The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-30
ST. LOUIS NEWS.
THE HEATED TERM OVER-sT. LOUIS
ANS ABLE AT LAST TO GET LIT
TILE BEST AT NIGHT,
The Anniversary Celebration or the Ex-
plOFatiOn of the ALssEssfppi-The
East st. Louis war still WagInR.

plOrattOn of the MIssissFppi-The
East st. Louis War still WagIng,
Especial Correspondence of the Democratic
ST. LOUIS, July Is, 1878.
THE CHEATED TERM" Is OVER.
and st. Louis is now herself again. The polar
wave talked of and looked for so long.reached
the city last Monday night, and since then we
have been enjoying the most delightful of
summer breezes. The "wave" was preceded
by strong breeze Sunday night and Mon
day, but it had very little effect on the heat in
the closely built and crowded portions of the
city. The masses Of the people got their first
good sleep Monday night. change In the
weather was never more welcomed In st.
Louis.
For two weeks we had had hot DAYS fol-
lowed by nights seemingly as warm, and not
one person in a hundred throughout the Citv
had had one good, refreshing sleep since The
heated term" commenced. Perhaps as many
as Thousand people had been sllnstruck or
Frustrated by the heat during this time. and
nearly or quite 200 of them had died. People
who worked were worn out, exhausted from
loss OF sleep, and those who did not succumb
altogether had hardly strength enough left at
the end OF 1.-THE two weeks to move about, and
the tn work they now did was. only, half DONE
weather was as welcome to them as it was
to the working classes. The list of
FATAL CASES OF sUNsTRoKE
would probably have been much larger
but for the provisions made by the health
department OF the city. AS stated in INV
last letter, the city dispensary was s
turned into hospital for the treatment
OF sunstruCk patients. Ambulances were sta
toned at the different police stations as well
as at the dispensary itself, and SO very little
time n %ioy,tG fo4 b,
dlSpensary AS soon as a man dropped on the
street some one hurried off to the nearest police
station and gave notice of it. II an ambulance
was there 1t responded at once to the CALL and
il there was no ambulance there q telegram
was sent to the dispensary for one. Most of
the cases of sunstrOke were treated by private
physicians, but there were also great MANY
something over 200 during the two weeks,
treated at the dispensary. OF this number
nearly half-mostly poor people and stran-
gers in the city-were removed to the citv
hospital after being partially restored at the
dlspensary, and a great many we're also re-
ceived at the hospital who had not been at the
dispensary at all Of the whole number
treated at the two places only twelve died,
and at least half of them were in dying
condition when received.
Saturday some excitement was created
here by the publication in the Evening Post Of
report that thirty five people in the city had
been carried off during the week by
AsIATIC CHOLERA.
Happily, the report proved to be unfounded.
The thirty-tive cases were cases of cholera
infantum instead Of Asiatic cholera. The
mistake, one that might have proved yerv
damaging to thea city, was made by Post re-
porter in copying the official mortality list
for the week. The same day a case of
YELLOW FEVER
was reported in the city, and it proved to be n
genuine case. It resulted in the death of w.
Percy OBannOn, second clerk of the steam
hnot Tor oolf hp
tracted while young O'Bannon was visiting q
Cuban ship at New Orleans couple of weeks
ago, but did not show itself until after his re-
turn to st. Louis. He died at his home here,
ment OF Drs. Landlord and Baudny. This is
the only case Of yellow fever reported In st.
Louis this year. Y
The celebration in honor OF the two hundred
and fifth anniversary Of the exploration of
the Mississippi river by
MARQUETTE AND JOLIET
was postponed on account of the heat from
the seventeenth to the nineteenth of July.
The DOstpOnement proved to be an lInfOrt51-
nate one, for Friday evening was, ifanything,
hotter than Wednesday evening, and the cele-
bratiOn was not much of a success The au-
dience numbered scarcely 500 people, and
most Of them left the hall before the close of
the entertainment. The celebration was
given at Mercantile Library Hall, and con-
hymns of England, America, France
and Spain were sung by chorus of two hum
dred voices, and addresses were delivered bv
Mr.; John G. Shea, OF New Jersey, and Mr.. W.
f. Switzler, of this State Some idea of the
intensity of the heat that evening may be
formed when it is stated that the aisIes were
filled, from the beginning to the close of the
entertainment, with water boys. Every boy
had pitcher of ice water and q couple Of
tumblers, and was kept busy watering his
portion OF the audience. All of the ladies and
most OF the gentlemen were provided with
FANS but the more they used them the more
they sweat. Such a scene was never before
witnessed by q fashionable audience in st.
Louis, and it is safe to say that it will never
be witnessed again by the same ladies and
gentlemen.
EAST ST. LOUIS
was the scene last Tuesday of another battle
between the two factions fighting for munich
pal power there. The fight was commenced
on the street between half a dozen of Mayor
BOwman's deputy marshals on their way to
supper and about the same number of Metro
politan policemen standing on corner which
was first used in the fight, then fists, then
clubs, and lastly pistols. A dozen or more
shots were exchanged, but nobody was killed
and only two persons wounded. All this oc-
Cured on the corner of Main street and
Broadway. something more than 100
yards from the engine-house occupied as
the headquarters of the Metropolitans
and Widerites generally, and perhaps one
nunuFe1 ana HICy yafdS from the market
house, in the same direction, and occupied by
the Bowmanite deputies. As soon as the fir
ing ceased between the forces on the street,
it was renewed between
THE FORCES AT THE TWO HEADQUARTERS
and kept up until dark. Both houses we're
riddled with bullets but nobody was killed.
straw hat shot from his head and one of his
men received ball in the calf of his leg.
This was the extent of the injuries done
the Widerite party. None Of Bowman's
window panes were afterwards found filled
with bulletholes, and Bowmans horse, hitch
ed to buggy in front of the building, was
shot and killed. The most serious result of
about five years old In the hand, neeessitatfng
the amputation of three of her fingers. The
little girl was standing at the time in front of
her fathers livery stable, almost opposite the