The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-16

THE HEATED TERN.
Frightful Death List at st. LOuis. ..Sun-
strokes at Other Points.
Special to the Star.

Special to the Star.
ST. LOUIS, July 16.-Yesterday became
historic in st. Louis and will be known as
the hottest ever experienced in this lati-
tude. The day was one of terror. Forty
adults were killed by sunstroke; prominent
citizens were prostrated in their stores, and
many favor a suppression OF business until
the weather is cooler.
Scenes at the morgue are never to be for
gotten. At noon there were fifteen corpses
in the morgue. Two horses of undertaken
Coffee fell dead in the streets while convey
ing the bodies of two victims to the
cemetery. Undertaken Smithers lost three
horses in the same service.
Among the bodies laid out in the morgue
was that of John Phalen, once one of the
City Council, and one of the most brillianV
young men in the city. He had been
picked up in the street dead from sun
stroke.
DR.. Herman Voorst, Ex-Coroner and the
most noted athlete in ST. Louis, if not west
of the Mississippi fell unconscious and ex-
pired shortly afterward.
At o'clock last night twenty-six bodies
were in the morgue, and despite the utmost
care that had been taken, the stencil was
awful, and pervaded the atmosphere for
blocks away.
Fifteen of the bodies were boxed up for
burial and the others are on ice. Most of
the victims were poor and laboring classes,
many unknown, and destined to quick
and unceremOnious burial
| The Coroners office is attached to the
Morgue. All night the Coroner and depu-
ties were devoting their time to receiving
bodies Many ladies and young people were
Frustrated in their residences.
Horses and mules suffered intensely from
heat. Six street-cars on the Broadway line
were side-tracked because their teams had
fallen dead or were dying.
Like casualties occurred on other lines
and animals generally were oppressed equal
ly with men. 1t has been difficult to obtain
an authentic list of fatal cases of sunstroke.
The names of the dead for the day will
exceed forty. Besides those one hundred
non-fatal cases had been treated at the pub
lie medical office, and these form only Q
part.of hundreds treated at drug stores and
private residences.
Throughout the city, according to Profes
sor Tice, the Meteorologist, who was here
to-day will be the warmest day this latitude
has had for one hundred years.
FREEBURe, July 16.-Edward Klingel Of
the firm of E. klingel & Co., died very sud
denly last evening, a victim of excessive
heat.
JACKSONVILLE ILL. July 16-John x
Smith, tailor, died suddenly yesterday af
ternoon from sun-stroke. Mildred Price
thirteen years of age, died on Saturday al
Harts Prairie from the effects of sun
stroke.
LEAvENwoRTH, KANSAS, July 16.-The
death roll for yesterday and to-day has beer
higher than was ever known in the West.
ST.. JOSEPH, Mo- July 16.-The heat yes
terday and to-day was intense. Fourteen
cases of sun-stroke. Only one thus far re
suited fatally.
CHICAGO July 16-The heat in this city
to-day is intense, the thermometer indi
eating SO degrees at 11:30 a. m. A cool
breeze from the lake affords some relief
Several cases of sunstroke reported.