The Democratic advocate., 1878-07-20
A WAVE FROM THE TROPICS.
Great Loss Of Life in the West.

northwest during the past week. Its effects
were terrible especially in St. Louis Com
mencing with Monday, the sth instant, It con.
tinued without abatement up to Thursday
night, the 18th. We give summary of the
results:
Six persons were sunstruck, two fatally, in
Cincinnati Friday. In 81. Louis during the
week past the thermometer in the shade has
marked 80 to 102 degrees in daytime, and
80 to 20 at night. Up TO Friday evening over
30 cases OF sunstroke, 8 of them fatal, were
reported.
The terrible heat in St. Louis continued
Sunday the Thermometer marking 50 to IO2
degrees in the shade, according 10 locality.
During the day there we're $50 cases of sun
stroke, nearly 80 of them fatal. A large
number OF the cases occurred in houses and
places of business, among the victims being
women and children.
There we're seven cases of sunstroke, five
of them fatal, in Quincy, ILL.,, on Sunday
Three fatal cases of sunstroke have been
reported IN Little Rock, Ark, since Saturday
morning. One of the victims is Alexander
Warwick, a representative of a. I. Stewart
Co., of New York. Fourteen cases of sun
stroke we're reported in St. Joseph, Mo-, on
Sunday and Monday, but only one was fatal
Three deaths from sunstroke have occurred
IN Omaha, Neb., since Saturday. Three
cases of sunstroke, one fatal, were reported
IN Chicago Monday.
The extremely hot weather prevailing
throughout the West and Northwest for some
days past began to give place to a more mod
crate temperature Tuesday night, the cool
wave advancing from the north. At Fort
Dodge, Iowa, the Thermometer marked l0l
degrees at sunset but fellto 6S after nightfall,
in furious thunder storm At Sioux City,
Iowa, the wind began blowing from the north
at $50 2. NJ, and two hours afterwards the
temperature had fallen 20 degrees.
Tuesday dispatches say it was somewhat
cooler IN st. Louis, the atmosphere being
tempered by a fine breeze and the thermom-
eter not exceeding 100 in the shade in the
warmest places. The eases Of sunstroke di-
minished to -, and the deaths TO 4. The
cases have been treated by the application of
ice to the head, affusion with ice water, rub
blng the body with ice, and the administration
OF such medicines as were demanded by the
different symptoms. The total number of
deaths from sunstroke on Monday was 81; "a
unclaimed bodies were buried fromthe Morgue
at night. The whole number of burial per
mits issued was 4S, of which % were for per.
sons whose deaths are attributed to the effects
OF heat. Nearly all work and business has
been interfered with by the weather Many
OF the factories have been closed, and others
run on short time. Several builders and
rooiers have refused to allow their men 70
work until there is a change in the tempera-
ture, and the city has either suspended its
public work or carried it on at night time only
Livery stable keepers have refused to hire
their horses before sundown or late in the
afternoon, for fear of losing them. Five
horses from one stable valued at $1,000, died
on Sunday afternoon. There were indica-
rfs fka 81 4.
In Chicago Tuesday, the temperature reach
ed 81 degrees in the shade, and % cases of
sunstroke were reported, six fatal. Among
the victims was Rev. Z. w. Clark, aged 20,
formerly Congregational Missionary to the
Sandwich Islands.
Throughout Iowa and Illinois the tempera.
ture has ranged from 90 to ll0 degrees, and
one or more deaths from the heat are report.
ed from nearly every town. Captain James
May, of Rock Island, well known in political
circles, was sunstruck at Des Moines and is
in critical condition.
The thermometer at the Signal Office in
Milwaukee registered SO degrees Tuesday
afternoon. Twenty persons were sunstruck,
three of them fatally
At Leavenworth, Kansas, there were II
cases OF sunstroke and 8 deaths between Sun.
day morning apa Monday night
Adviees rom various points in Wisconsin
and Minnesota report that severe rain and
| wind storms, with intense heat during the past
week, have damaged the wheat and Oat crops
by rust, lodging and shrinkage, so as to re-
duce the harvest estimate one-third
Thursdays dispatches say the hot weather
IN the West and North west continued yester-
day, the cool wave of Tuesday night having
rapidly spent its force. There we're fewer
cases of sunstroke in st. Louis, however, and
1t was believed that the worst was over there.
/ 1t IS estimated that over 1900 persona has,
been siekenea by the heat and nearly $50
/ have died Of sunstroke in that city. In Mil.
| waukee yesterday the temperature was from
( 80 TO 100 degrees in the shade, and lO3 cases
| OF sunstroke were reported. In Chicago the
heat was intense, and probably score OF
/ people were sunstruek during the morning.
| In Southern Missouri and Kansas, the heat
has caused a general suspension of work
I during the day, and IN many localities the
harvesting has been done ebymoonlight The
/ heated wave IS coming eastward, as shown by
reports from Cincinnati, Columbus, Louis
vile, Wheeling, W. Va, and Buffalo. AT
Wheeling yesterday, the thermometer regis-
| tered lOl degrees in the shade. Reports
/ from Canada show that in the Province OF
/ Ontario yesterday the thermometer ranged
/ from 80 to l03 in the shade. Archbishcp
/ Henni, of Milwaukee, was overcome by the
heat yesterday morning, and is in a critical
/ eonditian,
! On Thursday, throughout the entire coun-
/ try the heat was very oppressive the ther-
mometer ranging from 95 to 1l0o. A large
number of fatal sunstrokes occurred, while
The prostrations by heat were enormous. A
cold wave started in the extreme north west,
and was expected to reach the Atlantic coast
on Friday evening. There were several Sc
we're thunder storms in various parts Of the
country, especially in the east.