.
ed, there having been but TWENTY-FIVE
at the city dispensary up to 6 o'clock
this evening, and but four deaths.
The scenes there have been of the
same general character as heretofore.
and four physicians and their assist.
ants in attendance have been kept
very busy administering to the wants
OF those taken there for treatment.
The general mode of treating the
cases is ice to the head, ice-water
showers, rubbing the body with ice.
and administering such medicines as
the different cases demand.