The sun., 1882-07-30
A WEEK OF TERRIBLE HEAT.
'""""" CrEEzEs AND A DASH OF RAIN
BRINGING RELIEF.

BRINGING RELIEF
The Death Rate Higher than 10 Had Beeu
Since the Cholera Epidemic-Tho Uncer-
tain Hopo ofCooier we.thor-sunst-okes.
Tho rain fell yesterday, and with 1t the
mercury. AT the same time the spirits OF the
people rose. From 81 on Friday afternoon,
when tho thermometer marked 99'. until yes
terday afternoon at the Same time there was a
fall OF nino degrees. and. though the weather
was still very hot there was q sense OF relief
experienced by everybody after the suffering OF
tho day before. During the night people who
were most comfortably situated, even those at
Long Branch and Coney Island. slept but In
differently. The temperature was so even in
the midnight shade. Toward morning there
was u gradual improvement. and at 3 A. NJ. the
record was 76'. At 1t was two degrees lower
and to the early riser there appeared to be
some hope OF a cooler day to come. BY O'Clock.
however. tho backward mercury began its flight
under clear sky. At noon the record stood
670. four degrees lower than at midday OF FRI
day. Soon afterward light clouds began to
come out OF the west on the laggard breeze, and
the city was overcast. The sun was hidden.
and the languid air OF the people In the streets
was partly dlspelled by tho changed atmosphere
and the prospect OF shower to which every
one had been looking forward for week. At
2 o'clock few rain drops foil. They could
hardly hardly have given greater delight in many
rain haa fffs Ss Gssn for
the time being; People stood about under
otWEnings and n dopprTays each
after such swelter makes life worth living"
There were q few rolls of thunder and flash
purified and the pavements we're cooled. But
this did not last long. The clouds wore nearly
a g9ne t6s in an hour and the sun came again
@ sH e tSs aaeaS
i was still lower. and delightful breeze. N.
dow Where anxious mothers sat sat with WITH listess tess
children; Cooler weather is promised soon.
After the S shower the air was moist and un
baths or at G9ney Island. The sail down the
which the speed Of the boats made but the
water was CLASSY in It's smoothness. and at the
sand. and the smooth surface OF the sea re-
nected ne .h the suns tlrosome glare. In the baths
In ne after %ad s vsDf hs PaEy bsy
thought Of those outside in the sun. The ex:
upper decks, were able to get a breath Of that
-, The week just past has been the hottest of
the the year n Its general / average The hottest
y wos d when hf rehd
Wednesday 95o,, and on Monday 93' A year
ago Yesterday the highest temperature Of the
reached 9iS was the only day M in in the t month on
which which the the thermometer recorded any heat
was on Sept. 7. when 100 degrees was reached
put put this was ony sPurt Of the mercury for
th9 the SsS ay SS the
on the day after but s9'. The continued TIM heat @
aa.lnp has not been SO so great IN any one week for
been greater than usual among the impris-
9ned people In tenenents in the narrow streets;
the brick walls and hot areas in these places,
and the rain drops shattered upon the hot
stones and eyaporated as they fell.
The mortality has been extraordinary In
noon 2ls Deaths were reported One tih1h1dfeit ot
the week ending yesterday noon 1.2l7 deaths
were reported Such a number has not been
mortality would be. .equal to one in every twenty
persons During the week before there were
ing yesterday noon there was total OF 3.317
deaths, reported at the Bureau Of Vital Stats-
tics where Pr. Nagle said that they had never
deaths reported had numbered over 1000 each
TSsek ho NS since the ehOera in 1854
three weeks Of hot weather.
The following cases OF fatal sunstroke were
reported in this city yesterday:
Mary Cameron e' years old died at 4o2 East Tenth
Mary Mcuoorty, 3o years old died at 43l East Seven
teentI street.
William s Martin was prostrated at 40 Pearl street
and died before the arrival OF a physician.
The following cases OF prostraton by the heat
were reported in this city.
wsS VI. % 4 of of Jersey City
smith years Of aye aye si4 Elizabeth street. a.
Waycrey place and Mnciougal street
An unknown man. in front OF 50 Charlton street
Michael Rogers s5 Years OF age OF 572 West Twenty
avenue.
An unknown woman. at 100 Chambers street
Annie Mann. 70 years old, OF % Laight street
Charles De Brun of 533 West Thirty. ninth street n
piano tuner, died last night In lumber yard at $50
West Thrtysixth street There decp gsph in his
head ply scian soid that De Brin died sunstroke
and that the cash was probably received when he fell
In the storm yesterday afternoon the light
ming struck tho Pioneer Boat Club house at the
foot OF Thirty-fourth street .,Brooklyn. causing
$40 damage.
Elizabeth Keller aged So of 2s7 Mescroe street died
suddenly yesterday IL is believed from exhaustion
caused by the hot weather. An unknown who was
suFtrucS oil Friday died in st, Catharnss Hospital
yesterday.
The following cases OF prostration were reported in
brooklyn Bridget Tighe Of PA Twentieth ce front
OF her residence; an unknown woman about IS years
old at Broadway and Walsbout street Charles Derbe
aged y of Atlantic near Court street in Clinton street
near iiarrAon John koufer aged ~, OF 1875 Boeruni
street h the south Fourth street sugar house Aexan.
der Comfy. aged 81, a laborer OF New Brunswick, on
Fifteenth street; Jacob Ehret. aged IS, OF Meseroe
street while at work in Smiths pottery at 800 Eckford
street; hGermhn baker. whose name not reported,
at l6N Ever street; Michael Donova an a odger at the