Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-07
KILLED BY THE HEAT.
ALMOST UNPRECEDENTED MORTALITY
AMONG CHILDREN IN THE CITY
OF NEW YORK.
New York Herald, June 80.

New York Herald, June 3d.
The relentless heat continues not mere
ly to spread universal discomfort, but to
vastly increase the death list, both in city
and suburbs. In the crowded tenement
districts its ravages but not always
by the seaside is there a resource
from the suffering which it en-
tails. Strong persons, who for a short
time would be able to bearreadily enough
an abnormal temperature, are gradually
enervated by continuance of torrid days
and sultry oppressive nights, while child
rem and delicate persons, rapidly succumb
to the strain upon their vital powers.
Yesterdays death list, as reported at the
Bureau of Vital Statistics, was almost un-
precedented, the victims being mostly
children. In Brooklyn the number of
deaths for the week ending the 23d instant
was Ala, being an increase Of 1877 over the
mortality in the previous week Of this
increase 139 were childr en-, whose deaths
are set down to cholera infantum,
Even at Long Branch the heat y ester.
day was intense. On the pier the ther-
mometer registered at one time 95 degrees,
while in the village the mercury reached
an altitude Of SO degrees At Perth Am
boy, n. j., it also ran up to SO degrees,
while at Red Rank, n. j., it reached 100
degrees and at South Amboy 1O2 degrees
in the shade.
There were recorded yesterday in the
Bureau of Vital Statistics 212 deaths, the
greater part of which were from Sum-
mer diseases. There were sixteen deaths
by sunstroke.
IN NEW JERSEY
Red Bank, n. j., June 29-To-day was
the hottest of this season. At noon the
thermometer at South AmbOy marked 102
degrees in the shade and at Perth Amboy
it reached SO. At the former place two
persons were prostrated by the heat, one
of whom, John Conway, will probably die
At Red Bank, near the railroad depot, the
thermometer reached 100 in the shade.
Long Branch, n. j., June 29.-The
heat was terrible here to-day-even the
piazzas of the hotels and the pavilions on
the pier affording but little comfort. On
the pier the thermometesat one time reg
istered 50 degrees while in the village it
reached SO degrees. Several cases of
prostration by the heat were reported, one
of which will probably prove fatal. The
case referred to is that of Henry Finch
of New York, who was sunstruck this,
morning while out on a pleasure yacht
on the North Shrewsbury river. Spasms
set in, and there are doubts of his discov-
cry. Mrs. Miller, residing near Deal, was
prostrated at 9 o'clock, while out riding
on Main street A newsboy on the New
York and Long Branch Railroad was over
come on the cars, and taken to his home
in Jersey City.
IN VERMONT.
White River Junction, VT, June %.
The weather throughout this State for
fifteen days past has been the hottest
known for the same length of time for
more than thirty years. The mercury has
ranged from IS to 50, while two of the
heaviest thunderstorms known for years
have occurred within the past ten days
without sensibly allaying the heat. The
Connecticut and White rivers are uncom-
monty low. The hay-crop will be less
than one-half the average. Corn is back
ward and the farmers are discouraged
over the prospect