The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-07-27

CINCINNATI, July l3.-The heat Of
hades hss settled down upon Cincin.
natl. and its inhabitants are scorchine
TO death by the scores. No record ex-
lists OF any such burning hot weather
in the previous history of the city,
Ten days ago II began with the mer-
curry in the niDeties. On Saturday last
the mercury rose 10 100. on Sunday
1t went up TO 1857. on Monday and
yesterday 1t was 1021<. and today il
has been 30 Is. All these terrible ter
days the sky has been cloudless and
the air motionless. Tonight for the
first time a breeze is stirring, and
clouds skirt the horizon, bet at 10
o'clock the thermometer showed 80.
Until Friday last tie effect Of the
heat was Tot appreciable on ~ public
health. On Saturday men fell On the
streets, and died in doorways. and the
situation began to be alarming. On
Saturday night there were fewer per-
sons than usual TO be seen on the streets
Sunday was red aot the government
Thermometer, which is hung high in
the air, protected from reflected aud
radisted heat and from the direct rays
OF the sus. registering 103.lS deg.
Ii showed from three to FIVE degrees
lower heat than thermometers in shad
cd PLACES down close to the ground in
the air which people breathed and
through which they moved. Since
Saturday very few people have been
seen on the streets, and last night and
tonight the streets were almost des
serted.
On Friday MARI builders and plum
bers stopped work. On Monday work
was stopped on the United States
government building. Ga Tuesday
the public library closed, and several
OF the Librarians have fallen by SUM-
stroke. Yesterday seven attendants of
the Telephone Exchange were pros
tEated. No record has been made or
can be made of the number of cases of
prostrstion. Only the most conspicu
Gus come to public notice. On Sunday
the Coroner was called to thin teen
cases of death, oil from the heat. On
Monday the number was 90, and on
Tuesday it was 40. Today there were
90 deaths reported at the Health Office.
most OF them from heat. The Coroner
was himself pros,rsted yesterday.
Physicians are called upon hourly and
worked to tbeslimit of their strength.
The Board of Health are calling in re-
QUESTION the station houses, the fire
engine houses, and the official drug
stores as preliminary hospitals for per.
sons stricken down on the streets, and
district physicians are required to
make visits at stated hours at these
places to give early treatment 20 pa
tients before sending them to the hos
pital. Children. the aged, the infirm,
and the Incorporate are most liable to
succamb, but people of the most rugged
health and most careful habits have
fallen before this fiery scourge. The
accumulated heat OF ten days is stored
up in the brick walls and paved streets
OF the city, and make it furnsace ten
times heated each day.
The proportion of deaths to the
number OF attacks increases. Tonight
the police stations report ten deaths out
OF eighteen cases. These are of per-
sons taken care of on the street by the
police. At the hospital there are 90
new cases, none fatal. These are not
half the cases that occur. Many are
stricken in their homes and on the
streets and are taken care of by their
friends.
In Covington and Newport, Ky, the
distress and fatality has been great,
and the effect on business the same as
here. No town or village in this
parched region has escaped. Dayton
has great death rate.
In Cincinnati the mortality yesterday
and today has been greater then any
previous time. Three days more of it
would be attended by an appalling
death rate. At midnight the heat cor.
tinues and the breeze has subsidized,
but the telegraph brings news of
storms ell around. They may send us
cooler ar or they may come tomor.
row TO check this harvest of death.